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March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

An extended period of retreat offers the rare opportunity for sustained and dedicated practice. This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing profound clarity and depth of insight practice. Instruction will follow the traditional four foundations of mindfulness, combined with training in loving-kindness and compassion, through a daily schedule of silent sitting, walking, dharma talks and practice meetings with teachers.

2018-02-24 (29 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
2018-02-24 Deep Opening and Finding Refuge (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 66:28
Greg Scharf
Retreat Opening
2018-02-25 Day 1 Morning Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:32
Brian Lesage
2018-02-25 Buddhist Psychology 6:39:27
Jack Kornfield
Daylong
2018-02-25 Qualities that Support Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:26
Andrea Fella
2018-02-26 The Buddha's Life Part I (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:24
Susie Harrington
The Buddha's life is an expression of the practice and the teachings and can offer inspiration and guidance on our journey. Part I: Early Life and Practice of the Bodhisattva
2018-02-27 Day 3 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 37:51
Greg Scharf
2018-02-27 Day 3 Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:47
Andrea Fella
2018-02-27 Savoring Our Ethical Integrity and Altruistic Intention (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:03
Brian Lesage
This talk offers two conditions that are helpful and support our meditation practice.
2018-02-28 Day 4 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:04
Andrea Fella
2018-02-28 Practicing Wisely with the Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:32
John Martin
The hindrances are at the heart of our practice and become the force for waking-up as we see into their empty and transparent nature. The talk includes practical tips for working with the hindrances.
2018-03-01 Day 5 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:53
Susie Harrington
2018-03-01 Opening to Dukkha and the Arising of Faith (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:29
Greg Scharf
2018-03-02 Day 6 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:14
Brian Lesage
2018-03-02 Day 6 Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:06
John Martin
2018-03-02 Exploring the Edges of the Wandering Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:59
Andrea Fella
2018-03-03 Day 7 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:34
John Martin
2018-03-03 The Buddha's Life Part II: "I See You MARA" (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:40
Susie Harrington
The Buddha encountered MARA throughout his life. We too have many interactions and opportunities to see MARA and develop a friendly, knowing relationship.
2018-03-04 Day 8 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:30
Greg Scharf
2018-03-04 Riding the waves of Anger (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:28
Brian Lesage
This talk shares reflections on how to navigate emotions such as Irritation, annoyance, and anger.
2018-03-05 Day 9: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:28
Andrea Fella
2018-03-05 Vedana - Breaking the Cycle of Becoming 48:54
Amana Brembry Johnson
Awareness of the feeling tone of Vedana can lead to liberation from the proliferation of stories that imprison us in a state of discomfort and suffering.
2018-03-06 Day 10: Brahma Vihara Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:06
Susie Harrington
2018-03-06 Compassion: The Wise Response of the Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:50
John Martin
2018-03-07 Patience--The Art of Caring Slowly (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:49
Greg Scharf
The poet John Ciardi described patience as "the art of caring slowly." This talk explores the vital role that patience plays in our life and practice.
2018-03-08 The Cycle of Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:45
Andrea Fella
A teaching on Dependent Origination
2018-03-09 Guided Meditation: Radiating Loving-Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:07
Brian Lesage
2018-03-09 Buddha's Life Part 3 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:33
Susie Harrington
Continuing the story of the Buddha's life through his awakening and his setting the wheel of the Dhamma in motion. (Note: it is largely understood to have been a Brahma God, Sahampati, who asked the Buddha to teach--not a Brahmin as mentioned in the talk.)
2018-03-10 Sexual Energy and Intimacy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:26
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on how to navigate the impulse to connect and sexual energy while on retreat.
2018-03-12 Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:16
Greg Scharf
2018-03-13 Day 17 Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:05
Greg Scharf
2018-03-13 Perception and Papanca (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:13
Andrea Fella
Exploring how delusion co-opts the process of perception
2018-03-15 Navigating a Sense of Lack in our Practice 46:59
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on how to navigate feelings of "not enough" and how they are connected to the Process of Becoming.
2018-03-16 Day 20 Brahma Viharas (Retreat at Spirit rock) 41:10
Brian Lesage
2018-03-16 The Six Sense Spheres & The Bahiya Sutta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:32
John Martin
The six sense spheres are the basis by which we experience the world. The Buddha provides a concise and liberating teaching in the Bahiya Sutta on these six sense spheres. The talk outlines the practice, the benefits and the power of this practice to free the heart from confusion.
2018-03-17 Stores and Poems from the Therigatha (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:55
Greg Scharf
2018-03-18 Questions and Responses (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:07
Susie Harrington
Questions and responses from the Question Bowl: Kamma, conditions, our basic goodness and more.
2018-03-19 Not Self and Selfing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:03
Andrea Fella
2018-03-20 Day 24: Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:45
Greg Scharf
2018-03-20 Freedom from Views+ Individual & Systemic Views of Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:51
Brian Lesage
This talk explores the skill of navigating views. It also offers some reflections on the individual and systemic views of the practice.
2018-03-21 The Noble Eightfold Path for the Whole of our Lives (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:18
John Martin
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