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Retreat Dharma Talks at Spirit Rock Meditation Center

March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2023-02-25 (29 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
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2023-02-26 Day 1/Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:34
Tuere Sala
2023-02-26 Reconsidering What We Are Practicing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:00
Phillip Moffitt
An introduction to a new approach to practice. A movement from a results based orientation to "Practicing Practice."
2023-02-27 Arriving-A Preparatory meditation practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:06
Phillip Moffitt
The three part arriving practice prepares the mind-heart for both vipassana and samadhi practice. It is preliminary meditation that establishes mindfulness, calm, and orientation.
2023-02-27 Guided Metta for self, sangha and all beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:51
JD Doyle
10 minute overview talk of Heart Practices followed by guided meditation introducing phrases and then opening to radiating metta in all directions for all beings.
2023-02-28 A Guided Meditation including the Arriving Sequence and the First Foundation: Body, especially exploring the grounding quality of Earth Element (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:18
Dana DePalma
2023-02-28 Tender-hearted Humans Practicing with Doubt in an Uncertain World (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:25
JD Doyle
Practicing with doubt is at the heart of honoring ourselves and the diversity of our individual experiences. Explores doubt as a hindrance, as well as questioning doubt that can lead to faith and wisdom.
2023-03-01 Guided Meditation on the body beginning with grounding and a short body scan (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:19
JD Doyle
2023-03-01 Vedanā: The 2nd Foundation of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:31
Tempel Smith
Key to all of our suffering and eventual freedom, mindfulness of vedanā disrupts our unconscious struggle to reject unpleasant experiences, crave pleasant experiences, and ignore neutral experiences. Since vedanā is a tone or aspect of every moment in the stream of our consciousness, it beocmes increasingly clear our agitation with life begins with reactivity to vedanā, and the training of a new kind of well being comes as we develop the ability to breath inside the stream with all three vedanās.
2023-03-02 Practical Instructions for Mindfulness of Vedanā (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:31
Tempel Smith
With a wise expectation of the three kinds of vedanā, we steady our mindfulness to intimately connect with unpleasantness, pleasantness, and neutral experiences. This is the first step with vedanā. The second is to cool off the old habits of reactivity , and the third is seeing vedanā is not inherent in the objects of our attention. Vedanā arises due to contact with the 6 sense doors, and operates on its own independent conditinality. This is difficult to see in daily life, and a precious opportunity on silent retreat.
2023-03-02 Guided Metta Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:35
Dana DePalma
A Guided Metta Meditation emphasizing the integration of Metta and Insight Meditation, including utilizing Sylvia Boorstein's phrase, "May I meet this moment fully; May I meet it as a friend," and variations of the second phrase such as "May I meet it with _______ (kindness, compassion, gentleness, patience, curiosity, receptivity, etc.). Includes a poem by Matty Weingast from "The First Free Women."
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