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Dharma Talks
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2010-03-14
Refining Balance
56:19
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Heather Martin
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Using the Seven Factors of Awakening as a template, mirroring our progressive theme this month, exploring the dance between the active and the passive practices. Focusing on the shift from energy to rapture to serenity , and sweetness, and especially seeing how that shift is so effectively ushered in by more reflections and practices which uplift the heart.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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March 2010 Month Long
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2010-02-21
The Obvious
58:16
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Andrea Fella
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We often understand our habits and patterns as having many complex layers, and think we need to dive into the midst of the layers in order to "really" understand the pattern. This talk explores a gentle investigation of what is obvious in our experience, which allows a natural, organic understanding to emerge.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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February 2010 Month Long
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2010-02-05
A Question of Free Will: A Buddhist Perspective
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Alan Wallace
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In this lecture, Alan Wallace will discuss how Buddhism focuses on how we may achieve greater freedom in the choices we make, rather than struggling with the metaphysical issue of whether we already have free will. The Buddha began by first identifying the ways in which we are clearly not free, then showed ways in which we may achieve greater freedom in the present moment, as well as reshape the influence of the past upon our present experience and direct the flow of our lives into the future. Central to the question of free will is the nature of human identity, and it is in this regard that the Buddhist view of emptiness and interdependence is truly revolutionary.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2010-01-30
Awakening Joy
2:42:34
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James Baraz
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James and co-writer of Awakening Joy Shoshana Alexander, plus many friends from the 10-month course--dharma teachers, happiness experts, neuroscientists, musicians and more--share their thoughts on true happiness. This is the AM Session which includes Rick Foster and Greg Hicks, Rick Hansen, and performances by Eve Decker, Betsy Rose and Jennifer Berezen.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2010-01-10
Opening to our Radiant Hearts
62:19
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Donald Rothberg
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Lovingkindness practice ultimately works because we are evoking our deep nature - of kindness and love, the "brightly shining" citta associated with lovingkindness. We explore how we can open to our radiant hearts through (1) learning to lead with our hearts, (2) cultivating concentration, (3) evoking love and working through what blocks love, and (4) touching more and more our depths.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Metta Retreat
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2010-01-08
Mindful of the Climate of the Heart
26:51
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Sylvia Boorstein
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This introduction to a week of lovingkindness practice presents metta as a specific subset of mindfulness practice: paying attention to the presence or absence of good will in the mind. It includes an explanation of how the practice of continual blessing, “praying without ceasing” cultivates concentration of the mind. Concentration is presented as the antidote to all afflictive energies and the ground out of which our natural good will manifests.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Metta Retreat
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2009-12-02
Practicing with Views Part I
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Donald Rothberg
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We explore the nature of "views" (or strong beliefs or opinions) and how to practice with them by 1) grounding ourselves in some of the famous passages on views in the teachings of the Buddha, 2)identifying why and how views can be problematic and lead to suffering, and 3) offering practices this week to explore our views, whether personal, political or religious/spiritual.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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