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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2023-11-28 Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of the Body and the Breath 1:12:56
Nikki Mirghafori, Bonnie Duran, Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Equanimity: The Happiness of a Heart in Balance and Peace

2023-11-27 From Nature to Dharma, To Dharma Nature 1:33:34
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-11-26 Looking at Practice From a Wider Perspective 53:21
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2023-11-25 Guided Quan Yin Compassion Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 31:42
Thanissara
Suffusing the world with healing light
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2023-11-24 Dharma Talk: Beyond Separative Consciousness in These Times (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:09
Thanissara
Beyond the walls of the mind. Power of clear intention. The unique potential within humanity
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2023-11-23 Dharma Talk: Anattā : The Thatagatha has Gone Beyond a Position 55:19
Gullu Singh
This talk explores the Buddha’s teaching of Anattā (Not-self) and ways to practice with the world experience or perception of self and how we can notice with mindfulness how this sense of self ebbs and flows with conditions. The Buddha also suggested beneficial ways to engage the self such as to use conceit as a tool to generate faith.
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2023-11-23 Morning Sitting with Instructions: The Two Fundamental Roots; Contemplating Conditions and the Unconditioned. (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:42
Kittisaro
Kondañña's breakthrough contemplating guest/dust. As space is to form and silence is to sound, so is awareness to all phenomena.
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2023-11-22 Dharma Talk: The Great Return (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 65:41
Kittisaro
Radical reflection — returning to the root. Contemplation of impermanence as a potent key leading to dispassion, and the heart returning to its on unshakeable nature; mantra as mind-ground practice
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2023-11-22 Practicing with Conflict: Foundations 3 66:27
Donald Rothberg
We start by reviewing briefly the two times' accounts of the foundations for practicing with differences and conflicts, first giving a definition of "conflict" as a difference of values, goals, or strategies, and not necessarily involving hostility or aggression. There's an invitation to focus on a conflict in one's life that is in the moderate range of difficulty, and bring this to mind as we work with ten foundations of skillful practice with conflict. We look again briefly at the multiple reasons why bringing our practice to conflicts is often difficult, and then review the more "inner" four foundations of skillful practice with conflict (1-4). We then bring in six further foundations which are more "outer," including (5) developing guidelines and agreements, especially in groups or organizations, but also with individuals; (6) clarifying a vision of a "win-win" or "both-and" approach to conflicts that meet the underlying interests or needs of all concerned; and (7) developing empathy. We offer two brief empathy practices, including one done in the context of one's own conflict. Three further foundations are offered: (8) grounding in Buddhist ethics, particularly the precepts and the understanding that one should bring care and kindness to all, and that all have Buddha Nature; (9) skillful speech (part of ethical training); and (10) the bringing of these ethical dimensions into collective life, through nonviolent action and the concept, in Dr. King's work, of the beloved community. After the talk, there is a discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files:
  • Johan Galtung's Win-Win Model of Conflict Transformation by Donald Rothberg (PDF)
  • Feelings Inventory from NVC by NVC (added by Donald Rothberg) (PDF)
  • Needs Inventory from NVC by NVC (added by Donald Rothberg) (PDF)
  • Empathy Map by Donald Rothberg/Oren Jay Sofer (PDF)

2023-11-22 Morning Sitting with Instructions: Working With Thinking (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:06
Adam Stonebraker
Perspectives on thinking, choice, and allowing the natural process to unfold.
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