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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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2010-12-27 Happiness: Setting Our Course For the New Year 43:01
Nina Wise
2010-12-29 Intentions for the New Year 54:55
Sylvia Boorstein
2011-01-03 Monday Night Meditation Lead 47:51
Sally Armstrong
2011-01-03 Mindfulness When It Matters 61:40
Sally Armstrong
Rather than making New Year’s resolutions that often end in a sense of failure, it is more helpful to look at our life and practice in terms of aspirations, and to ask what do we need to cultivate and what can we let go of in order to support those aspirations? Using mindfulness, we can become more in tune with what really matters to us and also begin to notice the many subtle and even unconscious influences on our choices and behavior.
2011-01-05 A New Beginning 44:07
Sylvia Boorstein
2011-01-07 Song of Awakening: Confronting the Three Marks of Existence 65:43
Howard Cohn
Story of The Buddha's deepening insight into impermanance, suffering and selflessness and how it led to the "Sure Heart's Release."
2011-01-10 Meeting What is with Love & Awareness 58:54
Mark Coleman
How do we bring a loving presence to all of our experience- especially to our humanness, failed intentions. Cultivating mindfulness & kindness with our own experience becomes the template for living a wise life.
2011-01-17 Discussion with Mirka Knaster, author of "Living This Life Fully: Stories And Teachings of MUNINDRA" 64:45
James Baraz
2011-01-19 Pilgrimage 59:51
Sylvia Boorstein
2011-01-26 The Transformational Capacity of Tenderness 51:46
Sylvia Boorstein
2011-02-02 Introduction to Concentration Practice 57:36
Donald Rothberg
We begin four weeks of attention to the three meditative factors of the Eightfold Path, starting with concentration, and including a concentrative exercise and attention to wise effort in concentraton.
2011-02-07 The Middle Way 62:22
Kevin Griffin
Application of the Middle Way in meditation practice and daily life.
2011-02-09 Concentration Practice II- and discussion 55:19
Donald Rothberg
We review the basics of concentration practice,and then focus on concentration practice as a path of purification, and then on wise effort in concentration practice.
2011-02-14 True Love-Romantic Love 55:40
Mark Coleman
What is romantic love & how does it compare to metta/boundless love that is the heart's true capacity
2011-02-16 Concentration Practice III 55:28
Donald Rothberg
We review our previous exploration of concentration practices with further treatment of 1) wise effort, 2) how concentration deepens toward the Jhanas, and 3) the relationship of concentration and insight practice.
2011-02-23 How Effort, Mindfulness and Concentration Are Interwoven 56:55
Donald Rothberg
We step back to look at how we develop the three meditative path factors separately, and how, as practice deepens, the factors become interwoven, and we move forward a kind of mindful, concentrated, effortless effort.
2011-02-28 Mindfulness, Technology & Social Media 53:01
Mark Coleman
How do we stay mindful in the world of technology, email and internet? How Buddhist teachings on mindfulness and intention help give us presence in the midst of it all.
2011-03-02 Through the Eyes of the Dharma 49:46
Sylvia Boorstein
2011-03-04 Heartwood 57:04
Kittisaro, Thanissara
Entering the retreat vehicle; not stopping at the initial benefits of practice; journey to the innermost heart.
2011-03-09 Nothing That The Wise Would Later Reprove, Part 1 53:07
Sylvia Boorstein
2011-03-14 Watching the News Through the Lens of the Dhamma 68:51
Anushka Fernandopulle
2011-03-23 Everything is a Mindfulness Bell 43:04
Sylvia Boorstein
2011-03-28 How to Fully Receive Experience 65:50
Phillip Moffitt
Fully receiving experience is a key component in mindfulness that leads to insite.
2011-03-30 My Religion is Kindness 69:16
Sylvia Boorstein
2011-04-04 Bodhisattva 57:31
Jack Kornfield
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