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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2016-07-09 Change is not Wrong! 37:02
Grove Burnett
It is not what happens in life that is important. It is what your relationship to it that is important.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Liberation: A Buddhist Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-07-09 Shift Happens: Learning to Bounce Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, Event Disaster 5:39:16
Linda Graham
In this daylong, participants will learn to reverse the impact of stress and trauma and come out of anxiety, depression, grief, loneliness, guilt and shame. Participants learn to deepen their self-compassion and empathy, connect to inner resources and relationships that are healthy and nourishing, and, through mindful awareness and reflection, discern options and make wise choices that leads to thriving and well-being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-07-08 Dying and Awakening 55:44
Eugene Cash
Maranasati – Mindfulness of Death is called The Supreme Mindfulness Practice by the Buddha. It teaches us to let go and value the fullness of our impermanent lives. Contemplating death reveals the paradox of dharma and death which are experience and known both personally and impersonally.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying, and Awakening

2016-07-08 Excavation of My Notebooks 46:53
Wes Nisker
Snatches of science, news, poetry and crazy wisdom
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Liberation: A Buddhist Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-07-07 The Dharma of Aging 52:53
Anna Douglas
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying, and Awakening

2016-07-07 Thinking Does Not Lead to Wisdom 44:24
Grove Burnett
According to a recent Harvard study, the wandering mind is the cause, not the consequence of our unhappiness. And the "doing mind" - analytical reasoning, problem solving, figuring things out - does not lead to wisdom!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Liberation: A Buddhist Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-07-06 Mindfulness of the Dukkha of Aging 50:48
Bonnie Duran
This talk looks at the identities associated with aging - and how mindfulness helps reduce the suffering of aging.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying, and Awakening

2016-07-06 Guided Meditation: Exploring the Judgmental Mind 9:11
Donald Rothberg
A guided meditation on exploring the judgmental mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-07-06 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 6 - Exploring Judgments and Accessing Their Hidden Roots 1:11:45
Donald Rothberg
After a review of the basic framework used for transforming judgments, we explore how to investigate judgments in multiple ways that take us toward opening up the hidden unconscious roots of judgments.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-07-03 Day 4: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation 42:40
Anushka Fernandopulle
Sharing experiences with the precepts in daily life. Anushka Fernandopulle, JoAnna Harper, Bonnie Duran and Vance Pryor (trainee)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

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