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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2012-08-22 Self and Not Self VI--Integration and Review 59:21
Donald Rothberg
We explore in this integrative sessions, how a "thick" sense of self appears in various ways, and how we open to experience with progressively "thinner" senses of self. We also look at how anxiety and disorientation may arise at each stage, and how to understand what skillful uses of self are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-08-21 Gladdening the Heart, Training the Mind 54:39
Sally Armstrong
As we do the practice of samatha (tranquility) meditation, it is important not to strive towards any particular experience but rather to see the practice as a training of the mind that leads to well being and happiness here and now.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2012-08-21 Morning Instructions Day Eight 54:13
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2012-08-20 Meeting Life with Kind Presence 45:23
Mark Coleman
This talk explores how the qualities of Mindfulness & Kindness are essential ingredients for meeting experience with wisdom, clarity & love...that allows us to hold ourselves, and difficult times with greater ease and compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-08-20 How Samadhi Supports Insight 62:05
Tempel Smith
In both the development of Samadhi and the turning toward Insight, wisdom develops to help free the heart and mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2012-08-20 Morning Instructions Day Seven 57:16
Phillip Moffitt
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2012-08-19 Using Concentration to See Things as They Are 66:46
Andrea Fella
The Buddha encouraged us to cultivate concentration for the purpose of seeing into the nature of our experience - as impermanent, unreliable, and not-self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2012-08-19 Patience 39:25
Donald Rothberg
We explore the parami (or "virtue" or "perfection") of patience, including its nature and the nature of impatience, exemplars of patience, the connection of patience with other virtues (particularly wisdom and equanimity), and how to practice to develop patience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-08-19 Morning Instructions Day Six 55:22
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2012-08-18 How Intention and Energy Support Concentration 62:40
Phillip Moffitt
Collecting and unifying the mind requires both the immediacy of intention and the energy for patience and persistence. Developing clarity of intention and utilizing the three kind of energy may deepen your experience of concentration.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

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