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Retreat Dharma Talks at Spirit Rock Meditation Center

The Spirit of Insight, Dharma & Awakening

The essence of Buddhist practice is embodying the Dharma experientially. In this retreat we will use mindfulness meditation to study our experiential reality within all our activities—meditation, movement, eating, resting, and listening, among many others.

When we are present and investigate our experiential reality moment by moment, insight arises, and the Dharma reveals itself within our own body, heart, and mind. As the living, embodied truth unfolds, we awaken to the Buddha within and discover the depth and breadth of our own human potential.

This silent meditation retreat will be taught by San Francisco Insight Dharma Center teachers. Their combined retreat and everyday life practice experience will provide an interweaving of Dharma teachings within the context of real life. The retreat will include periods of stillness and movement, guided mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation instructions, Dharma talks, and meetings with the teachers.

2024-07-29 (7 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
2024-08-01 Day 3 Instructions: Feeling Tone (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:36
John Martin
2024-08-01 Right Effort in Meditation Retreat: 24/7 Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:46
Eugene Cash
Discovering how Right Effort leads to being present, awakening and realizing the Truth of the Dharma. We explored different currents of Rt. Effort: gentle; relaxed; willful; strong; fierce. We examined why and when different streams of effort might be skillful.
2024-08-02 Mudita Talk and Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:56
John Martin
With Mudita we celebrate the happiness of others and wish it to continue.
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