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Dharma Talks
2024-04-10 Ten Ways of Deepening Practice 66:11
Donald Rothberg
We continue with the main ways of deepening practice identified in the talk from the week before, based on ways of deepening experienced in Donald's March four weeks of retreat. We go into more depth on each of the ten, inviting listeners to choose one or two ways of deepening for the next period of time. The talk is followed by discussion, and there's a downloadable pdf listing the ten ways of deepening practice (see below).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files:
  • Ten Ways of Deepening Practice by Donald Rothberg (PDF)

2024-04-10 Instructions: Sacred Orientation – The Value of Turning Towards Our Experience. 37:00
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Deep Ground Practice

2024-04-09 Dharma Talk - Beyond the Contructed 52:20
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Deep Ground Practice

2024-04-09 Guided Meditation - Offering Blessings to All of Life 42:14
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Deep Ground Practice

2024-04-09 Boundless Benevolence in relationship to the difficult 32:51
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation

2024-04-09 Instructions - Stabilising in Embodied Awareness 39:00
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Deep Ground Practice

2024-04-08 Accessing unconditional joy 53:12
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation

2024-04-08 Dharma Talk - Doorway to Depth - Feeling into Vedanā 52:37
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Deep Ground Practice

2024-04-08 Guided Meditation - Connecting with a Boundless Sense of Kindness 43:14
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Deep Ground Practice

2024-04-08 Instructions - Recognising & Navigating That Which Draws Us Out 36:31
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Deep Ground Practice

2024-04-08 Freedom from Fear 53:07
Ajahn Sucitto
Bhavana, cultivation, is associated with bringing into being fruitful states and dwelling in them. Without this ground, citta- heart - goes out, focuses on conditioned phenomena. The natural result will be uncertainty, anxiety, fear. Practices for clearing fear at its root are described: contemplation of death, mindfulness of body and breathing, generosity, virtue.
Amaravati Monastery

2024-04-07 Being at Home 46:12
Leela Sarti
Dharma Talk
Gaia House Deep Ground Practice

2024-04-07 Guided meditation – boundless self and benefactor 30:33
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation

2024-04-07 Meditation Instructions - Presence, Relaxing Within Our Own Skin 44:29
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Deep Ground Practice

2024-04-07 Morning Day 6: Brahmavihara Meditation, Practice Q&A, Refuges and Precepts 1:59:02
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Dispelling Delusion: Exploring the Vipallāsas Through Early Buddhist Poetry

2024-04-07 Morning Day 6: Chanting and Meditation 32:51
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Dispelling Delusion: Exploring the Vipallāsas Through Early Buddhist Poetry

2024-04-06 Remembering To Recollect 1:23:01
Nathan Glyde
A commentary and practice on the Five Daily Recollections or Remembrances. Here phrased by Caroline Jones: Breathing gently, I lovingly remember… this body is ageing; this body is vulnerable to illness; this body will die; loss is part of life; to meet this moment with wisdom. This session includes a guided practice, Dharma reflection, and the answers to (unrecorded) questions from participants.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - April 2024

2024-04-06 Boundless benevolence 46:36
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation

2024-04-06 Evening Day 5: Cankisutta Practice Q&A 2:23:10
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Dispelling Delusion: Exploring the Vipallāsas Through Early Buddhist Poetry

2024-04-06 Afternoon Day 5: Transcendent Dependent Arising 67:52
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Dispelling Delusion: Exploring the Vipallāsas Through Early Buddhist Poetry

2024-04-06 Morning Day 5: Q&A Meditation Instruction and Everything Else 1:20:58
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Dispelling Delusion: Exploring the Vipallāsas Through Early Buddhist Poetry

2024-04-06 Morning Day 5: Anapanasati Meditation with Guidance 48:46
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Dispelling Delusion: Exploring the Vipallāsas Through Early Buddhist Poetry

2024-04-06 morning reflection: guided body scan meditation 22:38
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2024

2024-04-05 Evening Chanting Day 4: May I Abide in Well-being 3:53
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Dispelling Delusion: Exploring the Vipallāsas Through Early Buddhist Poetry

2024-04-05 Like the Sun Awakening the Lotus 32:20
Ayya Medhanandi
Throughout history, hatred, human violence and horrific sufferings have plagued the world. Truth is never diminished by these worldly conditions. So we feed the mind with what supports inner peace and awakening and not with thoughts of depression, disappointment, despair, or fear. What we most fear is unconditional love. That's not consent for nor approval of hateful conduct but rather a call to bear compassion – the most difficult love of all. Like the sun that gives warmth to all beings, the awakened mind does not differentiate. It does not choose one over another. It just gives light
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

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