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Retreat Dharma Talks at Spirit Rock Meditation Center

March Insight Meditation 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 loving-kindness and compassion, through a daily schedule of silent sitting, walking, dharma talks and practice meetings with teachers.

2018-02-24 (29 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
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2018-03-13 Perception and Papanca (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:13
Andrea Fella
Exploring how delusion co-opts the process of perception
2018-03-15 Navigating a Sense of Lack in our Practice 46:59
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on how to navigate feelings of "not enough" and how they are connected to the Process of Becoming.
2018-03-16 Day 20 Brahma Viharas (Retreat at Spirit rock) 41:10
Brian Lesage
2018-03-16 The Six Sense Spheres & The Bahiya Sutta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:32
John Martin
The six sense spheres are the basis by which we experience the world. The Buddha provides a concise and liberating teaching in the Bahiya Sutta on these six sense spheres. The talk outlines the practice, the benefits and the power of this practice to free the heart from confusion.
2018-03-17 Stores and Poems from the Therigatha (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:55
Greg Scharf
2018-03-18 Questions and Responses (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:07
Susie Harrington
Questions and responses from the Question Bowl: Kamma, conditions, our basic goodness and more.
2018-03-19 Not Self and Selfing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:03
Andrea Fella
2018-03-20 Day 24: Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:45
Greg Scharf
2018-03-20 Freedom from Views+ Individual & Systemic Views of Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:51
Brian Lesage
This talk explores the skill of navigating views. It also offers some reflections on the individual and systemic views of the practice.
2018-03-21 The Noble Eightfold Path for the Whole of our Lives (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:18
John Martin
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