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Retreat Dharma Talks
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2011-08-01
The Spark of Awakening
54:37
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Mark Coleman
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The use of wise energy/effort on the path of practice- and an exploration of the Buddha's teaching on the four wise efforts.
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2011-08-17
Someone Has to Show You the Right Path
68:14
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Sylvia Boorstein
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Sylvia uses stories from popular culture to teach that, no matter what has happened in people’s past, there is the potential to achieve peace in the future, through the compassionate support of others.
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2011-08-22
Working with the Inner Critic
55:47
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Mark Coleman
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This talk explores the pervasiveness of the judging mind and how to work constructively with it through mindfulness, metta, understanding and inquiry.
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2011-08-29
Wise Concentration
48:20
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Mark Coleman
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What is the role of concentration on the Path... Why is it important, how to develop it on & off the cushion and what are the obstacles.
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2011-09-14
Dharmic Reflections on the 10th Anniversary of September 11th, Part II--Wisdom, Compassion and Courage in our inner and outer lives
66:13
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Donald Rothberg
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Howard Thurman, the great African American activist, mystic, and theologian, once said: “Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” In the spirit of this guidance, we continue exploring how to understand and respond some of the core issues related to the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. We are further guided by (1) understanding the inter-relationships between individual, relational, and collective domains of practice; and (2) taking wisdom, compassion, and courage (and responsiveness) as three touchstones of our practice, both more inner and more outer.
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2011-09-19
Offering & Allowing
63:50
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Norman Fischer
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When you commit your life to practice, it's beyond personal benefit. You Allow what happens, you Offer your Life...
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2011-10-05
Getting Down to Direct Experience
59:47
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Donald Rothberg
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The essence of our practice is to learn ever better to respond rather than react to experience. Using the model of the "Ladder of Inference," we see how we, when reactive, move away from more direct experience-personally, inter personally and socially. We then explore practices to help us "get down."
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