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Dharma Talks
2024-06-19 Our Calling Fuels Our Evolution 56:36
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-06-19 Metta Meditation 24:10
Ayya Santussika
Lightly guided metta meditation
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-19 Practicing with Views, Beliefs, and Positions 2 63:52
Donald Rothberg
We start with a brief reflection on today's holiday, Juneteenth. Then we review last week's initial exploration of practicing with views, including (1) identifying the main teachings on views given by the Buddha, and (2) three basic ways to practice with views, including developing mindfulness of views, inquiring when there is a charge related to another's view, and developing careful listening. This review is followed by bringing in several further ways to understand and practice with views, including working with a specific teaching and letting the "view [coming from the teaching] be the meditation," exploring how sometimes to rest in a kind of unknowing, and then how awakening lies beyond views and concepts. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-06-19 Guided Meditation: Practicing with Views 36:07
Donald Rothberg
After initial instructions in developing stability and concentration, and then mindfulness, there are further instructions, given after 10 and after 20 minutes, on developing more mindfulness of views, stories, and narratives (related to the talk given after the meditation). At the end, there is an invitation to reflect on views or stories that have been prominent in the last few days.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-06-19 Reflections on the Teaching in Brief 20:05
Ayya Santussika
Are we really practicing? What do we need to use right now?
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-19 Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:15
James Baraz
This meditation shifts from focusing on objects in our experience to the awareness in which all objects appear and disappear.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness

2024-06-18 Facing Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:20
Trudy Goodman
This talk is about a recent near death experience and the choice to live, exploring how and why dharma practice is essential to facing death without fear.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness

2024-06-18 Observing the Seven Factors of Enlightenment as an Aspect of Dhamma 36:43
Ayya Santussika
AN 8.63, MN 10 4.1-4.4, SN 46.16, SN 46.3
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-18 Understanding Dukkha - Meditation 28:28
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2024-06-18 Understanding Dukkha - Talk 57:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

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