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Dharma Talks Access for Retreatants

March Monthlong Retereat

Second month of the annual two-month winter retreat at Spirit Rock
2011-03-06 (27 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
2011-03-20 The Two Truths 50:48
  Trudy Goodman
Personal experience as a doorway to Big Mind and transforming suffering into awakening factors.
2011-03-18 Turning Towards Suffering with Heartfulness 57:07
  Mark Coleman
How do we turn towards and open to the inevitable pain and suffering in life? This talk explores how to meet our difficulty with a kind loving presence and patience and in doing so create a freedom, peace and ease in our hearts.
2011-03-17 The First Foundation of Mindfulness 54:27
  Marie Mannschatz
Mindfulness of the Body in retreat practice.
2011-03-16 All My Relations -- Kindness as Enlightenment Practice 53:07
  Lila Kate Wheeler
2011-03-15 Sama Samadhi: Wise Concentration 51:46
  Trudy Goodman
What is samadhi? Why is it important for our practice? How do we develop and strengthen this 6th of the 7 Factors of Awakening?
2011-03-13 Wise and Beautiful Effort 50:46
  Marie Mannschatz
How to understand and balance, ease, depth and love, all as expressions of wise effort.
2011-03-12 Investigation 57:24
  Mark Coleman
What is investigation as a factor of awakening? How do we cultivate it, what supports it and how do we apply it to our direct experience in meditation.
2011-03-11 Exploring Faith 50:40
  John Travis
This talk explores faith within the context of the 5 spiritual faculties and also the 3 kinds of faith. Moving stories from the speaker's personal life are shared.
2011-03-10 Metta & Self-Love 56:51
  Marie Mannschatz
2011-03-09 CALM 49:28
  Trudy Goodman
Why calm is important in practice and practical ways to calm down and develop tranquility, as a factor of awakening.
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