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2017-12-20 Transforming Fear Into Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:49
Heather Sundberg
The Talk explores three ways that we can transform Fear into Love: Naming & Welcoming, Releasing Reactivity through the Nervous System, and Lovingkindness. The Talk ends with a moving true story of one woman's journey from fear into love & the service she offers to the world out of her understanding.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2017-12-20 Second Morning Instructions: An Overview (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 40:04
Donald Rothberg
Instructions on breath, body and senses, thoughts, and emotions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2017-12-20 Guided Meditation Metta to Phenomena 45:04
Nathan Glyde
Expanding metta practice from the usual other beings to phenomena itself. Based on Rob Burbea's work.
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Retreat

2017-12-19 Feeling Emotions on the Meditative Path of Awakening 41:31
Shaila Catherine
Shaila Catherine discusses the importance of developing mindfulness of emotions and mental states. Human beings have the capacity to experience a wide range of emotions—they may be subtle or intense, unwholesome or wholesome. Working with emotions requires energy and courage to be willing to face the raw fact that this mental state is present. We can become aware of, and work skillfully with, any emotional state including anger, hate, gratitude, fear, sadness, calmness, insecurity, contentment, grief, tranquility, lust, compassion, loneliness, jealousy, envy, restlessness, peacefulness, faith, love. Emotions are changing mental states that arise in conjunction with every perception. When we are mindful of emotions we drop the conceptual narrative of the story line and investigate how the mind operates. What conditions nourish each mental state, and what conditions cause them to end? How do these mental states affect the clarity of our perception? We can observe the dynamic interaction of emotions and the body, and learn to work with emotions in conjunction with their somatic manifestations. We might gather ideas for investigation by reviewing the detailed Abhidhamma categories of mental states and the factors that constitute each state, or we might simply observe the arising and ceasing of mental states in activity and our meditation.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2017-12-19 Metta Views Self-Views 57:44
Nathan Glyde
How metta transcends self & other, and opens us to emptiness.
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Retreat

2017-12-19 Practicing with Darkness at the Time of the Winter Solstice: Five Metaphors to Guide Practice 61:19
Donald Rothberg
Inspired by the darkness of the earth, we are guided by a sense of the darkness as suggesting: 1) stopping and stillness; 2) being with difficulties; 3) opening to unknowing and mystery; 4) generativety, creativity and fertility and 5) luminosity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2017-12-19 Between the Thoughts 33:01
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2017-12-19 Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 5) 1:22:43
Rob Burbea
PLEASE NOTE: 'The Mirrored Gates' is a set of talks (recorded by Rob from his home) attempting to clarify, elaborate on, and open up further the concepts, practices, and possibilities explained in previous talks on imaginal practice. Some working familiarity with those previous teachings will provide a helpful foundation for this new set; but a good understanding of and experiential facility with practices of emptiness, samatha, the emotional/energy body, metta, and mindfulness is necessary and presumed, without which these new teachings may be confusing and difficult to comprehend.
Gaia House The Mirrored Gates

2017-12-19 Meditations on the four elements 54:28
Bonnie Duran
Morning Instructions on the four elements and Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-12-18 Monday Night Meditation Talk (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 2:19:53
Jack Kornfield
Qualities of the awakened heart - topic of love
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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