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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2010-06-16 What the Buddha Really Taught 60:06
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-06-16 Morning Teaching 54:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Samadhi as a place of unification
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic

2010-06-15 Morning Instructions 35:58
Ajahn Metta
Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic

2010-06-14 Move Beyond Ourselves 1:27:27
Ajahn Sucitto
Dedications and chanting Dharma Talk: Move Beyond Ourselves, the ending of Karma
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic

2010-06-14 Chant 4:30
Ajahn Sucitto
Evening chant
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic

2010-06-14 Morning Teaching 48:58
Ajahn Sucitto
Energy and Effort; peripheral maps
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic

2010-06-13 Evening Chanting 14:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Includes dedication ritual before chanting
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic

2010-06-13 Q&A with both Ajahn Metta and Ajahn Sucitto 1:14:52
Ajahn Sucitto
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic

2010-06-13 Morning Teaching 45:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Finding the Center of Emptiness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic

2010-06-13 Chanting 7:25
Ajahn Metta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic

2010-06-12 Evening Teaching 69:52
Ajahn Metta
Relationship to Unknown (with chanting)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic

2010-06-12 Morning teaching 45:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Mind Body Awareness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic

2010-06-11 Release from Pressure 1:27:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Water offering, chanting and talk: Views, ignorance, empty into Nirvana
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic

2010-06-11 Morning Instructions 46:22
Ajahn Sucitto
Intentions; Holistic Approach to Awareness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic

2010-06-10 Opening Talk 8:19
Ajahn Sucitto
Recollection on Blessings; refuges, precepts, meditation and chanting.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic

2010-06-09 Right Viewing 59:25
Tony Bernhard
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-06-07 The Poetry of the Path 55:30
Mark Coleman
Poetry and the dharma path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-06-06 Freedom Through the Body 64:30
Tempel Smith
Through a deeper intimacy within the body, we can untangle our attachments and find increasing freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body: Meditation with Qigong

2010-06-05 Knowing Hindrances Through Body Awareness 62:55
Pascal Auclair
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body: Meditation with Qigong

2010-06-04 Embodied Mindfulness as a Path to Liberation 65:15
Phillip Moffitt
The vital difference between mindfulness and right mindfulness. What does it mean to have direct experience of the body? Simple practices to develop the "felt sense" of the body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body: Meditation with Qigong

2010-06-03 Letting Go Through the Body 55:07
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
Stories of how the 3rd Noble Truth of letting go can be discovered through the body
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening in the Body: Meditation with Qigong

2010-06-02 What is Your Practice? Part 1 60:30
Sylvia Boorstein
Part 1
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-05-29 Equanimity in the Dharma and in your Brain- guided meditation 37:52
Rick Hanson
Guided meditation from a daylong class
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2010-05-28 Awakening Compassion 48:10
Anna Douglas
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma

2010-05-27 To Be Realized in the Here and Now 65:40
Howard Cohn
The four noble truths explored in real time.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma

2010-05-26 New to Mindfulness? 59:42
Anna Douglas
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma

2010-05-25 The Buddha's Way to Happiness 62:04
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma

2010-05-24 The Joys of Awakened Heart 63:10
Jack Kornfield
How to find and enjoy the fruits of awareness, spacious attention and natural compassion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-05-22 Live Your Life -The Only One There is to Live 59:10
Jean Esther
Applying the teachings of the Buddha in our daily lives
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Befriending Ourselves and Coming Alive: A Retreat Cultivating Embodiment, Joy & Love

2010-05-22 Longing for Freedom 59:10
Martin Aylward
We come to dharma practice with a longing for freedom. This talk explores both the longing, in its importance for awakening the heart and nourishing the spiritual journey, and the Freedom of Being - our capacity to fully and freely inhabit and respond to life, to which this longing points.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation and Contemplative Inquiry

2010-05-21 Treasuring our Longing for Happiness by Uncovering its Obstacles 58:43
Arinna Weisman
Treasuring our longing by uncovering the obstructions to happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Befriending Ourselves and Coming Alive: A Retreat Cultivating Embodiment, Joy & Love

2010-05-20 Love and Equanimity 57:55
Jean Esther
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Befriending Ourselves and Coming Alive: A Retreat Cultivating Embodiment, Joy & Love

2010-05-19 Guided Joy Meditation 22:01
Arinna Weisman
Directing the wishes that our virtues and beautiful qualities continue to strengthen and bless us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Befriending Ourselves and Coming Alive: A Retreat Cultivating Embodiment, Joy & Love

2010-05-19 Cultivating Joy 51:21
Arinna Weisman
The eleven practices for cultivating joy and rapture as outlined in the Visudimagga, including contemplating one's own virtue and generosity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Befriending Ourselves and Coming Alive: A Retreat Cultivating Embodiment, Joy & Love

2010-05-19 Compassion and the Judging Mind 58:40
Eugene Cash
The judging mind helps hold the sense of self as a static entity. Compassion allows us to be with all manifestations, however painful, allowing for healing and release.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation and Contemplative Inquiry

2010-05-18 Demands, Defenses and Distractions: Exploring Obstacles to Presence 51:03
Martin Aylward
We get pulled away from ourselves in different ways. This talk explores both the mechanisms of how we get disconnected from being present, and how come those mechanisms exert such a powerful pull on our consciousness. The exploration encourages a careful and caring investigation of those obstacles, as the way to understand, and liberate them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation and Contemplative Inquiry

2010-05-17 Forgiveness 66:43
Jack Kornfield
The art of forgiveness and the skillful means to practice the transformation of the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-05-17 Working with Judgment 52:25
Arinna Weisman
The mechanisms of judgment, shame and blame are misguided attempts to protect ourselves when we have no other resources. We can now see how they are unskillful and connect with our inherent beautiful qualities as a resource to meet these energies and let them go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Befriending Ourselves and Coming Alive: A Retreat Cultivating Embodiment, Joy & Love

2010-05-13 Metta: The Web of Belonging 50:46
Nina Wise
As the mind stills, the heart opens. As the heart opens, we discover how we belong to this earth and live in a web of connection.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Liberation Retreat

2010-05-11 Ground of Being 47:43
Nina Wise
When we recognize our Buddha Nature, the boundless awareness at the heart of our being, lovingkindness arises effortlessly as an innate characteristic.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Liberation Retreat

2010-05-10 3 Principles of Awakening Joy 60:51
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-05-09 Renunciation & Courage 35:27
Ayya Santacitta
A talk from a daylong retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-05-09 Encounter with Courage and Renunciation 38:07
Ajahn Metta
A talk given at the Renunciation & Courage daylong.
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2010-05-08 The Bodhisattva Way 61:22
Jack Kornfield
How to live in this world lightly, with a compassionate heart and the spirit of the Dharma in all things you do.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-05-07 An Intentional Life 44:28
Christina Feldman
The cultivation of Wise Intention transforms an accidental life into a life guided by our deepest aspiration for compassion and freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Women in Meditation

2010-05-07 Loving The House That Ego Built 67:48
Howard Cohn
Putting our trust in awareness and getting to know and embrace our different self views, and the feelings that accompany them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-05-05 Fearless Kindness 49:25
Christina Feldman
Kindness is one of the foundations of awakening enabling us to meet the forces of fear that can distort our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Women in Meditation

2010-05-05 Four Reflections That Turn Us to Deeper Practice, II 66:10
Donald Rothberg
We continue to explore the Tibetan based teaching of the Four Reflections (or reminders) which help us turn more fully to the Dharma, giving a brief review of 1) the preciousness and rarity of human life, and 2) impermanence and suffering, then moving to examine in more depth 3) how our actions and thoughts matter and leave imprints- or karma, and 4) the importance of knowing and turning always from our habitual tendencies leading to suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-05-04 Three Marks: The Buddha's Facts of Life 51:37
Trudy Goodman
The Buddha taught three characteristics of all life as a doorway to freedom, to the pure heart's release.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-05-03 Freedom from suffering - The Buddha's 3rd Noble Truth 56:22
Mark Coleman
Understanding how mindful awareness supports acceptance, letting go and finding peace amidst all conditions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-05-03 Contentment 50:57
Christina Feldman
Contentment forms part of the fabric of a liberated heart - cultivated in all moments of craving, restlessness and doubt.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Women in Meditation

2010-05-03 Healing The Heart 58:04
Noah Levine
The process of accessing loving-kindness and compassion through forgiveness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-04-28 The Healing Power of the Dharma 60:28
Larry Yang
Mindfulness, the four noble truths, and freedom
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Retreat for Therapists and Healing Professions

2010-04-28 Four Reflections Which Turn us to Deeper Practice- Part I 64:12
Donald Rothberg
We explore the first two of the traditional Tibetan "mind-turning" reflections on the preciousness of human life , and on impermanence and death, with suggestions on how to practice these reflections and how this may quicken and deepen our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-04-27 Awareness as Love 59:31
Mark Coleman
How do the practices of mindfulness, metta and compassion weave together and support our journey in wholeness, healing and the end of suffering. This talk also relates how these practices support the work of psychotherapists and healers.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Retreat for Therapists and Healing Professions

2010-04-26 Craving and Grasping 1:10:58
Yvonne Rand
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-04-26 The Art and Science of Mindfulness 53:03
Shauna Shapiro
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Retreat for Therapists and Healing Professions

2010-04-25 Part 5 of 5- Discussion (pm) 29:37
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Daylong in the Style of U Tejaniya

2010-04-25 Part 4 of 5- Working with Emotions 29:00
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Daylong in the Style of U Tejaniya

2010-04-25 Part 3 of 5- Discussion (am) 29:57
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Daylong in the Style of U Tejaniya

2010-04-25 Part 2 of 5- Guided Meditation 30:40
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Daylong in the Style of U Tejaniya

2010-04-25 Part 1 of 5- Basic Instructions 44:43
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Daylong in the Style of U Tejaniya

2010-04-21 The Gradual Path 60:16
Tony Bernhard
none offered.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-04-19 Neuro Science & Mindfulness 52:06
Dan Siegel
Integration, Interpersonal Neurobiology & Mindfulness. Developing healing. Or as the neurons dance, so too does the fluidity of the experience and the Self...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-04-19 Wheel of Awareness Meditation 46:32
Dan Siegel
With an introduction by Jack Kornfield, Dan leads a unique guided meditation he calls the, "Wheel of Awareness Meditation".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-04-14 The Refuges 61:13
Tony Bernhard
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-04-12 Dancing With Desire 57:16
Mark Coleman
How to work with Desire. Understanding its bind of attachment, craving & aversion - using humor & awareness as supports for freeing ourselves from desires grip.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-04-10 Day for Experienced Students: Dependent Origination 60:19
Sally Armstrong
Part 1
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2010-04-10 Day for Experienced Students: Dependent Origination 65:43
Sally Armstrong
Part 2
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-04-10 Day for Experienced Students: Dependent Origination 40:28
Sally Armstrong
Part 3
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-04-10 Day for Experienced Students: Dependent Origination 20:54
Sally Armstrong
Part 4
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-04-10 Day for Experienced Students: Dependent Origination 14:37
Sally Armstrong
Part 5 of 6
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-04-10 Day for Experienced Students: Dependent Origination 67:16
Sally Armstrong
Part 6 of 6
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-04-08 Resources from the Teachings and Practice of the Buddha for Transforming Distressing States of Body, Heart and Mind 63:55
Donald Rothberg
We examine the twin tracks of transformation - (1) going into what is difficult, into our suffering and wounds; and (2) cultivating awakened states. We explore the resources of (1) wisdom, through examining the the Four Truths and the arrows; (2) mindfulness as a central tool leading to wisdom; and (3) heart practices such as lovingkindness - all with an eye to their roles in helping us to transform distress.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Transforming Distressing States of Mind, Heart, and Body­-For Ourselves and Our World

2010-04-07 Deepening Our Practice II: Deepening in Three Domains of Our Life 58:42
Donald Rothberg
We build from last week's identification of four broad ways of deepening formal practice: 1) developing simplicity, focus and a sense of clear priorities in one's life; 2) developing a strong support structure in various ways; 3) cultivating, in practice, qualities like mindfulness, metta, wisdom etc.; 4) developing a wise and compassionate sense of the path. We explore what these also mean in two other domains- everyday life (work relationships, family, community, the flow of our days); and our service and action in the larger world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-04-05 Healing 66:35
Jack Kornfield
How the power of mindfulness brings healing, freedom, joy, and understanding.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-04-03 I'm Right, You're Wrong! Attachment to Views & the Buddha's Path of Non-Contention 69:30
Ajahn Amaro
Daylong at Spirit Rock- Part 6 of 6
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-04-03 I'm Right, You're Wrong! Attachment to Views & the Buddha's Path of Non-Contention 39:45
Ajahn Amaro
Daylong at Spirit Rock- Part 5 of 6
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-04-03 I'm Right, You're Wrong! Attachment to Views & the Buddha's Path of Non-Contention 49:07
Ajahn Amaro
Daylong at Spirit Rock- Part 4 of 6
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-04-03 I'm Right, You're Wrong! Attachment to Views & the Buddha's Path of Non-Contention 25:43
Ajahn Amaro
Daylong at Spirit Rock- Part 3 of 6
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-04-03 I'm Right, You're Wrong! Attachment to Views & the Buddha's Path of Non-Contention 1:10:13
Ajahn Amaro
Daylong at Spirit Rock- Part 2 of 6
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-04-03 I'm Right, You're Wrong! Attachment to Views & the Buddha's Path of Non-Contention 42:43
Ajahn Amaro
Part 1 0f 6
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-03-31 Deepening Our Formal Meditation Practice 55:42
Donald Rothberg
Through reflection on just having taught a month-long retreat and several poems, we explore a number of ways to deepen our formal meditation practice through simplicity, focus, building a strong "container", developing mindfulness and lovingkindness in relation to what happens, and increased invocation of the "wise parent" (or grandparent...aka "discipline").
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-29 Shining The Light On Suffering 59:51
Mark Coleman
The Buddha stressed the importance of "being a lamp unto ourself" and to know the truth of suffering - as a vehicle for understanding & liberating ourselves from inevitable challenges of life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-27 Ease Trust Heart 52:37
John Travis
This talk explores our humanity/vulnerability and don't know.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-26 "Oh no, I'm still here." Practice continues. 47:48
Sharda Rogell
To integrate our practice, we need to keep applying the wisdom of our insights we gain from our sitting practice, retreats, and life experience. In this way, we come to terms with the different aspects of our personality, the aaspects we like and don't like.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-25 Letting Go and Picking Up 58:01
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-25 Letting Go and Picking Up 0:00
Gil Fronsdal
(Recording not available) 
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-24 The Heart of Wisdom: Connecting Loving Kindness and Equanimity 61:52
Donald Rothberg
Heart practices and wisdom practices can appear to speak different languages and have different aims; for example, lovingkindness wishes well whereas equanimity says, "no matter what I wish for, things are as they are." We explore how the heart and wisdom connect through exploring (1) lovingkindness, (2) equanimity, and (3) how the two inform each other and are integrated.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-24 Opening is the Ocean of Light- Sylvia Boorstein and Mingtong Gu 58:31
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-23 The Freedom of Truth 48:22
Mary Grace Orr
How do we hold all of the joys and sorrows, skillful and unskillful actions, wounds and blessings that we see when we practice intensely.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-03-22 Confession of a Buddhist Atheist 64:31
Stephen Batchelor
Talk on the journey of exploring Buddhist doctrine and principles... the questioning there of...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-22 Compassion is Wisdom Responding 54:22
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-21 Leaning toward Freedom 53:13
John Travis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-20 Guided Metta Meditation 43:12
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-19 Dependent Arising and Liberation 63:52
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-18 Disenchantment with the World/Turning towards Liberation 50:31
Sharda Rogell
Realizing clearly that things don't bring lasting satisfaction, we become disenchanted with reaching out to things; the energy that was bound up with clinging is there, released towards liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-17 Knowledge and Vision of Things as They Are (Liberative Dependent Arising 8) 59:52
Donald Rothberg
We explore how "knowledge and vision of things as they are," supported by concentration and earlier factors, brings us insight into impermanence, suffering and the roots of suffering, and not-self. We examine some of the forces and structure that lead to delusion and a lack of clear seeing, as well as how to practice to cultivate these insights.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-17 When in Doubt, Make Belief- An Interview with Jeff Bell 58:07
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-16 Knowledge and Vision of Things as They Are 49:28
Mary Grace Orr
A continuation of the series on transcendental dependent origination-the beginnings of insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

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