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Dharma Talks
2014-12-22 Holiday Season Reflections & Sitting Meditation 1:37:36
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-12-21 The Journey of Awakening 61:17
Donald Rothberg
Using as reference points Mary Oliver's poem, "The Journey", the story of the Buddha's life, and our own experiences, we outline the archetypal stages of the spiritual journey from the taken-for-granted habitual life, to receiving "heavenly messengers" putting that life in question, to shifting our core life intentions, to working with challenges, to awakening, and, finally, to a return to the "ordinary" world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2014-12-20 Taking the Center Seat 49:09
John Travis
Drawing on the Thai Forest Tradition, in particular Ajahn Mun, Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Maha Boowa, we explore the image of the one seat as a pointer to freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2014-12-20 Kindness as an Act of Recollection 58:40
John Peacock
Gaia House The Practice of Befriending - A Gentle Turning Towards

2014-12-20 Nothing That Ever Happens Is Wrong!! Everything is Dharma 60:46
Alexis Santos
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living the Buddha’s Teachings: Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-12-19 The Heart of Mindfulness: The Four Foundations and The Divine Abodes 63:22
Heather Sundberg
This talk brings together the awakened states of metta, compassion, joy and equanimity into our Four Foundations of Mindfulness practice. Filled with stories, laughter and song.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2014-12-18 Practicing with Darkness and Light 57:27
Donald Rothberg
At the time of the winter solstice, we explore, through teachings, stories, and poetry, how we can embrace the dark - in stopping and being still, in opening to the unknown and to mystery, in being with difficulties, and in creativity and the coming of what is new - and open to the light, as it emerges from the dark.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2014-12-18 Change Is Possible 53:22
James Baraz
A talk focusing on the possibility of changing the direction of our lives and the importance of giving people an opportunity to thrive. This talk includes excerpts from Sean Kyler, one of the graduates give his moving valedictorian speech through a program that supports prison inmates getting their college degree.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2014-12-17 Bodyness 40:33
John Travis
Knowing the body without stories.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2014-12-17 Protecting Oneself and Others 64:08
Matthew Daniell
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2014-12-17 Intimacy with Life: Part 2 58:50
Tara Brach
This season is one of celebrating the light and love that is our unifying source. And yet at these times our society is being forced to face its deep patterning of racial oppression, amongst other expressions of violence. These two talks investigate the process of turning against ourselves and others, and how intentional and deep presence can heal the suffering of separation.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-12-17 Recollections of Small Acts of Kindness 53:19
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-12-16 Turning the Wheel of the Dharma 48:12
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2014-12-16 Perception: Naming, Associating and Relating 47:20
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
This talk examines how the mind names or assigns qualities or characteristics to the things we contact. How it relates and draws associations to similar things we have known...and what it is like to attach to that.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-12-16 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry, December 2014 39:17
Gina Sharpe
New York Insight Meditation Center Buddha & Bill W. Sangha

2014-12-15 The Jewel of Community 59:18
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2014-12-15 Closing Talk 19:33
Ajahn Sucitto
Listening to the unique but common struggles of others; Ajahn Sucitto on a 40 year retreat; some personal history of how Ajahn came to meditation and his early struggles; thank you to all participants; coming from a place of gratitude; being firm with all the reasons that we throw up not to practice; take a little time every day to sit and breathe; it's as important as eating or bathing every day; the citta goes one way - it does not go down, it goes up. “Thank you for your determination and your company and your honesty in the practice. May you all progress and develop and may your cittas rise to happiness and peace.”
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-15 Some points to notice about the Mind 57:29
Ajahn Sucitto
Review thoroughly how your mind works; the world is created by the mind in this very body; seeing uncertainty; using the body to receive and allow the citta to calm; see how the citta sits on its worry and flies on its desire and is carried along by its fear; the citta sankhara never stops creating reasons why it has to keep going just a little bit further; watch how craving paints the world with beautiful but very thin paint. You can do it, you can see it. Pause, check, be aware.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 9 of 9 14:38
Tempel Smith
9 of 9
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dependent Origination Daylong

2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 8 of 9 68:24
Tempel Smith
8 of 9
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dependent Origination Daylong

2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 7 of 9 1:15:35
Tempel Smith
7 of 9
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dependent Origination Daylong

2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 6 of 9 10:23
Tempel Smith
6 of 9
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dependent Origination Daylong

2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 5 of 9 48:00
Tempel Smith
5 of 9
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dependent Origination Daylong

2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 4 of 9 31:33
Tempel Smith
4 of 9
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dependent Origination Daylong

2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 3 of 9 48:22
Tempel Smith
3 of 9
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dependent Origination Daylong

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