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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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2013-01-28 Embracing a Passionate Life 44:44
Mark Coleman
What is the place of passion? How do we incorporate all dimensions of ourselves and live a fully engaged life that includes all of who we are?
2013-01-30 Four Foundations of Mindfulness XI - Fourth Foundation 5 - Four Ways of Practicing with the Aggregates (Khandhas) 53:00
Donald Rothberg
After a brief overview of the Foundations, we explore both experientially and through teachings four ways of practicing with the aggregates: 1.) Recognizing when they are present 2.) Tracking their arising and passing away 3.) Noting when a thick sense of self is present and opening to experience without such a sense of self 4.) Noting when suffering or dukkha appears and responding skillfully
2013-02-13 Concentration, loving kindness, and peace. 55:27
Sylvia Boorstein
2013-02-18 Inspired Leadership 64:03
Jack Kornfield
How Aung San Suu Kyi, Ram Das and Nainoa Thompson all embody the Dharma of the heart.
2013-02-20 What Inspires Us 66:34
Sylvia Boorstein
2013-02-27 Gratitude as Wisdom Practice 66:44
Sylvia Boorstein
2013-03-04 What's Up With Change? 58:26
Mark Coleman
How come we forget about impermanence or try to deny the reality of change, aging and death. What happens when we turn toward this fact - so it supports life, freedom and well being and we use it as a inspiration to practice and experience the preciousness of the moment
2013-03-06 Everything Happens 61:48
Sylvia Boorstein
First 14 minutes was a baby blessing
2013-03-11 "Self" Exploration 49:07
Mark Coleman
An inquiry into self identity & self-identification
2013-03-18 Spring Awakening 47:14
Nina Wise
An invitation to celebrate spring by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature.
2013-04-01 The Art of Letting Go 56:10
Mark Coleman
What does it mean to let go in the context of the complexity of our lives and desires-how do we access inner peace that is available here and now.
2013-04-08 Garden of the Heart 2.0 56:20
Jack Kornfield
2013-04-10 May Practice and One's Life Be one--Reflections on Four weeks of Retreat 52:28
Donald Rothberg
Reflections after just having returned from retreat, on (1) the nature and beauty of retreat, (2) the range of practices done---concentration, insight, metta, and open awareness; and (3) the deep intention to connect retreat and daily life.
2013-04-15 Holding Identity Lightly 64:02
Jack Kornfield
2013-04-17 Dharma practice and the climate Crisis 61:12
Donald Rothberg
At the time of Earth Day, we pose a a dilemma and challenge. Dharma practice is so compelling. The climate crisis is so compelling. Which do we choose? Both, in our own ways. We look at the ways that our practice (and principles of generosity, compassion, ethics, interdependence, and wisdom) call us to regard and that those responding deeply need spiritual practices and principles to meet the great need.
In collection: One Earth Sangha
2013-04-24 Dependent Origination I 50:20
Donald Rothberg
An introduction to the core teaching of Dependent Arising, with a brief account of (1) what we bring to experience (links 1-5), (2) What happens in experience (links 6-9), and (3) The consequences of experience (links 10-12). This is an analysis of the roots of suffering (dukkha) and how it is perpetuated.
2013-04-29 How to Be an Earthling... 46:09
Wes Nisker
2013-05-01 Dependent Origination II 67:47
Donald Rothberg
After some general background on dependent origination, we look in detail at the twelve links (nidana) with an interest in seeing how we can intervene to break cycles of conditioning and unskillful action.
2013-05-06 Buddha's Awakening: What Really Happened... 54:45
Eugene Cash
Buddha's relationship to his body as a doorway to Enlightenment.
2013-05-08 Dependent Origination III- Intervening to end the cycle of suffering. 64:18
Donald Rothberg
After a brief review of dependent origination we look at ways of understanding several examples of suffering according to the model, and then point to multiple ways that we intervene-especially in the areas of action, direct experience, dispositions and ignorance.
2013-05-13 Patience and Perseverence 65:46
Phillip Moffitt
2013-05-15 Dependent Origination IV-Review and Introduction to Liberative Dependent Origination 62:35
Donald Rothberg
After a brief review of dependent origination. We also review ways of intervening in the cycle of suffering, and then begin to explore the teaching of "liberative" or "transcendental" dependent origination-focused on the causes and conditions leading to freedom and liberation.
2013-05-20 The One Who Knows... 52:05
Jack Kornfield
2013-05-20 Guided Meditation with Sound 24:48
Jack Kornfield
Jack leads a guided meditation on sound. Using bells and spoken word
2013-05-22 Dependent Origination V- Liberative Dependent Origination 61:30
Donald Rothberg
The last in a series of talks--an outline of the twelve factors of "liberative" or "transcendental" dependent origination, an analysis of the cycle leading from being able to work with suffering through to liberation.
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