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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2009-01-12 Stories About How Mindfulness Works 45:34
Sylvia Boorstein
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Stories about wisdom - how knowing profoundly that everything is changing, that our experience is created by myriad factors beyond our control, that acceptance and compassion create a peaceful mind - and how mindfulness creates that wisdom - paying attention
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Scientists Retreat

2009-01-10 Widening Circles: Practicing Metta In The World 64:40
Donald Rothberg
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How do we bring our metta practice out from retreat into the world and our everyday lives. We look at (1) some guidelines and ways of practicing metta in our personal formal practice; (2) practicing metta in our relationships with others; and (3) the importance of metta for social healing and transformation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta

2009-01-10 The Expansive Effects Of Metta 59:48
Heather Martin
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Interweaving all four threads of the Divine Abodes - to transform us from small, tight self-concern to the soft vast tenderness of interconnection, which is true freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta

2009-01-08 Wisdom Sustains Equanimity - Equanimity Sustains Wisdom 63:09
Sylvia Boorstein
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This talk, filled with contemporary stories as well as traditional accounts of the Buddha's enlightenment, makes the connection between wisdom and equanimity - and shows how lovingkindness, compassion, and appreciation are permutations of equanimity in situations that are neutral, unpleasant (troubling) and excitingly pleasant.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta

2009-01-07 We Need Metta To Do Metta 53:13
Heather Martin
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To handle the 'rowdy prisoners' which invariably arise in practice, Metta nourishes and reassures us, so we can relax, calm down, and release the burden of struggles with them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta

2009-01-06 How Metta Works Through Us 66:12
Donald Rothberg
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Metta works, partly in a clear way, partly mysteriously, to help us lead with our hearts, develop deeper concentration, unergo an often challenging process of purification and touch the depths of our being. As we practice, we work through a number of challenges - distraction, sleepiness, the restless mind and body, and the near and far enemies of metta - attached love and ill-will for enemies, particularly harsh judgment of self and others.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta

2009-01-05 Are You Brave Enough To Be Transformed By Lovingkindness? 59:58
Sylvia Boorstein
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Lovingkindness is presented as a "subset" of mindfulness: Attention to the third foundation of mindfulness, specifically the presence (or absence) of good will in the mind. Meditation is presented as a technique for letting go of all limiting stories (fixed views) that inhibit us from becoming the fully loving (and tolerant) people we could be.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta

2009-01-02 Big Mind Meditation 40:07
John Travis
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Years Retreat

2009-01-02 Ready Or Not 62:58
John Travis
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Years Retreat

2009-01-01 Knowing Limitless Freedom 54:58
Sharda Rogell
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What is left when we let go of the mental activity of objectifying, and solidifying our reality? What happens when we see into the empty nature of conditioned phenomenon?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Years Retreat

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