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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2021-04-09 Noticing Absence, Letting Go of Self-Reference 49:18
Nikki Mirghafori
In this guided meditation, we explore voidness/emptiness through the absence of observed phenomena. Our habitual self-referential frame of reference is also invited to be seen and examined, and momentarily let go of to notice the freedom of the way of seeing free of self-ing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Practical Emptiness: The Womb of Love and Compassion with Nikki Mirghafori, PhD and Sayadaw U Jagara

2021-04-09 The way we start anything will determine its outcome 59:10
Sayadaw U Jagara
This principle is applied to meditation: The in-coming bread, the out-going bread.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Practical Emptiness: The Womb of Love and Compassion with Nikki Mirghafori, PhD and Sayadaw U Jagara

2021-04-08 Guided Meditation: Life as A Dream 44:34
Nikki Mirghafori
In this guided meditation, we explore emptiness as a way of seeing the dreamlike nature of what we assume to be our fixed reality. "Thus shall you think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, A flash of lightning in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Practical Emptiness: The Womb of Love and Compassion with Nikki Mirghafori, PhD and Sayadaw U Jagara

2021-04-08 Work is Love Made Visible 22:15
Grace Fisher
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thursday Morning Women’s Group

2021-04-07 The Preciousness of Life and Connection 1:49:10
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-04-01 Stonecatchers: Civility and the Dharma 22:30
Grace Fisher
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thursday Morning Women’s Group

2021-03-31 Doing and Not-Doing in Meditation and Daily Life 3 68:17
Donald Rothberg
We start with a brief review of what we’ve explored in the last two sessions on this theme, including the importance of both doing and not-doing in Buddhist practice and the nature of identification with the “doer” (and the related themes of self, time, and the future). We then go into more depth inquiring into the nature of the “doer,” including a brief guided meditation looking into the experience of “doing” and opening to not-doing in meditation. We lastly further investigate traditions (Jewish, Christian, Taoist, and Buddhist) that point to the importance of a doing coming out of not-doing, and ways that we can experience and explore this doing coming out of not-doing in daily life, including in the experiences of creativity in art and music, and being “in the zone” in sports.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-03-25 Violence & Beauty: How to Hold it All 22:51
Grace Fisher
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thursday Morning Women’s Group

2021-03-24 Cultivating an Appropriate Response to Violence Yet Again 1:19:28
Heidi Bourne
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-03-22 Movement meditation Qi Gong 101 w/Hakim - Monday @ 8:30am Session 26:22
Hakim Tafari
Practical and mindful movements using elements from the 8 piece Brocade Gi Gong set. This is the final session for the Retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life with Eugene Cash, Victoria Cary, Alisa Dennis, PhD and Hakim Tafari

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