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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat
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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 loving-kindness and compassion, through a daily schedule of silent sitting, walking, dharma talks and practice meetings with teachers. |
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2022-01-29 (29 days)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2022-02-04
Guided Bramavihara Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
42:23
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James Baraz
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In order to open the heart and extend kindness and compassion to others we need to soften the places of contraction through practicing forgiveness. This guided meditation invites us to practice forgiving ourselves– our body, our mind, and our heart – and then extending it towards others as well.
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2022-02-06
Guided Meditation on Vedana (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
61:28
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JD Doyle
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This meditation starts with a short introduction to practicing with Vedana (or feeling tone) and then continues with a guided meditation that invites you to bring your awareness to different parts of the body and different senses to recognize Vedana as it arises.
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2022-02-08
Vedana and Dependent Origination (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
62:59
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Mei Elliott
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The 12 links of dependent origination describe how we get caught in suffering. Through exploring 4 key links of dependent origination, we can come to learn how to be free and at ease regardless of how difficult or unpleasant aspects of life may be. By studying the vedana (feeling tone) of our experience we can learn how to break the cycle of suffering without reactivity.
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2022-02-09
Curiosity and Anatta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
61:29
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JD Doyle
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Exploring Anatta, with an invitation to curiosity and intimacy with the not knowing, beyond the conceptual mind of the constructs of the self. As we investigate the constructions of self, we begin to untangle the sense of self that we are familiar with and open to the possibility of the fullness of Anatta.
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2022-02-10
Guided Karuna/Compassion Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
42:48
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Tempel Smith
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Every being experiences loss, pain and fear, and often feels the additional suffering of isolation. Our process of waking up gives us increasing awareness of our own vulnerability and that of others. Practicing compassion strengthens our hearts to stay conscious and even move lovingly towards ourselves and others when we are in pain.
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