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Retreat Dharma Talks

Insight Meditation

2008-12-10 (5 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
2008-12-11 Against The Stream 56:42
Howard Cohn
Distraction, "swimming" against our habit of distraction, our practice helps us open to the truth of dukkha, let go of its causes, realize its end and cultivate the the path of liberation, a version of the Four Noble Truths.
2008-12-12 Constructions And Their Fading 56:18
Gil Fronsdal
A core part of Dharma practice is bringing to peace our mental construction, the talk discusses this in context of three aspects of the present experience: what is happening, our relationship to what is happening, and the subject who experiences all of this.
2008-12-13 Six Places To Rest The Mind 54:24
Mary Grace Orr
The Buddha gives 6 places for the mind to dwell, 6 protections for our practice: Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, our virtue, our generosity and the devas. This talk explores how we can use them in our everyday lives.
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