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Retreat Dharma Talks

Five Spiritual Powers: Cultivating Resilience, Balance, and Love

The Buddha’s teaching on the five spiritual powers offers a path to cultivate balance, resilience, and love for ourselves and for our communities. Throughout this retreat, we will learn to cultivate these capacities of the heart (confidence, effort, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom) and transform habits that no longer serve us. In our practice together, we will also learn powerful and sustainable ways to restore our humanity and bring freedom to all beings. This retreat will offer silent meditation (both mindfulness and lovingkindness), opportunities for movement meditation, Dharma talks, and restful time to be in nature and honor the natural rhythms of your own practice.

2025-08-17 (5 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
2025-08-18 Sacred Mindfulness: A Spiritual Power (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:34
JD Doyle
Overview of the Five Spiritual Powers and elaboration on Mindfulness.
2025-08-18 The Light of Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:47
Amana Brembry Johnson
A brief introduction to Metta with practice instructions
2025-08-19 The Spiritual Powers of Faith/Confidence and Energy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:55
Amana Brembry Johnson
We find ourselves in a time where avatars of delusion, diversion, distraction and fantasy have become a way of life. Maintaining clarity of vision is not a luxury. Clear view is a necessity if we are to effectively navigate the land mines of this post-truth era.
2025-08-20 Practicing with the First Three Foundations of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:08
Amana Brembry Johnson
Practicing with the body, feeling tone, and mind states.
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