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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.
2010-04-27 Awareness as Love 59:31
How do the practices of mindfulness, metta and compassion weave together and support our journey in wholeness, healing and the end of suffering. This talk also relates how these practices support the work of psychotherapists and healers.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Retreat for Therapists and Healing Professions
2010-04-12 Dancing With Desire 57:16
How to work with Desire. Understanding its bind of attachment, craving & aversion - using humor & awareness as supports for freeing ourselves from desires grip.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2010-03-29 Shining The Light On Suffering 59:51
The Buddha stressed the importance of "being a lamp unto ourself" and to know the truth of suffering - as a vehicle for understanding & liberating ourselves from inevitable challenges of life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2010-03-01 Aloneness and Love 54:36
What is the relationship between love, attachment & aloneness. How does aloneness support us coming home to ourselves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2010-02-22 Not Self & The Five Aggregates 56:39
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2010-02-11 The Nuts And Bolts Of Compassion Practice. 69:12
A short talk on compassion practice, a guided compassion meditation and a discussion about the practice. Questions and answers.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat
2010-02-09 Transforming Hindrances Through Love 64:37
This talk explores the unity of mindfulness and metta and how we work with obstacles to meditation that arise doing metta (loving Kindness) practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat
2010-02-01 Understanding The "Self" 53:37
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2010-01-31 Understanding the Teachings of Not-Self (Anatta) 69:30
The Buddha gave many teachings to explore how self-identity and attachment to self arise through identification with the five skandas/aggregates (body, feelings, perceptions, mental processes and consciousness). this talk explores this theme and how to work with the "selfing" process.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2010-01-18 Compassion, Martin Luther King & the Buddha 54:34
Given on MLK Day this talk explores compassion & how the teachings of Buddha & MLK urge us to develop the heart of compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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