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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2022-02-07 Monday Night Dharma Talk - Embracing Paradox 49:11
Mark Coleman
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2022-02-07 Metta for Easy Beings, Difficult Beings, and All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:54
JD Doyle
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Guided Metta meditation that begins with an overview of working with difficult or challenging people. Meditation explores the cultivation of Metta, starting with easy beings, moving to difficult beings and ending with all beings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-06 Guided Meditation on Vedana (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 40:09
JD Doyle
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This meditation starts with a short introduction to practicing with Vedana (or feeling tone) and then continues with a guided meditation that invites you to bring your awareness to different parts of the body and different senses to recognize Vedana as it arises.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-05 Loving the Moment: Opening to it All (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:07
James Baraz
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Being in the present requires us to open to all experience, the beautiful moments and the challenging ones. This talk explores essential qualities that help us not only accept the moment, but embrace and even love it as our true refuge.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-04 Guided Bramavihara Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:23
James Baraz
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In order to open the heart and extend kindness and compassion to others we need to soften the places of contraction through practicing forgiveness. This guided meditation invites us to practice forgiving ourselves– our body, our mind, and our heart – and then extending it towards others as well.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-04 Guided Meditation on the Four Elements 52:31
JD Doyle
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The first foundation of the body is explored with a guided body scan for each of the four elements: earth, water, fire, and air.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-03 Exploring the Three Refuges as Paths of Practice 55:32
JD Doyle
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An exploration of how the three refuges can be used during retreat to support practice. Recognizing the lineage and Buddha nature, the Dharma of our bodies, and the Sangha as a network as support systems that undergird our practice. Includes working with perceptions and using the natural world as part of practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-03 Listening Within the Intergenerational Arc 24:43
Grace Fisher
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Thursday Morning Women’s Group

2022-02-03 Mindfulness of the Body for Concentration (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:29
Tempel Smith
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At some point we can fully let go of all our concerns to give our full attention to the breath and body. As we build faith and devotion to this simple fullness of attention we can feel the mind healing from its habits of being scattered and exhausted. This practice develops into full absorption and becomes the basis for liberating wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-02 Mindfulness of the Body 61:17
Tempel Smith
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The Buddha stated we are often lost in craving and aversion when we are not mindful of our bodies. In a discourse named the Six Animals (SN 35.247) the Buddha strongly encouraged developing the concentration of body mindfulness as a pillar to collect and calm oneself, and learn to have a conscious relationship to the six sense. From developing calm and collectedness mindfulness of the body continues to liberate us from our confusions towards having a body. As both a refuge of samadhi and a place for deepening wisdom, mindfulness of the body is considered the central foundation to the buddha's path to freedom here and now, and ultimate liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

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