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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2008-05-03 Ode To Mindfulness 47:19
Trudy Goodman
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Why we practice mindfulness & why we feel such gratitude for this particular teaching. In this talk, the melding of mindfulness and metta become clear thrugh story and poetry.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) :  Yucca Valley Spring Insight Retreat

2008-04-30 Self And Not-Self - part 1 61:15
Donald Rothberg
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Is there a self?? To explore these questions is to enter the territory of paradox. We investigate how to understand both conventional and conceptual approaches to self....
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-04-25 Left Brain, Right Brain, It's Implications For Practice 45:40
Mark Coleman
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This talk points to how human beings straddle both mundane and divine realities. How we live dominated by left brain conceptual mind and how we have the potential to know dimensions of peace and freedom more characterized by the right brain hemisphere.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Natural Liberation

2008-04-23 Can't Complain - part 2 49:00
Sylvia Boorstein
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Continued from last week
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-04-16 Can't Complain 1:14:19
Sylvia Boorstein
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A discussion of "complaining" -what is the wise response to feelings of despair, dismay - and that experience of feeling victimized when one knows that no "one" is a victim.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-04-12 A Brief History Of Buddhism In India - part 2 1:12:31
Guy Armstrong
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This is the second of two talks outlining key developments in the evolution of Buddhist schools in India between the death of the Buddha and the emergence of Dzogchen. This talk covers briefly the origins of the Mahayana, Naganjuna, Yogacara and Vajrayana.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dzogchen Retreat

2008-04-11 A Brief History Of Buddhism In India - part 1 56:06
Guy Armstrong
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This is the first of two talks outlining key developments in the evolution of Buddhist schools in India between the death of the Buddha (463 BCE) and the emergence of Dzogchen (ca. 6th cent.). This talk covers the stages of classical (or Nikaya) Buddhism up to the beginning of the Mahayana.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dzogchen Retreat

2008-04-09 Mindfulness Of The Body, III 67:19
Donald Rothberg
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Mindfulness of the body goes against the grain of our culture yet is fundamental for most of us to bring awareness, compassion and wisdom to daily life. We explore some of the transformation possible through mindfulness of the body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-04-04 The Buddha's Way To Happiness 67:28
Howard Cohn
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The Buddha's evolving understanding of happiness and his awakening based on his life experiences.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 101

2008-04-03 Suffering And The End Of Suffering 61:58
Mark Coleman
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 101

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