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Dharma Talks
2017-02-11 Conceit and Latent Torments (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:23
Bonnie Duran
This talk is about the three kinds of conceit and the four self constructions. It provides the Buddha's advice about seeing unconscious "I" making.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long Retreat

2017-02-11 Wholehearted Living 52:13
Leela Sarti
This talk explores the nature of love and the implications of loving whatever arises. When we feel love for our own being we are also at the receiving end of our own emotional support and can begin to unravel self judgements. What is the nature of the heart, beyond images and ideas? To open ones heart may be the greatest contribution we can make to life on earth.
Gaia House Wholehearted Living

2017-02-11 04) Talk by Ariya Baumann 50:51
Ariya B. Baumann
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre 3rd Annual Metta Retreat: 2nd Session

2017-02-11 The World and More: Immanence, Tantra, and Transcendence (Part 1) 1:28:48
Rob Burbea
PLEASE NOTE: This series of talks is intended for experienced practitioners who have already developed some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. In particular, it is strongly recommended that before approaching this set you study and work with the material from the following talks and series: The Theatre of Selves (Parts 1 - 3); Approaching the Dharma, Part 1 (Unbinding the World), and Part 2 (Liberating Ways of Looking); the three-part series Questioning Awakening, Buddhism Beyond Modernism, In Praise of Restlessness; Image, Mythos, Dharma (Parts 1 - 3); An Ecology of Love (Parts 1 - 4); The Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course); and Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception. Integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course.
Gaia House Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire

2017-02-11 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 44:49
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Wholehearted Living

2017-02-11 Standing meditation instruction 28:02
Leslie Booker
Booker offers basic standing instruction for retreat means on body retreat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindful of the Body: Insight Meditation Weekend

2017-02-11 Instructions And Meditation Sitting 57:38
Leela Sarti
This recording also includes some instruction on The Hindrances by Gavin Milne.
Gaia House Wholehearted Living

2017-02-11 Morning instruction 53:57
Leslie Booker
Booker offers a posture clinic and basic sitting instructions for retreatants on body retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindful of the Body: Insight Meditation Weekend

2017-02-10 Dharma Practice as a Path to Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:38
James Baraz
The Buddha said that cultivating wholesome states creates the conditions for awakening. He further said that when a wholesome state is here to maintain and increase that state. But how can we do that without it increasing attachment? This talk explores why the Buddha was called The Happy One and how to see this path not only as an end to suffering but as a deepening of true well-being on and off the cushion,
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long Retreat

2017-02-10 Open to Impact - Awakening the Human Heart 42:29
Leela Sarti
"wisdom does not inspect, but behold. We must look a long time before we can see." - Henry David Thoreau. The willingness and capacity to feel vulnerable and respond to oneself with kindness is a sacred gateway to being a true human being and to live this earthly life with dignity and depth of being. The practice of meditation is to behold oneself.
Gaia House Wholehearted Living

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