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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2025-02-09 Doubt and Delusion 65:25
Devon Hase
Teachings on how to recognize delusion and its sub-category of doubt.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-09 When the Buddha was Afraid: The Attadanda Sutta 64:53
Gullu Singh
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2025-02-09 Teachings on Second and Third Foundations of Mindfulness 58:55
Devon Hase
Short talk followed by a guided meditation on working with vedana in the mind. How to practice with thoughts and their machinations in the third foundation of mindfulness from the Satipatthana Sutta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-07 The Insights into Dukkha: The Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:17
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-07 Morning Instructions / Elements (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:11
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-06 Intro to Dependent Origination (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:07
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-06 Metta for Yourself (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:26
Devon Hase
Teachings on how to practice metta for ourselves, including poetry by Jane Hirshfield and a story by Father Gregory Boyle. Guided practice in receiving care and sending love to our younger self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-06 Wellbeing & Comfort is a Doorway to Awakening 28:29
Juliana Sloane
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thursday Morning Women’s Group

2025-02-05 Where We Learned to Love 55:29
Brett Wheeler
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2025-02-05 Awakening in a Time of Turmoil 67:08
Donald Rothberg
We continue to explore the nature of awakening. In the first 2/3 of the talk, we examine the traditional notion of awakening, as going beyond the habitual constructions of experience in all the parts of our lives. These constructions are rooted in reactivity (grasping and pushing away aspects of our experience), and a sense of self along with a world of objects known conceptually (through "signs"). We look also at the more positive sense of awakening to the "signless, boundless, and all luminous," to what the Thai Forest teacher Ajahn Mun calls the "primal mind." Then we ask about whether there are other dimensions to awakening needed for contemporary awakening, and examine in particular what awakening means in a time of turmoil. We take Thich Nhat Hanh as an exemplar--a practitioner dedicated to awakening practicing and teaching amidst the turmoil of war and exile. We outline a number of suggestions and guidelines for those practicing and awakening amidst the current turmoil.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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