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Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

An extended period of retreat offers the rare opportunity for sustained and dedicated practice. This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing profound clarity and depth of insight practice. Instruction will follow the traditional four foundations of mindfulness combined with training in lovingkindness and compassion, through a daily schedule of silent sitting, walking, dharma talks and interviews.

2012-03-01 (27 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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2012-03-26 The Bodhisattva: "Let Your Life and Practice Be One" 59:04
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen Order
As we come near the end of a month or two months of retreat practice, we can reflect on how we might connect, as we enter the "world", our "inner" and "outer" practice. We can be inspired and energized by the figure of the bodhisattva, and by seeing the continuity of the core teachings and practices throughout all the parts of our lives.

2012-03-25 Riding the Eight Worldly Winds 60:35
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen Order
"Pleasure/Pain; Gain/Loss; Praise/Blame; Fame/Disrepute". Talk offers equanimity wisdom teachings and practical tools for "riding the eight worldly winds."

2012-03-24 All Day is Still All Day: Ease, Vividness, Spaciousness 46:28
John Travis	Download Listen Order
Story of John's journey to the mountains, followed by teachings on ease of the body, vividness of the mind and spaciousness of the heart.

2012-03-23 The Path of Being Human, The Path of the Buddha 61:01
Larry Yang	Download Listen Order
the Life of the Buddha is no different than our human life.

2012-03-22 Please Don't Know 54:18
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen Order
Not knowing is freeing and allows us to step out of stories. This is Wise View.

2012-03-21 Awakening in Awareness 61:18
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen Order
After an analysis of the roots of suffering based on the teachings of Dependent Arising, we explore two aspects of the path of awakening. The first aspect is about gradual awakening; the second is about immediate awakening in awareness, first momentary, then gradually stabilized.

2012-03-20 The Paramitas as the Path 55:37
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen Order
Cultivation of morality (in the ten permutations called Perfections (Paramitas) is presented as the path to rather than simply a preparation for meditation. Stories illustrate how the practice of each paramita leads to insight.

2012-03-18 "The Doors to the Deathless are Open!: Cycles of Awakening". 59:15
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen Order
"The spiritual path moves through cycles. The key is balance." The talk journeys from the ground of ethical conduct through developing concentration, working with doubt, developing insight, working with dukkha of many types, to stabilizing in equanimity and opening to and integrating awakening.

2012-03-17 The Great Rain 44:52
John Travis	Download Listen Order
The talk outlines the Three Characteristics (change - suffering - not self) and the Three Subtle Characteristics (emptiness - suchness - not with the object). Teachings on the 4 Seals and the 5 Aggregates are also offered.

2012-03-16 Concentration and it's Development in Practice 60:51
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen Order
We explore (1) the nature of concentration: (2)the qualities developed in concentration practice; (3) how concentration practice (and practice in general) engenders a powerful process of purification of body, heart and mind; (4) the nature of wise effort in concentration practice (balancing active and receptive effort); and (5) the relationship of concentration and insight.

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