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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2009-04-15
Mudita, pt II
63:12
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Donald Rothberg
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Mudita practice both opens us to joy and extends that joy beyond our usual boundaries, transforming our conditions that limit joy to a limited circle and focus on the negative. We explore some of the roots of this personal and social conditioning and end by identifying some of the qualities of mature joy.
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2009-04-29
Cultivating Equanimity, pt II
55:01
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Donald Rothberg
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We continue to explore the cultivation of equanimity by focusing especially on how we keep balance and, increasingly, unshakability with the eight worldly winds of pleasure and pain, gain and loss, fame and disrepute, and praise and blame. We also focus on the qualities of understanding, joy and faith found in mature equanimity, with stories from Martin Luther Kind, Jr., Etty Hillesun and more treatment of multiple near-enemies of equnimity.
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2009-05-06
Practicing with the Shadow, pt 1
59:04
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Donald Rothberg
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Exploring the shadow - personal, relational, and collective - is one way to work through the deep structure of ignorance. We explore the nature of the shadow, the phenomenon of projection, and several ways to practice with the shadow.
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2009-05-11
Halfway between Heaven & Earth
53:15
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Mark Coleman
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As human beings, we move between the boundless, profound dimensions and the more mundane, worldly realms of body and mind. How do we in our practice cultivate an openness and receptivity to our boundless nature and not be so caught in our mind.
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