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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2009-03-01 Tending The Silence 42:40
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation March Month Long

2009-02-28 The Metta Sutta: How Not To Die Of Bitterosity 57:37
Sylvia Boorstein
This has the Metta Sutta as the basic text; but includes a discussion of the Paramitas and the resolve I made with Sharon Salzberg years ago to spend our time "when we are old" in "sitting around praying for people".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation February

2009-02-25 Compassion And Emptiness 61:22
Carol Wilson
Emptiness and compassion are like two sides of the same coin -- they support and balance one another. How can we open to the beauty and suffering in this world; and how can we respond with wise intention?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation February

2009-02-23 Power Of Compassion 58:58
Mark Coleman
The place of compassion in our lives & practice - What supports the heart to open & what hinders compassion from opening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-02-23 The Joy Of Mindfulness 51:40
Sylvia Boorstein
Based on the concept that mindfulness cultivates insights which lead to wisdom to manifest as compassion that is experienced as joy, this talk is about 1) the joy of awakened physical awareness, 2) the joy of psychological clarity, 3) the joy of knowing universal truth, 4) the joy of service and 5) the joy of realizing the basic goodness of human beings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation February

2009-02-21 From Ignorance Come Impulses 62:16
Guy Armstrong
The first two links of dependent origination say that ignorance gives rise to volitional formations or impulses. The talk describes succesive layers of obscurations that form from ignorance, to a belief in self, to afflictive emotions, to unskillful actions. The path undoes these layers by focusing, in order, on virtue, mediation, and wisdom, finally penetrating to nibbana.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation February

2009-02-20 Faith In The Dharma 60:39
James Baraz
Faith is one of the Five Spiritual faculties. This talk explores the elements of faith, sources of our faith and the ingredients we bring to deepen our trust and faith in the Dharma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation February

2009-02-19 Tidying The Mind 58:07
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation February

2009-02-18 Exploring Craving 62:24
Carol Wilson
This talk encourages us to explore the gratification, danger and escape in our personal experience of clinging; with the intention to understand rather than to judge. Meeting our experience with mindfulness/wisdom is the practice of non-clinging.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation February

2009-02-16 The Raw Spot 63:21
Norman Fischer
Loss, pain and suffering leave us raw. But the rawness can bring us to a new birth. How to practice with difficult times, economic uncertainty.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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