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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart
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| In this retreat we will emphasize the development of wisdom and compassion through practices that help us to quiet our minds, strengthen mindfulness and lead to insight, as well open our hearts and ground us in our bodies. There will be a special emphasis on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness and the Divine Abodes--lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity.
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2010-10-12 (8 days)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2010-10-12
Why do we practice?
18:34
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Donald Rothberg
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It is helpful to connect with our deeper aspirations to practice - at the beginning of a retreat as well as before practice sessions. Twelve different responses to the question of why we practice are explored.
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2010-10-14
Wisdom-suffering, impermanence and the Heart
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Donald Rothberg
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Wisdom across many traditions is understood as a clear and deep seeing of human experience; a seeing that cuts through conditioning and delusion. We look at the relationship of wisdom to mindfulness and the caring heart, particularly at how we see more clearly suffering, its roots and impermanence.
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