Dharma Seed - Andrea Fella's Dharma Talks

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2015-08-12 Factors that Hinder and Support Concentration 57:05	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2014-10-20 The Experience Of Wisdom 63:06	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-10-13 Perception and Papanca 60:02	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-10-06 Investigating Mindfulness itself 59:44	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-30 Metta Pratice: Self, Benefactor and Friend 44:19	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-29 Patience 57:34	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-22 Body and Mind 60:22	Download Listen
An exploration of mental and physical experience through the teaching of the aggregates
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-15 Unpacking Right Mindfulness 56:08	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-07-29 Intention, Motivation and Purpose 37:06	Download Listen
This talk was given as a part of the series "Where Rubber Meets the Road: A Series on Mindful Living." When we start to meditate, we notice how much our body and mind influence each other. In the teachings of the Buddha, he highlighted a quality of mind at which this point of connection between body and mind happens. It's a factor in the mind he called "intention" or "volition." Intention or volition is a mental urge that impels us to act. Every action that we do of body, of speech, of mind, has this impulse that precedes it. With practice, it is possible to see this urge or impulse. With an intention to act comes motivation -- the reason why we are going to do something or say something. The Buddha said that this is an interesting place to pay attention to, because when we are not aware of our motivations, our habits of mind (such as greed, aversion and delusion) are choosing our motivations for us, and often those habits are not so helpful. So at this moment of choice when we have this intention to act, the motivation that accompanies that intention is what will either lead us down the path towards more struggle in our lives, or lead us down the path towards more happiness in our lives.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Where Rubber Meets the Road: A Series on Mindful Living

2014-07-01 Where Rubber Meets the Road: A Series on Mindful Living 7:06:03

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with Andrea Fella, David Cohn, Jason Murphy, Margaret Gainer, Matthew Brensilver, Misha Merrill, Robert Cusick, Shaila Catherine, Sharon Allen, Tony Bernhard

This series of talks provides insight and practical advice as to how to take the wonderful and serene mind that we develop during our meditation practice into our daily lives, into our relationships with others. Sometimes, the deepest grooves in our minds are only stimulated in our relationships to others. Defilements and habits of the mind, such as greed, anger and delusion, arise in ways that they don't in other situations. Fortunately, these daily life encounters offer us opportunities to practice, to see ourselves more clearly, and to become more free. This is the liberating power of awareness and mindfulness.

Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

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