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Dharma Talks
2024-03-01 Ordinary Love 48:11
Devon Hase
Reflections on metta and the power of ordinariness in cultivating this friendliness and goodwill in the heart-mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March, 2024

2024-03-01 Ne pas s'approprier la conscience 58:16
Pascal Auclair
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Conscience ouverte, coeur vibrant

2024-02-29 Les derniers retranchements de l'identification 61:15
Pascal Auclair
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Conscience ouverte, coeur vibrant

2024-02-29 Transitions as a Focus of Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:30
James Baraz
We can easily lose our mindfulness when we are experiencing a transition from a change of activity in our daily experience to major shifts in our life. In truth we are always in transition. This talk explores the power of bringing consciousness to transition as focal point of our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation Retreat--1 Month

2024-02-29 Fugaces plaisirs & fugitifs déplaisirs 61:57
Pascal Auclair
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Conscience ouverte, coeur vibrant

2024-02-28 Déconstruction d'une émotion -- et d'une vie! 1:11:21
Pascal Auclair
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Conscience ouverte, coeur vibrant

2024-02-28 What Makes the World Spin? (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:09
Jaya Rudgard
The eight conditions or worldly winds (gain, loss, status, disrepute, praise, censure, pleasure, pain) that blow on everyone and how to find an unshakeability in their midst.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation Retreat--1 Month

2024-02-28 Cultivating the Refuge of Sangha 66:54
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2024-02-28 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 2 64:50
Donald Rothberg
We begin by reviewing some and expanding last week's introduction to practicing to transform the judgmental mind, including clarifying our language and the way that in English "judgment" can ambiguously mean either an expression of the judgmental mind or a non-judgmental discernment. We identify examples of the judgmental mind, and point to how it can be understood in terms of the sequence of contact to grasping (and pushing away) in the Buddha's teaching on Dependent Origination, how negative judgments (in the sense of the judgmental mind) typically come out of unacknowledged or unprocessed pain. We also point to how our practice with the judgmental mind, as it goes deeper, begins to identify "limiting beliefs," often from childhood, that generate our most chronic judgments. We end the talk with naming a number of ways to practice with the judgmental mind. The talk is followed with discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-02-28 Guided Meditation Exploring the Judgmental Mind 37:15
Donald Rothberg
After a period of settling and general mindfulness practice, we invite noticing and being with any expressions of the judgmental mind (here called "judgments") if they occur. In the second part of the guided meditation, there is also a more direct investigation of a selected judgment, exploring it at the levels of body, emotions, and thought, and seeing whether any underlying painful or difficult experience can be noticed. We close with a brief three-part self-compassion practice (from Kristin Neff).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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