{"podcast":{"title":"Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction","slug":"dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-503230","podcast_index_feed_id":503230,"rss_url":"https://www.dharmaseed.org/feeds/recordings/","website_url":"https://dharmaseed.org","image_url":"https://media.dharmaseed.org/images/DS-rss-logo.jpg","author":"Dharma Seed","episode_count":144,"summary":"Dharma Seed is dedicated to preserving and sharing the spoken teachings of Theravada Buddhism in modern languages. Since the early 1980's, Dharma Seed has collected and distributed dharma talks by teachers offering the vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness) practices of Theravada Buddhism. New recordings are being added continuously from contemporary dharma teachers.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-14T08:19:05.205487+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-503230"},"episode":{"title":"Sharon Salzberg: Tranquil and Alert: Viriya and the Art of Balanced Effort","slug":"sharon-salzberg-tranquil-and-alert-viriya-and-the-art-of-balanced-effort","published_at":"2026-05-09T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-503230/sharon-salzberg-tranquil-and-alert-viriya-and-the-art-of-balanced-effort","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-503230","url":"https://dharmaseed.org/talks/97036/","audio_url":"https://dharmaseed.org//talks/97036/20260509-Sharon_Salzberg-RoB-tranquil_and_alert_viriya_and_the_art_of_balanced_effort-97036.mp3?rss=","summary":"(Refuge of Belonging) Drawing on the legend of the Buddha touching the earth and the Barre town motto that named her retreat center, Sharon Salzberg explores viriya — the pāramī of energy, effort, and courageous application. This talk examines how right effort lives in the middle way between strain and indolence, how the integration of inner and outer work makes the dharma real, and how we claim our own right to aspire to freedom.","meta_description":"(Refuge of Belonging) Drawing on the legend of the Buddha touching the earth and the Barre town motto that named her retreat center, Sharon Salzberg explo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2973,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-503230/episodes/sharon-salzberg-tranquil-and-alert-viriya-and-the-art-of-balanced-effort/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-503230/sharon-salzberg-tranquil-and-alert-viriya-and-the-art-of-balanced-effort.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}