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Retreat Dharma Talks

Monday and Wednesday Talks

Regular weekly talks given at the lower Spirit Rock meditation hall

Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
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2024-08-19 What We Can Learn from Comfort, Discomfort, and Overwhelm 1:16:14
Sally Armstrong
In our meditation and our lives, we are often cycling between three states of comfort, discomfort and overwhelm. Learning how to work skillfully with each of these states presents an opportunity for growth.
2024-08-28 Practicing with Mystery 1 59:56
Donald Rothberg
Inviting a sense of mystery as we practice can bring further aliveness, presence, and openness, and help us go beyond our habitual patterns of thinking and practicing. In the talk, we explore seven ways of practicing with mystery, with the aid of a number of poems. The talk is followed by discussion.
2024-09-02 A Labor of Love 1:36:33
Jack Kornfield
2024-09-04 Guided Meditation on Practicing with Mystery 34:13
Donald Rothberg
This is a fairly lightly guided meditation on ways to practice with a sense of mystery, linked with the talk on this theme. After grounding in posture and intentions, basic instructions in developing stability and concentration, and then in mindfulness, are given, with later periodic suggestions on ways to practice with a sense of mystery.
2024-09-04 Practicing with Mystery 2 64:53
Donald Rothberg
In this second talk on practicing with mystery, we begin by talking more generally about the nature of mystery. We then review seven ways of practicing with mystery explored last week, while bringing in further examples of these ways of practicing, and add an additional two further ways of practicing. Reading of poems and excerpts from poems support this sense of multiple ways of practicing with mystery. The talk is followed by discussion.
2024-09-25 What’s supposed to happen? What is the goal of practice? (Part 1) 1:58:02
Sylvia Boorstein
Includes meditation, dharma talk and group discussion
2024-10-02 What’s supposed to happen? What is the goal of practice? (Part 2) 1:44:44
Sylvia Boorstein
Includes meditation, dharma talk and group discussion
2024-10-07 Reconciliation 1:45:39
Jack Kornfield
2024-10-14 Indigenous People's Day 1:16:40
Bonnie Duran
2024-10-21 The Importance of Mindfulness in an Insecure World 1:25:46
Tuere Sala
Includes meditation & dharma talk. Group Q/A has been omitted.
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