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Dharma Talks
2025-10-28 Instructions: practising with thinking 1:19:50
Jill Shepherd
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-27 Awareness of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:15
Tere Abdala-Romano
Further more on this practice that requires concentration and relaxation, how to recognize the space where all experiences arise and dissolve. Mention of other (Tibetan) traditions on this topic. The nature of awareness, three simple stages of progression, more on some obstacles and remedies. How to recognize awarenes that has been and is already here
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-27 The Second Music 49:24
Devon Hase
Stories and Teachings on Wise Attitude and Devotion on the Path.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-27 Metta: Cultivating Loving-Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:57
Tere Abdala-Romano
Continuing practicing to bring up someone who inspires us genuine uninterested love, so we can move on to wish metta for ourselves for the benefit of transforming our hearts
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-27 Practicing Shamatha, Developing concentration in Relaxation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:27
Tere Abdala-Romano
Guided meditation to Relax the Breath, The Body and the Mind to help them Settle so concentration is possible towards Samadhi in a relaxed and vivid way. Reminderof ethics and practices of the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-27 Instructions for Open Practices 13:08
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2025-10-26 Developing Samadhi (Concentration): Its Importance, How Samadhi Deepens, and the Challenges of Practicing to Develop Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:41
Donald Rothberg
We review the nature of samadhi, how it is a natural quality that surfaces in many human experiences, and its importance in meditation (and the teachings of the Buddha). We briefly examine the five jhanic factors that point to how samadhi deepens. We also look at several of the main challenges that arise as we practice to develop samadhi.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-26 Talk - Our Place in Tme 52:23
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2025-10-26 Buddhism and Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:56
Eugene Cash
Exploring the Normalcy of Death in Buddhism. Looking at the many ways Buddhism understands death: Death of the body; The life and death of each moment; Becoming harmonious with Death as part of Life; Death as a Doorway to the Deathless,
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maraṇasati: Contemplating Death - Awakening to Life

2025-10-26 Insatructions - Mindfulness of Thinking & Being (this recording also includes Leela Sarti) 46:45
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

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