Retreat Dharma Talks
at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
The Heart of Awareness
This retreat is an opportunity to practice a way of being that embraces the fullness and aliveness of the present moment. As we open to the truth of our experience, we can cultivate a capacity for meeting and transforming suffering into a sense of deep well-being. By paying attention in this way, we come to understand how to free ourselves from deeply held patterns and awaken to our essential goodness as well as other beautiful qualities of our heart and mind.
Drawing from the Buddha's teaching on mindfulness immersed in the Body, we cultivate a steadying presence as we open to wiser frontiers of our heart and mind.
This talks describes how to work with mindfulness of Dharmas-the transformation of dukkha (difficult states) to sukha (happy states) or the 7 Factors of Awakening.
Without wisdom and awareness, we can climb into our stories, both painful and happy stories, and not see how we are trapped and limited by what we believe is true. Looking at a bigger picture.
