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 
    
        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 
    
        2025-10-13
            Indigenous Healing Through the Dharma 
    
        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 
    
        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