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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2019-07-15 Monday Night Dharma Talk 57:18
Nina Wise
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2019-07-15 Day 5: Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) - Loving Kindness for Unfamiliar Beings 55:13
Tempel Smith
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We have never met most of the living beings on our planet (and beyond), and many we have met we don’t know all that well. As we expand our loving kindness practice to include all beings we have to consciously learn how to actively care for those we don’t know well. Rather than having the typical challenge of reactivity, this group of beings is hard to love precisely because we don’t know them well. If we have learned to care for a larger group of friends and community members, then this next larger group is more accessible.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Metta Retreat

2019-07-14 Day 4: Metta and Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:34
Tempel Smith
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How does samadhi--the unification of the heart--develop with metta practice? And how can we use the absorption factors in metta practice to help us develop deeper metta adsorptions?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Metta Retreat

2019-07-14 Relaxed and Awake: Feldenkrais Method Movement & Mindfulness Meditation - Part 2 2:26:21
Dan Clurman
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Metta Retreat

2019-07-14 Relaxed and Awake: Feldenkrais Method Movement & Mindfulness Meditation - Part 1 2:20:27
Dan Clurman
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Metta Retreat

2019-07-13 Day 3: Patience and Determination for Metta 54:52
Bonnie Duran
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This talk offers the Paramis to support the strengthening of Metta practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Metta Retreat

2019-07-13 Open Heart, Steady Mind: Practices For When Life Gets Hard - Day 2 of 2 5:27:13
Kate Munding
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2019-07-12 Open Heart, Steady Mind: Practices For When Life Gets Hard - Day 1 of 2 6:14:19
Kate Munding
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2019-07-11 Day 1: Brahma Vihara Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) - Starting the Loving Kindness Meditation 57:15
Tempel Smith
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After learning to develop a kind and patient awareness of our breath and body, we have the basis to begin the traditional Loving Kindness meditation practice of repeating phrases of kindness towards our most easy being for whom we care.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Metta Retreat

2019-07-10 From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha-Mind 8: Transforming Our Ordinary Sense of Self 2: The “Doer” 67:01
Donald Rothberg
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Description: We first look briefly at the general framework of this series of talks and discussion; we examine: (1) the conditioning of the “ordinary habitual mind,” understood through examining 10 different parameters of that mind; (2) the nature of the “Buddha mind” in terms of these 10 parameters; and (3) how we practice with a given parameter to enact this transformation. Today’s talk is the second covering the nature and sense of self; we review some what was covered last time. We then take the rest of the session examining one manifestation of the “thick” self—the conditioned sense of the “doer.” We look at a number of ways in which the doer becomes more obvious, as when there is anxiety about not doing anything; we might notice this sometimes on a vacation or in retirement. We also examine the cultural dimensions of the conditioning around finding identity as a doer. We then look at how it’s possible to have our doing come more out of presence and being, with reference to the teachings of the Buddha and Chuang-Tzu especially. We conclude with a series of exercises in which we develop a sense of doing that comes more out of presence and being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

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