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Dharma Talks
2019-08-14 Day 4 - Meditation Instructions - Anicca Change 55:54
Nathan Glyde
Meditation Instructions for Day 4
Freely Given Retreats A Wide and Wonderful Path

2019-08-14 Practicing with Conflict 1 67:15
Donald Rothberg
The world deeply needs a culture of skillful conflict transformation, informed by dharma practice. In such a culture, we would have individuals who combine inner capacities such as mindfulness, skill with difficult emotions, empathy and compassion, and equanimity, with perspectives on how to work with conflicts, whether inner, interpersonal, or social. In this talk, we look at some of the prevalent social conditioning around being with conflict, including tendencies to avoid conflict or act out when there are conflicts, and widespread tendencies to see conflicts dualistically and to project negative aspects onto “opponents.” In this context, Donald presents some images and reflections from his just-completed time of teaching and traveling for 3 1/2 weeks in Israel and the West Bank. He then focuses on some of the inner capacities important for being skillful with conflict, next time examining some of the perspectives on conflict that have come out of the fields of mediation, negotiation, and conflict transformation. There is also a time of discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files:
  • Photos (from a PowerPoint presentation) connected with the talk, Practicing with Conflict 1 by Donald Rothberg (PDF)

2019-08-13 Time for Change 52:54
Nathan Glyde
If we weren't in opposition to life's changing nature how would life be?
Freely Given Retreats A Wide and Wonderful Path

2019-08-13 A Mystical Ladder - Patience, the Incinerator of Defilements 39:26
Ayya Medhanandi
We are ascending a mystical ladder which must be done so carefully and gradually. For a spiritual warrior, the path of practice is a gradual one. We are in a cloud of unknowing but patiently the cloud is emptied and we begin to see everything as impermanent. We know what is the path and what is not. This clarity will be for us a refuge. It is a natural unfolding through purification.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  For Our Long Lasting Benefit

2019-08-13 Breaking the Cycle of Harm – Patience and Friendship With the Lovely 35:38
Ayya Medhanandi
The insight into not-self requires a deeper seeing and understanding of reality. Virtue is our saving grace. It gives us the energy for enlightenment which we transform into right effort. Thus we are guided through the wilderness of the world to develop and sustain the heart like an ocean of peace. Patience works with Restraint, Renunciation and Resolve, and with a host of other wholesome qualities to take us beyond the cycle of harm; but we must also keep practising kindness and forgiveness.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  For Our Long Lasting Benefit

2019-08-13 Metta - Guided Meditation 44:35
Zohar Lavie
Freely Given Retreats A Wide and Wonderful Path

2019-08-13 Day 1 Morning Guided Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:46
JoAnna Hardy
Day one of retreat - landing in the breath and body
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight & Loving Kindness

2019-08-13 What is Killing You - Thorns, Barnacles, and Buoys on the Middle Way 30:32
Ayya Medhanandi
When you know what is killing you then you will know what will save you. Right effort protects us and offers safety and seclusion. We find saving grace within if we can navigate through the wilderness of the mind assisted by a host of special qualities. It’s like being at sea. Through the thorns, barnacles and buoys on the Middle Way, learn and understand how to let go – be free. Nothing remains hidden to a true seeker.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  For Our Long Lasting Benefit

2019-08-12 Perception and Hindrances 57:29
Zohar Lavie
Freely Given Retreats A Wide and Wonderful Path

2019-08-12 The Body 49:09
Bhante Bodhidhamma
A talk given by Bhante Bodhidhamma at the Golden Buddha Centre in May 2019, entitled The Body. Bhante Bodhidhamma explains how the Buddha taught that awareness is the way of seeing the reality of what we are and finding liberation from suffering. First, through the contemplation of the body, then the contemplation of thoughts, feelings, and concepts, step by step he takes us through the process of realising intuitively that we are more than mind and body.
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat

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