Devon Hase's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Teachings on mindfulness of the heart/mind including guided practice recognizing and allowing our emotions, moods, and mindstates.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Stories and teachings on working with Nivaranas - they are not hindrances if we know them with mindfulness.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Introduction to metta meditation practice followed by a gentle body scan.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Meditation & Dharma talk Topics: Spiritual power, Community, Belonging, Befriending each moment

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided practice on awareness itself.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Homage to the beauty of love in all its forms. Reflections on life-and-death, wonder, and the gift of the dhamma.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Review of the first three foundations of mindfulness, followed by a guided practice using these different objects.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on the qualities of the second refuge. Dhamma as truth, timeless, here and now, leading inwards to the source. Nature stories and Nico stories included.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The body is full of awareness. An exploration of metta as awareness and awareness as metta in the body.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An exploration of equanimity as the starting place for engaging skillfully in our lives.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Practice highlighting the difference between momentary attention which connects with an object and a wider field of awareness which can know many objects at once.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Meditation on the first three foundations of mindfulness: kayanupassana, vedananupassana, and cittanupassana. Emphasis on working skillfully with mind states and heart states.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Talk on how letting go leads to Emptiness. Many ways to talk about freedom: nonproliferation, absence of clinging, bare awareness, laying our burdens down.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Meditation for settling, arriving, becoming available for the body.

(Refuge of Belonging) In this talk, devon offers reflections on the importance of refuge in the Buddhist tradition and how deepening into refuge opens us to a stable sense of belonging, as well as building metta parami, the cultivation of love on the path.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) "Your liberation is bound up with mine. Let us work together" and other thoughts on reciprocity.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Teaching in a guided meditation on using thoughts as a meditation object

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Teachings on the practice of Metta in relationships – making the world our friend. Guided practice using phrases and categories of self, benefactor, friend, and stranger.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on Viriya (energy) and Kanti

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Introduction to Satipatthana practice and a guided meditation on using body, breath, and sound as primary anchors

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Short teaching and guided metta meditation cultivating appreciation for the body

(Various) How to offer respect and dignity to our emotions. How the practice of RAIN can lead to liberating insight into the nature of being human.

(Various) Teaching on working with the six senses and guided meditation based on Bahia Sutta.

(Various) Short teaching and stories about accompaniment on the path, followed by guided Caring Moment practice

(Various) Introduction to mindfulness as found in the Satipatthana and other suttas.