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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2016-07-17 Meditation for Pain 5: Wisdom Q&A 25:50
Oren Jay Sofer
Q&A on self-judgement, self-identity, and severe pain.
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2016-07-17 Meditation for Pain 4: Cultivating Wisdom 52:09
Oren Jay Sofer
How to develop wisdom with pain to shift relation into a transformative experience rather than oppressive. Guided meditation for practicing with wisdom.
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2016-07-17 Meditation for Pain 3: Q&A 20:23
Oren Jay Sofer
Q&A on isolation, practicing with opiods, and the middle path of being.
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2016-07-17 Meditation for Pain 2: Four Ways to Practice with Physical Pain 28:45
Oren Jay Sofer
Sharing reflections on intentions and explorations into what pain is. Overview of the four basic ways of practicing with pain.
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2016-07-17 Meditation for Pain 1: Introduction 20:42
Oren Jay Sofer
Grounding meditation for practicing with pain and intention setting for the day. Introduction into topic of meditation in pain and illness.
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2016-07-17 Meditation for Pain - all day recording 5:48:46
Oren Jay Sofer
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2016-07-17 Day 4 Morning Sit with Instructions: Metta Practice Benefactors 29:57
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-16 Metta and Its Benefits 52:21
Nikki Mirghafori
G.R.A.C.E. as an acronym for practice; benefits of metta from the suttas and scientific studies; contemplative and universal aspirations for practicing loving-kindness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-16 Day 3 Afternoon Sit with Instructions: Forgiveness 43:01
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-16 Sharing the Blessings of our Practice 31:35
Ayya Santacitta
A short sitting, closing talk and blessing chant from the daylong - Listening to Natural Law - on July 16, 2016
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2016-07-16 Meeting With the Challenges of our Time 67:26
Ayya Anandabodhi
Dhamma Reflection from the daylong - Listening to Natural Law - on July 16, 2016. Followed by a Q&A with Ayya Anandabodhi and Ayya Santacitta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-16 Familiarizing Oneself with the Way Things Are 1:13:48
Ayya Santacitta
Dhamma reflection with Ayya Santacitta followed by a standing meditation with Ayya Anandabodhi.
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2016-07-16 Arriving into Body and Breath 2:34:30
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided Meditation from our daylong - Listening to Natural Law - on Saturday, July 16, 2016
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2016-07-16 Day 3 Morning Sit with Instructions: Metta for Easy Person 37:14
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-15 The Mollusk of the Heart 67:02
Heather Martin
How to recognize and not be caught by the contracting heart and the forces which diminish metta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-15 Day 2 Afternoon Sit with Instructions: Introduction to Compassion Practice 36:48
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-15 Day 2 Morning Sit with Instructions: Metta for Self and Easy Person 37:29
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-14 The Landscape of the Heart 51:38
Sally Armstrong
Developing lovingkindness takes patience and the willingness to begin again - to choose again and again the intention towards kindness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-14 Day 1 Afternoon Sit with Instructions: Introduction of Metta Practice 48:15
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2016-07-13 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 7 - Practicing with Judgments Related to Social Conditioning 1:11:06
Donald Rothberg
Partly with the reference point of recent violence in Orlando, Minnesota, Louisiana, and Dallas, we explore the nature of judgments related to social conditioning. We look at judgments, both conscious and more hidden (in "implicit bias"), related to social hierarchies based on race, gender, class, sexual orientation, etc. We suggest some initial ways to practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-07-11 The Self 56:20
Norman Fischer
Dharma Talk from Monday Night Meditation Class on July 11, 2016
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2016-07-09 Attitudes towards Death 48:30
Anna Douglas
Eastern and Western views of death.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying, and Awakening

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.
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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

2016-07-03 Day 4: Afternoon Instructions & Sitting Meditation 64:37
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-03 Day 4: Morning Instructions & Sitting Meditation 50:38
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-02 Day 3: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation 42:05
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-02 Day 3: Afternoon Instructions and Sitting Meditation 59:26
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-02 The Anxiety of Impermanence and the Impermanence of Anxiety, part 1: Intro & meditation 28:32
Ajahn Pasanno
Exploring impermanence and how it can be contemplated in a way that leads to the end of suffering rather than as a cause of anxiety. Part 1: Intro talk and opening meditation.
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2016-07-02 The Anxiety of Impermanence and the Impermanence of Anxiety, part 2: walking meditation instructions 12:26
Ajahn Pasanno
Walking meditation instructions.
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2016-07-02 The Anxiety of Impermanence and the Impermanence of Anxiety, part 3: Q & A 1:12:50
Ajahn Pasanno
Q & A
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2016-07-02 The Anxiety of Impermanence and the Impermanence of Anxiety 62:00
Ajahn Pasanno
Exploring impermanence and how it can be contemplated in a way that leads to the end of suffering rather than as a cause of anxiety. Part 4: talk.
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2016-07-02 Day 3: Morning Instructions & Sitting Meditation 51:08
JoAnna Hardy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-01 Day 2: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation 42:25
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-01 Day 2: Afternoon Instructions & Sitting Meditation 53:01
JoAnna Hardy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-07-01 Day 2: Morning Instructions & Sitting Meditation 45:30
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color

2016-06-29 Transforming the Judgmental Mind Part 5 - The Four Stages of Transformation (Part 2) 63:59
Donald Rothberg
After a review of what we've covered in past talks, we explore the four stages of transforming the judgmental mind, focusing more on the 2nd through 4th stages.
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2016-06-25 The Three Characteristics of Teaching 51:15
Mark Coleman
How do the three characteristics of existence - impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not self, apply to the teaching experience and how we hold that as a practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Facilitators Retreat

2016-06-25 Introduction to Insight Meditation 5:43:22
Howard Cohn
Imagine feeling at home wherever you are. Imagine feeling that your life is so complete - right here, right now - that you do not wish to be anywhere else. This daylong talk will provide the tools to experience this meditative presence wherever you are.
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2016-06-24 Courage: A Tribute to Sayadaw U Pandita 51:06
Diana Winston
This talk weaves together the theme of courage--in our practice and our lives--with stories about Ven. Sayadaw U Pandita who passed away in April, 2016. Diana shares personally about her complex and powerful experience as his student.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Facilitators Retreat

2016-06-22 How Broken Heartedness Cultivates a Limitless Heart: Practicing Compassion 1:56:50
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-06-21 Mindfulness: The Movement and the Practice 51:31
Diana Winston
This talk overviews the larger mindfulness movement--the science, the ways mindfulness has been incorporated into society, and the definitions. The second half explores the practical elements of mindfulness and how to practice it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Facilitators Retreat

2016-06-21 Day 2: Morning Instructions - Working with Pain (REVISED 7/7) Retreat at Spirit Rock 61:42
Diana Winston
This guided meditation focuses on using mindfulness to work with pain.
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2016-06-20 Monday Night Meditation Class with Larry Yang 59:15
Larry Yang
Dharma talk from our Monday Night Meditation Class on Monday, June 20th, 2016
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2016-06-18 True Happiness 67:07
Howard Cohn
Buddha's map of discovering meditative happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Invitation to Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-06-17 Deepening Into Presence 52:47
Erin Treat
A basic mindfulness talk for many new to retreat practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Invitation to Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-06-15 The Brahma Viharas as a Starting Point 2:02:36
Sylvia Boorstein
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2016-06-14 Day 4: Evening Instructions 43:42
Pascal Auclair
Deepening and Expanding the Practice
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Walking Our Path Together: Insight Meditation with LGBTQI Community

2016-06-14 Day 4: Afternoon Instructions 51:26
Anushka Fernandopulle
Cultivating Seeds of the Mind
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Walking Our Path Together: Insight Meditation with LGBTQI Community

2016-06-14 Day 4: Morning Instructions 58:18
Pascal Auclair
Awareness of Feeling Tone
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Walking Our Path Together: Insight Meditation with LGBTQI Community

2016-06-13 Day 3: Afternoon Instructions 62:56
Pascal Auclair
Non-Identifications with thoughts
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Walking Our Path Together: Insight Meditation with LGBTQI Community

2016-06-13 Monday Night Meditation Class with Jack Kornfield 55:45
Jack Kornfield
Dharma talk from Monday, June 13th, 2016
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2016-06-13 Day 3: Morning Instructions 57:42
Anushka Fernandopulle
Buddhas early life and awakening. Awareness of thoughts and emotions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Walking Our Path Together: Insight Meditation with LGBTQI Community

2016-06-12 Day 2: Evening Instructions 39:58
Pascal Auclair
Q & A
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Walking Our Path Together: Insight Meditation with LGBTQI Community

2016-06-12 Day 2: Morning Instructions 64:38
Pascal Auclair
Awareness of the body, breath and walking instructions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Walking Our Path Together: Insight Meditation with LGBTQI Community

2016-06-11 Magic of Awareness with James Baraz and Anam Thubten 5:08:58
James Baraz
The paradox of awareness is very profound and yet very simple. Sometimes it comes naturally to the surface when we are fully present in the moment and no longer lost in thoughts or mental projections. Pure consciousness is neither high nor low, neither pleasant or unpleasant, neither good nor bad.
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2016-06-10 Dharma and Recovery Step 6. 6.10.16 54:47
Kevin Griffin
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2016-06-10 Dharma and Recovery - Meditation 6.10.16 53:02
Kevin Griffin
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2016-06-09 Sharing of Merit 15:13
Steve Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2016-06-09 Five Spiritual Faculties: Trusting, Persevering, Remembering, Stabilizing, Understanding 61:20
Steve Armstrong
Awareness is these five activities in balance.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2016-06-08 Wisdom Shines Through Our Actions: The Buddha 59:56
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2016-06-07 Dharma Improv: 3 Characteristics 44:20
Alexis Santos
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2016-06-06 Six Ways of Working with the Kilesas 55:14
Steve Armstrong
Recognize, Relax, Restraint, Reframe, Receive, Realize
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2016-06-05 Salattha Sutta: The Dart 54:45
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2016-06-04 Questions and Answers 62:45
Alexis Santos
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2016-06-03 Skillful Understanding Through Dhamma Eyes 61:34
Steve Armstrong
Right views of Dhamma, meditation & liberation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2016-06-03 Cultivating the Heart of Love 4:42:26
Mark Coleman
Cultivate awareness through mindfulness meditations and develop a compassionate orientation through heart opening practices. Teachings will focus on the integration of love and awareness so that mindfulness practice is fused with a kind, receptive presence.
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2016-06-02 Introduction to Awareness Practice: 3 Jobs of a Yogi 58:04
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2016-06-01 Reflections and a Ritual for a Spirit Rock Transition: Impermanence, Letting Go, Appreciations, and Intentions. 64:43
Donald Rothberg
On the occasion of the last gathering and teaching in Spirit Rock's Community Meditation Hall-- a talk, reflections by those present, and a ritual.
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2016-05-30 Monday Night Meditation class at Spirit Rock with Mark Coleman 52:06
Mark Coleman
The Forgiving Heart
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2016-05-29 Weaving Retreat Practice Into Our Lives 48:11
Brian Lesage
This talk explores how to bring our spiritual practice out beyond the retreat container.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2016-05-28 Non-clinging Part 1 1:15:13
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) DPP5 at Angela Center May 2016

2016-05-26 Practicing with Vedana - Feeling Tone 51:52
Brian Lesage
This talk explores practicing with vedana (feeling tone) which consists of noticing the pleasant, unpleasant and neutral aspects of experince.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2016-05-25 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 4 - 4 Steps of Transformation 67:58
Donald Rothberg
We review briefly the nature of the judgmental mind and how to work with it, then focusing on the first two of four steps in transforming judgments.
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2016-05-25 The Third Noble Truth and Nibbana Part 1 52:10
Tempel Smith
Introduction and Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) DPP5 at Angela Center May 2016

2016-05-25 The Third Noble Truth and Nibanna Part 2 37:27
Tempel Smith
Talk and Discussion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) DPP5 at Angela Center May 2016

2016-05-25 The Third Noble Truth and Nibbana Part 3 57:44
Tempel Smith
Moving Towards Nibbana
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) DPP5 at Angela Center May 2016

2016-05-23 Four Noble Truths 46:15
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) DPP5 at Angela Center May 2016

2016-05-23 Monday Night Meditation class with Jack Kornfield and Mark Coleman 1:10:29
Jack Kornfield
Jack and Mark reflect on over two decades of teachings and events in the Community Meditation Hall as the old hall closes and Spirit Rock prepares to open the doors to its new Community Meditation Center.
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2016-05-22 Bringing Your Joy Practice into the World (James Baraz and Howie Cohn) 1:24:43
James and Jane Baraz
As the retreat closes, we explore the last step in Awakening Joy: "The Joy of Simply Being". Instead of cultivating a particular state like gratitude or compassion, this final step is more a non-doing and allowing your natural state of ease and relaxation to shine through. Trust and learning to listen are valuable by products. Also practical suggestions for keeping your practice vibrant and strong are offered.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-21 Heart Practices for Awakening Joy 63:12
James Baraz
Opening our hearts to ourselves to others with loving-kindness and compassion are central to awakening the joy that's right inside us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-21 Day 4 Sitting/Instructions 58:40
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-20 The Joy of Awakening 65:34
Howard Cohn
Following the Buddha's journey through sense pleasures to concentration, to equanimity, to freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-20 Opening to Suffering, Integrity and Forgiveness 1:11:48
James Baraz
In order to cultivate true well-being we need to learn to open to all the suffering in our lives. Living with integrity and learning how to forgive ourselves and others are essential supports in this process as well.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-20 Day 3 Sitting/Instructions 61:39
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-19 Late Evening Sitting 13:30
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-19 Letting Go Into Joy and Love 50:28
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
How a friend's death reminds us of the freedom and joy possible as we let go. Specific suggestions that keep us open and let go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-19 Gratitude Practices 68:35
James and Jane Baraz
Using gratitude to awaken joy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-19 Day 2 Sitting/Instructions 58:36
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-18 Intention and Mindfulness as Supports for Joy 55:23
James Baraz
The process of awakening joy starts with the intention to place well-being at the center of your life. Mindfulness is then utilized as the basic tool of a joyful life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-18 Self-Compassion 58:23
Jane Baraz
Teachings and exercises from Chris Germer's and Kristin Neff's Mindful Self-Compassion. How to hold our suffering as a support for Awakening Joy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-18 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 3 - Two ways of Transformation 66:46
Donald Rothberg
After a brief account of the nature of the judgmental mind, we explore (1) a more direct way of working with judgment through mindfulness, inquiry, reflection, etc.; and (2) a more indirect way of working with judgment, through cultivating awakened states and resources.
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