Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks from Spirit Rock Meditation Center Retreats

Essential Teachings of the Path of Awakening

Essential Teachings of the Path of Awakening retreats provide an opportunity to explore the teachings and practices of Buddhist meditation in a supportive environment. Through the combination of mindfulness meditation, wisdom teachings, silence and community, we can develop calm, kindheartedness and a sense of well-being.

In this silent retreat we will explore essential Buddhist teachings and meditation practices. There will be systematic instructions in Insight Meditation, as well as in loving-kindness (metta) practice. The evening talks will highlight the central teachings of the Buddha and their practical application to our lives.

2015-06-01 (7 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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2015-06-02 Cultivating Mindfulness, Working with Pain 52:47
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Pain in sitting meditation is a common experience. Instead of reacting with aversion and moving away from it, it is possible to open to the sensations with mindfulness and compassion.

2015-06-03 Day Two: Beginning Loving Kindness Meditation 30:18
Tempel Smith	Download Listen

2015-06-03 Working with Difficult Mind States 54:13
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
How to work with difficult energies so that we can be present, balanced and open through all experience and act from wisdom rather than reaction.

2015-06-04 Day Three: Morning Instructions on working with hindrances and difficult mind states 42:24
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen

2015-06-04 Day three: Guided loving-kindness practice 40:08
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen

2015-06-04 Insight Meditation: The 3 Characteristics 52:42
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Beyond developing samadhi and mindfulness, we can turn our attention to developing liberating insight. While these are many insights that can come through meditation, the insight around anicca (change), dukkha (unsatisfactoriness) and anatta (non self) address our compulsion to crave and cling.

2015-06-05 Day Four Morning Instructions: Impermanence and Thought 34:36
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
For the first half of the guided meditation, there is investigation of impermanence of all experience, and the second half is the investigation of thought.

2015-06-05 Day Four: Metta Instruction including the Difficult Person 40:25
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
Receiving metta and thru radiating out to dear friend, neutral, then difficult categories.

2015-06-05 The Wise Heart Expresses Itself as Compassion 51:52
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
The engine of the Eightfold Path are the two factors, wise view and wise intention. As we develop wisdom is naturally expresses itself in actions and a life that is grounded in compassion.

2015-06-06 Day Five: Metta for All Beings 51:57
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Developing kindness for all the various people, animals, plants and for the earth itself.

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