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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2008-12-31 Stilling The Constructions Of Mind 48:16
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years Retreat

2008-12-30 Generosity 58:31
Adrianne Ross
The beautiful gifts of pure presence, acceptance and relinquishing as antidotes to greed, aversion and delusion as a pathway to liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years Retreat

2008-12-30 Afternoon Yoga 37:21
Janice Clarfield
Gentle meditative yoga for all bodies and ages. The intention is to enjoy inhabiting your body, while deepening experience and insight into the integration of physical, mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual well-being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years Retreat

2008-12-29 Lost In Flight - Heart, Faith 62:15
John Travis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years Retreat

2008-12-28 Seeing Through The Storyteller 55:52
Sharda Rogell
There is a storyteller in our minds that thinks it knows who and what we are suppose to be and do. We stay very busy trying to mold ourselves into that person believing something is wrong with the way we are. Through the practice of sensitive attunement, we rediscover our intrinsic nature as we enter a path of healing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years Retreat

2008-12-27 Seven Factors Of Awakening 57:49
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years Retreat

2008-12-24 Renewal In Our Practice And Lives 57:58
Donald Rothberg
In this time of darkness between Solstice and the New Year, it is a wonderful time for reflection, quiet and renewal - in our practice and in our lives generally. We explore a number of factors and practices that support renewal and post three questions at the end to help open us up to what renewal means for each of us
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-12-13 Six Places To Rest The Mind 54:24
Mary Grace Orr
The Buddha gives 6 places for the mind to dwell, 6 protections for our practice: Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, our virtue, our generosity and the devas. This talk explores how we can use them in our everyday lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation

2008-12-12 Constructions And Their Fading 56:18
Gil Fronsdal
A core part of Dharma practice is bringing to peace our mental construction, the talk discusses this in context of three aspects of the present experience: what is happening, our relationship to what is happening, and the subject who experiences all of this.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation

2008-12-11 Against The Stream 56:42
Howard Cohn
Distraction, "swimming" against our habit of distraction, our practice helps us open to the truth of dukkha, let go of its causes, realize its end and cultivate the the path of liberation, a version of the Four Noble Truths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation

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