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Retreat Dharma Talks at Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Natural Radiance: Exploring the Freedom of Awareness

Awareness is a beautiful, hidden jewel that is innate in everyone. Awareness illuminates experience, which supports clarity, understanding, and insight. It is the foundation for wisdom, compassion, and awakening.

In this silent meditation retreat, we will explore this quality of awareness—what it is, and how to cultivate and abide in awakened presence. We will investigate how mindfulness supports a depth of awareness through various meditation practices, and we will look at what obscures the clarity of awareness both in meditation and in everyday life. As our mindfulness grows, we discover how this capacity for awareness is available in every moment.

Together, we will also explore the fusion of love and awareness and how developing awareness allows a natural opening of the heart, which fosters a kind and compassionate awareness to ourselves, others, and to all experience.

This retreat is silent except for teacher-led Q&A, small groups, or other practice meetings.

2024-11-15 (8 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
2024-11-16 Guided Metta for the Body with Awareness 27:38
Devon Hase
The body is full of awareness. An exploration of metta as awareness and awareness as metta in the body.
2024-11-17 Refuge in Dhamma 47:06
Devon Hase
Reflections on the qualities of the second refuge. Dhamma as truth, timeless, here and now, leading inwards to the source. Nature stories and Nico stories included.
2024-11-18 Guided Meditation on Body, Vedana, Citta 53:10
Devon Hase
Review of the first three foundations of mindfulness, followed by a guided practice using these different objects.
2024-11-20 Love 49:40
Devon Hase
Homage to the beauty of love in all its forms. Reflections on life-and-death, wonder, and the gift of the dhamma.
2024-11-21 Awareness Meditation 55:29
Devon Hase
Guided practice on awareness itself.
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