2014-10-02 Morning Guided Instructions: The Four Elements 38:11
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-10-01 The Six Contemplations of the First Satipatthana: The Body 55:46
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-10-01 Guided Metta - Self 34:12
Dori Langevin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-10-01 Ethical Practice 1 - An Introduction 58:11
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the meaning of ethical practice - its relationship to meditation and wisdom practice, how it is more a training than a following of external principles, how there are individual, relational, and social dimensions to our ethical practice, and how it can deepen for us. There's a brief overview of the five lay precepts and a taking of the precepts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-10-01 Morning Guided Instructions - Breath and Body 34:36
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-09-30 "The Four Paths to Freedom" - An Overview 58:26
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-09-30 Guided Metta: Intro 31:19
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-09-30 Morning Guided Instructions - Breath 31:26
Dori Langevin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-09-29 The 16 Steps of Mindfulness of Breathing (Anapana-sati Sutta) 61:04
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-09-29 Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of Breathing 41:18
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-09-27 Pet The Lizard, Feed The Mouse, Hug The Monkey 45:22
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
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2014-09-27 Growing Inner Resources 56:40
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
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2014-09-24 The Inner Nun 61:10
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-09-23 Presence 43:07
Julie Wester	Download Listen
Women's Innate Wisdom - importance of practice for recognizing and stabilizing access. Stories of women's lives. Inquiry: what keeps us from being present? How does it feel to be present right now?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Power of Presence: A Retreat for Women

2014-09-22 Don't Believe Everything You Think 57:57
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-09-21 32 Parts of the Body Chant 10:50
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
The Chant of the 32 Parts of the Body with our retreat community
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2014-09-20 Sally Armstrong and Richard Shankman Last Night's Dharmettes 57:12
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2014-09-20 Taking the 4th Noble Truth Home 60:15
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Noble Truths: A non-silent Study and Practice Retreat

2014-09-20 Dana 29:13
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Noble Truths: A non-silent Study and Practice Retreat

2014-09-20 The 4th Noble Truth: All Factors of the Eightfold Path 1:12:57
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Noble Truths: A non-silent Study and Practice Retreat

2014-09-20 The 4th Noble Truth: Eightfold Path and Wise View 1:20:31
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Noble Truths: A non-silent Study and Practice Retreat

2014-09-19 The Path to Peace 53:38
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
The journey of turning into suffering to find your heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2014-09-19 Part 6 on the 32 Parts of the Body 44:55
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Meditation on Tear, Grease, Saliva, Mucus, Oil of the Joint and Urine
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2014-09-19 The 3rd Noble Truth 64:51
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Letting Go
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Noble Truths: A non-silent Study and Practice Retreat

2014-09-19 Part 5 of 32 Parts of the Body 54:12
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
Meditation on Bile, Phlegm, Pus, Blood, Sweat and Fat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2014-09-18 The Wisdom of the Body 57:38
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
This talk discusses why we bring mindfulness to the body. What are the various insights we can have through these practices and how they can help us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2014-09-18 Change, Vedana, Tanha 43:34
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Noble Truths: A non-silent Study and Practice Retreat

2014-09-18 Part 4 on 32 Parts of the Body 44:24
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Meditation on Large Intestine, Small Intestine, Stomach, Feces and Brain
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2014-09-18 Vedana 33:01
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Noble Truths: A non-silent Study and Practice Retreat

2014-09-18 The Second Noble Truth 60:46
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
The Experience of Craving
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Noble Truths: A non-silent Study and Practice Retreat

2014-09-18 Part 3 on 32 Parts of the Body 55:53
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Meditation on Heart, Liver, Diaphragm, Spleen and Lungs
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2014-09-17 Freedom Through Understanding Dukkha 28:49
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Noble Truths: A non-silent Study and Practice Retreat

2014-09-17 Bad Hair Cuts, Teenage Acne and Body Odor: Freedom from Identification with the Body. 50:37
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
There are three common ways to relate to the body-aversive, disconnected or obsessed. The practice of body contemplation, particularly the 32 Parts of the Body, replaces these with wise attitudes towards our body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2014-09-17 Awakening to Impermanence 39:01
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Noble Truths: A non-silent Study and Practice Retreat

2014-09-17 Part 2 on 32 Parts of the Body 43:16
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
Meditation on Flesh, Sinews, Bones, Bone Marrow and Kidneys
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2014-09-17 Three Types of Dukkha 60:12
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Noble Truths: A non-silent Study and Practice Retreat

2014-09-17 Doubt 57:09
Tony Bernhard	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-09-17 Part 1 on 32 Parts of the Body 56:58
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Meditation on Head Hair, Body Hair, Nails, Teeth and Skin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2014-09-16 A Legacy of Kindness 54:09
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Working with the Five Hindrances and introduction to the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2014-09-15 Guided Meditation 40:29
Will Kabat-Zinn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-09-15 Lucid Awareness 59:55
Will Kabat-Zinn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-09-13 Unilateral Virtue, Kindness and Assertiveness 1:21:43
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
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2014-09-13 Empathy 59:23
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
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2014-09-13 Two Wolves in the Heart 16:30
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
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2014-09-13 Your Loving Nature 27:18
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
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2014-09-13 The Natural Mind 26:35
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
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2014-09-13 Cultivating Inner Strength- A talk and meditation 63:17
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
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2014-09-11 Meeting What Is with Awareness and Love 54:14
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How do we meet the uncertain changing and challenging nature of life? Practice allows us to meet it with awareness, love and non-identification.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Awake in the Wild: A Natural Liberation

2014-09-10 Honoring Thich Nhat Hanh 49:19
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-09-09 Flying Your Kite in Dangerous Skies 48:04
Sandy Boucher	Download Listen
Some of the obstacles to creative process and ways to meet them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Creativity

2014-09-08 Some Fruits of the Practice 57:45
Matthew Brensilver	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-09-03 Precepts as Koans 58:32
Tony Bernhard	Download Listen
Precepts are Koans and not rules to follow. An invitation to look within - insights of the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-08-31 Bringing Your Practice into the World 61:59
James Baraz	Download Listen
How your practice can unfold as yhou leave retreat includes seeing it as a path of happiness; value of opening to suffering; learning to listen to the truth inside and expressing your caring as compassionate action.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2014-08-31 Q&A 33:07
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
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2014-08-31 The Alchemy of Turning Towards What's Difficult 34:27
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
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2014-08-31 Never Turn Away 27:40
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
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2014-08-31 Guided Meditation on Arriving 44:46
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
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2014-08-31 Big Mind Meditation 42:19
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2014-08-30 Flowing with Life as it Is 50:12
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2014-08-29 The Pathless Path 60:02
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Opening to life as it is. Learning how to navigate and realize the four noble truths...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2014-08-28 The What, Why and How of Dharma Practice 59:45
James Baraz	Download Listen
Coming to retreat people often ask themselves "What are we doing and why?" This talk explains the basic principles of vipassana, why it's so transformative and attitudes that support the deepening of that transformation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2014-08-27 Practicing with Challenges 5 - Working with Conflict 2 66:06
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We continue to explore how to practice with conflicts, focusing especially on the vision of non-dual conflict transformation and empathy, learning particularly though a series of exercises.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-08-24 Embodied Mindfulness 66:51
Shauna Shapiro	Download Listen
This experiential workshop offers scientific research and meditative practices for those interested in awakening the mind and opening the heart. Drawing on current research in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, we will investigate the effects of mindfulness and compassion on enhancing health, wisdom and joy. We will also explore how to integrate mindfulness more fully into the body, bringing the teachings alive in our body through mindful movement practices. Our day together will include dydactic presentation, mediation and movement practices, and powerful methods for enhancing well-being, wisdom, compassion and joy. All are welcome to this workshop, no background in meditation or mindful movement is needed.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-08-23 Power and Purpose of Concentration 56:46
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Concentration plays a central role in meditation practice. In this talk I look at the different trajectories in the development of concentration and how to use that form skillfully.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2014-08-22 Seven Factors of Awakening 61:25
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
How the seven factors of awakening develop in our practice and bring balance, ease, joy and liberating insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2014-08-22 Metta practice, Day 7 43:29
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Radiating in 4 directions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2014-08-22 Morning Instructions, Day 7 54:06
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Reflections on the 3 characteristics
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2014-08-21 Wisdom Growing Out of Samadhi 62:17
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
After developing some degree of Samadhi with the breath, we can use the stability of mind to explore impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and non-self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2014-08-21 Metta Practice, Day 6 57:43
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
friendly creature/self/sangha/places
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2014-08-21 Morning Instructions: Gladdening the Mind 51:57
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2014-08-20 The Variety of Samadhi Experience 65:55
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Multiple suggestions for firming up the practice at this point, riding the momentum of a collected, unified mind. Includes 'Gladdening of the Mind' guided meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2014-08-20 Practicing with Challenges 4 - Working with Conflict 60:11
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore a more relational way of practicing with challenges, looking at practicing with conflict. We examine some of the personal and cultural conditioning about conflict, as well as ways to bring wisdom, empathy, compassion and skillful action into conflicts, whether inner, interpersonal or social. Conflict is defined more neutrally and simply as a difference in objectives, goals or values.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2014-08-20 Metta Practice, Day 5 63:48
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Radiating Metta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2014-08-20 Morning Instructions Day 5 52:42
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Guided Meditation: exploring the effort side of maintaining continuity of the breath; aiming and sustaining
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2014-08-19 Beauty, Happiness and the Breath 57:05
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Beauty and happiness are important supports and the proximate causes for the development of concentration. Inclining towards these wholesome qualities with balanced effort is an important part of the practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2014-08-18 Concentration and Purification 62:40
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
From the point of developing the Five Jhana Factors to establishing absorption in meditation, there are processes of purification. Yet as we purify our hearts and minds, a deeper happiness and contentment arises from within.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-08-18 Metta Practice, Day 3 44:59
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Metta for Benefactor/friend/self
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2014-08-18 Dharma and Anxiety 47:38
Matthew Brensilver	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-08-18 Guided Meditation 56:51
Matthew Brensilver	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-08-18 Morning Instructions, Day 3 56:37
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
Jhanas, Connecting and Sustaining
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2014-08-16 Introduction to Metta for Concentration Retreat 47:43
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
Friendliness to Body and Mind
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2014-08-16 Morning Instructions Day 1 59:46
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Includes walking instructions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2014-08-15 Developing Concentration 28:43
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
An overview of the practice of concentration: why we do it and some helpful supports.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2014-08-11 Poetry in Dharma 1:10:45
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
An evening of poetry with Jack Kornfield & Allison Luterman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-08-08 Feeling Feelings, Dharma Talk 64:21
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
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2014-08-08 Feeling Feelings, Guided Meditation 49:41
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-08-08 Opening to Everything including Environmental Crisis 58:42
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor	Download Listen
Teachings and stories about the possibility of opening and growing in the face of challenge. Specific suggestions about using the environmental crisis as Dharma Gate.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Young Adults Retreat

2014-08-07 The Five Spiritual Faculties 49:45
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
How the innate supports for practice function and are developed on the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Young Adults Retreat

2014-08-06 Faith in Times of Challenge 53:46
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-08-05 Three Trainings 57:09
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
The Buddhist path is comprised of three trainings: Sila (Ethical Conduct), Samadhi (Concentration), and Panna (Wisdom). Threse three trainings guide us to peace and freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Young Adults Retreat

2014-08-02 Family Retreat Talk; Equanimity 30:19
Ajahn Pasanno	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Family Retreat

2014-08-01 Parenting With Equanimity and Warmth 44:53
Betsy Rose	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Family Retreat

2014-07-31 Family Retreat Talk; Equanimity 39:30
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Family Retreat

2014-07-30 The Stories That People Will Say About Us 59:39
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
About dying and living with grace.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-07-28 Generosity of the Heart... 53:03
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-07-26 Right Speech 59:19
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-07-25 Equanimity 60:19
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-07-23 Achieved is the End of Craving 61:12
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
A Discussion of Craving and it's End
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-07-23 Practicing with Challenges 3 - Practicing with Difficult Thoughts and Emotions 2 62:01
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We review the basic approach of cultivating responsiveness and working with reactivity, looking more at (1) ways of coming back to balance, (2) cultivating mindfulness, and (3) developing other skillful means with challenging thoughts and emotions. Then we explore in more depth how to practice with fear and anxiety.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-07-21 The 3 aspects of Mindfulness... 62:52
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks