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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2024-06-25 Working with RAIN (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 27:42
Diana Winston
This short meditation describes how we use RAIN to work with our emotions. RAIN includes: Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture, and Not Identify with. We also practice with RAIN on the spot, working with any difficult emotion that is present.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone

2024-06-24 Going to Battle or Changing Course: The Five Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:49
Gullu Singh
Gullu explores the 5 hindrances (nirvanas) and how to work with them skillfully, allowing them to be teachers rather than enemies.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone

2024-06-24 Reclaiming the Sacredness of Our Being 1:37:27
Amana Brembry Johnson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-06-23 Curious and Creative: Mindfulness Meditation Is Investigation 67:49
Mushim Ikeda
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2024-06-23 The Basics of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:05
Diana Winston
First day of a retreat. How do we start our practice? Learn how to focus our attention.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone

2024-06-20 Intrinsically Empty, Naturally Radiant Ceaselessly Responsive: Awareness and Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:23
James Baraz
Awareness is not only spacious and wakeful, compassion is also an inherent component. Expressing care to address the suffering in the world is understood to be an essential part of practice. This talk explores the greater implications of this understanding especially at this critical time of global dukkha on so many levels.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness

2024-06-20 Guided Meditation for the Last Day (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:30
Trudy Goodman
Guided meditation for the last full day of retreat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness

2024-06-19 Cultivating Appreciative Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 31:51
Alexa Redner
Introduction to Mudita practice with a guided practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness

2024-06-19 Practicing with Views, Beliefs, and Positions 2 63:52
Donald Rothberg
We start with a brief reflection on today's holiday, Juneteenth. Then we review last week's initial exploration of practicing with views, including (1) identifying the main teachings on views given by the Buddha, and (2) three basic ways to practice with views, including developing mindfulness of views, inquiring when there is a charge related to another's view, and developing careful listening. This review is followed by bringing in several further ways to understand and practice with views, including working with a specific teaching and letting the "view [coming from the teaching] be the meditation," exploring how sometimes to rest in a kind of unknowing, and then how awakening lies beyond views and concepts. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-06-19 Guided Meditation: Practicing with Views 36:07
Donald Rothberg
After initial instructions in developing stability and concentration, and then mindfulness, there are further instructions, given after 10 and after 20 minutes, on developing more mindfulness of views, stories, and narratives (related to the talk given after the meditation). At the end, there is an invitation to reflect on views or stories that have been prominent in the last few days.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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