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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2018-09-01 You Are Not A Problem To Be Solved (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:31
Howard Cohn
Experiencing ourselves beyond our personality story and learning how to relate to our self view with wisdom and love.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-08-31 Going without Going (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:16
Sharda Rogell
We wonderfully open to all aspects of our mind body experience wherever we go - not leaving ourselves behind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-08-31 Metta 33:21
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-08-31 Cultivating Wise Speech - An Introduction 1:46:01
Donald Rothberg
In this introduction to a daylong on Wise (or "Right") Speech, there is a focus on the importance of Wise Speech for our practice and on the core ethical guidelines for wise and skillful speech given by the Buddha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-08-30 The Journey to Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:13
James Baraz
The course of practice is explored: how mindfulness works, willingness to open to our suffering, discovering our wholesome qualities & the Buddha within, dealing with forgetting who we are, then sharing our love & wisdom with the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-08-29 What is the Meaning of Happiness 0:00
Sylvia Boorstein
(Recording not available) 
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2018-08-27 The Development and Function of Concentration (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:59
Sally Armstrong
The development of samadhi, a collected and unified mind, is central in the Buddha’s meditation training. This talk looks at how we can skillfully deepen concentration, as well as the place of concentration in various suttas and lists that guide us in the development of concentration, and then the function of concentration to lead to transformative insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2018-08-27 Cultivating the Heart of Kindness - Monday night dharma talk 61:59
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-08-26 Deepening Insight Practice with the Support of Concentration Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 66:01
Donald Rothberg
Description: We first explore how concentration practice is both helpful and important for insight practice, and how the two practices are related. We then look at the nature of insight practice, and in particular examine three ways of liberating seeing in insight practice, namely practices in which we cultivate seeing anicca (impermanence), dukkha (reactivity or unreliability or suffering), and anatta (not-self).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2018-08-25 Seven Factors and the Practice of Concentration (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:01
Susie Harrington
The cultivation of the seven factors in samadhi and vipassana practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

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