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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2025-11-05 Meditation: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness 36:00
Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2025-11-05 Talk: Kuruna: Holding Suffering Without Breaking 18:19
Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2025-11-03 Interconnection: Our True Nature! 1:33:16
Pawan Bareja
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-10-30 Transition From Settling to Seeing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:49:25
Tere Abdala-Romano
This talk explores the gentle transition from shamatha (calm abiding through concentration) to vipassanā (insight), inviting us to cultivate stillness not through effort but through nourishment, (as The Budha did) curiosity, and kindness. It reminds us that the mind’s obstacles—dullness and agitation—are gateways to balance and presence. From this grounded calm, clarity naturally arises, revealing the truth of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self. In resting with things as they are, stillness ripens into seeing, and seeing reveals freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-30 Impermanence, Ancestors and the Lineage of Life 63:46
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

2025-10-29 Anathapindika's Gift to Us (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:10
Eugene Cash
The talk explores the sutta, The Advice to Anathapindika. The sutta reveals how Anathapindika bestowed the teachings of non-clinging and letting to those of us who ar householders. The talk concludes with a current story of a near death experience that embodies the realization of the goodness of the dharma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maraṇasati: Contemplating Death - Awakening to Life

2025-10-29 Karuna Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:25
Tere Abdala-Romano
A short talk first and Guided Meditation to cultivate the heartful yearning for all to be happy and the intention to do something to remedy our/their suffering
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-29 Some of the Neuroscience supporting Buddhist Heart Practices 44:41
Eve Decker
Dharma Talk. (Group discussion has been omitted.)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-10-29 Meditation: "Mindfulness" 27:13
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2025-10-29 Talk: "Crossing the Floods" 33:19
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

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