2011-03-10 Buddhism and the 12-Steps, Class 3 15:07
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Step Three: Turning it Over, Q&A
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-03-10 Metta & Self-Love 56:51
Marie Mannschatz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-09 Nothing That The Wise Would Later Reprove, Part 1 53:07
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-03-09 CALM 49:28
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
Why calm is important in practice and practical ways to calm down and develop tranquility, as a factor of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-08 4th Foundations of Mindfulness/7 Factors of Awakening 37:39
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What are the seven factors of awakening? How do these qualities support the journey of unfoldment?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  4th Foundations of Mindfulness/7 Factors of Awakening

2011-03-08 Thank Yourself/Mindfulness 55:07
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Mindfulness-various aspects useful in practice and for facing the dilemma of our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-07 The Awakened Heart 54:42
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
How to invite the deity of awakening in an intensive retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-05 Living with Chronic Illness or Pain, Part 7 of 7 53:06
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Asking for and receiving help
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Living with Chronic Illness or Pain

2011-03-05 Living with Chronic Illness or Pain, Part 6 of 7 13:40
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Guided Lovingkindness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Living with Chronic Illness or Pain

2011-03-05 Living with Chronic Illness or Pain (Part 5 of 7) 18:22
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Living with Shame, Part 2
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Living with Chronic Illness or Pain

2011-03-05 Living with Chronic Illness or Pain (Part 4 of 7) 14:34
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Working with Shame
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Living with Chronic Illness or Pain

2011-03-05 Living with Chronic Illness or Pain (Part 3 of 7) 7:54
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Group Sharing
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Living with Chronic Illness or Pain

2011-03-05 Living with Chronic Illness or Pain (Part 2 of 7) 33:49
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Loving as the Pathway to Healing
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Living with Chronic Illness or Pain

2011-03-05 Living with Chronic Pain or Illness (Part 1 of 7) 14:58
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Introduction and Refuges
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Living with Chronic Illness or Pain

2011-03-04 Heartwood 57:04
Kittisaro, Thanissara	Download Listen
Entering the retreat vehicle; not stopping at the initial benefits of practice; journey to the innermost heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-03-04 A Wise Person is Known by Her Actions 61:46
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-03-03 Right View and Intention: The Heart of the Path 59:49
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-03-03 Step 2: The End of Delusion 37:33
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-03-03 Step 2: Q&A 30:22
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-03-02 Opening to the Moment 61:49
James Baraz	Download Listen
Open9ing to the moment and being with things as they are is easier said than done. This talk explores what gets in the way and the qualities and attitudes that support opening to the moment including forgiveness, patience, contentment and a sense of humor.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-03-02 Through the Eyes of the Dharma 49:46
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-03-01 The Potential of the Conditioned World 52:13
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Each of us is an open-ended process, matrixed with everything else. The very open-endedness of our nature allows for transformation in the direction of happiness, once we understand the lawfulness of things and act on that understanding. The fact that we are matrixed with other beinigs/things means our individual development has positive effects on others, beyond what we can directly observe/know.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-28 Mindfulness, Technology & Social Media 53:01
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How do we stay mindful in the world of technology, email and internet? How Buddhist teachings on mindfulness and intention help give us presence in the midst of it all.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-02-28 Emptiness and Compassion 61:45
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-27 Unentangled Knowing 59:04
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
"Unentangled knowing" is an approach to meditation in which we are aware of things coming and going at the sense doors without becoming caught in them. Supported by tranquility and insight, we can rest in the knowing while being fully awake to life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-26 We Live in Illusion and the Appearance of Things 58:19
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Delusion, one of the three kilesas, is in some ways the fundamental cause of our suffering -- because we don't see clearly the way things truly are. Our experience of ourselves and the world is distorted by our conditioned views and perceptions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-25 Working with Thoughts & Skillful Discernment 56:42
James Baraz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-24 Purification of Motivation 43:43
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Our minds have many mixed motivations, and they can be at play in meditation practice. This talk discusses some of the common "ulterior motives" which can be present, how to recognize them and how to re-frame them to make them into skillful supports-not distractions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-24 Introduction to the class series 10:15
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-02-24 Step One: Powerlessness 34:58
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-02-23 Exploring the Nature of Craving with Wiusdom 62:15
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-23 How Effort, Mindfulness and Concentration Are Interwoven 56:55
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We step back to look at how we develop the three meditative path factors separately, and how, as practice deepens, the factors become interwoven, and we move forward a kind of mindful, concentrated, effortless effort.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-02-22 Nature of Awareness 56:04
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The Buddha clearly described consciousness as an impermanent part of the mind. Yet many people feel that awareness has some kind of lasting or ongoing nature. How can we understand this seeming contradiction? How can we make awareness itself part of our meditation?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-21 The Joy of Wholesome States 61:04
James Baraz	Download Listen
How the practice is a path of real happiness through cultivating wholesome states and being present for them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-20 The Five Aggregates & the Search for Self 61:01
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-19 Metta: Tenderness & Connection 62:07
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Metta practice makes the heart more sensitive to the joys and sorrows that sentient beings are subject to. This tenderness becomes the avenue for us to discover our deep connection to all of life and end a sense of isolation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-18 The Truth in Ordinary Things 54:39
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Our lives are the raw material for liberating insight to arise. Even outside of meditation, the three characteristics of conditioned things -- impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and not-self -- are present in all experience. Understanding this directly and continuously, in the context of the Buddha's core teachings, leads to liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-17 Transforming Difficult Emotions -- From Poison to Medicine 61:48
Susie Harrington	Download Listen
When difficult emotions arise in our practice, developing a skillful and willing relationship is an important part of the path. Emotions are the natural human response, and a natural and important part of the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-16 The Power of Generosity 62:19
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-16 Concentration Practice III 55:28
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We review our previous exploration of concentration practices with further treatment of 1) wise effort, 2) how concentration deepens toward the Jhanas, and 3) the relationship of concentration and insight practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-02-15 Working with the Judging Mind 56:07
James Baraz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-14 True Love-Romantic Love 55:40
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What is romantic love & how does it compare to metta/boundless love that is the heart's true capacity
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-02-14 The Striving Mind 47:34
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
The Buddha took effort to its far point, bringing himself close to death in the pursuit of awakening. Then he had a change of understanding, let go of self-punishment and awoke. We too need to discern when our effort is skillful, and when we are out of balance in striving. How to recognize and let go of unskillful striving.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-13 The Dhamma Gate of Restlessness 55:04
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-12 The Seven Factors of Awakening 62:22
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-11 Reflections on The First Noble Truth 55:34
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
The First Noble Truth, that of "Dukkha" -- is to be understood, so said The Buddha -- yet often when we think about it, our reactions can tend towards aversion: "life is suffering." I feel this is an inaccurate reflection of the freeing potential of understanding this teaching.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-10 Humility and Confidence 57:37
James Baraz	Download Listen
How being humbled can deepen our capacity to open to all of our experience and strengthen our confidence and trust.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-09 Inner Cultivation, Outer Expression 55:03
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-09 Concentration Practice II- and discussion 55:19
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We review the basics of concentration practice,and then focus on concentration practice as a path of purification, and then on wise effort in concentration practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-02-07 The Middle Way 62:22
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Application of the Middle Way in meditation practice and daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-02-07 Where Does Happiness Come From? 55:37
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The Buddha pointed to at least five routes to different levels of happiness for lay people: sense pleasures, merit, concentration, insight, and awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-06 The Way Things Have Come to Be 50:54
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-02 Introduction to Concentration Practice 57:36
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We begin four weeks of attention to the three meditative factors of the Eightfold Path, starting with concentration, and including a concentrative exercise and attention to wise effort in concentraton.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-01-30 Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends Facilitators Workshop: Part 1 of 3 1:31
James Baraz	Download Listen
Workshop for current and potential Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends facilitators or hosts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends Facilitators Workshop at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery.

2011-01-30 Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends Facilitators Workshop: Part 2 of 3 1:28:51
James Baraz	Download Listen
Workshop for current and potential Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends facilitators or hosts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends Facilitators Workshop at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery.

2011-01-30 Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends Facilitators Workshop: Part 3 of 3 29:31
James Baraz	Download Listen
Workshop for current or potential Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends facilitators or hosts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends Facilitators Workshop at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery.

2011-01-29 Finding Ease with Emotions 62:46
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
The 3rd foundation can be utilized to gain insight into how to work with strong emotions. So often there is confusion between emotions and our relationship to them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness Yoga and Meditation Training #1

2011-01-26 The Transformational Capacity of Tenderness 51:46
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-01-24 You Do It Everyday 53:28
Ed Brown	Download Listen
Life is impossible. You do it everyday.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-01-19 Pilgrimage 59:51
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-01-17 Practicing Metta in Daily Life - Widening Circles of Metta 49:04
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
As we do on the cushion, we practice metta in daily life in widening circles. We explore sustaining individual formal metta practice, metta in our relationships, and metta in the larger world. (Followed by questions and responses.)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2011-01-17 Discussion with Mirka Knaster, author of "Living This Life Fully: Stories And Teachings of MUNINDRA" 64:45
James Baraz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-01-16 Metta Chants 10:40
Heather Martin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2011-01-16 Lovingkindness as the Practice of Freedom 59:01
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2011-01-15 Equanimity: Seeds of an Appropriate Response 62:04
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
Using images, stories and quotes from teachers and spiritual leaders, this talk explores the practice of equanimity, discussing the topics of dependent conditions, working with challenges to equanimity, and offering equanimity practice techniques.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2011-01-15 Union of Love & Awareness, Part 2 31:18
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This 2 part series explores how mindfulness and metta, though distinct practices, in a mature practice become unified as a loving, kind presence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-01-15 Union of Love and Awareness, Part 1 34:49
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This 2 part series explores how mindfulness and metta, though distinct practices, in a mature practice become unified as a loving, kind presence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-01-14 Forgiveness Meditation 34:57
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2011-01-14 The Courage to Live - the Practice of Forgiveness 58:07
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2011-01-14 Un-manageability & Right Effort 42:46
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-01-13 The Joy of a Friendly Heart 68:34
Heather Martin	Download Listen
Exploring how metta cheers us, how a cheerful heart calms and relaxes us; and how a calm, relaxed state ushers in more understanding and so, more metta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2011-01-12 How Metta Transforms Us 56:09
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
In this second talk of the retreat, we explore further the spirit of metta, through teachings and stories, focusing as well on the themes of metta as a concentration practice, as opening a process of purification, and, as it matures, as increasingly embodied and wise.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2011-01-12 Recognizing the Dharma 1:10:22
Tony Bernhard	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-01-11 Metta as the Heart of Mindfulness 53:31
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
The "Introduction to Metta" talk positions metta as the particular form of mindfulness that reflects the third foundation of mindfulness, attention to the contents of mind. It also is presented as the practice that follows the Buddha's instructions for Wise Effort, the purposeful cultivation in the mind of wholesome states.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2011-01-10 Meeting What is with Love & Awareness 58:54
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How do we bring a loving presence to all of our experience- especially to our humanness, failed intentions. Cultivating mindfulness & kindness with our own experience becomes the template for living a wise life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-01-09 Practice of a Quiet Mind 58:06
Richard Mendius	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-01-09 Jhana Factors 1:57:58
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
The practice of jhana factors. Rapture, joy, walking, weaving contentment & tranquility.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-01-08 The Noble Eight Fold Path (Adrianne Ross & Sharda Rogell) 57:37
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
A concise exposition on the way these eight path factors form a cohesive whole for our practice in daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Dharma

2011-01-07 Song of Awakening: Confronting the Three Marks of Existence 65:43
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Story of The Buddha's deepening insight into impermanance, suffering and selflessness and how it led to the "Sure Heart's Release."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-01-06 Untangling Dukkha - 4 Noble Truths 59:24
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
The Buddha showed us the way out of our human predicament of living life as if we were on a wheel in a hamster's cage. The first three Noble Truths are explored to reveal a profound liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Dharma

2011-01-05 The Mirror of Mindfulness 52:33
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
The mirror of minfulness shows us things as they are. Mindfulness grounded in the body brings the stability to know this.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Dharma

2011-01-05 A New Beginning 44:07
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-01-03 Mindfulness When It Matters 61:40
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Rather than making New Year’s resolutions that often end in a sense of failure, it is more helpful to look at our life and practice in terms of aspirations, and to ask what do we need to cultivate and what can we let go of in order to support those aspirations? Using mindfulness, we can become more in tune with what really matters to us and also begin to notice the many subtle and even unconscious influences on our choices and behavior.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-01-03 Monday Night Meditation Lead 47:51
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-01-01 Four Wise Efforts 54:49
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
Recognizing and transforming difficulties and developing and cultivating all the beautiful qualities of mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Retreat

2010-12-31 Going for Refuge 65:40
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Retreat

2010-12-30 Expanding Beyond our Limited Storyline 50:03
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
As we shed our identification with our past and free ourselves from the belief, "I am my story," we open to a larger field of reality and to infinite possibilities of expressing who we truly are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Retreat

2010-12-29 What's the Point of Meditation? (Offsite at Walden West) 44:40
Marvin Belzer	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Teen Retreat (Offsite at Walden West)

2010-12-29 Intentions for the New Year 54:55
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-12-28 Rejecting and Allowing 53:34
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
Explaining the ways we reject experience and developing the capacities that support unconditional acceptance of ourselves and others.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Retreat

2010-12-27 The Heart's Compassion 55:33
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Retreat

2010-12-27 Happiness: Setting Our Course For the New Year 43:01
Nina Wise	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-12-27 Monday Night Meditation and Chant with Jennifer Berezen 67:33
Nina Wise	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-12-22 Water-Rainy Season 42:27
John Travis	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Solstice Retreat

2010-12-22 Practicing with the Dark and the Light at the Winter Solstice: Talk and Ritual 55:39
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-12-21 Letting Go: Crossing the Creek 54:25
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
After recently returning from six months of study and practice in Asia, Heather shares a few stories from her trip, weaving the themes of the outer journey and the inner journey of retreat. Teachings and practice tips focus primarily on working with strong emotions, the five hindrances and the process of letting go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Solstice Retreat

2010-12-20 Winter Solstice 35:19
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Finding the amazing joy of living, renewed in mystery...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-12-20 Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light. 58:34
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
At this time of Winter Solstice we explore a number of ways that our practice is to open to the dark (as nature's stillness and silence, as the unknown, as the difficult and as fertile and generative) and to evoke the light, learning better how to hold both.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Solstice Retreat

2010-12-19 Simplicity and Transcendence 2:37:49
Ajahn Yatiko	Download Listen
Excerpt from a Monastic Daylong at Spirit Rock that he co-taught with Ajahn Karunadhammo, also of Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery (abhayagiri.org).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-12-17 Beauty in the Midst of Adversity: The Practice of Forgiveness 48:22
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Forgiveness: the Wisdom of Our Hearts (A Retreat for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex & Same-Gender Loving Community)