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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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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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2011-10-19
Getting Down to more Direct Experience II
57:42
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Donald Rothberg
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We look further at the mechanisms by which we move away from direct experience. unskillfully, driven by reactivity and papanca (conceptual proliferation). We point to practices of tracking thoughts, emotions, reactivity-that help us ground in more direct experience, leading to greater freedom and responsiveness-personally interpersonally, and collectively.
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2011-10-26
Getting Down to Direct Experience III
63:07
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Donald Rothberg
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Building on the last two sessions, we explore three inter-related aspects of ignorance or confusion: 1. How we move away from direct experience, especially because of reactivity. 2. How we develop, personally and collectively, unconscious material;and 3. How we do not fully understand impermanence, the roots of suffering and the nature of the self. We suggest ways to practice with all three forms of ignorance.
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2011-10-31
Into the Mystery
58:22
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Mark Coleman
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What does it mean to see through the veil that clouds our perception and to sense, perceive and know the mystery in all it manifestations.
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2011-11-07
Attachment to Views
55:31
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Mark Coleman
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The Buddha taught about 4 kinds of attachment - one of those is attachment to views & opinions. This talk explores understanding views & how to work with our attachment to them.
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2011-11-30
Mindfulness and Ethics
63:03
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Donald Rothberg
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In the context of the accelerating application of mindfulness in "secular" settings, we can ask questions about whether mindfulness is sometimes presented as a mere technique. We look at the nature of "nature" or "right mindfulness" (samma sati) and the importance of connecting mindfulness to the awakened heart, wisdom, and to ethics. In this talk, we focus especially on mindfulness and ethics.
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2011-12-05
Clinging to Self
58:49
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Mark Coleman
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What is the self, how is it constructed - Who do you take yourself to be. This talk explains how to examine the nature of self - the attachment to self image/identity & how a mindful relationship to it can bring much clarity & peace.
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2011-12-07
Mindfulness and Metta
61:41
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Donald Rothberg
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We continue to look at how mindfulness can be understood in the larger context of connection with ethics, wisdom, and the awakened heart. Here we explore how mindfulness and metta can be sometimes seen as separate, but how both practices point to a mature integration-loving awareness, mindful caring, the mindful and wise heart.
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2011-12-12
Luminosity
51:56
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Nina Wise
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A seasonal teaching about innate luminosity and the practice of kindness.
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2011-12-14
Mindfulness and Wisdom
60:55
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Donald Rothberg
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(There is a long pause at the beginning)
We complete our exploration of "mature" (or "right") mindfulness, focusing on how mindfulness may be disconnected from wisdom, how it can lead to wisdom, and how "mature" mindfulness is integrated with wisdom (as well as ethics and the awakened heart)
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2012-01-25
Deepening Daily Life Practice, I
67:38
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Donald Rothberg
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We explore how our practice can come alive in the flow of daily life, focusing on some of the challenges as well as three areas: (1) Various supports for daily life practice, (2) the centrality of mindfulness of the body, and (3) taking difficulties and even suffering as opportunities for practice.
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2012-01-30
A Mind Free
50:54
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Mark Coleman
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The Buddha's teaching on Papancha - the proliferating tendency of mind - obscures a natural freedom and peace. This talk explores how proliferation happens conditioned by desire, aversion, views and the sense of personal identity and how awareness is key in understanding this pattern and freeing it.
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2012-02-01
Deepening Daily Life Practice II
64:02
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Donald Rothberg
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We continue to explore a number of ways to deepen practice in daily life, working with challenges difficulties, grounding in the body, working with intention, and practicing with speech and interaction as well as others.
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2012-02-06
Poetry of Realization
56:46
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Mark Coleman
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Deep wisdom teachings use the language of poetry, metaphor and simile to point to the timeless truths. In this talk Mark shares examples of wisdom teachings from Buddhist sources throughout the ages.
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