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Dharma Talks
2024-08-15 Understanding Seclusion in Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:52
Tuere Sala
Evening Dhamma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Elements: Cultivating an Embodied Experience of Emptiness and Fullness

2024-08-15 short instructions: Exploring feeling tone 7:50
Jill Shepherd
An introduction to practising with the Second Establishment of Mindfulness, mindfulness of feeling-tone or vedanā
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings

2024-08-14 We Are Worked Upon & Need to Allow It to Happen 54:38
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-08-14 The Shared Heart of Spiritual Teachings and Practices 60:03
Donald Rothberg
The Dalai Lama has said, “My religion is kindness," suggesting that the core of spirituality is both beyond any particular religion and does not require religion. We explore, in a similar way, how the basics of Buddhist teachings and practices-- related to ethics, kindness and compassion, wisdom, and touching nibbana--can be understood and expressed in ordinary, everyday language and at its heart is both shared by other spiritual traditions and potentially beyond any particular tradition. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-08-14 Guided Meditation Exploring Several Foundational Practices 35:31
Donald Rothberg
Related to the talk given after the guided meditation on the foundational practices and how we can talk very simply about them, we begin remembering our grounding in ethics, and then develop concentration, then mindfulness and wisdom, and later the kind and compassionate heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-08-12 Following the predominant object 60:57
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Instructions for "choice awareness" from the Mahasi perspective
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-12 Monday Night Meditation 1:43:43
Dawn Mauricio
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-08-11 A Community Program on Palestine/Israel: Session 2: A Dialogue between Teachers and Friends (with Ronya Banks and Donald Rothberg) 1:31:09
Donald Rothberg, Ronya Banks
In session 2 of this series, Donald Rothberg and Ronya Banks will engage in dialogue around their Jewish and Palestinian identities, their family histories, and their own experiences of being Buddhist teachers navigating the complexities of the conflict in Palestine/Israel. During the course of the conversation, they will offer reflections on what has been most helpful to each of them in dealing with painful truths, strong emotions, and difficult conversations. In the last part of the session, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and offer reflections.
Southern Dharma Retreat Center A Community Program on Palestine/Israel

2024-08-11 The Refuge of Determination 26:54
Devin Berry
In this talk, Devin speaks about his experience founding non-profits as a practice of adhitthana parami (the cultivation of determination). He also shares about balancing determination and patience as two wings of a bird.
Refuge of Belonging

2024-08-11 The Qualities That Bring Joy, Happiness and Awakening 58:19
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on August 10, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

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