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Dharma Talks
2012-03-16 09 Stream Entry 63:06
Stephen Batchelor
Negative capability; the ambiguous nature of self; self as process; foundations of ethics; Buddha and the sick monk; definitions of stream entry: as lucid confidence, as freedom from perplexity, as abandoning three fetters; the lay sangha.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-16 Concentration and it's Development in Practice 60:51
Donald Rothberg
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.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-16 Encouraging Counsel - Opening Talk 49:02
Steve Armstrong
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Insight and Wisdom

2012-03-17 Qi Gong: The Feelgood Factor? 46:01
Brad Richecoeur
Exploring how Qi Gong can help cultivate 'the wholesome' aspects of practice, supporting us to investigate the feeling tones of the body.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2012-03-17 The Great Rain 44:52
John Travis
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.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-17 Il Dhamma in un Covone di Fieno - The Dharma in a Haystack 59:44
Joseph Goldstein
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Insight and Wisdom

2012-03-18 Dukkha and the End of Dukkha 54:31
Norman Feldman
an exploration of ways of finding happiness, including temporarily through sense pleasure and more lasting by inquiry and insight into the nature of the "self" that experiences dukkha.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2012-03-18 Metta Instructions - Self and Benefactor 56:45
Sally Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for Scientists and Educators

2012-03-18 "The Doors to the Deathless are Open!: Cycles of Awakening". 59:15
Heather Sundberg
"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.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-18 Istruzioni per la Pratica di Metta Meditazione guidata n. 2 - Metta Instruction, Guided Meditation #2 48:50
Kamala Masters
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Insight and Wisdom

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