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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2020-02-17 Day 16 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:31
Kamala Masters
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-16 Dukkha as a Path to Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:53
James Baraz
Dukkha is an inevitable part of life, the 1st Noble Truth. How we meet it and work with it is a key issue of practice. If understood, it can be a doorway to liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-16 Day 15 Morning Instructions: Big Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:23
James Baraz
All experience arises and passed in the vast space of awareness. This meditation, adapted from Tibetan text, directs attention to awareness itself rather than the objects within the awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-15 Teachings on Impermanence (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:47
Kamala Masters
Two Views of the nature of impermanence: The moment-to-moment view, and the infinite immensity view.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-15 Day 14 Morning Instructions: Review (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:13
Beth Sternlieb
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-14 Vedana-The 2nd Foundation of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:34
Tempel Smith
In every moment of subjective experience there is a quality of pleasure, displeasure or neutrality. Bring mindfulness to the quality of Vedana trains us how not to add suffering when pain arises or pleasure fades.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-14 Day 13 Afternoon Instructions: Metta for Difficult Person (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:03
Beth Sternlieb
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-14 Dharma and Recovery with Kevin Griffin 1:28:30
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-02-14 Day 13 Morning Meditation Instructions - Mindfulness of Vedana and Intention (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:22
Tempel Smith
From the basis of our simple practices we can include mindfulness of how intentions and actions arise in reaction to what is pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral (vedana). The unconscious actions we take in response to vedana are the conditioning circumstances for our suffering. It behooves us to raise awareness to how our reactivity to vedana further conditions our patterns of craving, aversion, and ignorance.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-13 Self Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:27
Beth Sternlieb
Compassion - Mindfulness, Kindness and Our Common Humanity
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

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