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Dharma Talks
2016-02-04 Day 5 Brahma Vihara Instructions: Metta for Self and Benefactor 56:52
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-02-03 Day 4 Brahma Vihara Instructions: Metta for Self and Benefactor 57:48
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long

2016-01-29 Finding kindness 47:13
Caroline Jones
Guided Metta meditation preceded by some reflections on kindness
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-01-23 Metta Meditation - Compassion for Ourselves 40:45
Alan Lewis
Gaia House Cultivating Clarity and Compassion

2016-01-17 Metta in Daily Life: Individual Practice, Relational Practice, Metta Changing the World 57:04
Donald Rothberg
Guidance for bringing metta practice from the retreat into our daily lives, in these three inter-related areas, bringing in the voice of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the last part of the talk, at the time of his birthday and the public celebration of his birthday.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2016-01-16 Morning Instructions: Metta for the difficult person (Day 5) 42:09
Heather Sundberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2016-01-14 Radiating Metta: Guided Practice 20:04
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2016-01-13 Transformation through Metta Practice 59:04
Donald Rothberg
Metta practice carries a profound intention: To bring kindness and an awakened heart to all beings and all situations in our lives. We explore the nature of this intention, and some of the main ways that metta develops: through a basic stabilizing of our lives and awareness, particularly in living ethically, and in formal practice, as concentration develops; through a process of purification of that which blocks or stands in the way of metta; and through an integration of metta in our lives, to the point where metta is less a doing and practice, and more a way of being, which we then bring into the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2016-01-12 Morning Instructions: Metta Overview (Day One) 37:43
Heather Sundberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2016-01-07 Morning talk 45:15
Ajahn Sucitto
coming out of self view; bringing forth energy; recalling the spiritual faculties; applying wise energy regardless of the system used; calm as a consequence of faith and confidence; two recollections; don’t let the citta be bound by historical or domestic considerations; willingness to do the work; feeding the citta; mindfulness of the body, the inevitable decay of the body; what is it that evades or finds truth uncomfortable; differing views of Samadhi; the” I-am” looking for support; learning to push away the hindrances through experience; noticing craving, ill will and resistance; using metta, compassion, mudita, upekkha to approach unification of the citta by removal of the 5 hindrances; now is the time to rise up to it; restlessness, boredom, doubt; know them as they are not as myself; this is not worthy of this citta; using the wisdom factor to find appropriate attention; who is that?; feel how it is; going beyond thought; discernment of the release of grasping; the shift moment and the growth of confidence in it; noticing the struggle to find something; what about the measurelessness/ the sign-less?

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