2012-10-19 Mindfulness, Identity and Incarnation 60:30
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
The beauty and paradox revealed by attention to human incarnation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-10-17 Don't Make Your Mind a Problem: III 27:01
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Trauma and Mindfulness: Continuing Class (5-week class series)

2012-10-17 Don't Make Your Mind a Problem:II 17:34
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-17 Don't Make Your Mind a Problem 12:45
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-15 Trauma and Freedom 66:23
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Using the cloak of mindfulness and compassion to heal trauma and awaken freedom.
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2012-10-14 Family Day - Connectedness 2:00:26
Julie Wester	Download Listen
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2012-10-13 Morning Instructions 42:34
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-12 Living the Steps, Part 2 58:16
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
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2012-10-12 Living the Steps, Part 1 52:18
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
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2012-10-12 Added Instructions: Day Four 11:42
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Walking Practice and Other Postures, Hand Movement Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-12 Morning Instructions, Day Four: Paying Attention to Emotion and Mind 30:00
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-12 Metta Instructions: Difficult Person 24:01
Susana Renaud	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-11 Metta (friends/difficult person) 28:48
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-11 Coming Home to Refuges and Precepts 50:38
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-11 Morning Instructions (includes RAIN) 41:08
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-10 Guided Metta; Self, Benefactor, All Beings 25:03
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-10 To Know the 42:10
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-10 To know the truth only cease to cherish opinions. 0:00
Sylvia Boorstein	(Recording not available)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-10 Morning Instructions Day 2: Remembering, Futuring 37:43
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-09 Metta for Self 22:37
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-09 Sharing Ideas on Practice 44:40
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-09 Morning Instructions 56:39
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-06 The Misconception of Self 42:51
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Non self is one of the most challenging teachings for many people to understand. This is a radical teaching that offers liberation from the narrative based self-at times the story that imprisons us. What we can see through the separate self, the conditioned self, we may taste the unconditioned.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Dharma of Aging

2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 7: Further Tools and Guidance for Daily Life Practice of the Third Foundation of Mindfulness 58:19
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
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2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 6: Guided Meditation: Review of the Instructions for the Third Foundation of Mindfulness 13:01
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
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2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 4: Guided Meditation Further Instructions for the Third Foundation of Mindfulness 3:49
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
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2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 5: Further Exploration of the Third Foundation of Mindfulness, with Guided Meditation on Mindfulness of Difficult States at End 1:23:00
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
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2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 3: The Third Foundation of Mindfulness 66:42
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
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2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 2: Guided Meditation: Instructions for the Third Foundation of Mindfulness 19:37
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
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2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 1: Review of the Nature of Mindfulness and the First Two Foundations of Mindfulness 61:46
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
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2012-10-05 Metta & Reconciliation 27:43
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
As we come into the last chapters of our life, can we balance the ledgers of our hearts to make reconciliation with ourselves, to those we've hurt and to those who have hurt us?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Dharma of Aging

2012-10-04 Oh,The Places You'll Go 32:46
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Working with hindrances and obstacles in meditation practice, as a gateway towards freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Dharma of Aging

2012-10-03 The Foundations of Mindfulness-An Overview 62:26
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
What is mindfulness? Why is it important? How does its practice bring us toward freedom? We look generally at mindfulness and then at how we practice mindfulness of 1. the body 2. feeling tone 3. thoughts and emotions (citta) and 4. larger patterns of experience (dhammas).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-01 Living with change - The 8 Worldly Winds 49:23
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk explores how to work & live with the changing nature of life...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-01 Experience of Aging as Dharma Practice--Week IV--Part II 26:31
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Experience of Aging as Dharma Practice

2012-09-27 The Courage to Feel 42:44
Spring Washam	Download Listen
How courageous compassion supports our healing process.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Way of the Sacred Feminine

2012-09-26 A New Beginning--Guided Reflections 45:59
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
On Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, and inspired by our practice of beginning again moment-by-moment, we explore and reflect on what is most important, where we are out of alignment or integrity, forgiveness, and re-dedication to our deeper aspirations.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-09-25 Sacred Feminine: Prajñā Pāramitā 33:30
Julie Wester	Download Listen
Prajna Paramitta, The Mother of all Buddhas, represents the spacious, inclusive non-dual wisdom which we must recognize in order to be free.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Way of the Sacred Feminine

2012-09-25 Sacred Feminine: Body and Breath 58:57
Julie Wester	Download Listen
Guided meditation into the intimate refuge of body and breath. Relaxing into the support of the great mother earth. Opening to receive the flow of breath. 45-minuted guided meditation followed by 15 minute reflection.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Way of the Sacred Feminine

2012-09-19 Here's to Life: Dharma Liberation 57:05
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-09-17 The Buddhas Last Teachings 66:08
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
The story of awakening and how we can find justice, compassion & wisdom where we are...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-09-10 Natchiketa & the Lord of Death 67:43
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Initiation, Forgiveness & the Timeless Realm
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-09-05 Relating Wisely the Sense of Self 33:10
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
Talk explores the 5 aggregates and the 3 characteristics using stories, suttas and practical exercises to develop relating wisely to the sense of self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-09-03 Respect & Dignity 65:58
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
How Mindfulness, Loving attention bring respect & dignity to all...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2012-09-02 Transforming Suffering into Happiness 64:22
James Baraz	Download Listen
The magic of mindfulness is how it weakens unwholesome (akusala) states of suffering and strengthens wholesome (kusala) states of well-being. This talk explains this process of alchemy: how greed, hatred and delusion are trnsformed into generosity, loving-kindness and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2012-09-01 Unbinding our Heart and Mind 56:59
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
The Buddha's teaching addresses the problem in life. Thoughts themselves are not the problem, rather the greed, hate and delusion bound up in the thought. A personal story exploring how to unbind ourselves from these conditions that cause us pain.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2012-09-01 Listening to the Sound of Silence, Part D 1:35:51
Robert K. Hall	Download Listen
From the daylong "THE DHARMA, EGONOMICS and the COMMERCE of the SELF: How to Manage Being a "Me" "
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2012-09-01 Listening to the Sound of Silence, Part B 58:07
Robert K. Hall	Download Listen
From the daylong "THE DHARMA, EGONOMICS and the COMMERCE of the SELF: How to Manage Being a "Me" "
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2012-09-01 Listening to the Sound of Silence, Part C 1:27:07
Robert K. Hall	Download Listen
From the daylong "THE DHARMA, EGONOMICS and the COMMERCE of the SELF: How to Manage Being a "Me"
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2012-09-01 Listening to the Sounds of Silence, Part A 6:53
Robert K. Hall	Download Listen
From the daylong "THE DHARMA, EGONOMICS and the COMMERCE of the SELF: How to Manage Being a "Me" "
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2012-08-31 Look Around: Wake Up to Reality 61:06
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Real time four noble truths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2012-08-30 What Am I Doing Here and Why Am I Doing It? 56:49
James Baraz	Download Listen
How mindfulness practice works on retreat, the benefits that it produces and helpful attitudes that support intensive retreat practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2012-08-29 Self and Not-Self VII-Self and Not-Self in the context of Global Crisis. 69:46
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
With the background of the last weeks exploration of our individual practice to see self and open increasingly to not-self, we connect that practice with our responses to global crisis, particularly global climate disruption. We see its roots in part in individualist models of self, and point to the importance of dharma practice in our responses to crisis.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-08-26 The First Foundation of Mindfulness on the Body: Practicing with the Four Elements, the 32 Parts of the Body, and the Charnel Ground Reflections 1:27:48
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Due to mechanical complications, the morning session of this daylong was not recorded. Deep regrets-
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2012-08-22 Self and Not Self VI--Integration and Review 59:21
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2012-08-20 Meeting Life with Kind Presence 45:23
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2012-08-19 Using Concentration to See Things as They Are 66:46
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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.
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2012-08-19 Morning Instructions Day Six 55:22
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2012-08-18 How Intention and Energy Support Concentration 62:40
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
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

2012-08-18 Morning Instructions: Day Five 55:41
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2012-08-17 Letting Go of Disturbance, Finding Stillness 55:37
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
To deepen in concentration, we need to be willing to recognize whatever disturbances or hindrances might be present, however subtle, and to work with them skillfully, ultimately to release them. This allows the mind to settle to the next level of stillness. This talk is based on practice as described in Majjhima Nikaya (2), the Cula-Sunnata Sutta, The Lesser Discourse on Emptiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2012-08-17 Morning Instructions Day Four 56:45
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2012-08-16 Deepening Concentration Through Contentment 60:48
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Through developing the jhana factors of piti, sukha and ekaggata (delight, contentment and one-pointedness) we can open a deeper ability to absorb with our breath.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2012-08-16 Morning Instructions: Day Three 56:17
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2012-08-15 Factors that Hinder and Support Concentration 65:10
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2012-08-15 Morning Instructions Day Two 54:55
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2012-08-14 Getting To Know the Neighborhood of Concentration 64:55
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
There are many aspects and dimensions that are part of what we call concentration. Rather than take a fixed view of what your concentration practice is supposed to be like, why not take a tour of the neighborhood?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2012-08-14 Afternoon Instructions Day One 52:39
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2012-08-14 Week 5 audio - Part B 29:40
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dependent Origination - Week 5

2012-08-14 Week 5 audio 48:27
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Experience of Aging as a Dharma Practice

2012-08-14 Morning Instructions Day One 61:10
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2012-08-13 Jack Kornfield with Chade-Meng Tan, author of Search Inside Yourself 65:29
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
A conversation with Chade-Meng Tan, a conversation and dialogue....
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-08-12 Cultivating Feeling Cared About 18:19
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
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2012-08-12 The Three Ways to Engage the Mind - and Brain 22:27
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
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2012-08-08 Dependent Origination - Week 5 - Part B 39:49
Gary Buck	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dependent Origination - Week 5

2012-08-08 Self and Not-Self V-A sequence of Training in Opening to not-self 48:58
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After a review of our explorations of the last sessions, we outline a five-stage model for opening sequentially to more subtle aspects of not-self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-08-08 Morning Instructions, 2nd Day Primary and Secondary Objects 39:02
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Using the breath as an anchor or primary object, we can visit other experiences arising in the present moment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Retreat for Young Adults

2012-08-04 Noticing the Natural World 48:21
Ajahn Pasanno	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Family Retreat

2012-08-03 Wise Parenting in an Age of Ecological Loss 62:35
Betsy Rose	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Family Retreat

2012-08-02 Buddhism as Storytelling, Storytelling as Buddhism 44:49
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Family Retreat

2012-08-01 Self and Not-Self IV- The Core Teachings of the Buddha Part II 57:55
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After a brief review of past weeks, we examine the Buddha's basic teachings on self and not-self in terms of 1. the model of the "aggregate" of experience, 2. The link between a sense of self and conceptualization, and 3. practices to discern self and open to not-self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-08-01 Guided Meditation on Self and Not-Self Part I 23:53
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
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2012-07-30 Mystery 63:19
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-07-28 Compassion, Cultural Sensitivity and Diversity 23:30
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness in Education - A Retreat and Training

2012-07-27 An Overview of the State of Mindfulness and Education 57:52
Susan Kaiser Greenland	Download Listen
An overview of mindfulness and education looking backwards over the past ten years and forward with thoughts about what the next ten years might bring.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness in Education - A Retreat and Training

2012-07-27 Cultivating Self-Compassion 53:47
Diana Winston	Download Listen
This talk explores the three components of self-compassion: 1. mindfulness to deal with self-critical thinking; 2. loving kindness, to increase our sense of love for ourselves; 3. and shared humanity, the recognition that we are not alone.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness in Education - A Retreat and Training

2012-07-26 Teaching from Presence 28:17
Diana Winston	Download Listen
This talk, given at a retreat for educators, is geared toward people who wish to share mindfulness with others. It is about how to teach from an embodied presence connected to mindfulness, how to recognize it, what gets in the way, and how to repair it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness in Education - A Retreat and Training

2012-07-25 The Challenges of Mindfulness on Retreat and in Life 60:14
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness in Education - A Retreat and Training

2012-07-25 Self and Not-Self III-Three Ways of Practicing 64:16
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We review briefly the last two talks and explore three ways of practicing: 1. Investigating self when it appears; 2. Opening to experiences of not-self; and 3. doing "heart practice" like lovingkindness and compassion to balance our being as we do more deeply.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-07-23 Renunciation 46:43
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-07-21 Compassion 53:13
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-07-21 Wise Speech: A Gateway to Freedom - A Day for People of Color 42:35
Shahara Godfrey	Download Listen
In this talk I will explore Wise Speech and how it relates to freedom as taught in the 8 Fold Path and the 5 Precepts. We will also take an open and compassionate look at our own behaviors around Wise Speech through the lenses of identity and cultural context.
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2012-07-20 Don't Stop Short 62:27
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The Three Pillars of the Dhamma
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-07-19 Catching the Right Thought Trains 55:18
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Learning how to work with thoughts and "train" the mind for the benefit of yourself and others. Based on Sutta "Two Kinds of Thought" MN19
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-07-19 Metta for the Difficult Person 54:55
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight Meditation Retreat