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Retreat Dharma Talks
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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| Regular weekly talks given at the lower Spirit Rock meditation hall |
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2007-10-01
Facing Aggression
54:03
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Norman Fischer
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Turning away is so natural to us but we must turn toward the aggression within us if we want to overcome it. Our practice is to do this, be patient with what we find, and learn to let it come and go rather than fix it. Then we will be able to act with kindness, and to change this world inside and out.
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2008-01-28
The Discussion Of The Wisdom Dakini
1:14:52
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Lama Palden
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Dakinis are activity aspects of awakened mind. Outwardly the dakini can support, nurture and protect us. She also can show up to cut through conceptuality. Ultimately dakini is the wisdom aspect of our own minds; the openness aspect that is the space for and is inseparable with everything that is. When this aspect is realized all phenomena, all experience become workable, eventually blissful. True nature is wisdom, openness, compassion and love.
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2008-04-09
Mindfulness Of The Body, III
67:19
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Donald Rothberg
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Mindfulness of the body goes against the grain of our culture yet is fundamental for most of us to bring awareness, compassion and wisdom to daily life. We explore some of the transformation possible through mindfulness of the body.
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2008-04-16
Can't Complain
1:14:19
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Sylvia Boorstein
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A discussion of "complaining" -what is the wise response to feelings of despair, dismay - and that experience of feeling victimized when one knows that no "one" is a victim.
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2008-04-30
Self And Not-Self - part 1
61:15
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Donald Rothberg
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Is there a self?? To explore these questions is to enter the territory of paradox. We investigate how to understand both conventional and conceptual approaches to self....
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2008-05-07
Self And Not-Self - part 2
61:10
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Donald Rothberg
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We first review the basic teachings on self and not-self, exploring the possible confusion and the paradoxes, as well as the teaching of the five skardhas. We then explore three main forms through through which the self appears.
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2008-05-14
Self And Not Self III
57:31
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Donald Rothberg
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Transformation Beyond the Constricted Self
After a review of teachings about not-self, and an exploration of the ways that the self appears as an overlay on, or constriction of, the flow of experience, we look in this final talk at what si there when a constrictive self is absent: 1) individuality without identification, 2) awareness, 3) wmptiness of phenomena and self, and 4) compassion and responsiveness.
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2008-05-19
The Fool's Path
42:25
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Wes Nisker
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Accepting Our Human Condition, Laughing With Ourselves, Stumbling Toward Enlightenment.
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2008-12-03
Practicing With Fear - part II
52:04
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Donald Rothberg
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We continue to explore the nature of fear and how to practice with fear, with several stories and a deeper look at how fear appears. Fear is not the problem - our unskillful way of reacting to fear with confusion and repetitive negative stories is what we explore and transform.
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2008-12-10
Practicing With Fear - part III
58:49
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Donald Rothberg
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After a review of four guidelines for practicing with fear, we explore more deeply the nature of fear, including many of the more unconscious ways that we carry fear, as well as the biological basis of fear. We also examine the relationship of fear to a sense of self, and of opening into fearlessness.
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2008-12-24
Renewal In Our Practice And Lives
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Donald Rothberg
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In this time of darkness between Solstice and the New Year, it is a wonderful time for reflection, quiet and renewal - in our practice and in our lives generally. We explore a number of factors and practices that support renewal and post three questions at the end to help open us up to what renewal means for each of us
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2009-01-12
Learning To Open To Experience
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James Baraz
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A central attitude of dharma practice is learning to open to experience instead of the typical contraction of grasping at pleasant or aversion towards unpleasant. Qualitites of opening include forgiveness, patience, sense of humor, presence and loving kindness are explored.
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2009-01-26
Spontaneous Meditation: The Sacred Art Of Presencing
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Lama Surya Das
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The intrinsic nature of mind is naturally lucid, aware, bright, open, empty and cling free. It is only temporarily limited or corrupted by being mixed with adventitious obscurations.
Lama Surya Das explains & elucidates natural meditation, nowness-awareness, how to sit and gage and be, and explains his original four kinds of mindfulness.
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2009-02-16
The Raw Spot
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Norman Fischer
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Loss, pain and suffering leave us raw. But the rawness can bring us to a new birth. How to practice with difficult times, economic uncertainty.
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2009-02-23
Power Of Compassion
58:58
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Mark Coleman
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The place of compassion in our lives & practice - What supports the heart to open & what hinders compassion from opening.
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