dharmaseed.org

Thanissara's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

Religion EN ↓ 144 episodes

Thanissara, from London, was a monastic for 12 years in the tradition of Ajahn Chah and has taught internationally for over 35 years. She is co-founder of Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat, South Africa, Sacred Mountain Sangha, California, and Chattanooga Insight, Tennessee. She has an MA in Mindfulness Psychotherapy Practice from the Karuna Institute UK and is co-author of Listening to the Heart, A Contemplative Guide to Engaged Buddhism, author of Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth, and several books of poetry.

Author

dharmaseed.org

Category

Religion

Podcast website

dharmaseed.org

Latest episode

Sep 13, 2025

Where to listen?

Podcasts in the app Replaio Radio Coming soon

Podcasts are coming to the app soon. Install now and be the first to see a whole new take on podcasts

Get it on Google Play Install for free Android 5M+ downloads · 4.8 rating iOS soon

Episodes

Thanissara: Day 6: Sitting w/ Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 06.11.2018

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Thanissara: Reclamation of the Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 03.11.2018

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Abstraction and disconnect of Seperative Consciousness The Journey through the Shadow Entering the depth feminine Awareness: the root to the living Dharma

Thanissara: Faith and the practice Within Intensity 27.09.2018

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Working with personal and collective wounding and conditioning The Bodhisattva Heart.

Thanissara: The Mula Sutta: Beyond the Constructs of the Mind 27.09.2018

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Returning the mind home. Contemplating the dissolution of "subject"/ "object"

Thanissara: Release from Samsara 25.09.2018

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) The heart teaching of the 4 Truths. Ajahn Chah's "have you had enough yet?"

Thanissara: Sati, Samadhi, Sampajanna 25.09.2018

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) A gathered heart, mindfully contemplating obstruction

Thanissara: Reclamation of the Sacred 23.09.2018

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) The loss of belonging within an ensouled world. The movement toward healing and a deeper refuge.

Thanissara: Being with Body 23.09.2018

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Freeing embodied conditioning through mindfulness

Thanissara: Samadhi 06.05.2018

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)

Thanissara: Engaged Dharma Part 2 25.04.2018

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) - breakout and Q&A

Thanissara: Engaged Dharma 25.04.2018

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Evolutionary consciousness, systemic oppression, navigating our political crisis and planetary emergency.

Thanissara: Evening Session Day 1: Generosity/Renunciation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 20.04.2018

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Kittisaro, Thanissara: Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - afternoon Talk and Q&A 17.03.2018

(New York Insight Meditation Center)

Kittisaro, Thanissara: Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - afternoon stories about standing up 17.03.2018

(New York Insight Meditation Center)

Kittisaro, Thanissara: Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - afternoon opening: Chants and Meditation Instructions 17.03.2018

(New York Insight Meditation Center)

Kittisaro, Thanissara: Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - morning Guided Meditation 17.03.2018

(New York Insight Meditation Center)

Kittisaro, Thanissara: Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - morning Talk 17.03.2018

(New York Insight Meditation Center)

Kittisaro, Thanissara: Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - Refuges and Precepts 17.03.2018

(New York Insight Meditation Center)

Kittisaro, Thanissara: Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - morning closing 17.03.2018

(New York Insight Meditation Center)

Kittisaro, Thanissara: Freeing Our Concsciousness (Friday) - Opening Chants 16.03.2018

(New York Insight Meditation Center)

Kittisaro, Thanissara: Freeing Our Consciousness (Friday) - Opening Talk 16.03.2018

(New York Insight Meditation Center)

Thanissara: Bring Daily Life Into Practice 14.03.2018

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Pathways to success. A metaphor for our times.

Thanissara: Mindfulness: The Flood Stopper. 11.03.2018

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Contemplation of dukkha - non-dukkha. Right effort.

Thanissara: Liberation Through Wisdom 10.03.2018

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Use the mind to know the mind to go beyond the mind.

Thanissara: Sustaining Calm and Focus. 08.03.2018

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Supporting factors that enable a gathered centeredness.

Listen to the Thanissara's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) podcast in Replaio

Radio and podcasts in one app - free, with no sign-up. Install today and do not miss the launch

Get it on Google Play

Replaio is not a podcast publisher; show names, artwork and audio belong to their authors and are distributed through public RSS feeds.