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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

  
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2016-03-02 The Parami of Patience - A Primary Practice 60:18
Heidi Bourne
Exploring the Paramis as a real and palpable cause of happiness and a refuge to support us during difficult times.
2016-03-23 The World Was Not More Dangerous Today Than It Was Yesterday 1:44:42
Sylvia Boorstein
2016-03-30 Grieving the Loss of a Mother - A Tribute to Bernice Rothberg 67:25
Donald Rothberg
A remembrance of Donald's mother, Bernice, five weeks after her death (4 weeks were in retreat), identifying the main spiritual themes of her life (love and family, music and beauty, and social justice), and exploring the dynamics and sequence of Donald's grieving process.
Attached Files:
  • Photo of Donald and Bernice (JPG)
2016-04-27 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 2: Perspectives from Neuroscience 69:27
Donald Rothberg
After a review of the nature of the judgmental mind and how to practice with it, we consider how the perspective of neuroscience can inform our practice of transforming the judgmental mind, both those judgments that are more personal and those that are more social in origin.
2016-06-22 How Broken Heartedness Cultivates a Limitless Heart: Practicing Compassion 1:56:50
Sylvia Boorstein
2016-07-06 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 6 - Exploring Judgments and Accessing Their Hidden Roots 1:11:45
Donald Rothberg
After a review of the basic framework used for transforming judgments, we explore how to investigate judgments in multiple ways that take us toward opening up the hidden unconscious roots of judgments.
2016-07-06 Guided Meditation: Exploring the Judgmental Mind 9:11
Donald Rothberg
A guided meditation on exploring the judgmental mind.
2016-07-13 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 7 - Practicing with Judgments Related to Social Conditioning 1:11:06
Donald Rothberg
Partly with the reference point of recent violence in Orlando, Minnesota, Louisiana, and Dallas, we explore the nature of judgments related to social conditioning. We look at judgments, both conscious and more hidden (in "implicit bias"), related to social hierarchies based on race, gender, class, sexual orientation, etc. We suggest some initial ways to practice.
2016-07-20 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 8 - Practicing with Judgments Related to Social Conditioning 2 1:12:26
Donald Rothberg
We combine a review of the nature of reactive judgments related to social conditioning (particularly related to social hierarchies such as those connected with race, gender, class, sexual orientation, etc.) with an outline of some ways to transform these judgments (pointing to the need also to transform the associated power structures).
2016-07-27 The Liberation Potential of Mindfulness - Liberation Series Part I 2:05:57
Sylvia Boorstein
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