The Dharma Seed Catalog now has the most fantastic online resource of audio meditations and teachings. I am so happy to link you to this exciting find! And everything is free (though Dharma Seed asks you to send a contribution if you can). Here, you’ll find “Internet access to the oral tradition of Buddha’s teachings” through the presentations of noted teachers you’d ordinarily have to travel miles to hear. Sylvia Boorstein, Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, and Sharon Salzberg can be with you in minutes.

Dharma Seed began in the basement of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, when Bill Hamilton began archiving and distributing tapes of the society’s workshops. Today, their collection of 750 lectures given by 91 teachers at eight different retreat centers form a distinguished library and history of Buddhist thought in the West. Here’s a link to a fascinating photographic slide show that tells the story of this important center’s history.