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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2025-12-10 Guided Meditation: Exploring Pleasant and Unpleasant Experiences, with a Closing Reflection on Skillful Desire and Skillful Aversion 40:59
Donald Rothberg
We start with settling for about 7-8 minutes followed by about the same time with basic mindfulness practice. Then we explore "moderate" experiences of pleasant or unpleasant when they occur, whether a bodily experience, an emotion, or a thought (or a mix), experiencing pleasant or unpleasant and seeing whether there follows wanting (or not wanting) and grasping (or pushing away). We close with some reflection on what we explored: Was some of the wanting or not wanting skillful? Unskillful. This exploration is related to the talk given a short time later.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-12-04 Luminous Mind, Obscuring Clouds 64:29
Grace Fisher
Begins with a 30m meditation & includes a dharma talk. (Group discussion has been omitted.)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thursday Morning Women’s Group

2025-12-01 Alchemizing Suffering: Creating the Conditions to Metabolize Dukkha 1:37:45
Erin Selover
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-11-30 Grounding In Your Own Ethics 66:33
Ramona Lisa Ortiz-Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2025-11-30 Morning Bowing and all the Chants (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:34
Gullu Singh
This recording has a 10 minute bowing practice followed by all the chants and matras that were practiced over the retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred: Journey into Refuge, Presence, and Love

2025-11-27 Acknowledging the Shadow Side of Thanksgiving & Changing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2:25:45
Gullu Singh
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred: Journey into Refuge, Presence, and Love

2025-11-27 Morning Instructions: Mettā for Oneself to Know Kuan Yin (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:21
Dawn Mauricio
When we offer mettā to ourselves, we're not trying to transform our experience into unconditional self-love—we're learning to love the parts of ourselves that don't want to love us back. This practice invites us to recognize all our parts because when we can love the fragmented parts of ourselves, we begin to see ourselves as sacred beings, and in knowing ourselves deeply, we come to know Kuan Yin.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred: Journey into Refuge, Presence, and Love

2025-11-26 Thus Have I Heard (Updating the Origin Story) 1:58:25
Heidi Bourne
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-11-26 Widening the lens: Hindrances, Vedana and RAFT (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:43
Gullu Singh
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred: Journey into Refuge, Presence, and Love

2025-11-24 Monday Night Dharma Talk 1:12:37
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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