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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Winter Solstice Retreat (2025): Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light
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| Throughout this residential retreat, we will focus on centering ourselves at the time of the holidays and the New Year. Together we will quiet our minds, ground our bodies, open our hearts, and use inquiry to help energize our practice. Special emphasis will be placed on opening to the darkness, including to our difficulties and challenges, and opening to the coming light, which includes the beauty, joy, wisdom, and love within and around us. This retreat will include complete meditation instructions, sitting and walking meditation, daily lovingkindness practice, daily Qigong practice, evening talks, practice discussions, and a Winter Solstice ceremony. |
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2025-12-18 (6 days)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2025-12-20
Trust: Finding Faith Beyond Belief (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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Devon Hase
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A Winter Solstice reflection on faith (saddha) as heartfelt confidence rather than blind belief. Drawing on personal stories of religious transitions and crisis, this talk explores how suffering can become the ground for genuine spiritual trust—the kind that arises from direct experience and opens us to the possibility of awakening exactly as we are. Through poetry, Buddhist teachings, and the paradox of being already free while still practicing, we examine how verified faith allows us to meet life with both acceptance and wise action.
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