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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2021-07-28 Deepening Daily Life Practice 3: A Guided Meditation: Settling, Practicing with Pleasant and Unpleasant and Tendencies to Reactivity, Practicing with the Eight Worldly Winds 37:48
Donald Rothberg
In this guided meditation, we start with about 10 minutes of settling. We then attend to when there is a moderate or greater pleasant or unpleasant feeling-tone, bringing some investigation as to what occurs in ones' experience, including tendencies to reactivity (grasping or pushing away). Toward the end of the guided meditation, there's an invitation to track for those forms of reactivity coming after one of the Eight Worldly Winds (pleasure or pain, gain or loss, fame or disrepute, and praise or blame).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-07-22 Manifesting the Archetypes of Compassion 25:35
Grace Fisher
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thursday Morning Women’s Group

2021-07-21 Understanding Impermanence Liberates the Mind From Suffering 69:23
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-07-19 Meditation: Listening with the Heart | Monday Night 23:59
Jack Kornfield
Direct mindful loving awareness to the mind. The mind secretes thoughts, stories and memories. You are the loving awareness that feels the stream of the mind, that knows it—all the busyness, hopes, and ideas. Listen now to the wisdom mind. It has a message for you. It has wisdom that you need just now. Now let the field of loving awareness open, so the heart knows you can listen to the world around you with tender care. By listening with a compassionate heart and a wisdom mind, your understanding can grow.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-07-19 Listening with the Heart | Monday Night Talk 50:31
Jack Kornfield
We are each other's bond. We are each other's community. We are each other's family. What we most want, perhaps, is to be listened to in the deepest way, to be met with the heart. When we learn to rest in awareness, there’s both caring and silence. There is listening for what’s the next thing to do and awareness of all that’s happening, a big space and a connected feeling of love. When there is enough space, our whole being can both comprehend the situation and be at ease. We see the dance of life, we dance beautifully, yet we’re not caught in it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-07-19 "Questions & Answers about Papanca 2" 69:50
Joseph Goldstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Insight Meditation Retreat" with Kamala Masters, Joseph Goldstein, bruni dávila, Shelly Graf and Walt Opie

2021-07-18 "Papanca 2: Craving, Conceit, and Wrong View" 1:11:54
Joseph Goldstein
Proliferating tendencies that condition our lived experience, and how to free ourselves from them
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Insight Meditation Retreat" with Kamala Masters, Joseph Goldstein, bruni dávila, Shelly Graf and Walt Opie

2021-07-17 "Questions & Answers about Papanca 1" 1:22:09
Joseph Goldstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Insight Meditation Retreat" with Kamala Masters, Joseph Goldstein, bruni dávila, Shelly Graf and Walt Opie

2021-07-17 Stillness Meditation 21:23
Walt Opie
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Insight Meditation Retreat" with Kamala Masters, Joseph Goldstein, bruni dávila, Shelly Graf and Walt Opie

2021-07-16 "Guided Metta Practice" 0:00
Shelly Graf
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Insight Meditation Retreat" with Kamala Masters, Joseph Goldstein, bruni dávila, Shelly Graf and Walt Opie

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