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Retreat Dharma Talks at Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

This is a Vipassanā retreat in the Thai Forest Tradition, which will emphasize quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing clarity and depth of practice. Traditional meditation instruction will be combined with a spirit of lovingkindness, and the retreat will include silent stillness and moving meditation, Dharma talks, and practice meetings with the teachers.

2024-10-10 (10 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
2024-10-11 Body Scan for Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 33:24
Devon Hase
Guided Meditation for settling, arriving, becoming available for the body.
2024-10-12 Craving, Compulsion, Non-Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:40
Matthew Brensilver
2024-10-13 Guided Meditation: In the Presence of Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:12
Matthew Brensilver
2024-10-14 There Are No Footprints in the Sky (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:04
Devon Hase
Talk on how letting go leads to Emptiness. Many ways to talk about freedom: nonproliferation, absence of clinging, bare awareness, laying our burdens down.
2024-10-15 Cittanupassana: Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:14
Devon Hase
Guided Meditation on the first three foundations of mindfulness: kayanupassana, vedananupassana, and cittanupassana. Emphasis on working skillfully with mind states and heart states.
2024-10-16 Attention and Anicca, Awareness and Anatta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:58
Matthew Brensilver
2024-10-17 Guided Meditation on Attention and Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:25
Devon Hase
Practice highlighting the difference between momentary attention which connects with an object and a wider field of awareness which can know many objects at once.
2024-10-18 Tatramajjatata: Standing Steady in the Storm (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:55
Devon Hase
An exploration of equanimity as the starting place for engaging skillfully in our lives.
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