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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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