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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2025-11-03 Interconnection: Our True Nature! 1:33:16
Pawan Bareja
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-10-30 Transition From Settling to Seeing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:49:25
Tere Abdala-Romano
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This talk explores the gentle transition from shamatha (calm abiding through concentration) to vipassanā (insight), inviting us to cultivate stillness not through effort but through nourishment, (as The Budha did) curiosity, and kindness. It reminds us that the mind’s obstacles—dullness and agitation—are gateways to balance and presence. From this grounded calm, clarity naturally arises, revealing the truth of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self. In resting with things as they are, stillness ripens into seeing, and seeing reveals freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-30 Impermanence, Ancestors and the Lineage of Life 63:46
Grace Fisher
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Begins with a 30m meditation & includes a dharma talk. (Group discussion has been omitted.)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Thursday Morning Women’s Group

2025-10-29 Anathapindika's Gift to Us (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:10
Eugene Cash
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The talk explores the sutta, The Advice to Anathapindika. The sutta reveals how Anathapindika bestowed the teachings of non-clinging and letting to those of us who ar householders. The talk concludes with a current story of a near death experience that embodies the realization of the goodness of the dharma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Maraṇasati: Contemplating Death - Awakening to Life

2025-10-29 Karuna Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:25
Tere Abdala-Romano
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A short talk first and Guided Meditation to cultivate the heartful yearning for all to be happy and the intention to do something to remedy our/their suffering
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-29 Some of the Neuroscience supporting Buddhist Heart Practices 44:41
Eve Decker
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Dharma Talk. (Group discussion has been omitted.)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-10-29 Meditation: "Mindfulness" 27:13
JD Doyle
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2025-10-29 Talk: "Crossing the Floods" 33:19
JD Doyle
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2025-10-28 The Three Ways of Seeing That Bring Liberating Insight (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 67:37
Donald Rothberg
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After a brief general account of the three ways of liberating insight, we look at each of the three--insights into impermanence, dukkha, and not-self--with a longer treatment of insight into not-self. There is an emphasis especially on how we practice in order to come to these insights. We close with a passage from Ajahn Chah pointing to the unity of developing samadhi and cultivating insight. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-28 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:51
Tere Abdala-Romano
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A guided meditation from Settling the Body, the breath and the mind in its natural state Shamatha to Vipassana , in this case observe the three ways that liberate us, emphasizing this morning on the inmeditae direct experience of impermanence through breath , body sensations, sounds, mental objects realizing how all are transient as our lives and selves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

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