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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2008-02-27 Growing Goodness 60:16
Sally Armstrong
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Many of the Buddha's teachings are counter intuitive - we sit still to find freedom, we let go to receive. Opening to suffering and working skillfully with the kilesas - greed, aversion and delusion - actually bring us greater freedom and happiness. This talk is on the beautiful qualities called the Paramis that directly counter the force of the kilesas.
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2008-02-26 Consciousness, Awareness And Nibbana 63:33
Guy Armstrong
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It is the direct realization of the unconditioned, or nibbana, that is considered enlightenment in the Buddha's teachings. This talk explores how consciousness and awareness can be understood as links in practice to the flavor of the unconditioned.
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2008-02-25 Monday Night Meditation 1:41:16
Eugene Cash
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2008-02-25 Faith And Wisdom 55:43
Heather Martin
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Two of the five Spiritual Faculties. Exploring: -What we actually believe in, rely on, value. -The difference and sometimes distance between knowledge, ideas, beliefs and wisdom - the integrated absorbed and deeply understood truths.
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2008-02-23 Big Mind Meditation 43:33
Howard Cohn
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A version of Joseph Goldstein's Big Mind meditation using bells and reminders to allow your mind to be like a clear empty sky and allow the different experiences to arise and pass without interference.
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2008-02-22 The Four Reminders 69:07
Howard Cohn
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We have the opportunity to make something of this precious life, that has such fortunate conditions that can also quickly change. The seeds we plant have results. Orienting ourselves toward the Dharma can free us from the samsaric loop.
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2008-02-21 Unity Of Emptiness And Compassion 60:51
Carol Wilson
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2008-02-20 Knowing What You Think You Don't Know 46:57
Naomi Newman
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Looking at the similarities between creativity and dharma practice with a focus on being comfortable with the unknown and the willingness to surprise yourself.
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2008-02-20 What Actually Is The Truth? 58:48
Heather Martin
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How this truth-telling practice is a process which reveals ever deeper levels of what really is so. In this way, what we mistook for real is seen through and released, over and over again, leaving - what?
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2008-02-18 Equanimity: The Eye Of The Storm 63:28
Howard Cohn
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The culmination of the Brahma Viharas, the ten paramis, and the factors of awakening. Equanimity allows us, like the Buddha, to 'sit in the middle'. Moment to moment mindfulness brings balance and openness to meet our joys and sorrows.
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