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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2022-02-25 The Three Trainings to be in the Stream of Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 65:45
Tempel Smith
Sariputta equated the stream of liberation to being the very same 8 fold path of the Buddha's main teachings. The 8 fold path can be summed up as the three higher trainings: training in Sīla, Samādhi, and Pañña. To stay in the stream which only flow in one direction - liberation - we only need to embrace Sīla (ethical attunement), Samādhi (cultivating beautiful aspects of heart), and Pañña (living with wise perspective). Whether you wear robes on the outside of your body or if you are a lay person, we want to ordain our hearts to wear the inner robes of Sīla, Samādhi, and Pañña.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-25 Reflection & Instructions on Vedana 54:53
Kristina Bare
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-24 Your Practice is Not Just for You 60:30
James Baraz
Your practice affects everyone around you. When you see your practice in this wider context, it evokes a whole dimension of inspiration and “joyful responsibility“ to cultivate wisdom and compassion within us. In this world with so much suffering—including the climate crisis and injustice in the world—more than ever we need to keep this in mind and see ourselves as “bodhisattvas in training“.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-23 Ne stressez pas! (Don't make things more complicated.) 1:27:54
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-02-22 Guided Equanimity with Nature (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:23
Tempel Smith
To find equanimity within us we can reflect on how we naturally feel when in nature. We rarely judge nature or get rigidly stuck on our preferences. We can see a young sapling, a mature tree, a much older tree, and a fallen tree. We can see rabbits and coyotes, insects and birds who eat them. We let nature have its changing seasons. From these reflections we can find the open heart of caring equanimity, just wishing for respectful contact with the truth. Can we bring this to the human realm?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-21 5 Subjects for Daily Recollection (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:05
JD Doyle
Exploring the inescapable realities of the human condition as a path to orient ourselves to away from linearity and into complexity and mystery to support awakening
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-21 Monday Night Dharma Talk - Honoring my teacher Thich Nhat Hahn 32:59
Kaira Jewel Lingo
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2022-02-21 Guided sit with brama vihara (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:54
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-20 The 3rd and 4th Foundations of Mindfulness 63:46
Tempel Smith
While the 3rd and fourth foundations of mindfulness can be taught as their own separate topics, it can be very useful to look at the language and instruction given in both of them together. In the 3rd foundation we rest mindfully in all cognitive and emotional states as they arise and pass with the courage not to change them. In the 4th foundation of mindfulness we use this deeper intimacy from the 3rd foundation to act most skillfully in how we let go of suffering states and welcome wholesome states.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-20 Love and Compassion in the Midst of Dominance 52:24
Leslie Booker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

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