Podcasts by Spirit Rock Meditation Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction
The teachings of the Buddha (Dharma) and the practices of Insight Meditation (Vipassana) and loving-kindness meditation (metta) are at the heart of all the programs we offer at Spirit Rock. Practicing Insight Meditation develops mindfulness, the capacity to pay attention to each moment of life and to see clearly the truth of our experience. Studying the Dharma provides insights into the conditions that define and limit our experience of life. And cultivating an attitude of loving-kindness allows us to stay present to what's true and what's difficult in our lives with compassion for ourselves and others. Ultimately, our relationship to life is transformed as we learn to live more wisely and kindly.
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Walt Opie: Spiritual Awakening and Compassion in Recovery from 2023-12-08T23:13:51
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Thanissara: The Dharma of Engaging These Times from 2023-12-04T18:00
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Liz Powell: Equanimity for a Difficult Person&Metta for All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2023-12-02T20:10:11
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Sylvia Boorstein: Instructions for Everything (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2023-12-02T08:21:58
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Liz Powell: Equanimity for a Friend (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2023-12-01T20:12:01
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Sylvia Boorstein: How Wisdom Grows (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2023-12-01T16:02:33
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Nikki Mirghafori: Guided Meditation: Equanimity and the Feeling Tone (Vedana) (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2023-12-01T08:16:50
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Liz Powell: Equanimity for a Neutral Person (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2023-11-30T20:08:18
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Nikki Mirghafori: What is Equanimity Anyway? And Is It Worth Cultivating? (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2023-11-30T15:57:12
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Grace Fisher: Exploring the Landscape of Gratitude from 2023-11-30T10:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Includes a 30m meditation followed by a Dharma Talk (Group discussion is not included)
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Bonnie Duran: Guided Meditation: Third Foundation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2023-11-30T08:17:44
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Liz Powell: Metta for a Benefactor (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2023-11-29T20:05:01
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Bonnie Duran: Third Foundation: Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2023-11-29T15:55:09
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Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Conflict 4: Applying the Ten Foundations of Conflict Practice to Israel/Palestine from 2023-11-29T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin with a brief review of the framework of ten foundations for practicing with differences and conflicts (defining conflicts as differences of goals, values, v...
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Donald Rothberg: Brief Guided Meditation Exploring One's Experiences of Conflicts from 2023-11-29T10:30
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Mark Coleman: From Nature to Dharma, To Dharma Nature from 2023-11-27T18:00
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Tuere Sala: Looking at Practice From a Wider Perspective from 2023-11-26T18:00
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Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Conflict: Foundations 3 from 2023-11-22T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We start by reviewing briefly the two times' accounts of the foundations for practicing with differences and conflicts, first giving a definition of "conflict" as a ...
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Grace Fisher: Living Life as a Prayer from 2023-11-16T10:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Begins with a 30m meditation followed by a Dharma Talk
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Heidi Bourne : Kindness is What Keeps Us Alive from 2023-11-15T10:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Includes meditation&dharma talk (Group metta shares&Group Q/A has been omitted)
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Tuere Sala: Practice in Difficult Times from 2023-11-12T21:56:26
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Laura Burges: The Zen Way of Recovery from 2023-11-10T21:01:34
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Grace Fisher: Unencumbered and Dear from 2023-11-09T10:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Begins with a 30m meditation followed by a Dharma Talk
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Sally Armstrong: Dependent Arising and Emptiness from 2023-11-08T19:26:23
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Louije Kim: Monday Night Live Dharma Talk: Right View, Right Intention from 2023-11-06T20:13:42
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Louije Kim: Monday Night Live Welcome and Opening Meditation from 2023-11-06T19:11:42
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Devin Berry: Facts and truths to remember: the 5 recollections from 2023-11-05T07:00
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Mushim Ikeda: Wise Discernment: Making Tough Compassionate Choices from 2022-04-17T16:00
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Sylvia Boorstein: Cultivating a Wonderful Mind from 2022-04-13T10:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Meditation&Dharma Talk
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Grace Fisher: Walking Through Doorways of Impermanence from 2022-04-07T10:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Begins with 30m Meditation followed by Dharma Talk
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Oren Jay Sofer: Guided Meditation: Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-04-07T08:46:53
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A guided meditation beginning with a reflection on gratitude, opening to joy, and then cultivating Mudita - joy in the happiness of others.
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Heidi Bourne : Place Your Heart Upon the Dharma from 2022-04-06T10:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Meditation + Dharma Talk
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Oren Jay Sofer: Our Best Home and the Path of Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-04-03T19:31:23
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on the path of awakening, the Brahma Viharas, and advice for retreat.
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Grace Fisher: Pathfinding with the Dharma from 2022-03-31T10:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Begins with 30m Meditation followed by Dharma Talk
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Donald Rothberg: Reflections after Returning from Four Weeks on Retreat from 2022-03-30T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A few days after returning from four weeks on retreat at Spirit Rock, Donald reflects on a number of themes related to his retreat, including: the importance of retr...
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Syra Smith: The Heart of Sorrow: The Seeds of Compassion and the Overflowing Cup from 2022-03-30T06:00
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Diana Winston: Guided Sit--Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-29T20:15:39
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Mark Coleman: Meeting Life with Awareness and Wisdom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-29T16:50:22
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to practically Meet Life with Awareness and Wisdom through mindfulness practice
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Diana Winston: Morning sit with Instruction (Retreat at Sprit Rock) from 2022-03-29T08:47:26
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Mark Coleman: Guided Sit--Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-28T20:18:29
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Jack Kornfield: Open, Spacious Awareness Meditation | Monday Night from 2022-03-28T18:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflect on the value of a peaceful heart. What is it like to have a peaceful heart among the worldly winds of praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, joy...
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Jack Kornfield: Peace is Possible | Monday Night Talk from 2022-03-28T18:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We are in a time of great transition. The climate crisis, the pandemic, war, injustice, racism: they're all pressing on us to live in a different way. And if you liv...
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Diana Winston: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-28T16:41:45
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the basics of mindfulness from the perspective of attention, attitude, and intention. It touches briefly on the five hindrances and includes a sto...
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Mark Coleman: Mindfulness of Body and Breath Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-28T08:47:10
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Mindfulness of Body and Breath Instructions - 1st day of a retreat
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Juliana Sloane: Part 2, Dharma Talk: The Wave is the Part of the Ocean, The Ordinary is Part of the Sacred from 2022-03-24T10:30
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Kaira Jewel Lingo: Embracing Strong Emotions, Part 2 (Dharma Talk&Guided Meditation) from 2022-03-24T10:10
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Kaira Jewel Lingo: Embracing Strong Emotions, Part 1 (6 Step Vagal Nurturing Sequence) from 2022-03-24T10:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Credit for Polyvagal Nurturing based on Dr. Marti Glenn's work&research. Kaira Jewel also offers this video as an aid for Vagal Nurturing: https://www.youtube.com/wa...
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Juliana Sloane: Part 1, Guided Meditation: Grounding in the Breath with Metta from 2022-03-24T10:00
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Andrea Fella: The Story of Angulimala (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-23T19:32:30
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Angulimala murdered 999 people before he met the Buddha. This is the story of how he came to be a murderer and how his encounter with the Buddha led to his transfor...
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Andrea Fella: Guided Meditation: Equanimity Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-22T14:01:39
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Greg Scharf: Liberation Through Non-Clinging (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-20T19:30:18
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Rev. Keiryu Lien Shutt: Enmei Jukku/Well-being Chant Meditation from 2022-03-20T16:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This meditation is offered as a support to the situation in the Ukraine and the 1-year commemoration of the Atlanta shootings. Incorporating phrases from Soto Zen's ...
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Andrea Fella: Disenchantment and Dispassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-18T19:30:58
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Sylvia Boorstein: The Prelude to Compassion is the Willingness to See from 2022-03-17T10:00
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Grace Fisher: Dreaming Thoughts of Peace from 2022-03-17T10:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Begins with 30m Meditation followed by Dharma Talk
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Diana Clark: Inspiration for Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-16T19:32:39
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Hearing awakening poems from those that have traveled this path before us can be an inspirational support for practice. In this talk, poems from the Therigatha, The...
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JD Doyle: Cultivating a Loving Heart in a Hostile World from 2022-03-16T06:00
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Diana Clark: Cultivating Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-15T14:00:04
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) By practicing with compassion we recognize that caring about suffering is a natural capacity that we all have. In this guided meditation we cultivate compassion for...
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Andrea Fella: Dependent Co-Arising: Part 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-14T19:31:02
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Greg Scharf: Reflections on the Heavenly Messengers (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-13T19:29:51
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Greg Scharf: Guided Meditation - Radiating Metta to All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-11T14:01:13
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Radiating Metta to All Beings
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Andrea Fella: Morning Instructions: Choiceless Attention (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-11T08:15:22
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Grace Fisher: The Refuge of Loving Kindness from 2022-03-10T10:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Begins with 30m Meditation followed by Dharma Talk
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Heidi Bourne : Let Love Hold Whatever Arises from 2022-03-09T10:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Meditation&Dharma Talk
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Andrea Fella: Dependent Co-Arising Part 1 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-08T19:29:48
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Bhante Buddharakkhita: Morning sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-07T08:14:57
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Greg Scharf: Morning Instructions&Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-06T08:17:18
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided standing meditation and instruction on mindfulness of feeling tone (Vedana)
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Andrea Fella: Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Thoughts (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-05T08:16:46
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Matthew Brensilver: Guided meditation: feeling as a prediction of risk from 2022-03-05T08:15:48
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Andrea Fella: Guided Metta Practice: Neutral Person (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-04T14:01:51
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Andrea Fella: Mindfulness of Difficult Mental States (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-03T19:28:55
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Diana Clark: Loving-kindness for a good friend (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-03T14:00:58
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) With metta practice we start where it's easy and expand the loving-kindness to more and more beings. In this session, we begin with the easy being, then expand to i...
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Anushka Fernandopulle: Morning Sit with Instruction (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-03T08:15:49
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Greg Scharf: Mindfulness Directed to the Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-02T19:28:22
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An exploration of the second establishment of mindfulness
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Sylvia Boorstein: Balancing the Mind in the Middle of Sorrow from 2022-03-02T10:00
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Winnie Nazarko: The Frame Around Insight Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-03-01T19:28:49
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk was offered at a month long insight meditation retreat, where most of the day is devoted to sitting and walking practice. The discussion acknowledges and e...
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Jack Kornfield: Compassion in a Time of War Meditation | Monday Night from 2022-02-28T19:57:38
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) May your struggles and sorrows be eased. May you hold yourself in great compassion. May you be safe and protected. May your heart be at peace. May your life be at pe...
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Jack Kornfield: A Peaceful Heart In A Time Of War And The Legacy Of Thich Nhat Hanh | Monday Night Talk from 2022-02-28T18:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Tonight I had planned to talk about Thich Nhat Hanh, the great and wise Zen master and teacher who died recently at age 95. But it seems critical to also acknowledge...
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Greg Scharf: Introduction to Metta and Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-28T13:58:30
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Andrea Fella: Morning Instructions: Intimacy with Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-28T08:15:36
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Tempel Smith: The Three Trainings to be in the Stream of Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-25T19:30:51
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Sariputta equated the stream of liberation to being the very same 8 fold path of the Buddha's main teachings. The 8 fold path can be summed up as the three higher tr...
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James Baraz: Your Practice is Not Just for You (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-24T19:29:51
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Your practice affects everyone around you. When you see your practice in this wider context, it evokes a whole dimension of inspiration and “joyful responsibility“ t...
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Sylvia Boorstein: Ne stressez pas! (Don't make things more complicated.) from 2022-02-23T18:00
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Tempel Smith: Guided Equanimity with Nature (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-22T13:59:40
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) To find equanimity within us we can reflect on how we naturally feel when in nature. We rarely judge nature or get rigidly stuck on our preferences. We can see a yo...
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Kaira Jewel Lingo: Monday Night Dharma Talk - Honoring my teacher Thich Nhat Hahn from 2022-02-21T18:00
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James Baraz: Guided sit with brama vihara (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-21T14:04:05
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Tempel Smith: The 3rd and 4th Foundations of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-20T19:29:04
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) While the 3rd and fourth foundations of mindfulness can be taught as their own separate topics, it can be very useful to look at the language and instruction given i...
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Tempel Smith: Morning sit with Instruction (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-20T08:16:16
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James Baraz: Equanimity from 2022-02-18T19:29:21
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Equanimity is on many lists is thee teachings--always the last on every list which shows it's importance as the culmination of the mind that can be with all things. ...
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Grace Fisher: Beauty, Stories and Softening to the Mind from 2022-02-17T10:00
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James Baraz: Mudita practice from 2022-02-15T14:00:55
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Mudita for friend who's having great happiness self, benefactor, and neutral categories
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Tempel Smith: Guided: Returning to 1st and 2nd Foundations of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-15T08:17
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After receiving many dharma talks and and expanding mindfulness into the 3rd and 4th Foundations of mindfulness, it is important to intentionally return every now an...
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JD Doyle: The Path of Awakening with the 7 Factors (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-14T19:30:54
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddhist teachings on the 7 factors of awakening guide us on the our path. The awakening factors of mindfulness, curiosity, energy, joy, tranquility, gathered mi...
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Tempel Smith: Arising and Passing in the Stream (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-13T19:30:18
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In truth we are in a stream of every changing experiences, both internally and externally. AS we develop greater mindfulness and concentration we see through our dir...
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James Baraz: Awakening Joy: The Buddha’s Teaching on the Gladness of the Wholesome (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-11T19:33:55
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha taught that one should cultivate and, when possible, maintain wholesome states. This talk explores teachings on cultivating states of well-being and how t...
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Tempel Smith: Guided Mindfulness of Intentions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-11T08:17:31
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In daily live many of our actions are habitual and unconscious. The Buddha asked us to be increasingly aware of our motivation and intention behind each action so we...
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Tempel Smith: Mindfulness of Intentions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-11T08:17:31
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In daily live many of our actions are habitual and unconscious. The Buddha asked us to be increasingly aware of our motivation and intention behind each action so we...
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Tempel Smith: Guided Karuna/Compassion Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-10T14:01:53
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Every being experiences loss, pain and fear, and often feels the additional suffering of isolation. Our process of waking up gives us increasing awareness of our own...
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Tempel Smith: Karuna/Compassion Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-10T14:01:53
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Every being experiences loss, pain and fear, and often feels the additional suffering of isolation. Our process of waking up gives us increasing awareness of our own...
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Grace Fisher: Asset Framing and the Patterns of the Mind from 2022-02-10T10:00
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Donald Rothberg: Donald Rothberg and Yassir Chadly in Dialogue on Buddhist and Sufi Perspectives and Practices: A Gathering of Wisdom, Love, and Respect from 2022-02-09T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Yassir Chadly, a long-time friend of Donald's who is a Sufi teacher, musician, and former Olympic swimmer, originally from Morocco, is in dialogue with Donald, and t...
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Mei Elliot: Vedana and Dependent Origination (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-08T19:30:12
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The 12 links of dependent origination describe how we get caught in suffering. Through exploring 4 key links of dependent origination, we can come to learn how to be...
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JD Doyle: Metta for Easy Beings, Difficult Beings, and All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-07T14:03:21
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Metta meditation that begins with an overview of working with difficult or challenging people. Meditation explores the cultivation of Metta, starting with eas...
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James Baraz: Loving the Moment: Opening to it All (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-05T19:30:06
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Being in the present requires us to open to all experience, the beautiful moments and the challenging ones. This talk explores essential qualities that help us not o...
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James Baraz: Guided Bramavihara Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-04T14:14:01
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In order to open the heart and extend kindness and compassion to others we need to soften the places of contraction through practicing forgiveness. This guided medit...
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JD Doyle: Exploring the Three Refuges as Paths of Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-03T19:31:51
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An exploration of how the three refuges can be used during retreat to support practice. Recognizing the lineage and Buddha nature, the Dharma of our bodies, and the ...
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Grace Fisher: Listening Within the Intergenerational Arc from 2022-02-03T10:00
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Tempel Smith: Mindfulness of the Body for Concentration (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-03T08:17:28
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) At some point we can fully let go of all our concerns to give our full attention to the breath and body. As we build faith and devotion to this simple fullness of a...
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Tempel Smith: Mindfulness of the Body from 2022-02-02T19:31:04
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha stated we are often lost in craving and aversion when we are not mindful of our bodies. In a discourse named the Six Animals (SN 35.247) the Buddha strong...
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Mei Elliot: Metta for Benefactor and Self from 2022-02-02T14:00:05
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Introduction to the Brahma Viharas including orientation to the benefactor category.
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Donald Rothberg: Honoring the Great Teacher of Interbeing and Engaged Buddhism, Thich Nhat Hanh from 2022-02-02T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) There is weaving together in the talk of several areas, including (1) Donald's stories of his encounters with and learning from Thich Nhat Hanh, starting in 1987; (2...
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Donald Rothberg: A Guided Meditation in the Manner of Thich Nhat Hanh from 2022-02-02T10:10
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A 35-minute or so guided meditation in the manner of Thich Nhat Hanh (connected with the talk honoring Thich Nhat Hanh). The guided meditation is mostly silent, with...
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Tempel Smith: Loving Kindness for Ourselves (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-02-01T14:01:12
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Here is a simply guided meditation to bring kindness and patience to our mindfulness practice. As mindfulness develops it brings both clarity and warmth to our awar...
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James Baraz: Morning instructions: Focusing and unifying the mind from 2022-02-01T08:17:59
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A guided meditation on deepening concentration using the breath as the primary object.
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James Baraz: How The Practice Unfolds: The Five Spiritual Faculties from 2022-01-31T19:28:45
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Five Spiritual Faculties in the Buddha's teaching give a clear description of the natural unfolding of practice unfolds over time. It also describes the process ...
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Sylvia Boorstein: Tenderness and a Tribute to Thich Nhat Hanh from 2022-01-27T10:00
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Grace Fisher: Thinking Thoughts and Discerning Truths from 2022-01-27T10:00
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Brian Lesage: 1st Day Morning Instructions from 2022-01-24T08:46:30
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Bonnie Duran: Practicing in the Body for Insight : Impermanence from 2022-01-22T19:31:26
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk gives information about practicing with the 4 Elements and with Vedana/Feeling tone for insight into impermanence.
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Grace Fisher: Sangha and the Extended Heart from 2022-01-20T10:00
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Bonnie Duran: Instructions on 4 Elements Meditation: Mindfulness of Water Element from 2022-01-20T08:32:04
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This is a guided body scan of water element meditation - part of Mindfulness of the Body.
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Sylvia Boorstein: Supporting Equanimity: I Talk to My Friends. from 2022-01-19T10:00
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Bonnie Duran: Four Elements Instructions: Mindfulness of Earth Element from 2022-01-19T08:31:05
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided meditations on body scan for Earth Element.
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Gulwinder Singh: The Five Recollections and the Cultivation of Metta in Daily Life--(Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-01-16T19:34:02
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This Dharma Talk reflects on the 5 subjects for frequent recollections (also called the 5 remembrances): (1) I am of the nature to age, I have not gone beyond aging,...
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Kaira Jewel Lingo: Justice is What Love Looks Like in Public: Celebrating Dr. King's Legacy of Love--(Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-01-15T19:37:21
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Given on Dr. King's birthday, we explore how we can each give rise to bodhicitta and support the realization of justice: the expression of love in public. Kaira Jewe...
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Donald Rothberg: Metta and Forgiveness--(Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-01-14T19:32:44
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We first explore several important themes in metta practice: (1) how metta practice can be seen as a training in learning to “lead” with the heart; (2) ways of worki...
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Gulwinder Singh: Metta & Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-01-13T19:35:57
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on how the cultivation of Metta is a cornerstone of building equanimity in which the mind is impartial. When we cultivate a mind that can radiate metta ...
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Heidi Bourne : Intention, Commitment & Determination: Balancing the 3 Legged Stool from 2022-01-13T10:00
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Grace Fisher: Refuge, Awareness, and Ground from 2022-01-13T10:00
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Kaira Jewel Lingo: How to Meet Obstacles in Metta Meditation--(Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-01-12T19:33:59
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin with metta as heart training, a practice of awakening and growing our heart and explore how our practice of metta can also support and help to transform oth...
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Donald Rothberg: The Nature of Metta and Metta Practice--(Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2022-01-11T19:32
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Metta practice is one version of the ancient vocation to live from kindness and love, that is found across spiritual traditions. In Buddhist tradition, it is in the ...
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Sylvia Boorstein: Todo en La Vida es Temporal from 2021-12-16T10:00
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Bonnie Duran, Teja Bell, Vinny Ferraro: Evening Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2021-12-10T19:31
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Teja Bell: Morning Sit with Instructions from 2021-12-10T09:01:25
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Teja Bell: Guided Qigong (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2021-12-10T06:16:33
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Teja Bell: Evening Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2021-12-09T19:30:35
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Bonnie Duran: Metta Meditation (Retreat at Spirit rock) from 2021-12-09T16:32:49
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Heidi Bourne : The Task of a Lifetime: Dissolve Contention, Forgive Everyone & Wake up! from 2021-12-09T10:00
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Grace Fisher: Listening for the Song of Our Life from 2021-12-09T10:00
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Bonnie Duran: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2021-12-09T09:00:19
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Bonnie Duran: Evening Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2021-12-08T19:32:49
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Vinny Ferraro: Metta Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2021-12-08T16:30:01
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Bonnie Duran: Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2021-12-07T09:01:59
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Grace Fisher: Asking Beautiful Questions from 2021-12-02T10:00
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Susie Harrington: Hindrances and Distractions: Portals to the Path (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2021-12-01T19:29:44
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The path of practice has many challenges. How we meet those and turn toward them and learn form them is possibly the most important aspect of our practice. This ta...
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Donald Rothberg: The Seven Factors of Awakening 2: Cultivating Mindfulness and Equanimity in Formal Meditation and in Daily Life from 2021-12-01T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Our practice aims at awakening (and awakened beings help others awaken). We review briefly the nature of awakening for the Buddha and later Buddhist traditions, and ...
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Jessica Morey: Evening Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2021-11-30T19:30:01
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu: Early morning Chants and Mantra from 2021-11-28T06:41:20
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Thanissara & Kittisaro: Early morning Chants and Mantra from 2021-11-28T06:41:20
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Gulwinder Singh: Reflections on the path of practice, Karma and Equanimity from 2021-11-27T19:40:51
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) on the last night of the retreat we reflected on the path of practice, the fruits that spontaneously emerge from practice, how are actions of body speech and mind, t...
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Kittisaro & Thanissara: Kuan Yin Compassion Ceremony (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2021-11-27T16:01:42
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Kuan Yin Compassion Ceremony
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Dawn Mauricio: Morning Sit with Instruction from 2021-11-27T09:02:09
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Dawn Mauricio: Holding Our Suffering: Turning to the Sacred, Turning to the Collective (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2021-11-26T19:40:41
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The state of the world is getting more intense, more extreme, more divided. It is undeniable that we need to do things differently, including thinking we can do it a...
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Thanissara: Transforming Unwholesome Karma Through Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2021-11-26T09:04:39
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The mutability of karma. An act of beauty in a war zone. Moments of connection with wildlife. Compassion meditation for ancestors, those in our near relational field...
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Thanissara: The Shamanic Dismemberment & Great Return of Our Times (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2021-11-25T19:40:01
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The danger and opportunity in the dying of an old world. The curriculum of decolonizing internally & externally. The reclamation of an ensouled world. Dharma practic...
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Kittisaro: There Are No Footprints In The Sky (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2021-11-25T09:03:16
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Contemplation of form & emptiness. Everything is sacred. Emptiness facilitates resonant response. Undivided non-dual nature of reality.
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Kittisaro: Freedom is the Essence of All Things (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2021-11-24T19:40:55
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Contemplating what never changes. The indestructible heart. Mind the Gap. Radical reflection, returning to the root, where all things merge. Kuan Yin's meditation me...
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Donald Rothberg: Cultivating Generosity and Gratitude at the Time of Thanksgiving from 2021-11-24T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After we set the context of the holiday of Thanksgiving, including Native perspectives, we explore the inter-related qualities of generosity and gratitude. Gratitude...
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Thanissara: Yin Meditation - Depth receptivity to internal experience. from 2021-11-24T09:03:12
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Moving from goal to source. This is how it is now. Contemplation within the frame of the 4 Noble Truths.
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Thanissara: Inner Peace is Not Apart from Activism (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2021-11-23T19:39:02
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The gift of the 4 Noble Truths in meeting the challenge of these times. A transmission of courage from Ajahn Chah. The profound impact of the Buddha's engagement wit...
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Thanissara: Medicine at the heart of the Buddha's teaching for these times from 2021-11-23T19:39:02
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The gift of the 4 Noble Truths in meeting the challenge of these times. A transmission of courage from Ajahn Chah. The profound impact of the Buddha's engagement wit...
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Kittisaro: The Interplay Between Samatha and Vipassana from 2021-11-23T09:02:59
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Calm and Insight; contemplating supports for samadhi (unification of heart). Vitakka (directed thought), vicara (exploring, receptive attention), piti (joy), sukha (...
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Kittisaro: True Peace Is Not Far Away from 2021-11-22T19:39:43
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The revelatory power of contemplating change, unreliability, and not self. What robs the heart of well being? Recognizing hindrances as teachers. Letting go.
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Gulwinder Singh: Morning Meditation with Instructions from 2021-11-22T09:01:19
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Gulwinder Singh: The Hindrances Becoming Awakening from 2021-11-21T19:42:29
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A talk on the 5 so called Hindrances and balancing being with them and skillful means to transmute them.
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Dawn Mauricio: Monring Sit with Instruction--Retreat at Spirit Rock (Day 2) from 2021-11-21T09:01:44
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Dawn Mauricio: Morning Sit with Instruction--Retreat at Spirit Rock (Day 2) from 2021-11-21T09:01:44
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Dawn Mauricio: The Wise Body--Retreat at Spirit Rock (day 1) from 2021-11-20T19:38:23
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk addresses in broad terms the first foundation of mindfulness. The main points include recognizing our innate wisdom and slowing down to listen to it.
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Kittisaro: Patiently Arriving : The Alchemy of Awareness--Retreat at Spirit Rock (Day 1) from 2021-11-20T09:03:18
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) First Day. Overview of Path: Sila (Virtuous Restraint), Samadhi (Collectedness), Panna (Wisdom). Patience and kindness in cultivating mindfulness of breathing. Buddh...
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Donald Rothberg: Doorways to Awakening from 2021-11-17T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Remembering the teaching about there being 84,000 "Dharma Doors," we explore a number of such "doorways to awakening." The interest is especially in inviting us each...
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Sylvia Boorstein: "May All Beings Be Peaceful & Happy & Come to the End of Suffering" from 2021-11-10T10:00
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Devon Hase: Awakened Awareness from 2021-11-08T19:30:34
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A talk exploring the nature of the mind, including stories, comments on aspiration and compassion.
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Thanissara: Monday Night Dharma Talk - Climate Code Red: A Needed Shift to Meet These Times from 2021-11-08T18:00
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Donald Rothberg: Talk #4: Introduction to Awakened Awareness. from 2021-11-07T19:30:52
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) There’s an outline of how in concentration practice and insight practice, there is deconstruction of some of the structures of ordinary experience, including the sep...
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Devon Hase: Guided Meditation on Anatta from 2021-11-07T09:01:31
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Brief overview of insight practice looking through the lens of not-self. Includes investigation of body sensations, emotions, and seeing meditation, using the Anatta...
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Donald Rothberg: Evening Dharma Talk #1: The Nature of Samadhi and Samatha Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) from 2021-11-04T19:30:56
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We explore further the nature of samadhi and samatha practice, cultivating samadhi, pointing to the importance of samadhi and samatha practice, the different ways of...
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Heidi Bourne : "Dukkha as the Path to Happiness" from 2021-11-03T10:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The “Dharmette” of this subject is covered from the beginning up to 17 minutes + 34 seconds. A silent meditation immediately follows, then a 5-minute break (which i...
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Sylvia Boorstein: Buddhas Teaching on Impartial Kindness: The Metta Sutta from 2021-10-20T18:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The talk references the New Yorker cover from September 6, 2021 and the Karaniya Metta Sutta.
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Juliana Sloane: Meditation (Grounding in Earth Element) from 2021-10-14T18:00
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Sylvia Boorstein: Paying Attention: What it's all about! from 2021-10-13T18:00
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Jack Kornfield: On Death - Monday Night Dharma Talk from 2021-10-11T18:00
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Grace Fisher: Metta as a Doorway to Belonging from 2021-10-07T18:00
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Donald Rothberg: The Seven Factors of Awakening from 2021-10-06T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After a brief review of the last two sessions that Donald has offered on traditional teachings about awakening and contemporary maps of the path of awakening, we exp...
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Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: The Factors of Awakening from 2021-10-06T10:15
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A lightly guided meditation, linked with today's talk, inviting one or more of the Seven Factors of Awakening.
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Donald Rothberg: The Nature of Awakening: Traditional and Contemporary Maps from 2021-10-04T20:05
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) While much of our interest in practice may be focused on finding some degree of peace and understanding, or on making workable challenging states of body, mind, and ...
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Matthew Brensilver, Phillip Moffitt, Tuere Sala: Dialogue on aspects of freedom. from 2021-10-01T19:44:11
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Phillip Moffitt: Letting go mediation from 2021-10-01T08:47:13
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Inspired by the Venerable Sumedhu, the "letting go" meditation is a simple but powerful meditation practice. It is an effective anti-dote to Thinking mind challenges
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Matthew Brensilver: Tranquilizing side of the 7 Factors: Agitation and temporal density. from 2021-09-30T19:42:45
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Grace Fisher: Things Don’t Always Work Out from 2021-09-30T18:00
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Pamela Weiss: "Water is Life" from 2021-09-30T15:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A talk on the Water element, exploring the qualities of fluidity, cohesion, connectedness and healing.
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Tuere Sala: Morning Instructions- Thoughts from 2021-09-30T08:44:17
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Heidi Bourne : It Matters That You Notice from 2021-09-29T18:00
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Phillip Moffitt: Earth Element guided instruction from 2021-09-28T08:46:24
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Phillip Moffitt: Being Mindful of the “Covid Undertow” from 2021-09-26T18:00
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Eugene Cash: Satipatthana: Refrain and Letting Go from 2021-09-17T19:29:28
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploration of the four principles of the Satipa??h?na refrain: Ardent, Fully Aware, Mindful and Free. Learning what it means when: 'one abides independent, not clin...
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Sylvia Boorstein: Compassion, Through Wisdom, Is Liberation From Suffering from 2021-09-15T18:00
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Jeff Haozous: Sit with Instructions - Last full day from 2021-09-11T08:29:50
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Bruni Dávila: Indigenous Metta with Elvina Charley from 2021-09-10T16:43:41
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Bonnie Duran: Sit with Instructions: 4 Foundations - Elements from 2021-09-10T08:31:27
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Bonnie Duran: Opening Ceremony and introduction of teachers. from 2021-09-09T19:42:41
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Includes a blessing by Dean Hoaglin of the Miwok Tribe. Teachers: bruni davila, Jeff Haozous and Elvina Charley introduce themselves.
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Donald Rothberg: Awakening and Paths of Awakening: Traditional and Contemporary from 2021-09-08T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We first review last week's theme of traditional understandings of awakening and the path to awakening, focused on the teachings of the Buddha, of the Thai Forest tr...
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Sean Feit Oakes: The Six Realms: Action and Identity in a Conscious World from 2021-09-07T22:10:38
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The ancient Buddhist map of existence known as the Six Realms is both a vision of the cosmos and all its inhabitants and an elegant psychological model we can use in...
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Donald Rothberg: Awakening from 2021-09-01T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After a number of sessions focused on practicing with reactivity and with challenges, we focus on awakening and awakened qualities. We survey the Buddha's main under...
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Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: Settling, Tracking Reactivity and Awakened Qualities from 2021-09-01T10:10
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We start with the intention to cultivate awakened qualities, then have a period of settling, followed by opening up experience and particularly noticing any reactivi...
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JD Doyle: Monday Night Dharma Talk - Understanding Identity with the Five Aggregates from 2021-08-30T18:00
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Grace Fisher: The Vulnerability of Tasting Heaven from 2021-08-26T18:00
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Donald Rothberg: (Lightly) Guided Meditation: Practicing with Pleasant and Unpleasant Experiences and Tendencies toward Reactivity. from 2021-08-25T18:00
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Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Challenges: Individual, Relational, and Collective from 2021-08-25T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We name some of the personal, relational, and collective challenges of our current times, and point to a number of guidelines and support that help us to skillfully ...
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Sally Armstrong: Brama Vihara Meditation: Karuna (Compassion) from 2021-08-24T14:29:20
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Jack Kornfield: Loving Witness Meditation | Monday Night from 2021-08-23T19:15:42
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Notice as you feel the breath, that who you are is not this breath, or this body, but you are loving awareness, the loving witness. You are consciousness itself—open...
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Jack Kornfield: Loving Witness | Monday Night Talk from 2021-08-23T19:15
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In any moment you can become the loving witness—it’s why we sit in meditation. We learn to sit with both heartbreak and love—with whatever arises. We become the lovi...
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Heidi Bourne : Everyday Meditation for Everyday Life: Come Back and Begin Again from 2021-08-18T18:00
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Grace Fisher: Think Your Thoughts With Care from 2021-08-12T18:00
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Sylvia Boorstein: Transforming the Mind from I to We Through Wisdom and Kindness from 2021-08-11T18:00
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Grace Fisher: Exploring the Kingdom of Joy from 2021-08-05T10:00
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Donald Rothberg: Deepening Daily Life Practice 4: Practicing with the Eight Worldly Winds 2 from 2021-08-04T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin by naming some of the important supports for daily life practice and by exploring further the importance of practicing with reactivity (compulsively and hab...
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Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: Practicing with the Eight Worldly Winds 2 from 2021-08-04T10:10
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After some general instructions for settling and seeing clearly and a period of practice, there is guidance for practicing with the Eight Worldly Winds (pleasure or ...
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Donald Rothberg: Deepening Daily Life Practice 3: Practicing with the Eight Worldly Winds from 2021-07-28T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin with a review of the last two sessions related to deepening daily life practice, including identifying some of the challenges of contemporary daily life pra...
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Donald Rothberg: Deepening Daily Life Practice 3: A Guided Meditation: Settling, Practicing with Pleasant and Unpleasant and Tendencies to Reactivity, Practicing with the Eight Worldly Winds from 2021-07-28T10:10
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this guided meditation, we start with about 10 minutes of settling. We then attend to when there is a moderate or greater pleasant or unpleasant feeling-tone, bri...
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Grace Fisher: Manifesting the Archetypes of Compassion from 2021-07-22T18:00
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Sylvia Boorstein: Understanding Impermanence Liberates the Mind From Suffering from 2021-07-21T18:00
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Jack Kornfield: Meditation: Listening with the Heart | Monday Night from 2021-07-19T18:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Direct mindful loving awareness to the mind. The mind secretes thoughts, stories and memories. You are the loving awareness that feels the stream of the mind, that k...
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Jack Kornfield: Listening with the Heart | Monday Night Talk from 2021-07-19T18:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We are each other's bond. We are each other's community. We are each other's family. What we most want, perhaps, is to be listened to in the deepest way, to be met w...
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Grace Fisher: The Extended Family of Compassion (Part 1) from 2021-07-15T18:00
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Heidi Bourne : Waking Up To This Moment Through the Eyes of Mary Oliver from 2021-07-14T18:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk references the poem In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver
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Grace Fisher: Walking the Path of Compassion from 2021-07-08T18:00
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Donald Rothberg: Deepening Daily Life Practice 2: Practicing with Reactivity from 2021-07-07T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin with a review of last week's opening exploration of deepening daily life practice, naming some of the challenges of daily life practice, some initial ways o...
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Donald Rothberg: Deepening Daily Life Practice 2: Practicing with Reactivity: A Guided Meditation from 2021-07-07T10:10
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this guided meditation, we start with about 10 minutes of settling. We then attend to when there is a moderate or greater pleasant or unpleasant feeling-tone, bri...
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Donald Rothberg: Deepening Daily Life Practice 2: A Guided Meditation: Practicing with Reactivity from 2021-07-07T10:10
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this guided meditation, we start with about 10 minutes of settling. We then attend to when there is a moderate or greater pleasant or unpleasant feeling-tone, bri...
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Grace Fisher: Thoughts on Metta and Kindness from 2021-07-01T18:00
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Donald Rothberg: Deepening Daily Life Practice 1 from 2021-06-30T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In an important sense, daily life practice is central and vital; it is where we live! Yet at times in the non-monastic Insight Meditation approach as it's developed ...
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Grace Fisher: The Balancing Rays of Metta from 2021-06-24T18:00
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Donald Rothberg: Buddhist Practice and Transforming Racism: Nine Reflections from the Last Year from 2021-06-23T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A year after the massive demonstrations in the US following the killing of George Floyd, we reflect on different aspects of the integration of Buddhist practice and ...
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Grace Fisher: In the Flow of Equanimity from 2021-06-17T18:00
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Sylvia Boorstein: Loving Well is the Best Response from 2021-06-16T18:00
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Jack Kornfield: Summer Solstice | Monday Night Talk from 2021-06-14T07:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Here we are in the change of seasons—the great turning. The sun is something for us to pay attention to, something we often take for granted. Notice the way the gift...
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Jack Kornfield: Q and A: Summer Solstice | Monday Night talk from 2021-06-14T07:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Q and A from Monday Night Dharma Talk, Summer Solstice 06-14-2021
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Jack Kornfield: Meditation: Summer Solstice | Monday Night from 2021-06-14T07:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) May you be at ease.
May you be well.
May you be healed.
May you be happy.
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Grace Fisher: The Spacious Awareness of Equanimity from 2021-06-10T18:00
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Sylvia Boorstein: There Is No Time but the Present: Reflections on Impermanence from 2021-06-09T18:00
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Donald Rothberg: Doing, Not-Doing, and The Doing That Comes from Not-Doing: In Meditation and in Daily Life from 2021-06-07T20:10
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We inquire into doing and not-doing in five ways: (1) identifying the importance of a number of different kinds of "doing" and skillful effort in meditation; (2) poi...
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Grace Fisher: Finding a Clearing of Spaciousness in the Mind from 2021-06-03T18:00
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Heidi Bourne : Befriending Discomfort Everywhere: Self, Each Other & Beyond from 2021-06-02T18:00
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Heidi Bourne : Reclaiming Our Strength Through the 5 Spiritual Faculties from 2021-05-26T18:00
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Jack Kornfield: The Compassionate Heart | Monday Night Dharma Talk from 2021-05-24T07:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) With mindfulness we can open to the mystery of our human incarnation—to gaze with an open heart at the unbearable beauty and the ocean of tears that make up life.
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Jack Kornfield: Meditation: The Compassionate Heart | Monday Night from 2021-05-24T07:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Picture someone you care about, someone you love. Feel the natural well-wishing of love. Surround them with care:
"May you be held in compassion.
May your st...
Jack Kornfield: Q and A: The Compassionate Heart | Monday Night talk from 2021-05-24T07:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Q and A from 05-24-2021 Monday Night
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Juliana Sloane: Intention, Renunciation & True Happiness from 2021-05-20T18:00
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Donald Rothberg: The Development of Faith, Confidence, and Trust 2 from 2021-05-19T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We continue to explore the nature of faith (or confidence or trust), how it is developed, and the challenges that arise. We look at the traditional teachings on fait...
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Grace Fisher: There Is No House Like the House of Belonging from 2021-05-13T18:00
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Donald Rothberg: The Development of Faith, Confidence, and Trust in Our Practice from 2021-05-12T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Our practice points toward a deep kind of faith (or confidence or trust) that is possible, in which there is faith both in our unique being and in our connection to ...
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Donald Rothberg: The Development of Faith, Confidence, and Trust 1 from 2021-05-12T11:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Our practice points toward a deep kind of faith (or confidence or trust) that is possible, in which there is faith both in our unique being and in our connection to ...
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Ayya Dhammadipa: The Buddha Has a Teaching for Them from 2021-05-07T13:55
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Ayya Santacitta: Buddhanussati ~ A Springboard for the Heart & Mind from 2021-05-07T13:30
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Ayya Anandabodhi: Recollection of the Buddha's Wisdom and Love from 2021-05-07T10:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Sharing a few key stories of the Buddha's life
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Ayya Anandabodhi: Buddhanusati - Recollection of the Buddha from 2021-05-07T08:50
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Meditation
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Ayya Santacitta: The Four Brahmaviharas are Craving Transformed from 2021-05-06T16:15
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Ayya Anandabodhi: Radiating Metta for the Entire World from 2021-05-06T13:30
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Meditation
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Ayya Dhammadipa: In a World Full of Mixed Messages from 2021-05-06T10:00
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Ayya Dhammadipa: Filling the mind with metta from 2021-05-06T08:50
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Sylvia Boorstein: Anyone Who Understands Impermanence Ceases to be Contentious from 2021-05-05T18:00
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Ayya Anandabodhi: If You Were to Die Tonight... from 2021-05-05T16:15
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha encouraged us to reflect on the fact that death could come at any time. This sobering reflection, when used in the right way, brings sharpness and clarity...
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Ayya Dhammadipa: The Next Breath is Not Guaranteed from 2021-05-05T13:30
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Mindfulness of the breath, endings, and the nearness of death
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Ayya Santacitta: Where Does It Come From ~ Where Does It All Go? from 2021-05-05T10:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A talk on Maranasati ~ Recollection of Death
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Ayya Santacitta: Returning to the Mystery We Came From ~ Maranasati from 2021-05-05T08:50
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A guided meditation on death & dying
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Ayya Dhammadipa: A Real Appreciation of the Body from 2021-05-04T16:15
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Ayya Santacitta: 'The Five Elements are Empty of a Self from 2021-05-04T13:30
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Ayya Anandabodhi: Reflecting on the Nature of the Body (asubha) from 2021-05-04T10:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflecting on asubha (the non-beautiful) aspects of the body we can find greater peace and acceptance with things as they are. Through this understanding, the mind i...
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Dawn Mauricio: Embodying Mett?: A Daylong Retreat from 2021-05-02T19:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Those who are familiar with the practice of mett?, or lovingkindness, know that it is one of four divine abidings of the heart according to the Buddha’s teachings. O...
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Grace Fisher: Balance, Harmony and the Radical Center from 2021-04-29T20:00
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Heidi Bourne : Ground, Path, Fruit: Discovering Our Inner Nobility from 2021-04-28T20:00
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Grace Fisher: Earth Rise, Earth Holders, and the Dharma from 2021-04-22T20:00
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Donald Rothberg: Doing and Not-Doing in Meditation and Daily Life 5: Talk, Guided Meditation, Discussion from 2021-04-21T12:55
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We briefly review the main themes of our practice in the last sessions: The importance of "doing" and skillful effort in our formal practice and in our daily lives; ...
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Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation on Doing and Not-Doing in Our Meditation Practice from 2021-04-21T12:08
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A thirty-minute or so guided meditation, lightly guided, with three successive instructions: (1) to set intentions in light of whether one needs in general to emphas...
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Grace Fisher: Women, Money and the Dharma from 2021-04-15T20:00
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Donald Rothberg: Doing and Not-Doing in Meditation and Daily Life 4: Talk, Guided Meditation, and Discussion from 2021-04-14T12:55
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We review briefly the basic perspectives that we've explore in preceding sessions: the importance of active "doing" in meditation and daily life, the importance as w...
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Donald Rothberg: Doing and Not-Doing in Meditation and Daily Life: Guided Meditation 1 from 2021-04-14T12:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) About a 30-minute guided meditation emphasizing the balance of more active "doing" and more receptive awareness (a kind of "not-doing") in meditation. We start with...
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Grace Fisher: Work is Love Made Visible from 2021-04-08T20:00
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Sylvia Boorstein: The Preciousness of Life and Connection from 2021-04-07T20:00
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Grace Fisher: Stonecatchers: Civility and the Dharma from 2021-04-01T20:00
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Donald Rothberg: Doing and Not-Doing in Meditation and Daily Life 3 from 2021-03-31T13:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We start with a brief review of what we’ve explored in the last two sessions on this theme, including the importance of both doing and not-doing in Buddhist practice...
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Grace Fisher: Violence & Beauty: How to Hold it All from 2021-03-25T19:00
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Heidi Bourne : Cultivating an Appropriate Response to Violence Yet Again from 2021-03-24T19:00
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Syra Smith: Wise Mindfulness: Keeping it Simple from 2021-03-18T19:00
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Grace Fisher: Your Love is Fierce Enough: Wise Action in Challenging Times from 2021-03-11T19:00
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Donald Rothberg: Doing and Not-Doing in Meditation and Daily Life 2 from 2021-03-10T12:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We briefly review the main themes from last week, including the importance of "doing" and effort in the teachings and practices of the Buddha, the importance also of...
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Grace Fisher: Thursday Morning Women's Group from 2021-03-04T19:00
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Donald Rothberg: Doing and Not-Doing in Meditation and in Daily Life 1 from 2021-03-03T12:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We explore the nature of doing and not-doing, first in dharma practice generally. The Buddha’s teachings seem full of exhortations to diligence, mindfulness, and ski...
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Donald Rothberg: Doing and Not-Doing in Meditation and in Daily Life from 2021-03-03T12:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We explore the nature of doing and not-doing, first in dharma practice generally. The Buddha’s teachings seem full of exhortations to diligence, mindfulness, and ski...
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Alisa Dennis: Instructions: Walking Meditation from 2021-02-27T12:00
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Heidi Bourne : Choosing the Path and Taking it: A Manifesto for Practice (with special guest Sylvia Boorstein) from 2021-02-24T19:00
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Kaira Jewel Lingo: Intimacy: Healing Division through Deep listening and Letting Go of Views (with Antonio Aversano) from 2021-02-17T19:00
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Kaira Jewel Lingo: Monday Night Dharma Talk - Practicing Equanimity When the World is on Fire from 2021-02-15T19:00
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Heidi Bourne : Renunciation & Kindness; a Symbiotic Relationship from 2021-02-10T19:00
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Heidi Bourne : Taming the Flames: Trauma, Resiliency and Loving Life Anyway from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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Djuna Devereaux: From Anxiety to Kind Presence: Dharma and Mindful Movement from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In our current global situation and resulting personal life challenges, anxiety is a natural reaction. However, our bodies are not designed for chronic stress, and i...
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Heidi Bourne : Honoring Endings, Welcoming Beginnings. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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Donald Rothberg: Practicing at the Winter Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After setting the context of the Winter Solstice, in terms of the earth and the history of many varied cultures which have had rituals and ceremonies at this time, w...
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Heidi Bourne : To Press Our Hands to Each Other’s Hearts from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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Jack Kornfield: Monday Night Dharma Talk from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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Phillip Moffitt and Noliwe Alexander: The Art and Practice of Forgiveness from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The art of forgiveness begins with connecting to the heart. The practice involves learning skills such as metta, mindful acknowledgement, and compassion. Practicing ...
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Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Views 3 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We review some of what we've covered in previous sessions, including the Buddha's teachings on views, the core of the problem being reactivity (grasping and pushing ...
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Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Views 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We continue to explore the important, complex, and often challenging theme of practicing with views (or beliefs)--a central theme of individual practice and a vital ...
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Donald Rothberg: Exploring the Buddha's Core Teaching: "I teach Dukkha and the End of Dukkha" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha famously said, “I have dukkha and the end of dukkha.” Yet it can be confusing to know what the Buddha might have meant. One reason for the confusion is t...
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Heidi Bourne : Our Essential Ease and Peace from 2021-01-27T11:00
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Brian Lesage: Discovering Inspiration for our Lives through Wise View from 2021-01-22T18:00
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Brian Lesage: 1st Noble Truth: Perceiving our Human Situation in a Liberating Way from 2021-01-21T12:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This offering consists of a Dharma talk followed by a guided meditation.
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Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Intentions 2: Developing Intentions and Vows to Guide Practice in One's Communities, Society, and World from 2021-01-20T12:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After a review of the January 6 session on practicing with intentions in individual formal and daily life practice, and on Inauguration Day, we explore practicing in...
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Jeff Haozous: Practicing Metta with the Difficult Person from 2021-01-13T17:30
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Kaira Jewel Lingo: Equanimity and Loving Our Enemies within the Framework of the Four Brahmaviharas from 2021-01-12T17:30
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The talk begins with an introduction to the Four Brahmaviharas and an exploration of how they are distinct (drawing on Ven. Analayo's sun simile). We then explore wh...
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Konda Mason: The Challenges of Metta Practice and Guidance from the Metta Sutta from 2021-01-11T17:30
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Donald Rothberg: Our Training in Cultivating Metta: An Overview from 2021-01-10T17:30
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Practicing metta is an ancient vocation in which we incline toward metta, toward a warm, expansive friendliness, each moment. In doing so, we also come to see what g...
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Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Intentions 1: Individual Formal and Daily Life Practice from 2021-01-06T12:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) At this time of transition, for the earth in the Northern Hemisphere, for many of us in the New Year, and for the U.S., in which clarity of intentions is so importan...
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