Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Dharma Seed preserves and shares spoken teachings of Theravada Buddhism in modern languages. Since the early 1980s, it has collected and distributed dharma talks from teachers offering vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness) practices. New recordings are added continuously from contemporary dharma teachers. The podcast provides access to these talks and meditation instructions.
Episodes
Pascal Auclair: Une autre vision des choses 🔭
(Moulin de Chaves)
Ajahn Achalo: What I teach Beginners (foundation)
(Anandagiri Forest Monastery)
Ajahn Achalo: Guided Meditation - Devanussati, Recollecting Heavenly Beings
(Anandagiri Forest Monastery) Devanussati is one of the reflective meditations taught and encouraged by The Buddha. As it can give a foundation of brightness and stability suitable for the further developing of insight. The practice is suitable for those who have faith in, or who are open to the traditional Buddhist world-view/cosmology. This guided meditation is an introduction to the practice.
Pascal Auclair: Se rappeler qu’il est possible d’éprouver les choses en conscience ☝️
(Moulin de Chaves)
Ajahn Achalo: What I teach intermediate and advanced
(Anandagiri Forest Monastery)
Carol Cano: Indigenous Peoples' Day Program
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Ayya Santussika: The Wisdom, Truth, Letting Go, and Peace in Skillfully Receiving Admonishment
(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk, guided meditation, comments, questions and responses was offered on the 10th of October, 2026 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
Ayya Santussika: Dhammapada Verses 197 - 208: Happiness
(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk, comments, questions and responses was offered on October 10, 2026 for “Eastbay Dhamma”
Kim Allen: Dharma Talk: From False Strength to True Strength
(Uncontrived)
Kim Allen: Guided Meditation 2: Fullness and Strength
(Uncontrived)
Kim Allen: Introduction and Guided Meditation 1: Extending the Mind through the Body
(Uncontrived)
Andrea Fella: Morning Instructions: Intention
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Wise Effort
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring some common tendencies to over-effort or under-effort, with suggestions for finding a more balanced approach to practice overall, plus support for establishing and maintaining a regular meditation practice
Bart van Melik: The Power of Perception
(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center) How does perception shape our experience? And how easily can a perception become overthinking, obsessive thinking, or taking something personally? Together, we’ll explore how perceptions arise, which ones we may have outgrown, and which ones still pull us into repetitive stories. Drawing on the Buddhist teaching that what the mind frequently ponders becomes it
Ayya Santacitta: Iddhipada V: Investigation ~ What Is Happening at the Edge of NOW?
(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a poem by Jennifer Welwood | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene IV | Online Wednesday-Morning
Chas DiCapua: Big Sky Mind
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Guided meditation on accessing the mind's natural spaciousness and radiance.
Chas DiCapua: Nutriment
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) What is Good Food for the heart and what is not. Understanding the importance of what we feed the heart with,
Bhante Buddharakkhita: Afro-Dhamma: Practicing Right Effort that Leads to Happiness
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Ayya Santussika: Let's Find the Soul of the Onion I Bhante Rahula at KBV
(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) Bhante Rahula's guided meditation, comments, questions and responses were offered on October 4th, 2026 at Karuna Buddhist Vihara in Sunnyvale California.
00:00 - 36:33 GUIDED MEDITATION
36:33 - 1:53:50 COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES
1:53:50 - 1:57:15 CLOSING AND BLESSING CHANT
Bhante Rahula is the founder and spiritual director of Pann
Chas DiCapua: Mindfulness of Thoughts
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Being mindful of when thoughts are present and when they are not present. Noticing their ephemeral, changing nature. Finding stillness amidst thoughts.
Chas DiCapua: Thoughts: what they are and how to practice with them
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploring thoughts not as their content, but as the phenomena that they are. Practices to realize their insubstantial and unsatisfactory nature.
Jeanne Corrigal: Dharma talk: Finding Freedom in the Bumpy Ride
(Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community) Drawing on the four foundations of mindfulness and the Four Noble Truths, we explore the difference between the inevitable difficulties of human experience and the suffering that arises through grasping and resistance. By noticing feeling tone, reactivity, and the embodied qualities of tightness and ease, we can begin to recognize moments of release and cul
Jeanne Corrigal: Meditation - Feeling Tone: Pleasant, Unpleasant, or Neither
(Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community) Exploring vedanā, or feeling tone, we notice the pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral quality of experience and the reactions that may follow. Staying grounded in the body, this practice invites curiosity about grasping and pushing away, and the possibility of responding with greater wisdom and freedom.
Jeanne Corrigal: Morning instruction: The Body as a Home Base
(Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community) Beginning with the body as a home base for attention, we explore an easeful, gentle way of returning to bodily sensations and the breath. Sitting and walking practice support steadiness of attention and a growing capacity to be present with our experience without judgment.
Ayya Santussika: Obsessing or Processing?
(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk, comments, questions and responses, and guided meditation was offered on October 3, 2026 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
00:00 - DHAMMA TALK
25:48 - COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES PT.1
47:26 - GUIDED MEDITATION
1:03:38 - COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES PT.2
Chas DiCapua: Morning Instructions on Body
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploring the tactile and fine energy aspects of the body. Being mindful of the body sitting and body breathing with a narrow and wide attentions.
Andrea Fella: Morning Instrtuctions: Intimacy with Experience
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Right Livelihood and retreat life
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Chas DiCapua: Body
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Mindfulness of the body, and the role it plays in various aspects of the practice.
Greg Scharf: The Path of Fearlessness and Joy
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Gullu Singh: Reflections on Danā
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dharmna Talk on Danā. (Group discussion has been omitted).
Brian Lesage: So Much of Life is Thursday
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Dawn Neal: Four Alternatives to Mental Suffering
(Insight Santa Cruz)
Dawn Neal: Aware of Body and Vedana
(Insight Santa Cruz)
Ayya Anandabodhi: Cultivating a Boundless Heart
(Parayana Vihara) In an online 4th Sunday Dhamma talk, Ayya Anandabodhi guides an exploration of how to expand the heart-mind to its fullest extent of wisdom and compassion.
Ayya Anandabodhi: Inner and Outer Knowing
(Parayana Vihara) In a Sunday Dhamma talk at Parayana Vihara, Ayya Anandabodhi discusses how deep awareness and exploration of inner and outer phenomena leads to insight into selflessness.
Leslie Booker: Monday Night Meditation with Leslie Booker
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
James Baraz: Impermanence, Letting Go and Showing Up
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha said to keep one reflection in mind as much as possible: impermanence. This reflection will support letting go, equanimity and liberation. This talk explores the gift of opening and embracing impermanence.
Ayya Santussika: Nurturing Sangha
(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk, guided meditation, comments, questions and responses was offered on September 26, 2026 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
00:00 - 34:08 DHAMMA TALK
34:08 - 52:29 COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES
James Baraz: Big Mind Meditation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This guided meditation shifts the subject of attention from objects to the awareness that knows.
Jeanne Corrigal: Choiceless Attention Instructions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Choiceless Attention instructions as a natural process we all know and practice when we are in nature - gazing at the sunset, watching the ocean.
Carol Wilson: Morning Instructions - Thoughts
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Tim Geil: Exploring Anatta: Non-Self
(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center) Anatta, or non-self, is a core teaching of the Buddha, and yet can be confusing and bewildering. Sometimes the sense of self loves trying to get rid of itself, all the while maintaining itself on subtle levels. Yet, anatta is our true nature, and we release and relax into non-separation and unity. Qualities of compassion and the heart often support this unders
Carol Wilson: Awakening From Misperception
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha awakened into this world, not out of it through the "magic" of recognizing moment to moment rality accurately.
Renate Seifarth: Dankbarkeit als Resultat und Praxis
(Buddha-Haus) Einsicht führt uns zu einer inneren Freiheit. Sobald wir sie erleben, entsteht ein tiefes Gefühl der Dankbarkeit für den Weg. Andererseits ist Dankbarkeit eine herzöffnende Qualität, die viele Tugenden nach sich zieht. Sie können wir kultivieren.
James Baraz: Forgiveness Practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Forgiveness to ourselves (Body, mind, heart) and between us and others
Mark Nunberg: Equanimity: Wisdom and Love Working Together
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center)
Renate Seifarth: Ursachen von dukkha
(Buddha-Haus) Die Ursachen von Leiden, dukkha, sind manigfach. Zum einen werden Formen des Verlangens und des Ablehnens, die Triebe, die Ausflüsse - asavas - genannt. Zum anderen die Unwissenheit, die Täuschung über das Wesen aller Personen und Erscheinungen. Unsere falschen Annahmen und unser greifendes Verhalten führt zu Verstrickung und Leid. Unsere Aufgabe besteht darin, die Täuschung zu durch
Jeanne Corrigal: Metta for the Difficult Person + Compassion
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk brings in Thanissaro Bikkhu's guidance for offering "Goodwill for the Real World" and self compassion as an inner nourishment and sustainer. A dharmette followed by a 15 minute guided self compassion practice.
James Baraz: Instructions: Breath + Body sensations and sounds
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Opening up the meditation field to include the physical realm
Kamala Masters: Ecology of Compassion
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center)
James Baraz: Wise Effort in Practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Wise Effort as an important issue in practice. This talk explores finding the balance between too much and too little as well as understanding the four classical Wise Efforts described in the teachings.
Renate Seifarth: Liebe als Antwort auf Leiden
(Buddha-Haus) Dukkha ist Teil der Welt. Es braucht eine Antwort darauf. Weisheit bringt uns Gelassenheit, Liebe - metta - und Mitgefühl - karuna - spenden Trost. Weisheit und Metta gehören wie zwei Seiten einer Münzen untrennbar zu unserer Praxis der inneren Befreiung. Lieben wird gehindert durch Erwartungen. Weisheit befreit uns von solchen.
Nikki Mirghafori: Wise Practice in the Age of AI
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Ovland: Talk - Rubin's Vase & the Drama of Life
(Gaia House)
Renate Seifarth: Warum wir meditieren und was uns daran hindert
(Buddha-Haus) Meditation, Retreat kann weit von unserem Leben entfernt erscheinen. Doch hier können wir wichtige Fragen klären wie, was will ich, wie will ich leben. Achtsamkeit enthüllt wo wir stehen, die Lehre des Buddha verspricht eine Freiheit und Herzensöffenheit, in die wir uns hinein entwickeln können. Trotz aller guten Absichten sind wir dennoch immer wieder konfrontiert mit Hindernissen.
Ayya Anandabodhi: Life is Messy
(Parayana Vihara) In a Sunday Dhamma talk at Parayana Vihara, Ayya Anandabodhi discussing skillful ways to respond when life doesn’t unfold according to our wishes or plans.
Shelly Graf: Taking Refuge - Meditation
(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Shelly Graf: Taking Refuge - Talk
(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Renate Seifarth: Was praktizieren bedeutet
(Buddha-Haus) Praktizieren bedeutet die erste Wahrheit des Buddhas, die Gegebenheit von dukkha, zu verstehen. Dukkha zieht Reaktivitäten nach sich, die weiteres Leid verursachen. Wir kreisen so endlos in dukkha, angeheizt durch die Reaktionen von Verlangen oder Abwehr, je nachdem ob das, was ist, angenehm oder unangenehm ist. Getrieben ist die Reaktivität von Täuschung, einer tief integrierten Ver
Maura Sills: Our wellbeing can be recovered through relationship
(London Insight Meditation)
Maura Sills: Guided Meditation
(London Insight Meditation)
Maura Sills: A shift from ‘me’ to ‘we’
(London Insight Meditation)
Maura Sills: Guided Meditation
(London Insight Meditation)
Maura Sills: Introduction to the theme
(London Insight Meditation)
Ayya Santussika: The Never Ending, Constant, Kaleidoscope of Change
(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This Dhamma talk, comments, questions and responses was offered on September 19, 2026 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
00:00 - DHAMMA TALK
32:22 - COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES
Ayya Santacitta: Iddhipada IV: Integration ~ Not Relinquishing One's Seat In the Midst of Challenges
(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a poem from the Sioux Nation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene IV | Online Wednesday-Morning
Donald Rothberg: Practicing the Wise Speech Guideline of Truthfulness: Four Dimensions of Practice 2
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We review the importance of giving attention to ethical practice, and how it has often been marginalized in Western Buddhism, with meditation typically being at the center (as is evident in speaking of “meditation centers” and “meditation groups”). Wise Speech, as one of the three aspects of ethical practice named in the Noble Eightfold Path, is particularly importa
Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: Developing Concentration and Mindfulness, Ending with Three Reflections on Practicing Wise Speech
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) First, there are basic instructions in developing concentration offered, including the optional "three-part breath" technique which can help with avoiding controlling the breath and with developing more continuity. Then basic mindfulness instructions are given. The last minutes bring in reflection and inquiry questions related to our practice of wise speech, includi
Gavin Milne: Morning Instructions - Illuminating the Inner Weather, Becoming Aware of Mind States
(Gaia House)
Gavin Milne: Talk - Wisdom is Not Enough
(Gaia House)
Mark Nunberg: The Sublime Resting Place of Goodwill - Meditation
(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: The Sublime Resting Place of Goodwill - Talk
(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Jake Dartington: Talk - 4 Noble Truths - From Struggle to a Beautiful Life
(Gaia House)
Gavin Milne: Morning Instructions - Practising the Causes of Freedom & the 5 Challenges
(Gaia House)
Gavin Milne: Talk - Knowing Dukkha Directly - The Poorly Fitting Axle
(Gaia House)
Devin Berry: Love Is a Fierce Animal
(Refuge of Belonging) Lovingkindness is not simply about being gentle, pleasant, or nice. Through personal stories and reflections on the Buddha’s teachings, this talk explores the fierce, protective power of mettā—a love that stands up to harm, stays present through difficulty, and becomes a courageous commitment to ourselves and the world.
Ayya Anandabodhi: Aligning One's Life with Virtue
(Parayana Vihara) In a Sunday Dhamma talk at Parayana Vihara, Ayya Anandabodhi explains how taking refuge in the Three Jewels and practicing ethical conduct creates the causes for happiness.
Jake Dartington: RAIN Instructions & Meditation - Sensing the Body
(Gaia House)
Mark Nunberg: Mindfulness of Breathing Week 7: Quieting the Thinking Mind - Part 2 - Meditation
(Common Ground Meditation Center)
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