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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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2014-10-01
Ethical Practice 1 - An Introduction
58:11
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Donald Rothberg
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We explore the meaning of ethical practice - its relationship to meditation and wisdom practice, how it is more a training than a following of external principles, how there are individual, relational, and social dimensions to our ethical practice, and how it can deepen for us. There's a brief overview of the five lay precepts and a taking of the precepts.
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2014-10-22
Ethical Practice 3 - Deepening Our Ethical Practice
60:54
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Donald Rothberg
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Starting with the observation that often our ethical practice may be taken for granted, we look for ways to deepen our practice. We look to find our own personal ethical learning and practice, whether related to the individual, relational or social aspects of our ethical practice.
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2014-11-19
Generosity
63:40
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Donald Rothberg
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We explore the important of generosity practice (including how it appears in different cultures), focusing on low it counteracts greed (especially), hatred and delusion. We suggest a number of practices for the next week.
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2014-11-26
Gratitude
59:09
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Donald Rothberg
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We explore the nature of gratitude and offer a number of forms of gratitude practice. We cover different expressions of the nature, what we're grateful for, being grateful even for difficulties, and the challenges of gratitude practice.
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2014-12-03
Practicing with Craving, Greed and Grasping
69:35
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Donald Rothberg
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In the context of the teachings of the Four Noble Truths and of generosity, gratitude and Dependent Origination, and our previous practices. We explore the nature of craving, greed and grasping and how to practice to explore and transform these qualities.
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2014-12-10
Race, Racism, and Spiritual Practice 1
69:15
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Donald Rothberg
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We examine, in the context of contemporary concerns about racism, how we relate teachings about suffering, compassion, transforming ignorance, courage, and skillful action to our responses to racism. We also look briefly at the history of race and racism, and suggest ways of responding to racism individually, relationally, and collectively.
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