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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2013-07-07 Mindfulness of the Body 3: Guided Meditation on the Parts of the Body and the Elements 44:59
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-07-07 Mindfulness of the Body 2: The Importance of Mindfulness of the Body and How We Practice 46:25
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-07-07 Mindfulness of the Body 1: Introduction to Mindfulness 57:59
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-07-05 The Immediacy of the Four Noble Truths 54:35
Howard Cohn
Real time investigation, through the body, of the fact of dukkha, cause of dukkha, end of dukkha and the Path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation and Yoga

2013-07-04 The Path of Practice 46:08
Anna Douglas
The context for the practice of mindfulness and yoga asanas.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation and Yoga

2013-07-03 Speech Practice 2- Presence and Empathy 64:50
Donald Rothberg
We continue to establish foundational perspectives and practices, through (1) a brief review of the previous session, (2) a focus on combining inner and outer awareness, (3) exploring empathy in relationship to feelings and emotions, and (4) two exercises to develop presence and empathy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-06-30 Know Yourself, Forget Yourself: Part 2 21:32
Marc Lesser
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-06-30 Know Yourself, Forget Yourself: Part 1 20:44
Marc Lesser
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-06-29 You Do Not Need Many Things 45:39
Anna Douglas
Four kinds of happiness which practice encourages.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings of the Path of Awakening

2013-06-29 Introduction to Insight Meditation, Part 1 of 4 1:25:32
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-06-29 Introduction to Insight Meditation, Part 2 of 4 1:25:31
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-06-29 Introduction to Insight Meditation, Part 3 of 4 1:17:13
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-06-29 Introduction to Insight Meditation, Part 4 of 4 58:34
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-06-28 The Power of Compassion 52:20
Mark Coleman
The Flowering of the Heart is a beautiful expression of the unity of love and awareness. The fruit of compassion allows us to meet our suffering with kind presence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings of the Path of Awakening

2013-06-26 Stuck in Doing Mode of Mind: Shift Gears! 39:08
Grove Burnett
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Liberation: A Buddhist Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-06-26 Speech Practice 1- Introduction 64:23
Donald Rothberg
We look at (1) the importance of speech practice; (2) the practice of cultivating inner and outer awareness at the same time; (3) the roles of awareness, intention, and action in speech practice; and (4) the speech guidelines of the Buddha. We end with a guided practice period.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-06-25 Path of Mindful Awareness 52:37
Mark Coleman
This talk explores what mindfulness is, what supports it and what is revealed in awareness as we cultivate it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings of the Path of Awakening

2013-06-24 San Quentin Mindfulness: On Suffering and Redemption 67:23
Jacques Verduin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-06-22 Part 9: Q&A 3 38:25
Ajahn Pasanno
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Whole of the Path: The Fruits of Spiritual Friendship

2013-06-22 Part 8: Meditation Instuctions 8:28
Ajahn Pasanno
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Whole of the Path: The Fruits of Spiritual Friendship

2013-06-22 Part 7: Q&A 2 5:16
Ajahn Pasanno
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Whole of the Path: The Fruits of Spiritual Friendship

2013-06-22 Part 6: The 8 Fold Path and its Supports 50:21
Ajahn Pasanno
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Whole of the Path: The Fruits of Spiritual Friendship

2013-06-22 Part 5: Pre-meal Alms Explanation & Anumodana Chant 8:11
Ajahn Pasanno
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Whole of the Path: The Fruits of Spiritual Friendship

2013-06-22 Part 4: Guided Meditation Recollections 5:13
Ajahn Pasanno
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Whole of the Path: The Fruits of Spiritual Friendship

2013-06-22 Part 3: Q&A 1 17:33
Ajahn Pasanno
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Whole of the Path: The Fruits of Spiritual Friendship

2013-06-22 Part 2: Kalyanamitta 42:30
Ajahn Pasanno
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Whole of the Path: The Fruits of Spiritual Friendship

2013-06-22 Part 1: Intro And Meditation Instructions 13:57
Ajahn Pasanno
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Whole of the Path: The Fruits of Spiritual Friendship

2013-06-19 Balancing the Hindrances with the Factors of Enlightenment 61:27
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-06-18 Reflections on Practicing Metta in the World 1:11:11
Spring Washam
Spring Washam and Donald Rothberg offer reflections on bringing metta practice into the world and answer questions about this from yogis.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat, June 2013

2013-06-17 More than an amoeba... 62:28
Sally Armstrong
Working with feelings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-06-17 Metta - The Heart of Love 54:49
Spring Washam
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat, June 2013

2013-06-17 Afternoon Instructions #4 56:59
Donald Rothberg
Neutral Person
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat, June 2013

2013-06-16 The Challenges and the Fruits of Metta Practice 59:01
Donald Rothberg
We explore 1) the spirit of metta practice; 2) some of the challenges of the practice, particularly framed in the terms of the five "hindrances"; 3) some of the fruits of the practice, as it matures.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat, June 2013

2013-06-16 Sutta Study Class Series: Majjhima Nikaya; All the Taints, Part 2 of 2 67:15
Guy Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-06-16 Sutta Study Class Series: Majjhima Nikaya; All the Taints, Part 1 of 2 62:18
Guy Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-06-16 Kalyana Mitta Half-Day with James Baraz, June 16, 2013, part 1 25:58
James Baraz
This half-day workshop was designed for the hosts, leaders, potential leaders and participants in Kalyana Mitta (KM) groups. Spirit Rock is looking for additional facilitators and hosts to create new groups and connect people with the KM program. Contact KalyanaMitta@spiritrock.org for more information or to find out about our next KM workshop.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-06-16 Kalyana Mitta Half-Day with James Baraz, June 16, 2013, part 2 7:47
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-06-16 Kalyana Mitta Half-Day with James Baraz, June 16, 2013, part 3 59:27
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-06-16 Afternoon Instructions #2 55:26
Donald Rothberg
General Instructions on metta and introduction of the "benefactor" category, with Q & A.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat, June 2013

2013-06-16 Kalyana Mitta Half-Day with James Baraz, June 16, 2013, part 4 33:31
James Baraz
This half-day workshop was designed for the hosts, leaders, potential leaders and participants in Kalyana Mitta (KM) groups. Spirit Rock is looking for additional facilitators and hosts to create new groups and connect people with the KM program. Contact KalyanaMitta@spiritrock.org for more information or to find out about our next KM workshop.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-06-15 Who Am I Now? Part 3 of 3 1:52:07
Anna Douglas
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-06-15 Who Am I Now? Part 2 of 3 1:23:38
Anna Douglas
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-06-15 Who Am I Now? Part 1 of 3 60:49
Anna Douglas
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-06-14 Dharma & Recovery, Step 6, Part B 60:21
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-06-14 Dharma & Recovery, Step 6, Part A 49:25
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-06-12 Empathy and the practice of relationship 1:16:05
Oren Jay Sofer
How do we bridge the seeing gap between silent mediation and our lives relationships? Reflections and tools for broadening our sense of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-06-10 Compassion 68:41
Norman Fischer
Salient notions and practices for self and others...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-06-09 Closing Dhamma Reflection - Resting into Simplicity 1:40:48
Ajahn Sucitto
On this renunciant retreat, we have been encouraged to rest back into simplicity. Letting go of the emotional uprisings and self-identification, shift into the presence of embodiment here and now. Here we find the capacity that’s able to be with and not waiver.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-09 Unplugging and Letting Go 40:28
Ajahn Sucitto
We practice to develop skillful reflexes in response to our human condition. Use body as a reference point when unplugging from mind’s unskillful habits and reactions. Meditation is an occasion to sense the quality of ungrasping and letting go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-08 Evening Dhamma Teaching - This is Not Beyond our Doing 49:23
Ayya Medhanandi
We can bear witness to each others’ suffering by recognizing genuine spiritual friends or kalyānamitta who share our values and our desire for awakening. Spiritual friends can help us identify our individual pitfalls and support our letting go of these obstacles. It is a joy to share the Dhamma together.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-08 Practicing with the Impossible 54:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Mind can be useful, but keep it in its place, the world of abstractions. It doesn’t do well in the living organic world. Meet the inconclusive impossibilities of life with heart’s fundamental quality to open and include.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-07 Laying Down Tracks for New Kamma 66:50
Ajahn Sucitto
A review of the key teachings – how to practice with body, heart and mind in a way that leads to liberation. Firming up faith, restraining from unskillful habits, exerting the mind in skillful investigations, enjoyment and contentment of the mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-07 Cultivation of Insight 61:04
Ajahn Sucitto
The development of insight comes from feeling experience as it arises. Detachment, dispassion and relinquishment enable the allowing of phenomena, witnessing of change, and letting go of making it personal. We’re able to be truly present and in touch with what’s happening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-06 Evening Dharma Teaching - Day 4 - Satipaññā and Refuge to the Rescue 48:45
Ayya Medhanandi
How can we avoid the pitfalls that Mara sets for us on the path? Develop Sati (mindfulness) to act as a gatekeeper that can recognize the earliest signs of delusion, ill will, and greed. At the same time, cultivate paññā, wisdom and sharp discernment to protect against unskillful speech, conduct, and intention or thought. These foundational practices will be both refuge and rescue from the snares of Mara!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-06 Be the One Who Listens to the Crazy Mind 63:03
Ajahn Sucitto
The beginning of insight is knowing what’s helpful and not, recognizing causes and conditions. We learn to meet difficult thoughts and feelings in skillful ways. Calming the body, using gentle and receptive gestures, we learn to listen to and soothe the crazy mind. One starts to see that negative experiences are not the problem but the sense of self that identifies with all of it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-05 Learn to Meet What Arises 58:57
Ajahn Sucitto
We’re conditioned to make a self out of sense consciousness, but everything simply arises out of causes and conditions. We practice with right view and deep attention to meet what arises directly, see it as phenomena arising and changing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-05 Evening Talk- Day 6 - Remember What You Love 41:28
Ayya Medhanandi
To harvest the real riches of the journey, seek refuge and protection in wisdom; and gain profound peace and happiness through the practice of loving-kindness, compassion and forgiveness. These qualities of reconciliation uphold virtue, concord, care and respect so that we can befriend what is noble and realize the truth for ourselves. Even in the darkest hour, remember what you love, awaken the highest from within you, and light the path to freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-05 Keep Your Wits about You 62:11
Ajahn Sucitto
We use a meditation theme like mindfulness of breathing to bring about the factors of awakening. These factors are not things we can do, they come about under the right conditions. Tend to the heart and body energies, bringing them together to hold your ground against the hinderances and make way for the factors of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-05 Be the Knower of the Worlds 34:02
Ajahn Sucitto
As we begin our meditation, establish a reference that helps us to be with rather than be in. Be the ‘knower of the worlds’, aware of the danger and getting stuck. Body can be that reference, it gives a sense of here-ness. Widen awareness and be choosy with attention.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-04 Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of Breathing 63:59
Ajahn Sucitto
Breathing gets conditioned by how we live our lives – energy can be mottled and unbalanced. It is a signifier of the heart. We can take time during retreat to take samādhi as a way of life, unifying body, heart and mind to bring into fruition the factors of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-04 Skillful Contact 17:49
Ajahn Sucitto
We make contact with external phenomena, and the impressions and meanings resonate through the heart and mind. Make skillful contact – pick up that which is worthy, that which lifts the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-03 What Feels Better, Clinging or Not Clinging? 58:45
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation is a time to crystalize the training, to deeply take in and feel the teachings. In these pause moments we take heed, look deeply into the heart, come to know the experience of what stirs it up – clinging, aversion, becoming. We begin to prefer relinquishment, finding it a freer more livable options.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-03 Being to Being- True Refuge in Relationship 69:22
Tara Brach
When we are stressed, our way of relating to each other is ego to ego. This talk explores the understandings and practices that enable us to embody "nameste": Honoring the sacred that lives through all beings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-06-03 A Generosity of Presence: Guided Meditation 24:08
Ayya Medhanandi
When we remember to empty out all the distraction, all the movement, all the roughness of life, nameless, formless, without identity - we touch the shore of truth as waves touch the shores of the ocean, reaching our true home in the fullness of this moment exactly as it is.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-02 Training and Clearing Citta 54:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta is the heart and feeling aspect of our experience. It can determine what is for our welfare, but becomes tangled and obscured by proliferation. Use deep attention to cut through the proliferations. Come out of the world of differentiation to just here now.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-01 Evening Talk; Day 1 - Grow in the Master's Way 32:19
Ayya Medhanandi
All conditions of this world have the nature to change: the earth, weather, governments, work, health, leisure, family, friendships and so forth. We observe these variations and consider the most critical change of all. It promises the greatest blessing – but first we must plow the interior field of goodness that yields our heart's deliverance. Faithfully, patiently, as we clear away the dust in the mind, the hindrances of greed, ill-will, fear and delusion fall away, and we abide in the clarity, serenity, and joy of the Dhamma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-01 Where Body and Heart Meet 58:30
Ajahn Sucitto
The sense of self is an inadequate vehicle for dealing with life, for dealing with dukkha. Where body and heart meet can deal with it – grounded in body, steady and open in heart. Your true power will come through
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-01 Whole Body Breathing 28:43
Ayya Anandabodhi
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Nature as Teacher

2013-05-31 Explanation of Eight Precepts; Opening Talk 51:44
Ajahn Sucitto
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-05-29 The Foundations of Mindfulness: Why we Practice 51:05
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-05-27 Feeding The Wolf of Love, Restraining The Wolf of Hate 59:00
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-05-26 Eightfold Path: When the Rubber Meets the Road 54:18
Spring Washam
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body Retreat

2013-05-25 A Heart as Wide as the World - Metta Meditation 69:21
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-05-25 A Heart as Wide as the World - The Practice of Metta and its Relationship to Mindfulness 33:54
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-05-25 Getting Real; Getting Free 55:49
Pascal Auclair
Getting down with the 3 Characteristics
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body Retreat

2013-05-25 Exploring Stillness and Movement 44:29
Phillip Moffitt
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body Retreat

2013-05-24 Body as Liberation 57:57
Phillip Moffitt
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body Retreat

2013-05-23 Welcome Your Body Home 48:05
Spring Washam
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body Retreat

2013-05-23 Guided Meditation Day 3 50:52
Pascal Auclair
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body Retreat

2013-05-22 Anyone Feeling Hindered? 52:22
Pascal Auclair
Wisely attending to what hinders life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body Retreat

2013-05-22 Dependent Origination V- Liberative Dependent Origination 61:30
Donald Rothberg
The last in a series of talks--an outline of the twelve factors of "liberative" or "transcendental" dependent origination, an analysis of the cycle leading from being able to work with suffering through to liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-05-20 Guided Meditation with Sound 24:48
Jack Kornfield
Jack leads a guided meditation on sound. Using bells and spoken word
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-05-20 The One Who Knows... 52:05
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-05-20 An Introduction to Awakening in the Body 24:08
Phillip Moffitt
Exploration of mindfulness of the body. The Buddha's First Foundation of satipatthana offers many opportunities for insight. As the Buddha said, if we master the body (in meditation) we can master the mind!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body Retreat

2013-05-18 Equanimity with Things As They Are 63:13
James Baraz
The quality of equanimity is a significant factor in coming to terms with impermanence and its manifestations: agin, illness and death. Learning to find balance with regard to the reality of change is explored
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older

2013-05-17 Birth & Death 64:09
Eugene Cash
Marana Sati, Mindfulness of life and death, is an inherent aspect of Buddhist teachings and practice. Both life and death are doorways to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older

2013-05-16 Recognizing the 3 Characteristics As We Age 51:39
Anna Douglas
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older

2013-05-15 Loving Ourselves As We Grow Older 59:04
James Baraz
The importance of accepting and learning to love ourselves is important at any age. But it is particularly crucial as as we learn to adjust to a body and mind going through the aging process as well as a new self-identity about who we are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older

2013-05-15 Dependent Origination IV-Review and Introduction to Liberative Dependent Origination 62:35
Donald Rothberg
After a brief review of dependent origination. We also review ways of intervening in the cycle of suffering, and then begin to explore the teaching of "liberative" or "transcendental" dependent origination-focused on the causes and conditions leading to freedom and liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-05-14 Essential Dharma, Part 3, Week 7 B 45:35
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma: Core Buddhist Teachings, Part 3, 2013

2013-05-14 Essential Dharma, Part 3, Week 7 A 57:57
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma: Core Buddhist Teachings, Part 3, 2013

2013-05-14 Not Knowing 53:56
Eugene Cash
The skillfulness of not-knowing is part of practice and the contemplative experience. We are released from the limitations of the known with the inclusion of not-knowing. The skill and art of not-knowing becomes one of the doorways to awakening, realization and the continued maturation of our understanding. As the Zen monk/poet Ryokan said, "I do not know others. Others do not know me. Not knowing each other we naturally follow the way."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older

2013-05-13 Patience and Perseverence 65:46
Phillip Moffitt
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-05-10 Dharma and Recovery, May, Part B 58:17
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-05-10 Dharma and Recovery - May, Part A 46:06
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-05-10 Evolving Together 55:41
Wes Nisker
The new story of who we are in the universe - told with humor and dharma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-05-10 Sitting on the Edge 46:03
John Travis
The spiritual journey through retreat and trekking; vulnerability, humility and knowing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center May Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-05-09 Pointing out the Radiance 58:20
Trudy Goodman
Dharma teachings on conflict and kindness, identity and loving awareness of who we truly are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-05-08 3rd Foundation of Mindfulness: Here & Now or There & Then 57:53
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center May Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-05-08 Dependent Origination III- Intervening to end the cycle of suffering. 64:18
Donald Rothberg
After a brief review of dependent origination we look at ways of understanding several examples of suffering according to the model, and then point to multiple ways that we intervene-especially in the areas of action, direct experience, dispositions and ignorance.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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