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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2016-01-13 Transformation through Metta Practice 59:04
Donald Rothberg
Metta practice carries a profound intention: To bring kindness and an awakened heart to all beings and all situations in our lives. We explore the nature of this intention, and some of the main ways that metta develops: through a basic stabilizing of our lives and awareness, particularly in living ethically, and in formal practice, as concentration develops; through a process of purification of that which blocks or stands in the way of metta; and through an integration of metta in our lives, to the point where metta is less a doing and practice, and more a way of being, which we then bring into the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2016-01-13 Kosambi - Implicit Teachings - Pitfalls of Fixed Views 56:01
Tony Bernhard
Living in the world without making things worse, being of benefit to others and working out how to do so.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-01-13 Day Two: Morning Instructional Sit 41:12
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2016-01-12 Every moment of Awakened Awareness is a Meritorious Act 53:27
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2016-01-12 Brahma Vihara Practices 13:04
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2016-01-12 Morning Instructions: Metta Overview (Day One) 37:43
Heather Sundberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2016-01-11 Time is Short: Aligning Our Life with our Intentions 49:45
Nikki Mirghafori
Monday Night Meditation Class with Nikki Mirghafori
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2016-01-09 The Flowering of Compassion 62:35
Mark Coleman
Compassion is a central quality in life and practice - and is a beautiful expression of an awakened life. This talk explores what compassion is and how it can be developed and integrated into mindful awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2016-01-09 Day Four Instructional Sit 57:05
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2016-01-08 This Gift of Awakening 64:21
Howard Cohn
Following in the footsteps of the Buddha, we see through the illusion of self and the illusion of other. We open our hearts to the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2016-01-08 Day Three, Instructional Sit 6:13:47
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2016-01-07 Understanding the Hindrances 57:44
Mark Coleman
What are the hindrances to meditation and how do we work constructively with them?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2016-01-07 Day Two, Instructional Sit 56:56
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2016-01-06 What You Need is Here 62:20
Howard Cohn
Using our body to understand the 4 Noble Truths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2016-01-06 May Our Practice be the Cause of Happiness for Self and Others 1:49:21
Sylvia Boorstein
Includes 30 minute meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-01-06 Day One, Instructional Sit 67:04
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2016-01-04 Seeing Anew 61:39
Jack Kornfield
Monday Night Meditation Class Dharma Talk from January 4th, 2016
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2016-01-03 The Buddha's Path of Well-Being and Happiness - Afternoon Session 2:35:37
Howard Cohn
This day of Insight Meditation will follow the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness, Concentration and Love, illustrating how each of us can move from clinging and attachment to freedom, from confusion to clarity and from tension to ease of well-being.
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2016-01-03 The Buddha's Path of Well Being and Happiness - Morning Session 3:17:10
Howard Cohn
This day of Insight Meditation will follow the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness, Concentration and Love, illustrating how each of us can move from clinging and attachment to freedom, from confusion to clarity and from tension to well- being.
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2016-01-02 Keep Coming Back: Dharma, Recovery and Renewal - Afternoon Session 2:09:23
Kevin Griffin
This daylong retreat focuses on beginning the year with a clear vision of our path, whether we are just establishing our recovery, renewing our commitment or maintaining our program and practice.
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2016-01-02 Keep Coming Back: Dharma, Recovery and Renewal - Morning Session 2:18:52
Kevin Griffin
This daylong retreat focuses on beginning the year with a clear vision of our path, whether we are just establishing our recovery, renewing our commitment or maintaining our program and practice.
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2016-01-01 True Wisdom of the Eagle and Condor 48:00
Spring Washam
The merging of wisdom and compassion. How to unite the heart and the mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-01-01 Retreat for New Year's Day - Afternoon Session 1:54:15
Sylvia Boorstein
In the spirit of beginning again and with a renewed zeal for the promised goal of a mind liberated from suffering and a heart available for impartial compassionate response, this day is spent practicing Mindfulness and Metta Meditation.
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2016-01-01 Retreat for New Year's Day - Morning Session 2:32:40
Sylvia Boorstein
In the spirit of beginning again and with a renewed zeal for the promised goal of a mind liberated from suffering and a heart available for impartial compassionate response, this day is spent practicing Mindfulness and Metta Meditation.
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2016-01-01 Going Home 1:32:42
Matthew Brensilver
Along with Marv talking about Resources, Dawn about Sangha groups and "T" about precepts/closing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Teen Retreat

2015-12-31 Q&A 36:45
Matthew Brensilver
Matthew, Marv and Joanna answer questions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Teen Retreat

2015-12-31 Liberating Paradox 62:53
Eugene Cash
The surprise of discovering the many domains of reality leads to understanding and freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-12-30 The Intensity of Being a Teenager 44:39
Matthew Brensilver
Reflections on the first noble truth, love and relationship.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Teen Retreat

2015-12-30 Ice Cubes, Generosity, and Revelation 51:58
Pamela Weiss
This talk explores the power of moment by moment awareness to reveal true happiness and love.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-12-30 Coming Alive With the New Year 52:25
Donald Rothberg
We explore through reflection and a ritual, the process of renewal - stopping, opening to both the difficult and the beautiful, letting go and setting intentions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-12-30 Day 3, Morning Instructions 38:38
Marvin Belzer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Teen Retreat

2015-12-29 What Can I Control, What Can't I Control? 48:06
JoAnna Hardy
A teen relevant 4 Noble Truths talk.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Teen Retreat

2015-12-28 It's all Part of the Process: Inspiration, Aspiration, and Orientation 47:20
Nikki Mirghafori
A first night of retreat talk, providing an orientation and overview of the practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-12-28 Day One, Metta Instructions 29:28
Marvin Belzer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Teen Retreat

2015-12-28 The Thinning of the Self 2:06:57
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-12-23 Integrity is the Cause of Happiness:Precepts Practice 1:55:38
Sylvia Boorstein
35 minute break after initial talk for meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-12-23 Morning Qigong Guided Practice 27:31
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2015-12-22 Integrating Insights into Daily Life 58:58
Heather Sundberg
the process of integrating insights; things to look out for, things to cultivate, and how to develop a daily practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2015-12-21 Dukkha and the end of Dukkha 59:44
Donald Rothberg
After a brie account of the nature and centrality of "insight" in our practice, we focus on one core area of insight-studying and practicing with dukkha, interpreted as reactivity. Ten ways of such study and practice with reactivity are offered, leading to a deepening of non-reactivity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2015-12-21 The Way to Love 48:59
Nikki Mirghafori
Dharma talk from Monday Night Meditation class at Spirit Rock on December 21st, 2015.
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2015-12-20 Lessons from Mt. Fuji: the World of Papancha (Mental Proliferation) 57:12
John Travis
wonderful story about ascending Mt. Fuji at the tail end of a typhoon. Followed by a clear description of the four types of Papancha: wanting, aversion, views on opinions and selfing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2015-12-20 No Self in the Brain: Insights from Neuroscience about Not Taking Life Personally 5:36:57
Rick Hanson
In this workshop, we examine 'self' and its release in the light of Buddhism and modern brain science.
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2015-12-20 Day 3 - Morning instructional sit: Review, Thoughts and Emotions 1 22:43
Heather Sundberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2015-12-18 Practicing at the Winter Solstice with Darkness and Light 55:25
Donald Rothberg
At this wonderful retreat time of the Winter Solstice, we explore ways that we might open to and embrace the darkness in a number of ways, note how darkness leads to light, and, as well, invite the light.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2015-12-16 Ethical Behavior or The Goal of Practice as the Expression of Wisdom 63:19
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-12-14 Season of Generosity 68:01
Jack Kornfield
Dharma talk from Monday Night Meditation Class on December 14th, 2015
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2015-12-14 Guided Meditation 41:44
Jack Kornfield
Guided Meditation from Monday Night Class on December 14th, 2015
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2015-12-12 Investigating Reality: Awareness, Inquiry and Waking Up - Afternoon Session 67:23
Eugene Cash
The meditative process includes active exploration of body, heart, mind, self and other - the whole of Reality. In addition to mindful awareness and kindness, waking up evokes our curiosity, wonder and intelligence as we discover the fullness of humanity living in each of us.
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2015-12-12 Investigating Reality: Awareness, Inquiry and Waking Up - Morning Session 2:58:01
Eugene Cash
The meditative process includes active exploration of body, heart, mind, self and other - the whole of Reality. In addition to mindful awareness and kindness, waking up evokes our curiosity, wonder and intelligence as we discover the fullness of humanity living in each of us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-12-09 Studying and Practicing with Fear 2 62:38
Donald Rothberg
We continue the investigation of the nature of fear, and the skillful ways to work with fear, both internally and externally, bringing in further emphasis on compassion, empathy, understanding and learning from those who have faced fear deeply.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-12-07 Monday Night Meditation - Dharma Talk from December 7th, 2015 47:56
Mark Coleman
Kilung Rinpoche shares his teachings and practices from his new book - The Relaxed Mind. Mark Coemqan leads a Q&A session with Kilung Rinpoche following the dharma talk.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Heavenly Messengers Between Retreat Recordings

2015-12-07 Monday Night Meditation Class with Mark Coleman and Kilung Rinpoche on December 7th, 2015 53:30
Mark Coleman
Guided meditation with Kilung Rinpoche.
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2015-12-06 Guided Meditation 26:07
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
from the Relationship as Serious Practice daylong at Spirit Rock on Sunday, December 6th, 2015.
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2015-12-05 Whole Life Practice 58:59
Tempel Smith
Retreat life is just part of the path of awakening. Most of us will spend near to the entirety of our lives living at home in our daily activities. Retreat practice is a great resource for living an awakened life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2015-12-05 Freeing Yourself from the Inner Critic - Part Four 27:30
Mark Coleman
Learn how to be more free from the torment of the inner critic.
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2015-12-05 Freeing Yourself from the Inner Critic - Part Three 41:11
Mark Coleman
Learn how to be more free from the torment of the inner critic.
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2015-12-05 Freeing Yourself from the Inner Critic - Part Two 44:36
Mark Coleman
learn how to be more free from the torment of the inner critic.
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2015-12-05 Freeing Yourself from the Inner Critic - Part One 39:48
Mark Coleman
Learn how to be more free from the torment of the inner critic.
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2015-12-05 Day 5: Morning Sit with Instructions 44:59
Teja Bell
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2015-12-04 Qigong in Loving Presence 58:06
Teja Bell
The foundation & the guiding principles of the confluence of the dharmic streams of metta practice & qigong.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2015-12-04 Day 4: Afternoon Sit with Instructions: Forgiveness Practice and Metta towards a difficult person 49:46
Dori Langevin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2015-12-03 The Fierce Heart 56:54
Spring Washam
Stories to awaken the heart of Compassion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2015-12-03 Day 3: Afternoon Sit with Instruction: Guided Mudita (Empathetic Joy) 48:22
Tempel Smith
Turning our hearts and minds to the celebration of happiness, joy, and well being of others. Empathetic joy is crucial to balance our hearts that have become more intimate with suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2015-12-03 Day 3 Morning sit with Instructions 46:34
Dori Langevin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2015-12-02 Metta as Muse 65:49
Dori Langevin
Can we create a metta practice using phrases, the energetic felt-sense of friendliness/warmth and our imagination/visualization to live courageously and creatively?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2015-12-02 "One Who Set Out to Study Fear" 66:18
Donald Rothberg
An exploration of the importance, personally and socially, of practicing with fear. We work especially with these tools: (1) mindfulness and the study of fear (What is fear? How does it manifest in the body, emotions, and thinking); (2) heart practices like metta and compassion; and (3) developing wise and skillful responses.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-12-01 Launching your Loving-Kindness Practice 61:24
Tempel Smith
An opening night talk of a metta retreat combining Loving-Kindness practice and Qi Gong.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2015-11-30 A Life of Service 57:23
Mark Coleman
Dharma talk from Monday Night Meditation from November 30, 2015
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2015-11-28 The Path in a Finger Snap 63:18
Kittisaro
Cultivating agility in practice. Calming, focusing on change, letting go into emptiness. Welcoming all conditions, kindness and compassion. The balance of letting go and embracing. Opening to the mystery.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2015-11-28 Q&A with Ayya Anandabodhi and Ayya Santacitta 45:02
Ayya Anandabodhi
This Q&A session is from - Giving Thanks - a daylong at Spirit Rock on Saturday, November 28th with Ayya Anandabodhi and Ayya Santacitta. On this Thanksgiving weekend, celebrating the great flow of gratitude and generosity that is sustaining life in every moment
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2015-11-28 The Skill of Gratitude 25:48
Ayya Santacitta
This talk is from - Giving Thanks - a daylong at Spirit Rock on Saturday, November 28th with Ayya Anandabodhi and Ayya Santacitta. On this Thanksgiving weekend, celebrating the great flow of gratitude and generosity that is sustaining life in every moment
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2015-11-28 Gratitude for the Web of Life - a guided sitting meditation 41:03
Ayya Santacitta
This talk is from - Giving Thanks - a daylong at Spirit Rock on Saturday, November 28th with Ayya Anandabodhi and Ayya Santacitta. On this Thanksgiving weekend, celebrating the great flow of gratitude and generosity that is sustaining life in every moment
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2015-11-28 Gratitude for this Body - a guided standing meditation 12:01
Ayya Anandabodhi
This talk is from - Giving Thanks - a daylong at Spirit Rock on Saturday, November 28th with Ayya Anandabodhi and Ayya Santacitta. On this Thanksgiving weekend, celebrating the great flow of gratitude and generosity that is sustaining life in every moment
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-11-28 Living with Gratitude 22:13
Ayya Anandabodhi
This talk is from - Giving Thanks - a daylong at Spirit Rock on Saturday, November 28th with Ayya Anandabodhi and Ayya Santacitta. On this Thanksgiving weekend, celebrating the great flow of gratitude and generosity that is sustaining life in every moment
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2015-11-28 Morning Instructions, Day 8 61:05
Jaya Rudgard
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2015-11-27 Morning Instructions, Day 7 58:30
Thanissara
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2015-11-26 Opening to Mystery: The Evolutionary Journey Home 61:35
Sebene Selassie
with Thanissara: Trusting the intuitive mind through embodied awareness. Honoring the importance of indigenous knowledge.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2015-11-26 Morning Instructions; Day 6 54:06
Kittisaro
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2015-11-25 Nibbana: The Homecoming 59:40
Kittisaro
Realization of the unchanging through seeing change. Peace here and now, in the midst of conditions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2015-11-25 Morning Instructions, Day 5 58:06
Jaya Rudgard
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2015-11-24 Seeing Through the Net of Illusion 47:55
Jaya Rudgard
The three characteristics of Anicca, Dukkha and Anatta that offer keys to our freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2015-11-24 Morning Instructions, Day 4 60:54
Thanissara
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2015-11-23 The Happiness of the Buddha 47:52
Thanissara
Balance between samadhi and vipassana; hindrances as cause for liberation; teachings of Ajahn Chah.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2015-11-23 Morning Instructions Day 3 56:33
Kittisaro
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2015-11-22 Samadhi and the Here and Now Dharma 51:28
Kittisaro
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2015-11-22 Morning Instructions, Day 2 53:44
Jaya Rudgard
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2015-11-21 Recognizing and Empowering the Five Faculties 49:12
Jaya Rudgard
Getting to know the five faculties of faith, energy, mindfullness, concentration and wisdom that make up the meditating mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2015-11-21 Morning Instructions - Day 1 62:51
Thanissara
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2015-11-18 Co-teaching with Toni Bernhard on How to Live with Chronic Pain and Illness 41:55
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-11-16 Teachings on the Calligraphy of Thich Nat Hanh 43:23
Mark Coleman
Dharma talk from Monday Night Meditation class at Spirit Rock
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2015-11-15 Introduction to Mindfulness - Part Two 38:40
Howard Cohn
We explore what mindfulness is and how to begin to cultivating a mindfulness practice, as well as begin to understand how we bring this wakeful capacity to everything we do.
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2015-11-15 Introduction to Mindfulness - Part One 1:32:09
Howard Cohn
We explore what mindfulness is and how to begin to cultivating a mindfulness practice, as well as begin to understand how we bring this wakeful capacity to everything we do.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-11-11 Eight Ways of Studying and Transforming Reactivity 65:09
Donald Rothberg
We expand last week's exploration of practicing with reactivity, identifying eight further ways of practicing with reactivity in its many manifestations--individual, relational, and social.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-10-31 Mindfulness of Breathing - Four Foundations of Mindfulness 51:30
Tempel Smith
Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.
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2015-10-31 Mindfulness of Breathing - Q&A Session 37:16
Tempel Smith
Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.
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2015-10-31 Mindfulness of Breathing - Vipassana 38:46
Tempel Smith
Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-31 Mindfulness of Breathing - Developing Samadhi 65:57
Tempel Smith
Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-28 This is it 68:23
Trudy Goodman
Stories of awakening towards the end of the Fall Vipassana retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Retreat

2015-10-28 Stay & Soften Part 3 of 3 Fundamentals of Buddhism 54:32
Sylvia Boorstein
This reviews the 3 characteristics of the core understanding of the liberated mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-10-28 Big Sky Meditation 46:14
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Retreat

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