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Dharma Talks
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2025-06-18 Stillness In Daily Life 30:30
Marjolein Janssen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2025-06-10 Mindfulness in Daily Life 14:48
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

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

2025-04-06 Dharma in Daily Life: Parenting as a Path of Growth 45:26
Johnathan Woodside
Insight Santa Cruz

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

2025-03-13 Intro to Lovingkindness class 4: Metta Can Transform Difficulty 1:11:50
Dawn Neal
Introduction to Metta (lovingkindness) - Week Four Homework: Daily meditation: Offer kindness/goodwill to an easy being (or benefactor) & self, then someone or some part of you that you find difficult. Please practice 20 minutes or more a day. Remember, it is always okay to return to a being that is easy. It can also be very skillful to switch to mindfulness. Integrating mindfulness into metta practice can increase wisdom. This can be done by noticing what is and isn’t metta, without judging –or buying into–other emotions or experiences. In daily life, notice when Metta is present and when it isn’t. What are conditions that help it arise? Decrease? Appreciating the wish for metta, being interested in it, attending to it, helps to strengthen it.
Insight Santa Cruz Introduction to Mettā (lovingkindness) meditation

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