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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2009-11-19 Opening the Doors of the Heart 56:04
Mary Grace Orr
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How can we open our hearts? This talk explores the practices of forgiveness and compassion, as well as that of gratitude. The Metta Sutta provides the background for this exploration.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-11-18 The Cure for Pain Is in the Pain 65:58
Howard Cohn
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Working with the difficult mental states, especially the 5 hindrances.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-11-18 Emptiness & Compassion Part IV 61:04
Donald Rothberg
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After a short account of emptiness and how we cultivate a deeper understanding of it in very practical ways, we explore the nature of compassion. We look at how it can be developed and what forms it can take, all the time pointing to how mature compassion invloves a deep sense of emptiness and interconnection (and vice versa).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-11-17 Curiosity, Confidence and Contentment 45:48
Mary Grace Orr
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We need places of refuge in our lives and we need an inner place of stillness. Curiosity, confidence and contentment as we develop mindfulness can be useful in developing inner refuge.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-11-16 Embracing Our Humanness 53:06
Mark Coleman
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How do we open our hearts to the fullness of ourselves, our pain, and the whole human experience...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-11-11 The Power of Paying Attention 57:22
Larry Yang
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How paying attention is the path to freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  LGBTQ: Awakening the Heart of Love and Wisdom

2009-11-11 Emptiness & Compassion III 64:01
Donald Rothberg
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We review the teachings on emptiness in the context of the broader teachings on the centrality of developing wisdom and compassion, expanding our examination of these teachings from last time. The last part of the session involving doing several exercises, partly explaining experience as a flowing "stream" (and seeing what obstructs the flow) and partly doing a series of four exercises with "ordinary objects" designed to take us out of our ordinary way of constructing things.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-11-10 Cultivating Beautiful Qualities, Beautiful Practice 49:12
Arinna Weisman
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Cultivating beautiful qualities of mind and removing the unskillful. The practice of ending suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  LGBTQ: Awakening the Heart of Love and Wisdom

2009-11-09 The Perfection of Truthfulness 56:43
Jack Kornfield
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On knowing the part of Self that "Truly" knows...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-11-07 No-Self in the Brain 44:01
Rick Hanson
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Insights from Neuroscience about Not Taking Life Personally
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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