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Bonnie Duran's Dharma Talks
Bonnie Duran
Bonnie met the Dharma in 1982 at Kopan Monastery and in Bodh Gaya India. Since then she has practiced long and short retreats with Joseph Goldstein and other eastern and western monastics and lay teachers. She is a graduate of the IMS/SRMC teacher training programs and is also involved with Indigenous ceremonies and practices. She is currently a core teacher of the IMS teacher training program and the SRMC Dedicated Practitioners Program. Dr. Duran is a Professor of Social Work and Public Health at the University of Washington in Seattle.
2021-07-12 Dana, Sila, Bhavana- Dharma practice is 24/7 58:37
A brief description of Breath stroking and calming our heart with love…..and then a description of Ven. U Panditta’s teachings on Dana/Generosity, Sila/Ethical Conduct, and Bhavana/Mental Cultivation. Awakening is available in this very life!!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP
2021-07-10 Pervading Love - Guided Meditation 40:21
This is a guided meditation starting with Metta for ourselves, then easy people, and ending with neutral people.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP
2021-07-09 Metta/Lovingkindness and Purification of negative mental factors 53:48
Metta/Lovingkindness practice strengthens wholesome mental factors and allows us to see more clearly our negative mental factors. Seeing more clearly an important source of our suffering, hate/aversion, we are able to work more directly for our own and others' happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP
2021-07-07 Metta/Lovingkindness from our Benefactors and Ancestors 34:12
This is a guided meditation with Benefactors…..Lovingkindness is an important mental factor for our everyday lives and for Dharma practice. It promotes happiness in ourselves and those all around us. It is a mental attitude of enlightened beings… Non-duality- All my relations. Our ancestors wanted the best for us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP
2020-06-20 Closing Session 41:16
This recording also includes Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Decolonizing the Mind and Cultivating the Causes of Happiness
2020-06-19 Truth, Reconciliation, Forgiveness, Current Events 39:26
Gaia House Decolonizing the Mind and Cultivating the Causes of Happiness
2020-06-19 Morning Instructions: The Four Elements 50:08
This recording also includes Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Decolonizing the Mind and Cultivating the Causes of Happiness
2019-12-15 Mindfulness Of The Body 51:03
Skin, flesh, and bones body scan.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-12-14 How Mindfulness Transforms Suffering 55:40
How Mindfulness Transforms Suffering with what we view, how we view it and in what view.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-12-13 Retreat Opening Session - With Pascal Auclair, Jeff Houzous, and Rachel Lewis 69:18
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-09-01 Practice Instructions - Difficult Emotions 64:16
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2019-08-31 Mindfulness: Intuitive Wisdom 63:37
This talk is about the four foundations of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2019-07-13 Day 3: Patience and Determination for Metta 54:52
This talk offers the Paramis to support the strengthening of Metta practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat
2019-07-05 Guided 4 Elements 31:50
Guided body scan
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Meditation Retreat for People of Color
2019-07-04 The 4 Foundations of Mindfulness 59:55
This talk reviews the 4 foundations of mindfulness and breath meditation.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Meditation Retreat for People of Color
2019-02-06 The Seven Factors Of Awakening 49:40
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Path to Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-02-05 Morning Meditation Instructions - Mindfulness Of Mind 63:59
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Path to Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-02-03 Retreat Opening - Reflections on mindfulness and clear comprehension. 49:58
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Path to Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat
2018-07-18 Equanimity Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:57
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta
2018-07-14 The 10 Paramis and feeding the good wolf all with the support of neuroscience. (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:06
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta
2018-01-25 Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:09
TBD
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Insight Meditation Retreat
2018-01-23 Morning Instructions Day 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:38
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Insight Meditation Retreat
2018-01-22 Evening Q & A Metta Day 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:03
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Insight Meditation Retreat
2018-01-22 Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:23
Mindfulness clears our distorted views through lucid awareness of body feeling tone, the mind and mental phenomenon.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Insight Meditation Retreat
2017-12-19 Meditations on the four elements 54:28
Morning Instructions on the four elements and Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Retreat

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