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                Ruth King's Dharma Talks
    
    
              
              
 
            
    
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      Ruth King is an insight meditation teacher and emotional wisdom author and life coach. Mentored in Theravada Buddhism and the Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, King teaches at insight meditation communities nationwide and offers the Mindful of Race Training program to teams and organizations. King is on the teacher’s council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and is the author of several publications including Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism From The Inside Out. www.RuthKing.net
        
    
      
 
    
        
            
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        2015-05-20
            5-20-15 Morning Session, Mindful of Diversity. Ruth King PART 01 
    
        2015-05-20
            5-20-15 Morning Session, Mindful of Diversity. Ruth King PART 03 
    
        2019-11-07
            Belonging: The Racially Aware Bodhisattva 
    
        2017-03-10
            Brahmavihāra Instructions: Forgiveness 
    
        2017-04-29
            Bramaviharas and Meditation: Invoking Metta 
    
        2015-07-07
            Closing appreciations 
    
        2018-06-30
            Compassion Practice 
    
        2013-12-31
            Cultivating the Heart of a Bodhisattva 
    
        2019-11-02
            Day 1 Instruction: Walking and Standing Meditation 
    
        2017-03-08
            Day 11: Morning Sit with Instructions 
    
        2019-07-23
            Day 4 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2017-03-01
            Day 4: Morning Sit with Instructions 
    
        2017-03-02
            Day 5: Brahma Vihara Instructions 
    
        2019-07-27
            Day 8 Morning Sit: Sky Like Nature of MInd (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2018-10-11
            Dharma Talk - With Tara & Ruth: Awakening to Racism through the Heart of Compas… 
    
        2015-06-13
            Do you know what it feels like to be free? 
    
        2022-06-22
            Don't worry, be happy 
    
        2014-10-05
            Engaged Buddhism 
    
        2018-07-02
            Equanimity 
    
        2019-07-20
            Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2019-07-24
            Faith Born out of the Wisdom of Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2017-05-02
            Forgiveness Practice 
    
        2013-12-29
            Guided Heart Meditation: Metta 
    
        2015-09-04
            Guided Metta Meditation 
    
        2019-11-04
            I want to know what love is: Self Compassion 
    
        2017-03-07
            Liberative Dependent Arising: Faith (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2019-11-02
            Meditation and Instructions: Day 1 
    
        2017-09-13
            Meditation: Arriving in Stillness 
    
        2014-12-29
            Meditation: Grace, Forgiveness, Gratitude 
    
        2017-07-22
            Meditation: Karuna/Compassion 
    
        2015-12-28
            Meditation: Metta - Technology for Conditioning  
    
        2016-03-04
            Metta — The Nectar of Awareness 
    
        2018-06-26
            Mindful of Race 
    
        2018-09-19
            Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism From The Inside Out 
    
        2014-10-05
            Mindfulness and Climate Action : 1 
    
        2017-02-28
            Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2018-11-12
            Monday Night Dharma Talk 
    
        2014-07-01
            Movements of Mind 
    
        2023-03-06
            My Civil Rights Road Trip 
    
        2015-12-30
            Nature of Awareness 
    
        2015-05-07
            Polishing the Third Jewel - Sangha: Being Mindful of Race 
    
        2019-03-03
            Racial Healing and Non-Harming - Meditation 
    
        2019-03-03
            Racial Healing and Non-Harming - Talk 
    
        2019-03-03
            Racial Healing and Non-Harming - Talk 
    
        2015-02-04
            Sangha - Exploring our belonging and kinship 
    
        2014-12-27
            Softening the Gripped Mind 
    
        2017-06-27
            Suffering, Faith and Refuge (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2017-05-04
            Suffering, Faith, and Refuge 
    
        2017-07-20
            Talk: Metta/Lovingkindness 
    
        2017-07-23
            Talk: Upekkha/Equanimity 
    
        2019-11-05
            The "Salad Dressing" Discourse: The Three Characteristics - Not Personal, Perma… 
    
        2014-07-03
            The Art of Letting Go 
    
        2015-09-05
            The Artist - formally known as Buddha 
    
        2014-06-29
            The Boundless Heart 
    
        2013-12-27
            The Five Precepts 
    
        2015-05-06
            The Joy of Gratitude 
    
        2023-03-19
            The Power of Sangha: My Civil Rights Road Trip 
    
        2018-03-08
            The Racial Awareness Rubik - Meditation 
    
        2018-03-08
            The Racial Awareness Rubik - Talk 
    
        2017-09-13
            The Racial Awareness Rubik - What we forget but must remember  
    
        2015-06-10
            This Precious Human Life 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        1900-01-01
            IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks 
    
        1900-01-01
            Monday and Wednesday Talks 
    
        2000-01-01
            Monthly Guest Dharma Talk 
    
        2013-12-27
            2013 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion 
    
        2014-06-28
            Awakening the Boundless Heart 
    
        2014-12-26
            2014 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion 
    
        2015-05-01
            Sacred Tenderness: Exploring the Energies of Our Hearts  
    
        2015-05-17
            Dedicated Practitioners Program Retreat 
    
        2015-06-08
            Aging, Dying and Awakening 
    
        2015-07-04
            Mindfulness and Metta: A Retreat for Experienced Meditators 
    
        2015-09-03
            2015 IMCW Labor Day Weekend Retreat 
    
        2015-12-27
            2015 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion 
    
        2016-02-27
            March Monthlong 
    
        2017-02-25
            March Monthlong Retreat 
    
        2017-04-28
            2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life 
    
        2017-06-26
            Still I Rise: An Insight Meditation Retreat for Communities of Color 
    
        2017-07-20
            Opening the Heart in the Divine Abodes 
    
        2018-06-28
            People of Color Retreat 
    
        2018-10-05
            2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life 
    
        2019-07-19
            July Insight 
    
        2019-11-01
            2019 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life 
    
        2020-01-01
            BIPOC Voices -  Series 
    
        2022-06-20
            Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Retreat