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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2021-06-23 Buddhist Practice and Transforming Racism: Nine Reflections from the Last Year 69:33
Donald Rothberg
A year after the massive demonstrations in the US following the killing of George Floyd, we reflect on different aspects of the integration of Buddhist practice and transforming racism, identifying nine key themes.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-06-21 Monday Night Dharma Talk - Practicing in Nature 46:22
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-06-18 A Guided Session on Opening to Natural Awareness 62:35
Diana Winston
For those interested in natural awareness, this session includes several short meditations called Glimpse Practices to help us access our expansive, luminous nature.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: Practicing Across the Spectrum of Awareness

2021-06-17 In the Flow of Equanimity 31:14
Grace Fisher
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thursday Morning Women’s Group

2021-06-17 Heart Centered Wisdom 47:45
Carol Cano
Mindfulness is not just about training the mind, it is also about training the heart. Cultivating a practice of listening and being with what arises moment to moment opens us to every changing nature of who we are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: Practicing Across the Spectrum of Awareness

2021-06-17 The Lake of Lovingkindness 34:55
Diana Winston
Using guided imagery, we practice loving kindness expansively. We start with ourselves and ultimately include the whole world. The lake is a metaphor, image, and guide.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: Practicing Across the Spectrum of Awareness

2021-06-16 Loving Well is the Best Response 67:56
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-06-16 Fluidity of Mind: Reflections on Awareness 53:53
Alex Haley
This talk details the importance of embodied awareness, especially as known through felt-sense experience, and how this awareness can be temporarily obscured. Investigative awareness is discussed as a practice method for working with these temporary hindrances and how the sense of fluidity that we cultivate through investigative awareness supports a deeper knowing of natural awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: Practicing Across the Spectrum of Awareness

2021-06-16 Self-Directed Loving Kindness 45:25
Diana Winston
We practice loving kindness with an emphasis on how to send it to ourselves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: Practicing Across the Spectrum of Awareness

2021-06-15 The Spectrum of Awareness Practices 51:07
Diana Winston
This talk details the Spectrum of Awareness Practice-- a map for exploring how many types of awareness meditations fit together. We explore how to move from narrow, focused awareness, through an investigative awareness, to open awareness, and to natural awareness-- an open, spacious, awareness of awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: Practicing Across the Spectrum of Awareness

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