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Dharma Talks
2025-01-08 Finding Refuge During Difficult Times 49:12
Chas DiCapua
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-01-08 Dana & Sila 43:32
Sumedha
Gaia House Rest and Renewal

2025-01-08 A Launching Board for Growth 51:12
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation on the Four Brahmavihara & Earth Awarenes | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room

2025-01-08 Attitude : Mindful Movement & Silent Meditation 56:45
Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Rest and Renewal

2025-01-08 The Nature of Awakening and the Path to Awakening 58:53
Donald Rothberg
As we begin a new year, it's helpful to remember the deep motivation of our practice--to awaken--and to ask how our intention to awaken manifests in our practice. In this talk, we explore the Buddha's metaphor of "awakening" (from sleep, from dreams) as a metaphor for spiritual practices, and how he also speaks of realizing Nirvana. We unpack how the Buddha understood Nirvana and awakening--both negatively, as the end of ignorance, and dukkha and reactivity--and more positively as going fully beyond the ordinary constructions of experience. We also look at how the Buddha understood the practical path of training to realize awakening and Nirvana, and how this was explicated through different teachings and practices. At the end, we briefly bring up the question of what a contemporary path of awakening looks like. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-01-08 Faith, view and abandonment 48:32
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2025-01-08 Guided Meditation: Identifying Some of the Ways that We Construct Experience 37:10
Donald Rothberg
After some basic instructions in developing concentration and stability, as well as mindfulness, we practice in silence. After about another ten minutes, there are several periodic brief periods of guided practice, in which we are guided to notice our main patterns of thought and perception of objects. In the latter part of the period, we are guided to drop constructions of experience in two ways.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-01-08 Playful Resolve, Energetic Imbalance : Mindful Movement & Meditation Instructions 1:16:02
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Rest and Renewal

2025-01-07 Faith / Confidnece (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:57
Victoria Cary
Personal reflections on Faith and Confidence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Winter Insight Retreat

2025-01-07 Patience & Persistence 42:24
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Rest and Renewal

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