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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2008-09-08 Listening And Speaking From The Heart 58:49
Donald Rothberg
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In cultivating wise speech, we train in many capacities. Among them is training to listen and speak with an open, loving heart. We explore the nature of the open heart and training in lovingkindness. We then examine what it means to listen, both generally and in speech, and what it means to speak from the heart, including reflection on some typical distortions of such speech.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness, Wise Speech and Nonviolent Communication

2008-09-06 Wise Speech And The Path Of Liberation 64:16
Donald Rothberg
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For this retreat on wise speech, mindfulness, and non-violent communication, we begin with examining the place of wise (or "right") speech in the Eightfold Path, and how it is linked to training and development in wisdom, ethics, and meditation. We then reflect on the importance for this path of speech, and the four ethical guidelines for speech given by the Buddha: (1) truthfulness, (2) helpfulness, (3) warmth/kindness, and (4) appropriateness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness, Wise Speech and Nonviolent Communication

2008-09-03 Renewing Our Practice - Reflections On A Mountain Retreat 54:49
Donald Rothberg
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How do we keep our practice fresh? If we are stuck, how do we renew our practice? Reflecting on a just completed time of retreat, we explore four ways of renewing our practice: (1) finding ways to touch our deeper motivations, (2) cutting through habitual psychological patterns, (3) grounding further in the body, and (4) touching our awakened qualities.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2008-08-31 Big Sky Meditation With Bells 41:03
Howard Cohn
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2008-08-30 Seeing Through The Self Illusion 61:51
Howard Cohn
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Opening to our experience moment-to-moment brightens our awareness, illuminating the difference between our direct experience and the virtual version of ourselves that plays through our minds.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2008-08-28 What Kind Of Effort? 51:31
Anna Douglas
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Exploring the place of effort in practice and how we need different kinds of effort at different stages; includes stories.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2008-08-25 Bringing The Practice Home 56:49
Adrianne Ross
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An end of retreat talk: Practice and principles to bring our insights and practice into our lives. Includes wise intention, renunciation, loving kindness and balanced effort and mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration

2008-08-23 Vipassana Jhanas 62:07
Steve Armstrong
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Insight knowledge unfolds with increasing maturity of the jhanic factors of mind. Stability of mind enables increasing depth of liberating knowledge.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration

2008-08-22 Why Exchange Sukkha For Dukkha 65:37
Phillip Moffitt
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Once you learn to find a calm abiding of the mind there are many kinds of joy and bliss that may arise. Yet, you are asked to turn your calm mind to the practice of insight in order to experience the dukkha the Buddha describes in the First Noble Truth. Why give bliss (sukkha) for dukkha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration

2008-08-21 Falling In Love With The Breath 57:45
Sally Armstrong
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Though the teachings on dukkha (suffering) are an important part of the Buddhist path, a skillful relationship to sukha (pleasure) actually played a significant part in the Buddha's awakening. This talk explores the wise use of pleasure and the cultivation of beautiful qualities of mind, especially in concentration practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration

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