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Retreat Dharma Talks at Spirit Rock Meditation Center

March Insight 1 Month Retreat

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 interview

2015-02-28 (29 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
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2015-03-25 Morning Instructions Day 24: Working with the Sense of Self 3:27
Donald Rothberg
2015-03-25 Brahma Vihara Day 25 Equanimity 40:21
John Travis
2015-03-25 How To Describe It? 38:17
Winnie Nazarko
How people coming to the end of a long meditation retreat describe their experience to others, and to themselves.
2015-03-26 Moving Like the Sweet Stream 53:51
John Travis
Stories of hope, fear and the Eightfold Path.
2015-03-26 Metta Chant (call & response) 9:08
Winnie Nazarko
Metta chant using five traditional ways of describing "all beings." Done call and response style at the end of a one month practice period.
2015-03-27 Practicing in All the Parts of Our Lives: "Let Your Practice and Life Be One" 59:03
Donald Rothberg
On this last evening of our monthlong retreat (two months for some), we explore how to bring our practice out in our daily lives in the world. We examine (1) the nature of the archetypal "return" in the spiritual journey; (2) the figure of the bodhisattva; and 3) some suggestions for foundational, intermediate, and advanced modes of daily life practice.
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