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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2024-12-05 Maybe it's Not Metta! Using Equanimity + Compassion to work with Difficult Folks (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:29
Leslie Booker
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The goal of offering metta for a difficult person, is not to change their behavior, but to make sure our hearts don't get colonized by the 3 poisons of greed, hatred and delusion. And for many of us, it's not Metta that is the gateway, but equanimity and compassion. After a 15 minute silent meditation, Booker sings Loosen by Ally Halpert as a lullaby.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  In the Presence of Love: A Mettā & Qigong Retreat

2024-12-05 Metta as Refuge (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:27
Leslie Booker
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A response to where we are in this time in our history when everything might seem a bit topsy turvy and upside down. The political commentator Melissa Harris Perry refers to this kind of confusion as trying to stand up straight in a crooked room. Many of us have been secluding, isolating, putting up walls as armour, as protection - in order to not feel the full catastrophe. Many of us are here because we’re ready to lay that armour down, to engage with life and be alive again. And so this afternoons reflections will be on how we can rest in Metta as refuge.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  In the Presence of Love: A Mettā & Qigong Retreat

2024-12-04 The Path of Peace is Calling 1:29:52
Heidi Bourne
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Includes meditation, dharma talk & some group discussion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files:
  • The Key to Meditation is Learning to Stay (PDF)

2024-12-04 Vedana - Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:56
Leslie Booker
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Vedana, the second foundation of mindfulness, is our simplest response to an experience; a raw effect of an emotion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  In the Presence of Love: A Mettā & Qigong Retreat

2024-12-03 Love + Compassion in the Midst of Dominance (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:39
Leslie Booker
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"In this particular flavor of global divisiveness, We need options of how to hold all that feels too big for us. And with these practices of the heart, we are given the opportunity to not succumb to hatred and ill - will. And so what I know to offer in difficult times, is love, in the midst of fear, in the midst of dominance "
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  In the Presence of Love: A Mettā & Qigong Retreat

2024-12-02 "Karma: How Intentional Actions Shape Habits, Character, and Destiny" 1:20:08
Nikki Mirghafori
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Includes meditation & dharma talk. (Group discussion has been removed).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-12-02 Metta - Benefactor: Honoring Gina Sharpe + Larry Yang (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:45
Leslie Booker
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Recollecting my mentors, Gina Sharpe and Larry Yang.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  In the Presence of Love: A Mettā & Qigong Retreat

2024-12-02 Body as Heart Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:26
Leslie Booker
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Morning Instructions on the first foundation of mindfulness, centering the Karaniya Metta: the Buddha's Words on Loving Kindness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  In the Presence of Love: A Mettā & Qigong Retreat

2024-12-01 Finding True Refuge in the Buddha, Dharma & Sangha 65:21
Gullu Singh
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  BIPOC Voices - Series

2024-11-28 Kuan Yin: Bestower of Fearlessness: Dharma Medicine for These Times (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:37
Kittisaro, Thanissara
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Going beyond the constructs of the mind, trusting the heart, and upholding the Humane in Times of Destruction.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Reclamation of the Sacred: Journey into Refuge, Presence, and Love

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