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2025-06-25 The Big Picture 2: Nine Ways of Deepening Daily Life Practice 65:55
Donald Rothberg
We continue our series of meditations and talks exploring the foundations of contemporary Buddhist practice. We begin by reviewing last week's talk on the basic model of Buddhist meditation, identifying three aspects of practice. These three are (1) developing samadhi or concentration; (2) cultivating three modes of liberating insight--into impermanence, dukkha or reactivity, and not-self; and (3) opening to awakened awareness. Then we focus on a crucial, central, and not always developed dimension of contemporary practice, especially for the vast majority of Western Buddhist practitioners who do not live in monastic contexts--bringing practice to everyday life. We identify nine ways of deepening daily life practice (see the attached document, #314). The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files:
  • Nine Ways of Deepening Daily Life Practice by Donald Rothberg (PDF)

2025-06-04 Closing Guided Meditation and Dhamma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:30:43
Ayya Santacitta, Ayya Cittananda, Ayya Santussika
Guided meditation relating to the planet and our place on it, followed by a Dhamma Talk on the instructions given to Ven. Mahapajapati by the Buddha as encouragement for continuing practice in daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

2025-04-10 Liberative Dependent Origination: Liberation 57:51
Jeanne Corrigal
This talk traces the insight sequence of knowledge and vision of how things are - disenchantment - dispassion - release in retreat and daily life experience, with the intention of exploring the release of clinging as an accessible and understandable process that we can work with intentionally.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community Liberative Dependent Origination: Supporting Awakening in the Mind and Heart

2025-04-09 Dhammānupassanā: contemplating the process & conditionality of experience. 59:35
Bernat Font
The 4th satipaṭṭhāna in formal practice & in daily life. Includes guided meditation.
Gaia House The Path of Mindfulness : The Fourth Foundation

2025-04-02 Reflections on Three Themes from a Four-Week Retreat: Listening Deeply, Developing Samadhi (Concentration) through Practicing the Jhanas, and Integrating Retreat Practice with Daily Life 65:04
Donald Rothberg
In the talk, Donald reflects on having just completed, four days before the talk, four weeks of practice at Spirit Rock. He particularly focuses on three themes from the retreat, exploring each theme in terms of both its retreat context and its daily life context. The first is the theme of listening deeply to one's own "intuition" and what "calls." The second is the theme of developing samadhi (usually translated as "concentration"--the unified mind and heart and body) and in particular practicing the eight jhanas as taught by the Buddha. The third is the theme of bringing the retreat learning and explorations into daily life, and how in particular to cultivate the first two themes in the daily life context. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-03-15 The Process and Experience of "Streaming" 53:36
Tempel Smith
The Buddha wanted us to learn how to wakefully "stream", to realize we are forever and only a stream of mental and physical phenomena. We have no part internally or externally which is permanent, though in daily life we subjectively feel as if there is a lot of dependably permanent parts of life. With the deepening intimacy of mindfulness all there is is a flow and change. With patience we can learn to find liberation within the universal aspect of impermanence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-15 Wise Intention 11:36
Devon Hase
Guided Meditation inviting reflection on our wholesome intentions for retreat and practice in daily life.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-02-12 Cultivating Wise Speech: Its Importance in the Path of Everyday Awakening 63:33
Donald Rothberg
Wise speech is an integral part of the traditional Buddhist path of awakening and a powerful way to energize our daily life practice, but is often underdeveloped in Western Buddhist practice. We’ll look in a very practical way at three aspects of wise speech: (1) developing presence in the midst of communication; (2) working with the four guidelines for skillful speech developed by the Buddha; and (3) becoming more mindful of and skillful with thoughts and emotions occurring during communication. For each of the foundations, a number of ways of practicing are offered. The talk is followed by discussion.
Insight San Diego

2025-01-11 Generosity Is the Answer 29:10
Devon Hase
A talk focused on Dana Parami and its role in recognizing Nibbana. The discussion highlighted the importance of removing obscurations to reveal awareness, wisdom, and love. Devon explained how Paramis helped clear the way and emphasized the interdependence of giving and receiving. Practical aspects of generosity were addressed, including maintaining healthy boundaries and understanding motivations. Personal stories and reflections were shared to illustrate different types of giving and the long-term benefits of a generous mindset. Devon encouraged participants to practice generosity in daily life and highlighted the profound impact of living with an open heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2024-11-15 Joy: An Inner Wellspring: Opening talk on the 3 Sources of Joy; refuges, precepts, short guided sit 1:16:30
Jeanne Corrigal
The Buddha invites us to 'Live in Joy', touching its source in our own hearts. Mindfulness allows us to clearly see subtle joys and how to cultivate them: joy sustains the heart and leads to liberation. This retreat explores reliable kinds joy that are accessible in every moment, opens our eyes to unexpected sources of joy, and explore the role joy plays in temporary awakening. Knowing the doorway to this nourishment can support us in daily life, and in the challenges of our times.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community Joy: An Inner Wellspring

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