Retreat Dharma Talks
at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Fall Insight 2023
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| This is a vipassanā (Insight Meditation) retreat that emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing clarity and depth of practice. Traditional meditation instruction will be combined with a spirit of lovingkindness, with silent sitting and walking meditation, Dharma talks, and practice meetings with the teachers.
This retreat is silent except for teacher-led Q&A, small groups, or other practice meetings. |
2023-10-07 (10 days)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2023-10-14
Open Awareness Meditation
54:22
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Devon Hase
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A review of Satipatthana meditation, and a guided meditation working through the objects of mindfulness (body, breath, sounds, vedana, and citta), culminating in Open Awareness.
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2023-10-14
Upekkha - Abiding in Equanimity
37:17
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Devon Hase
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Teaching and guided meditation on the practice of equanimity.
From Ruth King:
”Equanimity can feel internally like a great mountain, with the mind solid and stable, undisturbed by the changing seasons. Or it can be like the ocean, with the mind vast, deep, and immeasurable, undisturbed by whatever swims, floats, or is housed in its waters. Equanimity can be like a strong fire — roaring, engulfing, and transmuting, undisturbed by whatever is thrown into it. Or like immense space — open, allowing, and receiving, undisturbed by the objects that arise and pass away”
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2023-10-14
Awakening & Letting Go
56:05
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Eugene Cash
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What is to Awake? What is it to Awaken? Different forms and levels of awakening. How awakening begins in each moment. The relationship of love & awareness to awakening in Buddhist teachings and suttas.
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