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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2012-03-22 Please Don't Know 54:18
Mary Grace Orr
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
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
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
How to awaken joy through mindfulness, awareness and inclining the mind to that which uplifts the heart...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-03-19 Holding Your Life with Kindness 53:42
Larry Yang
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
"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
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
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
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
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.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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