Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society

1988-05-10 Nature of Unsatisfactoriness 45:30
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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1988-05-09 Awakening to the Way Things Are 63:27
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We were all born with the capacity to be aware – this is the reflective mind. It has to be cultivated or it becomes distorted. Mindfulness of body and breathing helps slow the mind down so it can reflect, recognize that experience is conditioned, arising dependent upon circumstance. When mind awakens to the way things actually are, one touches the deathless.
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1988-05-09 The Path of Direct Experience 59:24
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Thought is an abstraction – we step back from experience and form an idea, opinion, judgment. This Path steers away from thought, and inclines towards direct, felt experienced. Enter experience and work from within the doubt, confusion, aggression with a clear, pure Buddha mind, not the thinking mind. With this unification of mind there is the end of suffering.
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1988-05-08 Morning Instructions and Talk 1:38:52
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and 1988-05-09
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1988-05-07 Why meditate? 1:13:12
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The phrase “the way it is” offers a snapshot of the changing experience of the mind as it considers basic questions of existence. Meditation offers a way to be with body feelings and reveals the steady and tranquil energy there. Meditation also reveals the compelling and default practice of the mind that is always identifying a “self” which creates anxiety, nervousness, trying too hard and judgements. Seeing this default mind process we see the Buddha’s concept of “suffering” and this leads in turn to comfort and confidence with understanding the statement “the way it is”. We can recall the Buddha said that nibanna is in fact realizable here and now, in this life. exact date uncertain
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Attached Files: Why meditate? by Ajahn Sucitto (PDF)

1988-05-06 Welcome 60:20
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1988-04-01 Intensive Metta Instructions - I 63:44
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Two tapes provide several guided metta meditations with questions and answers regarding metta practice.
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In collections: Metta/lovingkindness, Intensive Metta Practice: Part 1 And 2, Force Of Metta

1988-04-01 Intensive Metta Instructions - II 58:42
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
See above.
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In collections: Metta/lovingkindness, Intensive Metta Practice: Part 1 And 2, Force Of Metta

1988-04-01 Intensive Metta Practice: Part 1 And 2 2:02:27

Sharon Salzberg

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This album guides the listener through the progressive stages of lovingkindness practice, as it is classically taught, featuring several guided metta meditations and also includes helpful Q & A sessions about this practice. (Two tapes)

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1988-03-03 The Practice 53:46
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
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