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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long
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| An extended period of retreat offers the rare opportunity for sustained and dedicated practice. This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing profound clarity and depth of insight practice. Instruction will follow the traditional four foundations of mindfulness combined with training in lovingkindness and compassion, through a daily schedule of silent sitting, walking, dharma talks and interviews.
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2012-03-01 (28 days)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2012-03-03
Metta and Mindfulness as Aspects of One Another
50:10
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Sylvia Boorstein
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This talk focuses on mindfulness being about 1) clear seeing - i.e. What do you really want to see? What insight leads to liberation? and 2) progressively cultivating the capacity for unconditional kindness. Metta and mindfulness as inherent in each other.
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2012-03-04
Suffering and Freedom from Suffering
54:04
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Donald Rothberg
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We explore the nature and roots of suffering, using in part the teaching of the Two Arrows to help distinguish "pain" and "suffering" linking the latter with reactivity.
Being mindful of suffering and reactivity, and learning to experience pain without suffering opens us to greater freedom.
We also explore further the nature of freedom and other ways that freedom may be experienced.
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2012-03-05
Body as Teacher: First Foundation of Mindfulness
58:04
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Heather Sundberg
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The central theme of this talk is the Body is the Teacher. Based on the Satipatthana Sutta with First Foundation emphasis, the talk outlines Mindfulness of Breathing, of the four postures, and of full awareness in the continuity of all activities. Offers practical instructions, personal stories, and stories from the time of the Buddha.
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2012-03-08
The Wise and Fearless Heart
56:13
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Mary Grace Orr
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This talk explores the nature of fear and how it can be countered by the development of the heart. The spacious heart, trained in kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity, supports us in all circumstances.
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2012-03-09
Feeling-Tone and Its Importance for our Practice
58:08
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Donald Rothberg
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We explore the pivotal practice of mindfulness of feeling-tone (vedana), by 1) understanding feeling-tone in the context of the teaching of dependent arising; 2) examining the nature of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral; and 3) suggesting a number of ways of practicing with feeling-tone.
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2012-03-11
Compassion as the Path and Expression of Awakening
59:40
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Heather Sundberg
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A "talk from the heart" blending aspects of wisdom and compassion. Teachings on the five recollections, the three characteristics and how to work with difficulties in cultivating compassion are offered through stories from the life of the Buddha, Dipa Ma, Darlene Cohen, Ruth Denison and His Holiness the Karmapa.
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2012-03-14
The Grace of Connection
58:02
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Sylvia Boorstein
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A Brahma Vihara talk that emphasizes the importance of equanimity as the foundation for metta, compassion and appreciation. Also the relationship of Wisdom and Equanimity as mutually causal, and how wisdom both sustains equanimity and is a reflection of equanimity.
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2012-03-16
Concentration and it's Development in Practice
60:51
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Donald Rothberg
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We explore (1) the nature of concentration: (2)the qualities developed in concentration practice; (3) how concentration practice (and practice in general) engenders a powerful process of purification of body, heart and mind; (4) the nature of wise effort in concentration practice (balancing active and receptive effort); and (5) the relationship of concentration and insight.
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2012-03-17
The Great Rain
44:52
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John Travis
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The talk outlines the Three Characteristics (change - suffering - not self) and the Three Subtle Characteristics (emptiness - suchness - not with the object). Teachings on the 4 Seals and the 5 Aggregates are also offered.
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2012-03-18
"The Doors to the Deathless are Open!: Cycles of Awakening".
59:15
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Heather Sundberg
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"The spiritual path moves through cycles. The key is balance."
The talk journeys from the ground of ethical conduct through developing concentration, working with doubt, developing insight, working with dukkha of many types, to stabilizing in equanimity and opening to and integrating awakening.
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2012-03-20
The Paramitas as the Path
55:37
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Sylvia Boorstein
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Cultivation of morality (in the ten permutations called Perfections (Paramitas) is presented as the path to rather than simply a preparation for meditation. Stories illustrate how the practice of each paramita leads to insight.
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2012-03-21
Awakening in Awareness
61:18
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Donald Rothberg
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After an analysis of the roots of suffering based on the teachings of Dependent Arising, we explore two aspects of the path of awakening. The first aspect is about gradual awakening; the second is about immediate awakening in awareness, first momentary, then gradually stabilized.
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