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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2021-07-07 Simple Metta Breathing and Metta Body Scan 40:12
Tempel Smith
To form the foundation for loving-kindness meditation we invite the attitude of kindness, calm, and simplicity to our breath and body awareness. For many, this is the most simple and suitable metta meditation, and once embodied this metta meditation becomes the basis for radiating healthy lovingkindness to our selves and all beings. This is also the meditative foundation to ripen the five jhana factors leading to full absorption.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP

2021-07-05 Collective Pain, Collective Practice, Collective Liberation 63:49
Sean Oakes
So much of the pain afflicting our lives right now is based in conditions that are much larger than any of us as individuals. The climate crisis, racism, economic suffering, and the pandemic all are results of actions committed not by individuals but by groups. Rather than absolving us of responsibility, knowing this can help us to move through doubt and shame into the more wholesome states of urgency and collective agency.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-07-04 Practicing in Urban Life 59:01
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2021-07-01 Thoughts on Metta and Kindness 26:57
Grace Fisher
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thursday Morning Women’s Group

2021-06-30 Deepening Daily Life Practice 1 68:12
Donald Rothberg
In an important sense, daily life practice is central and vital; it is where we live! Yet at times in the non-monastic Insight Meditation approach as it's developed in the West, such practice has been somewhat marginalized, with retreat practice and formal meditation practice at the center. We explore first the challenging context of daily life practice for many Western practitioners, including not just such a lack of sustained emphasis on daily life practice, but also the challenges of living in what is often a very busy, "mental" culture and society. We then look at a number of ways to bring more awareness into daily life, inviting the listener to see what one or two ways of practicing might be emphasized in the next period of time. We give a more in-depth focus on one very central way of bringing more awareness into daily life--developing mindfulness of the body. We offer a number of different practices that support such mindfulness of the body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-06-24 The Balancing Rays of Metta 20:45
Grace Fisher
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thursday Morning Women’s Group

2021-06-23 Buddhist Practice and Transforming Racism: Nine Reflections from the Last Year 69:33
Donald Rothberg
A year after the massive demonstrations in the US following the killing of George Floyd, we reflect on different aspects of the integration of Buddhist practice and transforming racism, identifying nine key themes.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-06-21 Monday Night Dharma Talk - Practicing in Nature 46:22
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-06-18 A Guided Session on Opening to Natural Awareness 62:35
Diana Winston
For those interested in natural awareness, this session includes several short meditations called Glimpse Practices to help us access our expansive, luminous nature.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: Practicing Across the Spectrum of Awareness

2021-06-17 In the Flow of Equanimity 31:14
Grace Fisher
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thursday Morning Women’s Group

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