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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2010-12-16 Making Peace with Samsara 46:36
Pascal Auclair
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)

2010-12-15 A Personal Journey of Suffering and Finding Compassion 42:54
Arinna Weisman
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)

2010-12-15 Gradual and Immediate Awakening, II 60:49
Donald Rothberg
We look in more depth at the path of gradual awakening and its complimentary path and practice of immediate awakening, suggesting a variety of ways to practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-12-14 Holding Life Tenderly 51:31
Larry Yang
The path of mindfulness and metta towards freedom.
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)

2010-12-13 The 1906 Earth Quake 50:57
Norman Fischer
How to work with suffering & fear - How people in the Earthquake experienced it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-12-11 You are the Buddha 65:01
Howard Cohn
The Buddha is not so far away and your practice can allow you to recognize this.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-12-11 No-Self In The Brain 49:10
Rick Hanson
Neuroscience and the teachings of Anatta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-12-11 No Self in the Brain 1:59:12
Rick Hanson
Neuroscience and the teachings of Anatta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-12-10 Melting the Judgmental Heart 48:55
Mary Grace Orr
The judgmental mind is painful and difficult. We can bring the practicies of the Brahma Viharas to it, to melt away the judgment and to develop a kind and spacious heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-12-09 Let Your Difficulties Become the Path 61:22
Howard Cohn
Letting the uniquely human experience of our struggles and pain become the cause for healing, tenderness and well being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-12-08 The Surprise of Unfolding 48:57
Mary Grace Orr
We come to retreat seeking refuge. Developing curiosity, confidence and contentment and in resting in the surprises of our unfoldment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-12-08 Gradual and Immediate Awakening, I 63:16
Donald Rothberg
We explore the complementarity of gradual and immediate (or sudden) ways of practicing, with some experiential exercises.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-12-04 Befriending Our Shadow 43:01
David Richo
Part 3 of 3
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-12-04 Befriending Our Shadow 61:13
David Richo
Part 2 of 3
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-12-04 Befriending Our Shadow 1:12:22
David Richo
Part 1 of 3
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-12-03 The World of Dew: A Talk on The Two Truths 59:03
Eugene Cash
Dhamma practice opens us to the world of paradox and mystery. The Buddha's teachings on relative and ultimate truth reveal to us the seamless nature of the Path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Discovering Presence in Each Moment

2010-12-02 Barking, Barking, Barking: Mindfulness as Respectful Listening 50:09
Pamela Weiss
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Discovering Presence in Each Moment

2010-12-01 Investigating the Dharma: Refuges, Hindrances, Mindfulness 59:33
Anushka Fernandopulle
First night talk on what we are doing on retreat, working with hindrances, mindfulness, connection to refuges and precepts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Discovering Presence in Each Moment

2010-11-29 Lovingkindness 63:03
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-24 Cultivating Generosity and Gratitude 60:30
Donald Rothberg
We examine the nature of generosity and gratitude and both how to cultivate them , and what stands in the way of their expression through stories and teachings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-22 Compassionate Presence 57:48
Trudy Goodman
Transformation happens in the realm or context of compassionate presence. How do we learn to offer compassionate, loving attention to ourselves, each other, and our world?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Retreat

2010-11-21 Hindrances and Such 56:19
Wes Nisker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-20 Spiritual Allegory: The Chilean Miners 49:55
Robert K. Hall
Acceptance, Surrender, the human condition and the amazing story of the Chilean miners entrapment and rescue.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Retreat

2010-11-18 Closing Morning Talk on Emptiness 46:06
Gil Fronsdal
Brief overview of emptiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-17 Emptiness and Karma 60:13
Guy Armstrong
At first glance it might seem the teaching of karma, in which our actions bring results to ourselves, might be in contradiction to the understanding that our experience is empty of a self. However, the two teachings on emptiness and karma actually need each other for liberation to be possible.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-17 Teachings on the Practice of Reflection 20:33
Sally Armstrong
Teachings on the practice of reflections, and duided reflections on what inspired and challenged you in the Emptiness Retreat, and what you will take home with you.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-17 Practicing with Intentions 46:52
Donald Rothberg
We explore 1) The nature of intentions, 2) The importance of intentions in our practice, 3) karma and intentions, and 4) how to practice with intentions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-17 Reflections on Compassion 33:52
Sally Armstrong
Guided reflective meditations on compassion for someone who is suffering, for oneself, and for the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-17 Compassion Needs Emptiness 47:03
Sally Armstrong
True compassion needs space to function. The less self-obsessed we are, the more responsive and connected our hearts can be.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-16 Emptiness in the Mahayana 64:19
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-16 The Empty Nature of Awareness 68:12
Guy Armstrong
We can be aware of many objects in meditation. It's also possible to turn our attention to awareness itself. The talk explores what happens when we do this. Is awareness findable? Does it come and go? Is it conditioned? And what is the value of meditating like this?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-16 Big Mind Guided Meditation 44:15
Guy Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-15 Joy & its Causes 65:46
Jack Kornfield
How Joy can be found, nourished and brought alive in the very circumstances of our life. Shifting from our loyalty to suffering, to a deeper freedom of heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-15 Dependent Origination As a Pointer to Emptiness 57:34
Sally Armstrong
The Buddha's teaching on Dependent Origination are among his most profound and challenging. This teaching clearly shows how ignorance leads to suffering, and implicit in this is the way out of suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-15 Emptiness and Letting Go 57:40
Gil Fronsdal
How emptiness is experienced through the letting go of clinging and concepts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-15 Emptying the Mind 40:25
Gil Fronsdal
Guided Meditation on emptying the mind of all concepts to the point of letting go of attachments.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-14 The Emptiness of Phenomena 57:07
Guy Armstrong
All the phenomena of our senses are empty of any solid substance or essence. It may be more appropriate to refer to phenomena as "appearances" rather than "objects." This theme is explored through the Sutta "A Lump of Foam" in the Samyutta Nikaya.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-14 The Five Aggregates Are Empty 69:57
Sally Armstrong
The Buddha often used the schema of the Five Aggregates to show that what we take to be self is actually impermanent and unsatisfactory, and that clinging to the aggregates will bring suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-14 Meditation on the Aggregates 45:48
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-13 Dependent Origination 53:40
Gil Fronsdal
Talk on Emptiness for Emptiness: Meditation and Study retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-13 Formation of Self-View 1:11:25
Guy Armstrong
The Buddha said many times that no self is to be found in the phenomena of our senses. But still, the sense of a self in us arises over and over. This talk explores through sutta references how this sense of self is created in the moment and how it can cease.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-13 Morning Instructions 39:34
Guy Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-12 The Three characteristics as Pointers to Emptiness 58:13
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-12 Dharma in Brief 1:19:34
Gil Fronsdal
First talk for the Emptiness: Meditation and Study Retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-12 Guided Morning Instructions 42:55
Gil Fronsdal
Mindfulness of what is happening and how we relate to it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-11 Introduction to Emptiness Retreat 49:19
Guy Armstrong
This talk was given on the opening night of the Emptiness Retreat. It introduces the theme of emptiness as a lack of unchanging essence or substance. This retreat encourages us to explore the possibility that things are not as they appear to be.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-10 Twelve Reasons Why We Practice 62:00
Donald Rothberg
Connecting with our deep motivation for practice is a crucial support. We explore a number of interwoven motivations for practicing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-08 Developing the Parami' Part 2 61:43
Mark Coleman
This talk continues an exploration of the Buddhas teachings in the Paramis - specifically focusing on the Parimi of Love ( metta) energy, persistence, truthfulness and morality.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-07 The Path Ahead: Integrating Our Life into our Practice 41:49
Sharda Rogell
A talk given on the closing morning of retreat that lays out the way to live with wise intentions for liberating our habitual tendencies and living an awakening life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Art of Embodied Presence

2010-11-06 Relaxing the Fixated 'I' 52:52
Sharda Rogell
Unless we understand how we cling to the conditions of our mind and body as "me", we will live within a narrow and confined view and miss the revelation of our true beingness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Art of Embodied Presence

2010-11-05 Our Strategies Aren't Working: the Arising of Compassionate Heart 59:16
Sharda Rogell
A simple and clear exposition on the Buddha's insights into releasing, grasping and suffering. This is the release that opens our heart to great compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Art of Embodied Presence

2010-11-05 How the Dharma Saved My Life 64:49
Bob Stahl
How to work with self-loathing and doubt. How the Noble truths lead to freedom. How the Buddha guides us on the eight-fold steps on how to live our lives, train our minds and grow in wisdom. The Dhamma is most excellent in the beginning, middle, and end.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness of the Body

2010-11-03 Training the Mind; Aiming Towards Love 59:21
Sharda Rogell
When we identify with our cruel inner critic, this undermines our capacity for kindness towards ourselves and others. Inclining the mind towards metta points us towards our own innate goodness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Art of Embodied Presence

2010-11-03 Tending the garden of the heart and mind 50:52
Mary Grace Orr
Just as we garden, tending out plants and pulling weeds, so we need to cultivate the ground of heart and mind. Uprooting obscurations and dealing with hindrances are part of this work.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness of the Body

2010-11-03 Paramitas- Each a Permutation of the Others 60:34
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-02 The Fathom Long Body 57:03
Bob Stahl
An introduction to mindfulness of the body with the 32 Parts of the Body meditation and elements.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness of the Body

2010-11-02 Inner and Outer Refuge: Opening the Rose 49:29
Sharda Rogell
First we find our outer refuge in sacred spaces in the triple gem, and through establishing a ground of trust we can let go, taking refuge in awareness itself where everything we need for awakening is available.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Art of Embodied Presence

2010-11-01 Developing the Paramis 57:15
Mark Coleman
This talk focuses on the development of 5 of the 10 Paramis: generosity, truthfulness, equanimity, renunciation and wisdon - how they are both innate and also elemental beautiful qualities on the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-30 Parami of Virtue 1:11:07
Lila Kate Wheeler
Virtue is innate and how it functions to deepen wisdom and find joy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-30 Working with Anxiety 26:31
Arinna Weisman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-10-29 The Perfection of Wisdom 58:55
Spring Washam
How the Parami of Wisdom cuts through the deluded mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-29 Big Mind Meditation 44:10
Mark Coleman
A meditation on the nature of awareness and how all phenomena appear and are known effortlessly in the natural knowing of awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-27 "Presents of Mind" 53:30
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-26 The Perfection of Love 63:54
Mark Coleman
An exploration of the quality of love: what is it, how it manifests on the meditative journey and the exploration between emptiness and love; how love unfolds as we lessen identification with a sense of separation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-25 Parami of Truthfulness - Living the Truth 64:43
Lila Kate Wheeler
The power of truthfulness in life and how it infuses meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-25 Hard Knock Dharma. 1:13:36
Jacques Verduin
Reflecting on starting the Insight Prison Project, Jacques is joined on stage by 3 former inmates from San Quentin Prison.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-10-25 Hard Knock Dharma; guided meditation 46:58
Jacques Verduin
Guided meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-10-24 Patience and Determination Make Change Possible 64:30
Phillip Moffitt
Patience and Persistence (Determination) are the paramis that can bring change to our practices and to our lives. They are the perfect twins-they support and empower one another. Each is to be developed separately but needs the other for fruition. Together they create possibility unto-fore unimagined.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-24 The Joy of Letting Go, part 2 1:17:06
James Baraz
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2010-10-24 The Joy of Letting Go, part 1 48:19
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-10-23 Joyous Equanimity 61:48
Spring Washam
Freedom and equanimity in the midst of challenges and change. The Buddha's teachings on equanimity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-23 Hard Things That Open The Heart 34:04
Richard Mendius
Last AM Session
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-23 Hard Things That Open the Heart 46:46
Rick Hanson
AM Middle Session
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-10-23 The Hard Things That Open The Heart 34:51
James Baraz
Opening AM Session
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2010-10-20 Wisdom Everywhere 51:16
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-18 Baby Blessing - October 18, 2010 5:55
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-18 with Rinchen Khandro Choegyal: Carrying The Lamp Of The Dhamma. 69:13
Jack Kornfield
The empowerment of Tibetan Women and the Rise of Tibetan Nuns.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-18 with Rinchen Khandro Rinpoche: Carrying The Lamp Of The Dhamma 29:58
Jack Kornfield
Part 1 of 2: The empowerment of Tibetan Women and the Rise of Tibetan Nuns.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-18 Continuing the Momentum of the Retreat in Daily Life Practice 33:54
Donald Rothberg
We explore a number of resources, support structures, and guiding perspectives that can help our daily life practice come alive.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2010-10-16 Give Me the Song-Devotion, Longing & Faith 55:34
Sean Oakes
Ways that devotion arises and can be cultivated in our practice. Ardency, intention, faith and longing as aspects of devotion. What sustains us on the Path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2010-10-16 A Good Conversation 45:45
Barbara Kaufman
A talk about painting and the creative process and the importance of being willing to be in the not-knowing with what's going to happen.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation and the Spirit of Creativity

2010-10-15 Metta practice and the Transformation of the Heart 45:37
Donald Rothberg
An exploration of metta practice and how it works-to develop the capacity to lead with the heart, develop in concentration, purify our being and touch our deeper nature.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2010-10-15 Thank Goodness for Impermanence 45:58
Susan Moon
As I get older and the time I have left shrinks, I find the opportunity to enter deep time. We have infinite time in the present moment. It is this passing of time too, that makes creativity possible. Readings on time and memory from my book, This Is Getting Old.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation and the Spirit of Creativity

2010-10-14 Wisdom-suffering, impermanence and the Heart 52:07
Donald Rothberg
Wisdom across many traditions is understood as a clear and deep seeing of human experience; a seeing that cuts through conditioning and delusion. We look at the relationship of wisdom to mindfulness and the caring heart, particularly at how we see more clearly suffering, its roots and impermanence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2010-10-13 Mindfulness-What it is and What Makes it Difficult. 50:49
Donald Rothberg
Mindfulness plays a central role in our practice of living with wisdom and compassion. We explore a number of the qualities of mindfulness as well as the obstacles to mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2010-10-13 Creative Liberation 41:27
Anne Cushman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation and the Spirit of Creativity

2010-10-13 Estamos Bien 58:43
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-12 Why do we practice? 18:34
Donald Rothberg
It is helpful to connect with our deeper aspirations to practice - at the beginning of a retreat as well as before practice sessions. Twelve different responses to the question of why we practice are explored.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2010-10-11 In the Footsteps of the Buddha 69:18
Shantum Seth
part 2 of 2
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-11 In the Footsteps of the Buddha 35:24
Shantum Seth
part 1 of 2
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-10 In Deepest Gratitude 1:21:31
Rick Hanson
This moving and heartfelt event is an annual tradition, held each year to to express deep appreciation for the generous donors and volunteers that support Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Rick Hanson, PhD presented for this year’s event, giving an inspiring talk exploring the dimensions and benefits of both gratitude and generosity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In Deepest Gratitude

2010-10-08 The Freedom of Forgiveness 61:40
Vinny Ferraro
Sitting with the cost of not forgiving and the opportunity to do something different in this moment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Kind Awareness

2010-10-06 Uncovering Faith 48:13
Noah Levine
The Path of Dharma that leads to faith, effort and the uncovering of wisdom...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Kind Awareness

2010-10-06 How to be Sick 53:00
Sylvia Boorstein
Sylvia talks with Toni Bernhard about her book "How to be Sick".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-05 The Three Characteristics of Existence 57:01
Noah Levine
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Kind Awareness

2010-10-04 The Teacher Who Never Leaves You 56:01
Ayya Anandabodhi
Reflections on taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-10-04 The Teacher Who Never Leaves You 56:01
Ayya Anandabodhi
Reflections on taking refuge in the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-10-02 Forgiveness and Assertiveness 44:10
Rick Hanson
Forgiveness and assertiveness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-09-29 Essential Dharma 3, 2010 43:06
Mark Coleman
Part 3 of 3
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Part III

2010-09-29 The Wisdom of the Paramittas: Class 1 of 5 24:45
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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