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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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2010-03-15 Peace of Letting Go 1:11:48
Amma Thanasanti
The tasks of letting go in precepts, commitment, working with awareness.
2010-03-17 When in Doubt, Make Belief- An Interview with Jeff Bell 58:07
Sylvia Boorstein
2010-03-22 Confession of a Buddhist Atheist 64:31
Stephen Batchelor
Talk on the journey of exploring Buddhist doctrine and principles... the questioning there of...
2010-03-24 Opening is the Ocean of Light- Sylvia Boorstein and Mingtong Gu 58:31
Sylvia Boorstein
2010-03-25 Letting Go and Picking Up 58:01
Gil Fronsdal
2010-03-29 Shining The Light On Suffering 59:51
Mark Coleman
The Buddha stressed the importance of "being a lamp unto ourself" and to know the truth of suffering - as a vehicle for understanding & liberating ourselves from inevitable challenges of life.
2010-03-31 Deepening Our Formal Meditation Practice 55:42
Donald Rothberg
Through reflection on just having taught a month-long retreat and several poems, we explore a number of ways to deepen our formal meditation practice through simplicity, focus, building a strong "container", developing mindfulness and lovingkindness in relation to what happens, and increased invocation of the "wise parent" (or grandparent...aka "discipline").
2010-04-07 Deepening Our Practice II: Deepening in Three Domains of Our Life 58:42
Donald Rothberg
We build from last week's identification of four broad ways of deepening formal practice: 1) developing simplicity, focus and a sense of clear priorities in one's life; 2) developing a strong support structure in various ways; 3) cultivating, in practice, qualities like mindfulness, metta, wisdom etc.; 4) developing a wise and compassionate sense of the path. We explore what these also mean in two other domains- everyday life (work relationships, family, community, the flow of our days); and our service and action in the larger world.
2010-04-12 Dancing With Desire 57:16
Mark Coleman
How to work with Desire. Understanding its bind of attachment, craving & aversion - using humor & awareness as supports for freeing ourselves from desires grip.
2010-04-14 The Refuges 61:13
Tony Bernhard
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