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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2023-06-14 Deepening Daily Life Practice: Eight Ways 62:15
Donald Rothberg
We start with an emphasis on the importance of daily life practice, and on some of the ways that it is sometimes seen as secondary in insight meditation, when we center formal practice and retreats. We then explore eight different ways to deepen daily life practice, inviting the listener to see which one or two ways most resonate as part of one's "next steps" in deepening daily life practice. The talk is followed by a period of reflection and then by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-06-14 Guided Meditation Related to Several Ways of Deepening Daily Life Practice 36:38
Donald Rothberg
We work with several modes of practice which can be developed in formal practice as well as in daily life (and that are discussed in the talk and discussion following this guided meditation). After a period of grounding in the body, we work with a heart practice (such as lovingkindness), a specific teaching (practicing with the sequence from contact to the feeling-tone of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral, to wanting, and to grasping from the teaching of Dependent Origination is briefly given), and a "mixing" or "mingling" of formal meditation and a daily life activity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-06-14 Remembering Your True Nature 63:34
Kimber Simpkins-Nuccio
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2023-06-12 Afternoon Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:31
Tuere Sala
Physical and vital bodies
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Nine Bodies Insight Retreat: Exploring Capacities of Consciousness

2023-06-09 Mindfulness and Recovery 57:55
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma and Recovery

2023-06-08 Trusting the Soil that Grounds and the Nest That Holds the Heart 1:12:36
Grace Fisher
Includes a meditation & a Dharma talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thursday Morning Women’s Group

2023-06-05 Compassion and the Fragility of Life 67:23
Devin Berry
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-06-04 Equanimity and Right View 59:31
Tere Abdala-Romano
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2023-06-02 Awakening in Nature through Insight into Interconnection and Anatta 54:05
Mark Coleman
Nature teaches us so many things about the nature of reality, including how profoundly interconnected and interdependent we are with all life. By sensing this directly, it profoundly shifts and dissolves belief in the reality of a separate, independent self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awake in the Wild

2023-06-01 Still Flowing Water: Reflections on Nature, Intimacy, and the Power of Accompaniment on the Path (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:16
Devon Hase
A talk on the characteristics of anicca and dukkha, with lots of stories about love and nature, fear and compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awake in the Wild

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