Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Bonnie Duran's most recent Dharma talks: Recent Episodes
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Bonnie met the Dharma in 1982 at Kopan Monastery and in Bodh Gaya India. Since then she has practiced long and short retreats with Joseph Goldstein and other eastern and western monastics and lay teachers. She is a graduate of the IMS/SRMC teacher training programs and is also involved with Indigenous ceremonies and practices. She is currently a core teacher of the IMS teacher training program and the SRMC Dedicated Practitioners Program. Dr. Duran is a Professor of Social Work and Public Health at the University of Washington in Seattle.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This is the John Makransky - Tibetan metta practice of receiving metta from a benefactor
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk reviewed the Karaniya sutta about why and how we do metta
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation factors of awakening, and how to balance them.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A description of the seven factors of awakening, and how to balance them
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk discusses the body and feeling tone reflections that help realize impermanence.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk gives information about practicing with the 4 Elements and with Vedana/Feeling tone for insight into impermanence.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This is a guided body scan of water element meditation - part of Mindfulness of the Body.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Includes a blessing by Dean Hoaglin of the Miwok Tribe. Teachers: bruni davila, Jeff Haozous and Elvina Charley introduce themselves.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A brief description of Breath stroking and calming our heart with love…..and then a description of Ven. U Panditta’s teachings on Dana/Generosity, Sila/Ethical Conduct, and Bhavana/Mental Cultivation. Awakening is available in this very life!!
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This is a guided meditation starting with Metta for ourselves, then easy people, and ending with neutral people.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Metta/Lovingkindness practice strengthens wholesome mental factors and allows us to see more clearly our negative mental factors. Seeing more clearly an important source of our suffering, hate/aversion, we are able to work more directly for our own and others' happiness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This is a guided meditation with Benefactors…..Lovingkindness is an important mental factor for our everyday lives and for Dharma practice. It promotes happiness in ourselves and those all around us. It is a mental attitude of enlightened beings… Non-duality- All my relations. Our ancestors wanted the best for us.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How Mindfulness Transforms Suffering with what we view, how we view it and in what view.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk is about the four foundations of mindfulness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk offers the Paramis to support the strengthening of Metta practice.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk reviews the 4 foundations of mindfulness and breath meditation.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Mindfulness clears our distorted views through lucid awareness of body feeling tone, the mind and mental phenomenon.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Morning Instructions on the four elements and QA
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring a deeper happiness with the cultivation of the paramis
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk distinquishes Sati and Sampajanna.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A discussion of Sila, Samadhi and Panna in daily life. Magga Rocks!
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk is about the very common experiences of early retreat. Not perfect - Not Permanent - Not Personal
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guidance with the enlivening and calming factors
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk reviews the 3 dimensions of Faith: 1) Social-Who to trust, 2) What we believe, 3) Practice-What we do.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk is about the three kinds of conceit and the four self constructions. It provides the Buddha's advice about seeing unconscious "I" making.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk covers the unhindered mind, the causes of hindrances, and remedies.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk is about the force of Magga battling defilement's and the path to freedom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This guided metta practice starts with the benefactor sending metta"us" and then radiating to all beings.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk reviews the dimension of the pairing of patience with advice about how to cultivate Khanti.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) And overview of the seven factors of awakening and Dharma reflections that fuel their arising, are presented
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Last instructions for part one. This brief talk reviews the instructions given in the last two weeks
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk provide practical advice for working with hindrances to practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness is the data collection system for intuitive awareness and letting go of thinking
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk looks at the identities associated with aging - and how mindfulness helps reduce the suffering of aging.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk reviews the Vipallasa Sutta: the Buddha's teachings about the distortions of the mind on our perceptions, thoughts and views. It gives examples of how distortions of view impact the speaker and how we might work backwards to clear up distorted perceptions based on what we know about the nature of ignorance (Avijja)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk begins with the 3 kinds of Dukkha and Tanha (Craving). It then outlines how mindfulness transforms Dukkha through (1) HOW we focus, (2) WHAT we focus on and the (3) VIEW we take in our focus.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) One aspect of Right view is understanding when wholesome and unwholesome mental qualities are present. The 7 factors instruct us in what to practice and how to practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk looks at different Sutta references on the four right efforts and how to work with them on retreat. includes an erroneous statement on karma. Please excuse. Oops.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk discusses the 8-fold path of practice and the necessity of cultivating these forces in our life.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talks covers the Vipallasa and what distortions retreats are likely to trigger.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk reviews the purification of victim and perpetrator identities in formal and informal forgiveness practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk discusses the three kinds of mana in the four domains and the skillful means of practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk covers the importance of generosity as a preliminary practice and as an approach to uprooting defilements
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk discusses perceptual distortions and how mindfulness can help us to see clearly
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this talk, the 4 distortions of the mind and the 3 levels is presented
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk reviewed the 7 factors as both the way to approach the 4 Foundations of Mindfulness and also as objects to notice in the mind.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The parallels between retreat practice and native ceremony and the strengthening of the five spiritual powers
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk reviews the core elements of mindfulness and how we use it to uncover our intentions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk takes the "self" or yogi as the recipient of compassion from a benefactor
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk focuses on the experiences of Dukkha for People of Color and how mindfulness is the medicine to overcome suffering.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Using current Dharma and western psychology to explore practices to promote forgiveness and happiness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The distortions of mind and how mindfulness addresses these Vipallasas!
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk summarizes the learnings from sitting in on practice interviews, IMS staff, and advise and personal reflections about continuous mindfulness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers reflections on the nature of craving bot individually and socially.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk is about the three types of dukkha and how we might realize them on the cushion.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers the three refuges as a reflection for practice. The qualities of self reliance, mindfulness and aspiration - are briefly covered.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk is about Dukkha and the end of Dukkha. It address colonization and racism as types of Dukkha experienced by POC