2012-04-30 Misconceptions of Awakening 52:23
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
The mind makes many ideas, views & misconceptions about the process of waking up - this talk points to the importance of understanding that awakening is a process, not a state...
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2012-04-30 Creativity 1:11:03
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
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2012-04-30 Morning Instructions 43:20
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
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2012-04-29 Metta 50:59
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Exploring Metta - Boundless Friendliness as an insight practice and path of awakening.
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2012-04-25 Working with Wise Thought and Intention 61:45
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
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2012-04-24 Creating a World of Freedom 62:22
Larry Yang	Download Listen
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2012-04-23 Impulse To Freedom 60:32
Anam Thubten	Download Listen
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2012-04-22 The Brahma Viharas: Shifting the Center of Gravity 56:13
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
An overview of the Brahma Viharas (lovingkindness-compassion-sympathetic joy-euanimity) and the role they play in the path of transforming judgments through sharing stories, images and practical techniques.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Transforming the Judgmental Mind

2012-04-22 Effort - Touching the Ground of Being 55:45
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Being present when experience gets challenging - touching the actual present moment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-04-21 The Impulse to Create 46:21
Sandy Boucher	Download Listen
An inquiry as to why we are motivated to make things - poems, paintings, stories, plays. The lives of three contemporary artists are examined - two painters and a playwright, and the parallel between our mindfulness practice and the creative process is explored.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Meditation and the Spirit of Creativity

2012-04-20 A Map of Transformation for Judgments 55:41
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
With a light hearted tone, the talk outlines five key areas of practice in working with the judgmental mind; Mindfulness, Somatic Practices, Heart Practices, Inquiry into habits and the role of wise friends, Spiritual Community.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Transforming the Judgmental Mind

2012-04-20 Talking Monkeys 45:21
Noah Levine	Download Listen
Working with internal talk, the hindrances, and Brahmaviharas.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-04-20 Retreat Practice and the Creative Process 45:23
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
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2012-04-19 Transforming the Judgmental Mind - An Overview 57:31
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We situate the transformation of the judgmental mind in the context of the path of awakening - distinguishing reactive judgments from nonreactive discernment, clarifying why working with judgments is important and pointing to several ways of practicing with the judgmental mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Transforming the Judgmental Mind

2012-04-19 Noble Eightfold path 62:34
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
The Path of Liberation is in you here and now. Here is how to awaken and embody this path wherever you are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-04-19 Creativity and Awakening 47:29
Anne Cushman	Download Listen
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2012-04-18 The Journey 58:06
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the metaphor of the "spiritual journey" to help illuminate phases of our practice, using three reference points: 1. Mary Oliver's poem, "The Journey" 2. The journey of the Buddha and 3. Our own individual journeys.
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2012-04-16 The Art of Mindfulness 48:18
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What did the Buddha actually teach about mindfulness? How does it differ from a simple attention? This talk explores mindfulness in the context of the Buddhist Path and it leading from pain to peace.
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2012-04-14 How Insight Arises 66:23
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
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2012-04-14 The Mind is a Magician 47:52
Will Kabat-Zinn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2012-04-14 Living Life as a River Flows 57:45
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
If we can leave our fixed ideas behind, and return to the openness of our direct experience, we gain a new kind of knowledge, independent of our thinking mind that is immediate, fresh and deepens our trust in the natural unfolding.
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2012-04-13 32 Parts Continued and 4 Noble Truths 66:24
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
More on how to practice the 32 Parts of the Body meditation. Then an exploration of why we practice and the story of the Buddha's awakening and the 4 Noble Truths and 3 marks of existence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2012-04-11 Death, Hindrances, 32 Body Parts 63:45
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Cultivating the mindfulness of death assists in the path of awakening. Working with the challenges/hindrances that come up after the first day of full practice. An introduction to the 32 Parts of the Body meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2012-04-11 Mindfulness of the Body 59:09
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
The purpose and usefulness of embodied meditation: How to stay connected to the body.
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2012-04-11 Mindfulness of the Paramitas 63:04
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
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2012-04-09 Nachiketa & the Lord of Death 68:59
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
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2012-04-08 Teachings on Self and Not Self 46:18
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Exploration and inquiry on the experience/suffering/liberation of the construct of self.
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2012-04-07 The Preciousness of Life 63:51
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
All about the Tibetan teaching on the four reminders: preciousness of life, impermanence, karma, and the defects of samsara.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-04-06 Papanca 61:14
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Lost in thought? How can we identify and work with the four root causes of getting entangled in our thoughts?
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2012-04-05 Hindrances as Opportunities in Yoga & Meditation 53:22
Anne Cushman	Download Listen
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2012-04-05 Unconditional Yin & Dynamic Yoga 1:29:04
Janice Gates	Download Listen
Morning Yoga Session
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2012-04-04 4 Noble Truths in Real Time 53:37
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
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2012-04-03 Intimacy with Reality 45:21
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Mindfulness, when practiced whole-heartedly, reveals reality beyond name and form.
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2012-04-02 The Beauty of Retreat 59:04
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
The unfolding of the inner life, body, heart and mind. The blessings of retreat.
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2012-03-31 Mindfulness and the Five Hindrances 63:53
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
An exploration of the practice of mindfulness and hot it helps navigate the hindrances of desire, aversion, doubt, sloth and restlessness in meditation and the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Vipassana for the Curious

2012-03-28 Dharma East and West 57:31
Tony Bernhard	Download Listen
Does the dharma depend on transcendental experience.
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2012-03-27 Evening Chanting 9:47
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
Heather Sundberg and Donald Rothberg lead the evening chanting. Metta Chant, Sharing of Blessings. Annica Vatta Sankara.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-26 The Bodhisattva: "Let Your Life and Practice Be One" 58:21
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
As we come near the end of a month or two months of retreat practice, we can reflect on how we might connect, as we enter the "world", our "inner" and "outer" practice. We can be inspired and energized by the figure of the bodhisattva, and by seeing the continuity of the core teachings and practices throughout all the parts of our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-26 The Path of Joy, Part 2 54:16
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What is the quality of awareness that facilitates a joyful presence and attitude toward experience that allows us to know the peace beyond the changing conditions of life?
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2012-03-25 Riding the Eight Worldly Winds 60:35
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
"Pleasure/Pain; Gain/Loss; Praise/Blame; Fame/Disrepute". Talk offers equanimity wisdom teachings and practical tools for "riding the eight worldly winds."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-25 Brought to Singleness 22:15
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
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2012-03-25 Steady Mind, Quiet, and Happy 57:18
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
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2012-03-25 Mindfulness of the Body as a Whole 16:53
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
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2012-03-25 Neural Factors of Mindfulness 29:15
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
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2012-03-24 All Day is Still All Day: Ease, Vividness, Spaciousness 46:28
John Travis	Download Listen
Story of John's journey to the mountains, followed by teachings on ease of the body, vividness of the mind and spaciousness of the heart.
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2012-03-24 Brahma Vihara Milling Meditation 23:41
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
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2012-03-24 The Tender Heart of Compassion 30:46
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Human life requires much tenderness and vulnerability to work with inevitable pain and suffering - the practice of compassion is a wonderful vehicle for this orientation.
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2012-03-24 The Path of the Heart 39:20
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How do we move in the world with love, kindness and care - as exemplified by the practice of metta
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2012-03-23 The Path of Being Human, The Path of the Buddha 61:01
Larry Yang	Download Listen
the Life of the Buddha is no different than our human life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-22 Please Don't Know 54:18
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Not knowing is freeing and allows us to step out of stories. This is Wise View.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-21 Awakening in Awareness 61:18
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After an analysis of the roots of suffering based on the teachings of Dependent Arising, we explore two aspects of the path of awakening. The first aspect is about gradual awakening; the second is about immediate awakening in awareness, first momentary, then gradually stabilized.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-20 The Paramitas as the Path 55:37
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Cultivation of morality (in the ten permutations called Perfections (Paramitas) is presented as the path to rather than simply a preparation for meditation. Stories illustrate how the practice of each paramita leads to insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-19 The Path of Joy 48:24
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How to awaken joy through mindfulness, awareness and inclining the mind to that which uplifts the heart...
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2012-03-19 Holding Your Life with Kindness 53:42
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-18 "The Doors to the Deathless are Open!: Cycles of Awakening". 59:15
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
"The spiritual path moves through cycles. The key is balance." The talk journeys from the ground of ethical conduct through developing concentration, working with doubt, developing insight, working with dukkha of many types, to stabilizing in equanimity and opening to and integrating awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-17 The Great Rain 44:52
John Travis	Download Listen
The talk outlines the Three Characteristics (change - suffering - not self) and the Three Subtle Characteristics (emptiness - suchness - not with the object). Teachings on the 4 Seals and the 5 Aggregates are also offered.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-16 Concentration and it's Development in Practice 60:51
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore (1) the nature of concentration: (2)the qualities developed in concentration practice; (3) how concentration practice (and practice in general) engenders a powerful process of purification of body, heart and mind; (4) the nature of wise effort in concentration practice (balancing active and receptive effort); and (5) the relationship of concentration and insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-15 Returning to the Luminous Mind & Heart 55:39
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
A discussion of how the mind is often clouded with unskillful states, the armies of Mara. The Four Powers (Iddhipadas) are ways to develop a more awakened mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-14 Loving One's Enemies III 65:47
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We bring in further practices and perspectives to help us work with "enemies" or "difficult persons" including various ethical, body, heart, and mind practices. We close by examining how we may sometimes project onto others our fragmented parts and thus use practice with enemies as opportunities to find greater wholeness.
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2012-03-14 The Grace of Connection 58:02
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
A Brahma Vihara talk that emphasizes the importance of equanimity as the foundation for metta, compassion and appreciation. Also the relationship of Wisdom and Equanimity as mutually causal, and how wisdom both sustains equanimity and is a reflection of equanimity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-13 Freedom of Mind and Heart 57:34
Larry Yang	Download Listen
The Third Foundation of Mindfulness
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2012-03-12 Maranasati 54:11
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Mindfulness of Life & Death
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-03-12 Crows Speak: Seven Factors of Awakening 50:06
John Travis	Download Listen
Through a poem, personal stories, and teachings, the talk explores the seven factors of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-11 Compassion as the Path and Expression of Awakening 59:40
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
A "talk from the heart" blending aspects of wisdom and compassion. Teachings on the five recollections, the three characteristics and how to work with difficulties in cultivating compassion are offered through stories from the life of the Buddha, Dipa Ma, Darlene Cohen, Ruth Denison and His Holiness the Karmapa.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-10 Get a Grip: Concentration as the Antidote to the Flurried Mind 58:31
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
A review of the hindrances and the way in which the factor of concentration, when applied, steadies the mind and allows for clear seeing to prevail.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-09 Refuge in Recovery 47:22
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
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2012-03-09 Feeling-Tone and Its Importance for our Practice 58:08
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the pivotal practice of mindfulness of feeling-tone (vedana), by 1) understanding feeling-tone in the context of the teaching of dependent arising; 2) examining the nature of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral; and 3) suggesting a number of ways of practicing with feeling-tone.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-08 The Wise and Fearless Heart 56:13
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
This talk explores the nature of fear and how it can be countered by the development of the heart. The spacious heart, trained in kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity, supports us in all circumstances.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-07 Frog Clarity...5 Spiritual Faculties 53:07
John Travis	Download Listen
One of John's Poems. Talk based on 5 spiritual faculties, more based on faith and heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-07 Loving One's Enemies II 57:21
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We continue to focus on perspectives and practices to help us practice skillfully with those who seem difficult or "enemies." We give attention to further practices and some of the subtleties and complexities.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-03-06 Take the First Step 58:06
Larry Yang	Download Listen
On walking meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-05 The Perfume of Dharma 62:27
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
The beautiful ways the Dharma is being spread across the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-03-05 Body as Teacher: First Foundation of Mindfulness 58:04
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
The central theme of this talk is the Body is the Teacher. Based on the Satipatthana Sutta with First Foundation emphasis, the talk outlines Mindfulness of Breathing, of the four postures, and of full awareness in the continuity of all activities. Offers practical instructions, personal stories, and stories from the time of the Buddha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-04 Suffering and Freedom from Suffering 54:04
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the nature and roots of suffering, using in part the teaching of the Two Arrows to help distinguish "pain" and "suffering" linking the latter with reactivity. Being mindful of suffering and reactivity, and learning to experience pain without suffering opens us to greater freedom. We also explore further the nature of freedom and other ways that freedom may be experienced.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-03 Metta and Mindfulness as Aspects of One Another 50:10
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
This talk focuses on mindfulness being about 1) clear seeing - i.e. What do you really want to see? What insight leads to liberation? and 2) progressively cultivating the capacity for unconditional kindness. Metta and mindfulness as inherent in each other.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-02 What has become clear to you since last we met? 46:58
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
We can awaken in every moment. This talk introduces the 37 wings of awakening and teachings of letting go into the present moment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-02-29 Sitting on the Edge of the World 27:30
John Travis	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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2012-02-26 Intro to Mindfulness 55:54
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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.
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2012-02-21 Patterns of Becoming 4: Karma and Rebirth 64:42
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
This fourth in a series pf talks on the formation of self explores how volitional actions, known as karma, occur in repetitive patterns and lead to lawful consequences in this life and even in a future life through rebirth. once we understand them, we can use these patterns to shape our lives in the direction of happiness.
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2012-02-20 4 Ways We Get Caught 65:43
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
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2012-02-20 Fear as Practice 60:16
James Baraz	Download Listen
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2012-02-19 Generosity: A Foundational Practice for Awakening 60:57
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Similar to previous talks, although some new examples
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2012-02-18 The Four Noble Truths 58:06
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Richard Gombrich, a Buddhist scholar, called the Buddha a brilliant and original thinker on the level of Plato and Aristotle. But the Buddha wasn't interested in just speculative philosophy, but to understand why we suffer, and how to find freedom. The Four Noble Truths is his direct teaching on just that.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-17 Patterns of Becoming 3: Unentangled Knowing 63:18
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
This third in a series of talks explores the formation of self through the chain of dependent origination, a detailed description of how we suffer. It then outlines approaches in meditation that let us step out of the chain of suffering and into a state of "unentangled knowing" in which we discover the possibility of freedom here and now.
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2012-02-16 Dharma Practice as a Path of Happiness 69:41
James Baraz	Download Listen
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2012-02-15 7 Factors of Awakening 1:11:09
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
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2012-02-15 Holding Our Days with the Tenderness of Patience: Reflections from a Two-week Retreat 57:20
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
The talk, given immediately following two weeks of silent practice, explores themes of remembering what is important, mystery, doing and being, and awareness "open like the sky," connecting how we practice both in retreat and daily life.
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2012-02-14 Compassion and Mindfulness 60:14
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
The Dalai Lama has said that compassion develops through a deep insight into and understanding suffering. The difficult times we go through on retreat are a wonderful opportunity to explore the possibility of compassion in relationship to our own experience.
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2012-02-13 Comparing Mind 58:48
James Baraz	Download Listen
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2012-02-12 Bringing Kindness and Wisdom to the Judging Mind 58:21
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
The habit of judging; ourselves and others can be a huge source of suffering. Exploring the conditioned nature of this tendency of mind can lead to greater happiness and freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-12 Dharma and Technology: Craving and the Arising of Self 45:02
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
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2012-02-12 Dharma and Technology: Mindfulness and Focus 35:20
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
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