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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2025-03-23 Keep the Faith! -- in What? 62:55
Mushim Ikeda
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2025-03-22 Three kinds of Nibbana in our western Insight traditions 52:57
Tempel Smith
Within our blessed lineages of Venerables Ajahn Cha and Mahasi Sayadaw, and the teachings within the Pali Canon, we have found three kinds of nibbana. Nibbana is closely related to the full liberation from dukkha (suffering). To even talk about one kind of nibbana can be difficult as it is beyond language, yet there is another confusion within western Insight meditation. By practicing in Mahasi's Burmese meditaitons, in Cha's Thai Forest meditations, and here in North America, there are roughly three kinds of nibbana: a) an unperturbed background field of awareness, b) a perfect zero of cessation, and c) a stream of transient mind-body moments without greed, hatred or craving. Knowing of these three kinds of nibbana can clarify what our vipassana practices are aimed at.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-21 Dispassion as Pathway to the Peace of Letting Go (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:51
Kristina Bare
Seeing impermanence leads to dispassion and letting go into deepening peace.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-20 The Five Aggregates: Sankhara & Consciousness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:44
Tara Mulay
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-20 Equanimity Brahma-Vihara (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:18
Kristina Bare
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-20 Crossing the Threshold of the Moment 58:19
Grace Fisher
Meditation & Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thursday Morning Women’s Group

2025-03-18 Dharma of Time and Space (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:02
Anushka Fernandopulle
The past and future are only thoughts in the present. But even the present moment is constructed, concocted, conditioned and may not exist absolutely as we believe it to be. Our experience of the senses is dependent on our sense organs thus animals have different eyes and experience the world very differently. Different human cultures experience and interpret sense experience differently as well. Plus practice tips on week 3 of a monthlong retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-17 Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:03
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-17 Compassion Instruction and Guidance 51:33
Tempel Smith
We need to explore how to find and develop true compassion which is a beautiful quality of opening our hearts to the suffering inside and outside ourselves. While there is pain in suffering we can actually grow to have a sweet heart of compassion when we know how to breath open heartedly in contact with pain and suffering. When we find true compassion we don't need to shrink back from what is difficult but rather use the commonalities of difficulties to feel warm and expanded.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-16 The Five Recollections: Turning Toward Truth 44:08
Devin Berry
Explores the Buddha’s teachings on aging, illness, death, loss, and karma—brought to life through Dharma reflections and evocative stories, inviting us to meet impermanence with wisdom, presence, and the freedom to love fully.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

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