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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2020-01-27 Descending into the Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:10
Sharda Rogell
Mindfulness encourages releasing the hold of the discursive mind, and frees the attention to drop[ into the heart and body, revealing the source of true happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Joy

2020-01-27 Monday Night Dharma Talk 65:18
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-01-26 Triggers As Teachers 4:34:52
David Richo
We are all triggered at times by what people say or do, especially in relationships. Our triggers can teach us about ourselves, both what’s still unresolved, and what we need to work on. Our goal isn’t to root out all our triggers, but to use them as trail-heads for our own inner journeys that have long awaited us. Whether via the psychology path, especially when grieving the past, or the spiritual paths of mindfulness and lovingkindness, we’ll discover and cultivate practices and resources to support us. In this day, we’ll explore how to move from the suffering of reacting to the freedom of responding.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-01-25 Dharma of Money 2:09:08
Spencer Sherman and Danielle Onesto
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-01-22 From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha Mind 12: Exploring Our Experience of Time 3 62:51
Donald Rothberg
We continue to investigate our experience of time, focusing first more extensively on common patterns of experiencing time in a conditioned way. We then point to three main ways that our sense of time is transformed as we awaken, related to a deepened sense of impermanence as well as a greater sense of presence, and, finally, a movement, so to speak, into timeless awareness. Relatedly, we point to four main ways of practicing to investigate our experience of time, related first to examining our various conditioned constructions of time, and then to opening further to impermanence, presence, and timeless awareness, which can then also, to speak, hold time.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-01-19 Metta (Lovingkindness), Equanimity, and Daily Life Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 66:05
Donald Rothberg
We explore two dimensions of integration in metta practice: (1) connecting metta and the awakened heart with wisdom, especially through the connection between metta and equanimity; and (2) pointing to ways to continue our metta practice in several dimensions of daily life—in individual practice, in being with others, and in our participation in the wider social world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2020-01-18 Happiness and Letting Go (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:38
Beth Sternlieb
Generosity, Sila, Wisdom, Compassionate Listening on the Path to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2020-01-17 Lovingkindness for Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 38:09
Eve Decker
With song at end
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2020-01-16 When we consider suffering, kindness is the only response 58:38
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2020-01-15 Compassion, Community-Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:15
Beth Sternlieb
"One who loves has the key to unlock the door to ultimate reality: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

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