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Retreat Dharma Talks at Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Vipassana Retreat

This retreat emphasizes the continuity of mindfulness, along with some daily practice of metta. The teaching is in the style of Mahasi Sayadaw, refining the quality of precise open awareness as a way of deepening the wisdom and compassion within us.

2007-07-20 (10 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
2007-07-22 Understanding The Defilements 57:31
Steve Armstrong
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Wisdom removes the defilements. Awareness is the foundation for growing wisdom. Defilements are visitors to the mind that cause suffering.
2007-07-23 Resting The Mind Before It Falls Into Extremes 58:55
Kamala Masters
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Equanimity supports clarity of understanding through a spacious, balanced and calm mind. It leads the way for compassionate action that can be powerfully effective because it is free from aversion and attachment.
2007-07-26 Understanding Insight: Dukkha And Anatta 61:30
Steve Armstrong
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Insight or the dawning realization of the three common characteristics rests on the continuity of mindful awareness. They offer the understanding of how to live at ease with all conditions and to do well in life.
2007-07-28 The Ecology Of Compassion 64:40
Kamala Masters
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Understanding the terrain of compassion in our inner life in relationship to the world.
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