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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2008-05-06 Understanding The Judgmental Mind 50:37
Christina Feldman
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The judgmental mind is a cause of deep suffering that can be understood and released
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Women in Meditation

2008-05-05 Acceptance And Transformation 48:52
Narayan Helen Liebenson
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Acceptance is the wise understanding of what is. The kindness of acceptance is the alchemy that allows for transformation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Women in Meditation

2008-05-05 Perception & Awareness 59:31
Carol Wilson
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The Dalai Lama once said that all of our problems stem from mistaken perception. That is why there is so much emphasis on true knowledge. This talk explores the quality factor of perception, and how when it is colored by unwholesome states of mind we cannot accurately recognize reality, and so respond in ways that only increase our confusion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) :  Yucca Valley Spring Insight Retreat

2008-05-04 Precious Human Life 44:22
Christina Feldman
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The contemplation of what makes our life precious brings commitment and a sense of urgency to our practice. It is learning to remember what is of enduring value in this fleeting, fragile life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Women in Meditation

2008-05-03 Ode To Mindfulness 47:19
Trudy Goodman
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Why we practice mindfulness & why we feel such gratitude for this particular teaching. In this talk, the melding of mindfulness and metta become clear thrugh story and poetry.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) :  Yucca Valley Spring Insight Retreat

2008-04-30 Self And Not-Self - part 1 61:15
Donald Rothberg
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Is there a self?? To explore these questions is to enter the territory of paradox. We investigate how to understand both conventional and conceptual approaches to self....
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-04-25 Left Brain, Right Brain, It's Implications For Practice 45:40
Mark Coleman
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This talk points to how human beings straddle both mundane and divine realities. How we live dominated by left brain conceptual mind and how we have the potential to know dimensions of peace and freedom more characterized by the right brain hemisphere.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Natural Liberation

2008-04-23 Can't Complain - part 2 49:00
Sylvia Boorstein
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Continued from last week
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-04-16 Can't Complain 1:14:19
Sylvia Boorstein
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A discussion of "complaining" -what is the wise response to feelings of despair, dismay - and that experience of feeling victimized when one knows that no "one" is a victim.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-04-12 A Brief History Of Buddhism In India - part 2 1:12:31
Guy Armstrong
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This is the second of two talks outlining key developments in the evolution of Buddhist schools in India between the death of the Buddha and the emergence of Dzogchen. This talk covers briefly the origins of the Mahayana, Naganjuna, Yogacara and Vajrayana.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dzogchen Retreat

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