Mark Coleman's Dharma Talks
Mark Coleman
Mark Coleman has been engaged in meditation practice since 1981, primarily within the Insight meditation tradition. He has been teaching meditation retreats since 1997. His teaching is also influenced by his studies with Advaita Vedanta and Tibetan teachers in Asia and the West, and through his teacher training with Jack Kornfield. Mark primarily teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, though he also teaches nationally, in Europe and India.
He leads backpacking retreats, nature-based retreats, and teaches retreats for environmental activists in the wilderness at Vallecitos Mountain Refuge in New Mexico, and at Knoll Farm in Vermont. In the Bay Area, Mark has a counseling practice, where he integrates his studies of psychotherapy and meditative work. He is the author of “Awake in the Wild - Mindfulness in Nature as a path of Self-Discovery." Mark has been an avid hiker, and backpacker for most of his life and spends much of his time in the outdoors. He lives in the woods in Marin County, Northern California.
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2017-07-27
Meeting the Characteristic of Life with Awareness and Compassion (Talk at Spir…
2010-01-14
"Lake" Metta Meditation
2013-03-11
"Self" Exploration
2008-06-24
1St Noble Truth: Working With Suffering
2011-03-08
4th Foundations of Mindfulness/7 Factors of Awakening
2013-05-25
A Heart as Wide as the World - Metta Meditation
2013-05-25
A Heart as Wide as the World - The Practice of Metta and its Relationship to Mi…
2016-03-14
A Heart as Wide as the World: Cultivating the Heart of Love
2015-11-30
A Life of Service
2012-01-30
A Mind Free
2014-05-25
A Simple Act of Kindness
2010-03-01
Aloneness and Love
2011-09-19
Anata-Buddha's Teaching on Not Self
2011-11-07
Attachment to Views
2009-03-30
Awake In Nature
2011-07-12
Awake in the Wild
2019-09-02
Awake in the Wild - Meditation in Nature
2015-10-27
Awake in the Wild Experience with Mark Coleman, Sara Overton, Tenzin Choegyal
2005-08-15
Awakening in Nature
2023-06-02
Awakening in Nature through Insight into Interconnection and Anata (Not-self) (…
2019-07-16
Awakening Through Insights in Nature
2009-05-04
Awakening to the Mystery of the Body
2002-04-03
Awakening Wisdom And Compassion
2010-04-27
Awareness as Love
2022-08-29
Awareness Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-06-15
Awareness of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-02-20
Awareness Practice
2021-02-22
Awareness Practice
2013-09-16
Be a Light unto Your Self...
2012-12-29
Beginnings and Endings
2010-10-29
Big Mind Meditation
2012-03-24
Brahma Vihara Milling Meditation
2011-03-31
Bringing The World Into Your Practice
2015-10-12
Climate Change: Waking Up in a Changing World
2011-12-05
Clinging to Self
2018-04-08
Closing Retreat Talk with entire teaching team (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-06-13
Closing talk- Taking Practice Home
2023-07-07
Closing/ Home practice talk
2011-02-08
compassion
2014-12-01
Compassion
2019-05-23
Compassion & Appreciating Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2008-02-14
Compassion And Appreciative Joy
2007-02-06
Compassion And Mudita
2010-01-18
Compassion, Martin Luther King & the Buddha
2015-01-28
Compassionate Awareness
2018-08-27
Cultivating the Heart of Kindness - Monday night dharma talk
2016-06-03
Cultivating the Heart of Love
2017-01-29
Cultivating the Heart of Love, afternoon session
2017-01-29
Cultivating the Heart of Love, morning session
2017-03-13
Cutting Through Mental Proliferation (Papanca) (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)
2010-04-12
Dancing With Desire
2019-04-02
Day 1 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-11-28
Day 2 Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-10-13
Day 2- Morning Instructions- Embodied Awareness
2016-10-14
Day 3- Morning Instructions- Meditation Instructions-Mindfulness of Emotion
2018-11-30
Day 4 Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-10-16
Day 4 Morning Instructions
2019-06-15
Day 5 Elements Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-12-01
Day 5 Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-06-15
Day 6 Dharma Talk: Practice in the times of Ecological Crisis (Retreat at Spiri…
2016-01-06
Day One, Instructional Sit
2018-11-27
Day One, Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-01-08
Day Three, Instructional Sit
2010-11-08
Developing the Parami' Part 2
2010-11-01
Developing the Paramis
2019-05-22
Dharma As Alchemy - Transforming Obstacles
2022-11-01
Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-02-13
Dharma Talk from Spirit Rock's Monday Night Meditation Class. (Drop-in class at…
2014-09-22
Don't Believe Everything You Think
2011-07-02
Eightfold Path in Daily Life
2013-01-28
Embracing a Passionate Life
2009-11-16
Embracing Our Humanness
2009-04-25
Emotions
2009-03-09
Equanimity
2011-07-14
Equanimity and the Brahmavihara
2016-02-08
Essence of Letting Go
2010-09-29
Essential Dharma 3, 2010
2010-07-07
Essential Dharma Class 10- Practice in Daily Life
2013-05-14
Essential Dharma, Part 3, Week 7 A
2013-05-14
Essential Dharma, Part 3, Week 7 B
2023-04-24
Everyday is Earth Day
2016-08-22
Explorations and Q&A on Meditation Practices
2022-08-28
Exploring the Nature of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-05-25
Exploring the Nature of Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-05-16
Faith
2017-06-02
Finding Refuge and the Wise Heart in Challenging Times (Daylong at Spirit Rock)
2016-10-31
Finding Wisdom During the Political Election Cycle
2019-06-10
First night introduction (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-09-15
First Noble Truth: Skillfully Working with Suffering
2018-05-21
For The Love Of Nature
2023-02-13
For the Love of Nature
2013-08-14
Foundation of Insight Meditation, Part 4 - Q&A
2016-09-11
Foundations of Insight Meditation
2013-08-10
Foundations of Insight Meditation Part 1
2013-08-14
Foundations of Insight Meditation, Part 2
2013-08-14
Foundations of Insight Meditation, Part 3
2007-06-21
Four Brahma Viharas
2009-04-18
Four Noble Truths
2011-07-04
Freedom and Interdependence
2011-11-28
Freedom From Attachment
2010-05-03
Freedom from suffering - The Buddha's 3rd Noble Truth
2016-12-06
Freedom from the Inner Critic
2019-12-06
Freedom from the Inner Critic
2017-12-02
Freedom from the Inner Critic - daylong teaching/workshop
2020-11-20
Freedom From the Inner Critic: Using the Tools of Wisdom and Compassion
2013-04-06
Freedom to Choose
2012-11-10
Freeing Ourselves from the Inner Critic, part A
2012-11-10
Freeing Ourselves from the Inner Critic, part B
2018-11-17
Freeing Yourself from the Inner Critic
2014-11-09
Freeing yourself from the Inner Critic - Part 1 of 5
2014-11-09
Freeing yourself from the Inner Critic - Part 2 of 5
2014-11-09
Freeing yourself from the Inner Critic - Part 3 of 5
2014-11-09
Freeing yourself from the Inner Critic - Part 4 of 5
2014-11-09
Freeing yourself from the Inner Critic - Part 5 of 5
2015-12-05
Freeing Yourself from the Inner Critic - Part Four
2015-12-05
Freeing Yourself from the Inner Critic - Part One
2015-12-05
Freeing Yourself from the Inner Critic - Part Three
2015-12-05
Freeing Yourself from the Inner Critic - Part Two
2013-11-03
Freeing Yourself from the Inner Critic, Talk 1
2013-11-03
Freeing Yourself From the Inner Critic, Talk 2
2013-11-03
Freeing Yourself From the Inner Critic, Talk 3
2015-06-26
Friday Afternoon Seminar Session
2018-04-07
From Punk Rock to Sage (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-10-10
From Suffering to Peace
2014-07-28
Generosity of the Heart...
2007-08-13
Gratitude I
2011-10-24
Gratitude In Life
2018-06-20
Guided Meditation - Spacious Awareness in Nature
2016-01-25
Guided Meditation from Monday Night Meditation Class 1-25-16
2017-06-05
Guided meditation on the insight dimension of Satipatthana - 4 Foundations of M…
2012-11-10
Guided Meditation on Working With the Inner Critic
2021-10-25
Guided Metta Meditation
2012-02-26
Guided Mindfulness of Breath
2022-03-28
Guided Sit--Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-05-11
Halfway between Heaven & Earth
2015-04-02
Healing Water of Compassion
2019-09-30
Holding Love and Grief for the Earth
2015-03-16
How To Deal With The Inner Critic
2012-11-23
Inclining the Mind to Gratitude
2010-07-05
Independence and Interdependence
2010-01-14
Infusing Metta Into Daily Life
2023-05-22
Inner Joy on the Path
2002-09-18
Inquiry & Investigation
2019-09-29
Insight and Awakening in Nature
2018-06-08
Insight Meditation: The Path to Understanding
2017-09-16
Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-04-01
Instructional Sit--Day One
2011-10-31
Into the Mystery
2018-04-05
Intro to Metta/ Lovingkindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-02-26
Intro to Mindfulness
2016-02-13
Introduction to Insight Meditation
2012-06-16
Introduction to Meditation & Movement
2016-10-12
Introduction to Mindfulness
2017-03-10
Introduction to Mindfulness (Daylong at Spirit Rock)
2013-10-02
Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation
2013-01-18
Introduction To Mindfulness Retreat
2011-03-12
Investigation
2009-03-02
Joy
2008-05-31
Joy Of Practice
2011-06-13
Lama Palden Gyatso: Practice in Adversity
2018-11-27
Late Evening Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2008-04-25
Left Brain, Right Brain, It's Implications For Practice
2010-06-21
Light of Awareness
2018-07-21
Living Awareness: Opening the Heart; Freeing the Mind
2023-01-09
Living Right Action in a Complex World
2012-10-01
Living with change - The 8 Worldly Winds
2013-02-11
Living with heartfull presence
2016-10-14
Living with Loving Awareness
2016-10-17
Living with Loving Awareness
2018-12-03
Looking through the Eyes of Love - Monday Night Dharma Talk
2018-12-01
Love and Compassion-Essence of Practice
2021-12-06
Love and Nature - Monday Night Dharma Talk
2021-02-21
Loving Awareness
2016-12-07
Mark Coleman - Spirit Rock: Day 2 Metta Practice
2016-12-08
Mark Coleman - Spirit Rock: Day 3: Morning Sit with Instructions
2016-02-08
Meditation on Renunciation
2021-10-22
Meeting Challenges on the Path with Awareness and Wisdom
2022-03-29
Meeting Life with Awareness and Wisdom (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-08-20
Meeting Life with Kind Presence
2023-07-07
Meeting the eco-crisis with wisdom
2018-10-19
Meeting the Environmental Crisis with Wisdom and Resistance
2017-09-15
Meeting What Is With Awareness & Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-09-11
Meeting What Is with Awareness and Love
2011-01-10
Meeting What is with Love & Awareness
2011-12-17
Metta & compassion Practice A
2011-12-17
Metta & Compassion Practice B
2011-12-17
Metta & Compassion Practice C
2011-12-17
Metta & Compassion Practice D
2008-11-19
Metta - The Practice Of Kindness
2007-10-14
Metta And Compassion
2011-02-09
Metta Instructions - Difficult Person
2012-11-10
Metta Meditation
2018-05-22
Metta Meditation Instructions For All Beings
2016-06-12
Metta Talk: Guided Meditation, Q&A with metta for the difficult person
2015-04-01
Metta-Day 1
2015-06-23
Mindfulness - The Multifaceted Jewel
2012-03-31
Mindfulness and the Five Hindrances
2011-06-28
Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening
2018-04-05
Mindfulness Essentials (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-05-18
Mindfulness Guided Meditation and Q&A
2018-04-06
Mindfulness Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2007-10-09
Mindfulness Of Body
2022-03-28
Mindfulness of Body and Breath Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2008-11-16
Mindfulness Of The Body
2011-05-28
Mindfulness of the Body, Part 1
2011-05-28
Mindfulness of the Body, Part 2
2012-02-11
Mindfulness Sitting And Walking Meditation Instructions
2011-05-21
Mindfulness Talk and Mindfulness Meditation
2014-02-24
Mindfulness, Meditation, & Life
2008-02-11
Mindfulness, Metta And Wisdom
2011-02-28
Mindfulness, Technology & Social Media
2012-04-30
Misconceptions of Awakening
2018-06-04
Monday Night Dharma Talk
2018-08-06
Monday Night Dharma Talk
2019-02-18
Monday Night Dharma Talk
2019-10-07
Monday Night Dharma Talk
2019-11-11
Monday Night Dharma Talk
2019-12-02
Monday Night Dharma Talk
2020-01-27
Monday Night Dharma Talk
2019-04-22
Monday Night Dharma Talk - Earth Day
2022-02-07
Monday Night Dharma Talk - Embracing Paradox
2021-06-21
Monday Night Dharma Talk - Practicing in Nature
2022-01-24
Monday Night Dharma Talk - The life and teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh
2015-12-07
Monday Night Meditation - Dharma Talk from December 7th, 2015
2016-09-12
Monday Night Meditation Class
2016-05-30
Monday Night Meditation class at Spirit Rock with Mark Coleman
2015-12-07
Monday Night Meditation Class with Mark Coleman and Kilung Rinpoche on December…
2008-02-15
Morning Instructions
2011-09-19
Morning Instructions
2021-10-25
Morning Sit With Instructions
2019-10-19
Natural Radiance
2015-01-26
Natural Radiance of Mind
2018-06-19
Nature - A Doorway to Love
2018-10-17
Nature as a Doorway to Love
2021-02-21
Nature of Awareness
2019-07-15
Nature Practice - A Path of Awareness and Joy
2020-06-13
Nature Radiance: The Freedom of Awareness
2019-06-07
No Self, No Problem: Exploring Self and Identity
2010-02-22
Not Self & The Five Aggregates
2018-10-16
Obstacles and Doorways to Peace
2017-07-09
Obstacles in Nature Practice
2007-02-04
Obstacles To Metta
2013-07-14
Obstacles to Unconditional Love (Metta)
2011-06-07
One Earth Sangha
2018-10-19
Open Awareness Meditation
2021-02-19
Open Awareness meditation
2016-06-13
Open awareness nature meditation
2012-11-17
Opening Day Instructions
2014-01-17
Opening Talk
2012-01-13
Opening Talk For Mindfulness Retreat
2011-05-20
Opening Talk For The Retreat
2007-05-18
Orientation To Retreat Practice
2012-06-18
Passion
2010-06-24
Path of Kindness
2017-05-19
Path Of Metta (Love)
2013-06-25
Path of Mindful Awareness
2021-09-27
Poetry of Awakening - Monday Night Dharma Talk
2012-02-06
Poetry of Realization
2009-02-23
Power Of Compassion
2016-03-14
Practice and Talk on Metta
2006-11-27
Practice in Nature
2018-10-08
Practice in Painful Times - Monday Night Dharma Talk
2005-11-06
Practicing in Nature
2009-02-02
Principles And Practices Of Metta (Loving Kindness)
2016-07-25
Privilege
2018-01-25
Q & A Metta Day 4 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-02-05
Relationship Between Metta And Mindfulness
2001-02-27
Renunciation And Peace
2012-05-11
Renunciation as a Path to Joy
2015-09-21
Responding to the Syrian Refugee Crisis with Empathy and Compassion
2009-12-07
Sangha, the value of community
2018-11-27
Satipattana Guided Meditation Day 1 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-11-28
Satipattana Guided Meditation Day 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-11-29
Satipattana Guided Meditation Day 3 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-11-30
Satipattana Guided Meditation Day 4 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-12-01
Satipattana Guided Meditation Day 5 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-07-06
Self, Not Self---explaining our inter-dependence in nature
2010-03-29
Shining The Light On Suffering
2016-10-13
Shining the light on the Hindrances
2017-01-23
Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Wise Speech and Alternative Facts
2014-02-09
Standing Meditation Instructions
2008-04-03
Suffering And The End Of Suffering
2011-03-25
Sweet Joy of the Way
2007-02-09
Taking Metta Into Our Life
2019-05-24
Taking the Practice Home (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-01-29
Taking Your Practice home
2013-10-05
Talk and instruction on Equanimity practice
2013-10-03
Talk and Meditation Instructions on Compassion
2013-02-14
Tasking Love Into The World
2012-04-08
Teachings on Self and Not Self
2015-11-16
Teachings on the Calligraphy of Thich Nat Hanh
2017-05-22
Tender Heart Of Compassion
2018-01-23
The 4 Tasks of the Noble Truths
2013-04-01
The Art of Letting Go
2012-06-04
The Art of Letting go...
2012-04-16
The Art of Mindfulness
2012-10-29
The Attitude and Practice of Freedom
2019-02-23
The Beautiful Path of Mindfulness
2013-09-23
The Broader Context of Mindfulness
2018-04-23
The Day After Earth Day
2015-07-13
The Dharma of Climate Change.
2018-09-24
The Dharma of Mid-Life - Monday Night Dharma Talk (with opening meditation)
2018-11-27
The Essence of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2006-02-05
The Five Hindrances
2016-01-09
The Flowering of Compassion
2007-11-12
The Four Noble Truths & The Enneagram
2007-07-06
The Four Noble Truths And Obstacles To Practice
2016-10-15
The Freedom of Awareness
2023-07-03
The Fruits of Nature Meditation Practice
2018-06-16
The Gifts of Nature Meditation (Part 1)
2012-02-15
The Heart Of Compassion
2013-07-16
The Heart of Compassion
2012-02-12
The Heart Unbound
2012-06-01
The Heart's Innate Kindness
2018-05-20
The Inner Critic and Its Impact On Metta
2018-10-15
The Joy of Nature Meditation Practice
2012-05-08
The Kind Heart
2013-01-09
The Liberating Power or Mindfulness
2017-07-11
The Loving Heart
2015-02-02
The Most Important Thing
2021-02-19
The Mystery and Magic of Awareness
2018-11-30
The Mystery of Self and Not Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-11-29
The Noble Truths of Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-02-11
The Nuts And Bolts Of Compassion Practice.
2012-01-14
The Path Of Awareness
2014-04-05
The Path of Freedom
2012-03-19
The Path of Joy
2013-10-04
The Path of Joy
2012-03-26
The Path of Joy, Part 2
2007-02-26
The Path Of Meditation And Nature
2007-02-26
The Path Of Meditation And Nature
2018-05-18
The Path Of Metta Practice
2016-04-01
The Path of Practice
2016-01-25
The Path of Tenderness
2012-03-24
The Path of the Heart
2012-08-07
The Path of Vulnerability
2010-10-26
The Perfection of Love
2010-06-07
The Poetry of the Path
2013-01-11
The Power of Compassion
2013-06-28
The Power of Compassion
2014-06-25
The Power of Compassion
2014-05-22
The Power of Faith and Wisdom
2012-12-10
The Power of Generosity
2013-02-17
The Power of Mindfulness - A Morning Introduction
2014-02-09
The Power of Mindfulness - An Introduction
2014-02-09
The Power of Mindfulness, Part 2
2010-01-11
The Practice Of Compassion
2011-10-02
The Practice of Generosity
2012-06-25
The Practice of Meditation - A short talk and questions and answers about pract…
2009-02-05
The Qualities Of Compassion And Metta
2011-08-01
The Spark of Awakening
2009-04-25
The Teaching of Not Self
2012-03-24
The Tender Heart of Compassion
2016-06-25
The Three Characteristics of Teaching
2019-09-25
The True Promise of Mindfulness
2019-09-25
The True Promise of Mindfulness-guided meditation
2006-05-20
The Union of Love and Emptiness
2008-01-08
The Union Of Metta, Compassion & Awareness
2017-06-08
The Wisdom of Nature Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2008-10-04
The Wise Heart: A Compassionate Response To Suffering
2010-02-09
Transforming Hindrances Through Love
2006-05-19
Transforming Hindrances to Freedom
2012-11-26
Transforming Suffering
2011-02-14
True Love-Romantic Love
2017-01-31
Tuesday Night Teacher-Led Sit With Mark Coleman
2011-03-18
Turning Towards Suffering with Heartfulness
2006-02-09
Understanding Self & Not-Self
2010-02-01
Understanding The "Self"
2017-06-05
Understanding the Four Foundations of Mindfulness from an Early Buddhist Perspe…
2016-01-07
Understanding the Hindrances
2014-01-12
Understanding The Obstacles To Meditation
2010-01-31
Understanding the Teachings of Not-Self (Anatta)
2011-01-15
Union of Love & Awareness, Part 2
2011-01-15
Union of Love and Awareness, Part 1
2015-09-27
Vipassana 101 - Intro to Mindfulness and Vipassana
2015-09-27
Vipassana 101 - Relating to Experience with Wisdom
2012-11-21
Vipassana Meditation Instructions
2015-08-03
Waking up and Meeting Life with Awareness
2012-06-11
Waking Up Through The Senses
2017-05-15
Walking the Path of Metta: How We Cultivate Love in our Life and Practice (Drop…
2013-01-07
What Is Intention
2013-03-04
What's Up With Change?
2007-11-14
Who Am I?
2013-03-09
Who Are You?
2019-09-28
Why Practice in Nature, Part 1
2018-06-18
Why Practice in Nature, Part 2: Cultivating Wisdom and Insight
2011-05-30
Wisdom
2017-07-10
Wisdom and Insight in Nature Practice
2011-08-29
Wise Concentration
2009-06-08
Wise Speech in Daily Life
2012-11-19
Working Skillfully with Pain
2002-10-16
Working with Aversion with Q&A
2002-10-09
Working with Desire
2016-06-12
Working With Difficult Emotions, Kindness & Care
2007-04-15
Working With Obstacles On The Path
2008-06-28
Working With Papanca And Self-View
2009-08-03
Working with the Inner Critic
2011-08-22
Working with the Inner Critic
2016-11-13
Working With The Inner Critic
2011-08-13
Working with the Inner Critic Part 1
2011-08-13
Working With the Inner Critic Part 2
2010-09-18
Working with the Inner Critic, Part 1
2010-09-18
Working with the Inner Critic, Part 2
2007-08-23
Working With The Three Poisons
2002-04-10
Working With Thoughts - Papanca
2016-12-15
“Make Peace with Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Yo…
