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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2012-02-29 Sitting on the Edge of the World 27:30
John Travis
Transition talk for two month retreatants. Change and the loss of one monthers. Supporting the stillness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-02-29 Birth, Death and Vision for an Amazing Future in a technology world. 66:48
Sylvia Boorstein
With special guests: Jack Kornfield, Johan Wikman and Susan Felix.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-02-28 4 of This and 5 of That 60:58
Pascal Auclair
A few words on body awareness, 4 elements and the 5 aggregates.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-27 Contentment 59:02
James Baraz
The Buddha called contentment "the greatest wealth." Contentment, "santutthi" in Pali, supports many other wholesome states including, renunciation, equanimity, peace, gratitude and generosity. We can cultivate contentment on and off the cushion while not being complacent or lazy in our dharma practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-26 Patterns of Becoming 5: the End of Karma 57:38
Guy Armstrong
The fifth and last in a series of talks discusses the troublesome patterns of mind and volitional action that we identify as self, and how we can step out of them with the tools of dharma practice. The Buddha said that one who is fully awake has found an end to karma, and end to compulsive formations.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-26 Guided Mindfulness of Breath 14:40
Mark Coleman
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2012-02-26 Intro to Mindfulness 55:54
Mark Coleman
On this daylong, Mark gives an overview of Mindfulness teachings and practice.
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2012-02-25 Mindfulness and Full Awareness 62:00
Carol Wilson
This talk explores the Buddha's teaching on Clear Comprehension also called Full Awareness. The commitment to see our motivation in our mind, moment by moment, without glossing over, leads to happiness and purification. By clarifying our greater aspiration we create a mindful container to see our habitual thinking arise without acting upon it and the result is living of life of non-harming.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-24 Transcendent Dependent Arising: The Path to Freedom 58:55
Sally Armstrong
This powerful teaching form the Upanisa Sutta shows us how suffering when understood with wisdom leads to faith and is the beginning of a natural unfolding of beautiful qualities of the heart which provide the foundation for the mind to turn to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-22 Loving One's Enemies I 60:40
Donald Rothberg
We explore the meaning of developing a love or loving kindness toward all, including one's "enemies," using both Christian and Buddhist resources. Four foundational practices are outlined: 1.Ffollowing ethical guidelines 2. Mindfulness 3. Metta, and 4. Wisdom practices to help contemplate emphathically the causes and conditions of difficult interactions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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