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Retreat Dharma Talks
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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| Regular weekly talks given at the lower Spirit Rock meditation hall |
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2010-02-15
Love, Wisdom, and Awakening
51:37
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Nina Wise
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The journey and thread that weaves through each,... one begets and is of the other... how Valentines day and Presidents day can lead us to Awakening...
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2010-02-17
Practicing with the Body Part 3: Cultivating Wisdom
59:37
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Donald Rothberg
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After a brief review of the first two series, we focus on body practices to develop insight into 1) impermanence, 2) suffering and the roots of suffering, and 3)constructions of self. We suggest several concrete practices to develop wisdom through awareness of bodily experience.
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2010-02-24
Practicing with the Body- Part IV The Body-Mind-Heart Connection
59:43
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Donald Rothberg
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We review briefly our previous practices and investigations of body practices in the last three weeks. We then focus on the body's connection with mind and heart, how we practice individually with each of them, how we explore the dynamic relationship of body, mind, heart. We end by focusing on heart practices for our bodies and those of others, and on opening to the further mysteries of bodies.
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2010-03-01
Aloneness and Love
54:36
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Mark Coleman
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What is the relationship between love, attachment & aloneness. How does aloneness support us coming home to ourselves.
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2010-03-29
Shining The Light On Suffering
59:51
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Mark Coleman
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The Buddha stressed the importance of "being a lamp unto ourself" and to know the truth of suffering - as a vehicle for understanding & liberating ourselves from inevitable challenges of life.
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2010-03-31
Deepening Our Formal Meditation Practice
55:42
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Donald Rothberg
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Through reflection on just having taught a month-long retreat and several poems, we explore a number of ways to deepen our formal meditation practice through simplicity, focus, building a strong "container", developing mindfulness and lovingkindness in relation to what happens, and increased invocation of the "wise parent" (or grandparent...aka "discipline").
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2010-04-07
Deepening Our Practice II: Deepening in Three Domains of Our Life
58:42
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Donald Rothberg
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We build from last week's identification of four broad ways of deepening formal practice: 1) developing simplicity, focus and a sense of clear priorities in one's life; 2) developing a strong support structure in various ways; 3) cultivating, in practice, qualities like mindfulness, metta, wisdom etc.; 4) developing a wise and compassionate sense of the path. We explore what these also mean in two other domains- everyday life (work relationships, family, community, the flow of our days); and our service and action in the larger world.
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2010-04-12
Dancing With Desire
57:16
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Mark Coleman
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How to work with Desire. Understanding its bind of attachment, craving & aversion - using humor & awareness as supports for freeing ourselves from desires grip.
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2010-05-05
Four Reflections That Turn Us to Deeper Practice, II
66:10
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Donald Rothberg
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We continue to explore the Tibetan based teaching of the Four Reflections (or reminders) which help us turn more fully to the Dharma, giving a brief review of 1) the preciousness and rarity of human life, and 2) impermanence and suffering, then moving to examine in more depth 3) how our actions and thoughts matter and leave imprints- or karma, and 4) the importance of knowing and turning always from our habitual tendencies leading to suffering.
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2010-05-17
Forgiveness
66:43
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Jack Kornfield
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The art of forgiveness and the skillful means to practice the transformation of the heart.
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2010-06-21
Turning of the Seasons
61:16
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Jack Kornfield
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How to live wisely in the changes of life. How to honor the individual and universal perspective of our life with understanding and compassion.
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