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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2022-01-20 Sangha and the Extended Heart 23:05
Grace Fisher
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Thursday Morning Women’s Group

2022-01-20 Instructions on 4 Elements Meditation: Mindfulness of Water Element 65:44
Bonnie Duran
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This is a guided body scan of water element meditation - part of Mindfulness of the Body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Elements Retreat

2022-01-19 Understanding Dukkha (Un-satisfactoriness and Suffering) 46:17
Kate Munding
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Introducing the Three Characteristics of existence through the practice of the four elements.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Elements Retreat

2022-01-19 Water Element 27:55
Kate Munding
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Elements Retreat

2022-01-19 Supporting Equanimity: I Talk to My Friends. 1:56:03
Sylvia Boorstein
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-01-19 Four Elements Instructions: Mindfulness of Earth Element 54:12
Bonnie Duran
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Guided meditations on body scan for Earth Element.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Elements Retreat

2022-01-19 Four Elements Instructions: Mindfulness of Earth Element 27:42
Bonnie Duran
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Guided meditations on body scan for Earth Element.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Elements Retreat

2022-01-16 The Five Recollections and the Cultivation of Metta in Daily Life--(Retreat at Spirit Rock) 67:19
Gullu Singh
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This Dharma Talk reflects on the 5 subjects for frequent recollections (also called the 5 remembrances): (1) I am of the nature to age, I have not gone beyond aging, (2) I am of the nature to sicken, I have not gone beyond sickness, (3) I am of the nature to die, I have not gone beyond dying (4) All that is mine, beloved and pleasing, will become otherwise, Will become separated from me (4) I am the owner of my kamma, heir to my kamma, born of my kamma, related to my kamma, abide supported by my kamma. Whatever kamma I shall do for good or for ill, of that I will be the heir. This is offered as a chant as a way to connect the teaching to the heart and the body. The talk then explores the liberative idea of Kamma (Karma) where we have more and more agency through the practice to seed our intentions so that our acts of body, speech and mind are more wholesome, skillful, and leading to the alleviation of suffering for ourselves and others. The talk then explores various strategies for the cultivation of mettā in daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat: Cultivating the Wise, Awakened, and Responsive Heart

2022-01-15 Justice is What Love Looks Like in Public: Celebrating Dr. King's Legacy of Love 58:48
Kaira Jewel Lingo
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Given on Dr. King's birthday, we explore how we can each give rise to bodhicitta and support the realization of justice: the expression of love in public. Kaira Jewel first shares about the personal impact of Dr. King on her life, introducing her father, Al Lingo, who makes a cameo appearance to briefly share about working with Dr. King in the Civil Rights Movement in the South. She then explores the friendship between Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. King and their common effort to build the Beloved Community. Then we look at how caring for ourselves is caring for others and vice versa, and how bodhicitta is an inexhaustible source of energy and confidence, because it helps us clarify what our ultimate concern is. We end with how we can engage in activism, and work on behalf of the world in a way that doesn’t lead to burnout.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat: Cultivating the Wise, Awakened, and Responsive Heart

2022-01-14 Metta and Forgiveness 61:05
Donald Rothberg
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We first explore several important themes in metta practice: (1) how metta practice can be seen as a training in learning to “lead” with the heart; (2) ways of working with difficult experiences, such as anger, fear, and the presence of the judgmental mind, that can arise in the “purification” process connected with metta practice; (3) how metta practice opens us to our radiant depths; and (4) the nature of metta practice with the “difficult person” and its connection with forgiveness practice. Then we explore the nature of forgiveness—clarifying what it is and isn’t; distinguishing between forgiveness as an outer, interpersonal and social process, giving several examples, including from the Heiltsuk indigenous tradition and South Africa, and forgiveness as an inner practice; and identifying some of dynamics of inner forgiveness practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat: Cultivating the Wise, Awakened, and Responsive Heart

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