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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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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
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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
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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.
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2012-02-24 Transcendent Dependent Arising: The Path to Freedom 58:55
Sally Armstrong
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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
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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
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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
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2012-02-20 Fear as Practice 60:16
James Baraz
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2012-02-19 Generosity: A Foundational Practice for Awakening 60:57
Carol Wilson
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Similar to previous talks, although some new examples
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2012-02-18 The Four Noble Truths 58:06
Sally Armstrong
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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.
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