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2023-03-29 Awakening and Habitual Tendencies 63:59
Donald Rothberg
Donald shares some of the main themes of his experiences from a four-week retreat that finished four days before the talk. The talk focuses on one theme--how there is an awakening process and yet how there remain habitual tendencies and time of greed, hatred, and delusion. How do we understand the relationship between understanding our "true nature" to be love and wisdom, and the fact that habitual tendencies appear frequently? We explore this theme in a few ways. We look at some of the understandings and stories in different religious traditions of something like this dynamic: How can there be "evil" when there is an all-powerful and all-good God? What account for this dichotomy? How are nirvana and samsara related? What guidelines and suggestions help us to practice so as to hold the aspiration to awaken and keep practicing with the acknowledgement of our habitual tendencies? Seven suggestions are given (see the attached file).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files:
  • Seven Suggestions for Practice: Awakening Amidst Habitual Tendencies by Donald Rothberg (Word File)

2023-03-26 Practicing Freedom from Resentment 68:44
Mushim Ikeda
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2023-03-22 How to See the Big Picture when Times are Tough 1:19:38
Kaira Jewel Lingo
Includes a meditation & dharma talk (the participant Q/A has been removed)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-03-22 LOVE 43:38
Valerie Mason-John (Vimalasara)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2023-03-20 Balancing the Brahma Viharas for Insight and Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:33
Phillip Moffitt
A guided meditation utilizing the naturally arising, felt-sense practice method to explore how to abide in the Brama Viharas to deepen your practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2023-03-19 The Power of Sangha: My Civil Rights Road Trip 1:12:40
Ruth King
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2023-03-18 Patience and Persistence (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:03
Dana DePalma
The paramis of patience and persistence play key roles in supporting our capacity to stay with the ups and downs of practice without succumbing to reactivity, judgement, or discouragement. This talk explores the active quality of persistence, the receptive quality of patience, and how they compliment each other in support of untangling the tangles of heart and mind in this gradual path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2023-03-17 Guided Meditation: Abiding in Space (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:27
Phillip Moffitt
A guided meditation utilizing the naturally arising, felt-sense approach to abiding in space. Directly experiencing the fifth element through a gradual process.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2023-03-16 Cultivating the Paramis from the Perspective of Wisdom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:25
Phillip Moffitt
A talk on the 3 Group approach to the Paramis from the perspective of wisdom. The first group provides a protective base for meditation practice, the second group encourages a dynamic vigor, the third group enhances mind and heart for meditation practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2023-03-16 Guided Meditation on Deepening, Quieting, and Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:12
Dana DePalma
A guided meditation emphasizing deepening, quieting, grounding, letting ourselves be held by nature, and shifting to a deeper and wiser perspective in support of equanimity, a balanced heart-mind. It includes a poem by Mary Oliver, "Swimming, One Day in August."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

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