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.
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2016-09-30
A natural unfolding: the seven factors of awakening
2017-07-09
Asava: The Floods and Remedies (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-06-25
Big Mind Guided Meditation -
2015-02-21
Brahma Vihara Day 21
2015-02-16
Brahma Viharas Day 16
2020-06-20
Closing Session
2017-02-11
Conceit and Latent Torments (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-09-28
Cravings and its Manisfestations
2021-07-12
Dana, Sila, Bhavana- Dharma practice is 24/7
2016-01-31
Day 1 Brahma Vihara Instructions
2017-07-06
Day 1: Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-09
Day 10 Morning Instructional Sit: The Four Foundations
2016-02-12
Day 13 Brahma Viharas: Metta-All Beings
2016-02-18
Day 18: Brahma Vihara Instructions: Mudita-successful person & self
2016-07-01
Day 2: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation
2017-07-07
Day 2: Metta Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-21
Day 21 Brahma Vihara Practice: Mudita for All Beings
2016-07-02
Day 3: Afternoon Instructions and Sitting Meditation
2019-07-13
Day 3: Patience and Determination for Metta
2016-07-03
Day 4: Afternoon Instructions & Sitting Meditation
2016-07-03
Day 4: Morning Instructions & Sitting Meditation
2016-02-04
Day 5 Morning Instructional
2017-07-10
Day 5: Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-07-11
Day 6: Metta Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-07
Day 8 Brahma Vihara: Metta-Self, Benefactor and Dear Friend
2018-01-25
Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-22
Distortions of Perception, Thought and View: the Vipallasa Sutta
2015-11-22
Distortions of the Mind and Retreat Practice
2012-06-16
Dukkha: Focus On People Of Color
2018-07-18
Equanimity Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-12-08
Evening Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-12-10
Evening Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-22
Evening Q & A Metta Day 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-25
Final Brahma Vihara meditation
2015-10-28
First Two Foundations of Mindfulness
2015-11-16
Forgiveness
2014-06-24
Forgiveness and Happiness - A Dharma Perspective
2022-01-19
Four Elements Instructions: Mindfulness of Earth Element
2022-01-19
Four Elements Instructions: Mindfulness of Earth Element
2015-11-03
Generosity: A key element at all stages for the practice
2019-07-05
Guided 4 Elements
2014-11-18
Guided Compassion Meditation
2023-02-06
Guided four elements meditation as taught by the Venerable Analayo
2023-11-28
Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of the Body and the Breath
2023-11-30
Guided Meditation: Third Foundation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-10-18
Guided meta-meditation– All beings
2024-04-15
Guided metta from benefactor
2017-07-22
Guided Metta Practice - Benefactor
2013-09-27
Guided Metta Practice - Self, Friend and Benefactor
2017-12-18
Happiness Of The Paramis
2016-09-16
Hindrances– hindrance to what? Remedies and openings
2016-02-16
How Mindfulness Transforms Dukkha
2019-12-14
How Mindfulness Transforms Suffering
2015-11-16
Identities And Forgiveness
2024-10-14
Indigenous People's Day
2023-10-09
Indigenous Peoples' Day Practice
2022-01-20
Instructions on 4 Elements Meditation: Mindfulness of Water Element
2016-10-14
Khanti: patience on the path to awakening
2015-11-09
Mana/Conceit and Skillful Means
2017-12-19
Meditations on the four elements
2012-06-17
Metta For All Beings By Continent
2021-12-07
Metta Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-12-09
Metta Meditation (Retreat at Spirit rock)
2024-04-14
Metta meditation: why and how
2021-07-09
Metta/Lovingkindness and Purification of negative mental factors
2021-07-07
Metta/Lovingkindness from our Benefactors and Ancestors
2018-01-22
Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-06-15
Mindfulness and being real in 2016
2017-12-16
Mindfulness and Clear Comprehension: How and Why
2014-10-26
Mindfulness and Climate Action : 4
2016-09-16
Mindfulness of hindrances
2019-12-15
Mindfulness Of The Body
2016-07-06
Mindfulness of the Dukkha of Aging
2014-06-21
Mindfulness: An Antidote To The Distortions Of The Mind
2019-08-31
Mindfulness: Intuitive Wisdom
2015-10-25
Mindfulness: Why we Practice
2016-09-24
Morning instructions
2017-05-02
Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation: Vedanas
2018-01-23
Morning Instructions Day 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-06-15
Morning Instructions: Body and Vedena
2020-06-19
Morning Instructions: The Four Elements
2017-05-04
Morning Instructions: The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness
2019-02-05
Morning Meditation Instructions - Mindfulness Of Mind
2021-12-09
Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-09-09
Opening Ceremony and introduction of teachers.
2021-07-10
Pervading Love - Guided Meditation
2014-11-29
Practice As Ceremony
2019-09-01
Practice Instructions - Difficult Emotions
2022-01-22
Practicing in the Body for Insight : Impermanence
2022-01-29
Reflections to realize in permanence.
2013-10-05
Retreat is Ceremony: Staying connected during intensive practice
2019-02-03
Retreat Opening - Reflections on mindfulness and clear comprehension.
2019-12-13
Retreat Opening Session - With Pascal Auclair, Jeff Houzous, and Rachel Lewis
2016-02-03
Right Effort: Retreats as Training Events for Purification and Cultivation
2013-09-21
Rubbing Up Against Dukkha
2011-03-30
Sacred Space and The Dharma
2022-01-30
Scanning the body for feeling Tone.
2015-02-22
Seven Factors of Awakening
2017-07-23
Seven Factors Of Awakening - Guided Meditation
2017-05-01
Sila and the Lawfulness of Progress
2015-11-30
Sila, Samadhi, Panna - Forces In Our Heart
2016-10-21
Sila, Samadhi, Panna: Magga Rocks!
2021-12-07
Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-09-10
Sit with Instructions: 4 Foundations - Elements
2017-07-18
Taking Refuge
2017-07-29
The Eightfold Path: Integrity, Mind Cultivation, Wisdom (Retreat at Spirit Roc…
2018-07-14
The 10 Paramis and feeding the good wolf all with the support of neuroscience. …
2017-02-17
The 3 Dimensions of Faith Saddha (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-07-04
The 4 Foundations of Mindfulness
2017-07-26
The 5 Hindrances and the 4 Floods (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-06-21
The Eightfold Path
2023-02-10
The four teachers of this retreat, giving going home advice
2019-02-06
The Seven Factors Of Awakening
2023-02-09
The seven factors of awakening
2023-02-10
The seven factors of awakening.
2016-02-08
The Seven Factors: Working & the 4th Foundation
2013-09-14
The Three Refuges and Aspirations For Practice
2017-05-03
The Vipallassas: Individual and Community-level Distortion of View
2016-06-23
TheTeachings on Mana (Conceit)
2023-11-29
Third Foundation: Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-02-05
This talk explores Vipassana meditation as a source of insight while on retreat
2020-06-19
Truth, Reconciliation, Forgiveness, Current Events
2016-10-06
Vipallasa: Distortions of the Mind
2015-02-26
Vipallasa: How distortions make "us"
2014-07-01
Why We Meditate and How We Meditate
2014-11-22
Wise Clarity About The Causes Of Happiness
2017-02-01
Working with Hindrances: Causes and Remedies (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
2000-01-01
Weekly Dharma Series
2011-03-06
March Monthlong Retereat
2012-06-13
People of Color Retreat
2013-09-10
Three Month - Part 1
2014-06-20
People of Color Retreat
2014-06-30
Retreat for People of Color
2014-10-25
Three Month - Part 2
2015-01-31
February Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-10-24
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2016-01-30
February Month-long
2016-06-17
TCVC June 2016
2016-06-30
Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color
2016-07-05
Aging, Dying, and Awakening
2016-09-10
Three-Month Part 1
2017-01-28
February Month-long Retreat
2017-04-28
Fluid Heart, Creative Mind
2017-07-05
July Metta
2017-07-18
15th Anniversary People of Color Retreat
2017-07-24
Insight Meditation as a Path to Freedom
2017-12-15
Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Retreat
2018-01-21
Essential Dharma Insight Meditation Retreat
2018-07-11
July Metta
2019-02-02
The Path to Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-07-03
Meditation Retreat for People of Color
2019-07-10
July Metta Retreat
2019-08-30
Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2019-12-13
Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2020-06-18
Decolonizing the Mind and Cultivating the Causes of Happiness
2021-07-06
"July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John …
2021-09-09
Retreat is Ceremony
2021-12-06
In the Presence of Love--a Metta and Qigong Retreat
2022-01-18
The Four Elements Retreat
2022-01-28
Befriending the World through Mindfulness
2023-02-04
Befriending the World through Mindfulness
2023-11-27
Cultivating Equanimity: The Happiness of a Heart in Balance and Peace
2024-04-13
Lovingkindness/Metta Retreat as Ceremony
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
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"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
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"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
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"July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP
