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Retreat Dharma Talks at Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Monday and Wednesday Talks

Regular weekly talks given at the lower Spirit Rock meditation hall

Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
2000-02-21 Seven Factors Of Enlightenment 56:58
Jack Kornfield
Tasting the freedom of reconnecting with the openness and luminosity of mind that is our true nature.
2000-07-19 Healing Our Hearts With Compassion 60:19
Kamala Masters
Developing the healing force of compassion helps us to open to the pain of our lives.
2000-08-21 Free Your Mind! 51:13
Christopher Titmuss
Finding here and now, freedom of the mind and freedom for tendencies.
2000-08-24 The Personality And Beyond 47:06
Christopher Titmuss
Development of the mind is a minor detail of Dharma life. What matters lies outside the personality.
2000-08-26 Knower And Known 54:37
Christopher Titmuss
The knower needs the heart to pursue the known. What is the knowing that goes beyond knower and known?
2000-09-04 Labor Of Love - Right Livelihood 57:43
Jack Kornfield
A Labor Day talk on right livelihood: what is our attitude to the work of our life?
2000-12-20 I Talk To My Friends 56:42
Sylvia Boorstein
A talk about faith. This journey is a feasible one despite it being difficult. Sylvia discusses the problem of wobbly mind and how bewilderment and fatigue can lead to doubt. Talking to our friends holds us up in difficult times.
2001-02-07 Untying The Knots 60:18
Sylvia Boorstein
Referencing her own experiences, Sylvia explores the stories we make up for ourselves to substantiate or justify certain views (opinions) that we hold about things -- some to the point of making them into "truths." After considering the possible origins of these views, Sylvia exposes the profound suffering caused by holding these views and the stories around them. Taking it a step further, she wonders: What is the relationship between hope and opinion? Is it wrong to hope or is it part of the nature of the human organism? Perhaps, she concludes, it is the solidified view we hold around a hope that causes suffering.
2001-04-18 Holding Hands 30:10
Sylvia Boorstein
In thinking about the path of awareness and the refining of the heart that is the purpose of Buddhist philosophy, Sylvia suggests that she would like to amend the Eightfold Path to be the "Ninefold Path," adding Right Relationship as the ninthfold. Right Relationship is the sense of connection we feel in the world that holds us up. Hand holding is the metaphor Sylvia uses to symbolize this connection. Hands take us from the womb, and they put us in the grave. In between, it is one big "hand holding."
2001-05-07 Who Are You Really? 59:43
Jack Kornfield
An inquiry into the essence of who we really are, accepting and honoring the totality of ourselves.
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