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Retreat Dharma Talks at Spirit Rock Meditation Center

March Insight Meditation One 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.

2022-02-26 (29 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
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2022-02-27 First Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:00
Winnie Nazarko
This is the initial sitting meditation instruction for a month long retreat. It supports people in settling in, finding the body and its sensations, and identifying a primary object/anchor.
2022-02-27 Guided Metta Part 3 45:25
Kristina Bare
2022-02-28 Morning Instructions: Intimacy with Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 69:17
Andrea Fella
2022-02-28 Introduction to Metta and Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:33
Greg Scharf
2022-03-01 Reading from The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns by Matty Weingast 55:43
Kristina Bare
2022-03-01 The Frame Around Insight Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:52
Winnie Nazarko
This talk was offered at a month long insight meditation retreat, where most of the day is devoted to sitting and walking practice. The discussion acknowledges and explicitly points out the larger framework within which these meditations are done. It briefly reviews the 4 Noble Truths and the 8 Fold Path, especially focusing on Mundane Wise View and Wise Intention. These place in context, and inform, why and how these practices support the heart/mind in finding release.
2022-03-02 Mindfulness Directed to the Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:56
Greg Scharf
An exploration of the second establishment of mindfulness
2022-03-03 Loving-kindness for a good friend (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:53
Diana Clark
With metta practice we start where it's easy and expand the loving-kindness to more and more beings. In this session, we begin with the easy being, then expand to include oneself and then a good friend. Focusing on our intention for cultivating loving-kindness, rather than on having any particular experiences, supports the transformative power of this practice.
2022-03-03 Mindfulness of Difficult Mental States (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 65:12
Andrea Fella
2022-03-04 Guided Metta Practice: Neutral Person (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:13
Andrea Fella
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