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Matthew Brensilver's Dharma Talks
Matthew Brensilver
Matthew Brensilver, MSW, PhD, serves on the Guiding Teachers Committee and Board of Directors at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He was previously Program Director for Mindful Schools and for more than a decade, was a core teacher at Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society. Each summer, he lectures at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center on the intersections between mindfulness, science and mental health. Before committing to teach meditation full-time, he spent years doing research on addiction pharmacotherapy at the UCLA Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine. He is the co-author of two books about meditation during adolescence.
2023-10-15 Duality, Merging, Not-Self and Differentiation in the Interpersonal World (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:27
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight 2023
2023-10-13 Reflections and Guided Meditation on Mudita 35:36
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight 2023
2023-10-12 Guided meditation: all phenomena as false alarms 53:06
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight 2023
2023-10-11 Knowing and Not-Knowing 50:28
Evening Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight 2023
2023-10-08 Metta Practice 38:31
Afternoon Sit with Instructions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight 2023
2018-10-22 Sīla, Samādhi, Pañña 53:57
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation: The Convergence of Wisdom and Love
2018-06-16 Ethical Implications of Mindfulness 47:00
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening
2016-10-01 Where You At, Where You Going 55:30
with JoAnna Hardy, Matthew Brensilver, Vinny Ferraro
We look at the different doorways that we enter the dharma through and reflect on what would be a stretch for us personally.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Kind Awareness: The Integration of Metta and Vipassana
2023-05-12 The anchor is everywhere 29:58
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight
2023-03-30 Guided Meditation: Trajectory of your life and trajectory of freedom 40:37
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Convergence of Insight and Love

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