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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2008-02-21 Unity Of Emptiness And Compassion 60:51
Carol Wilson
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-20 Knowing What You Think You Don't Know 46:57
Naomi Newman
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Looking at the similarities between creativity and dharma practice with a focus on being comfortable with the unknown and the willingness to surprise yourself.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-02-20 What Actually Is The Truth? 58:48
Heather Martin
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How this truth-telling practice is a process which reveals ever deeper levels of what really is so. In this way, what we mistook for real is seen through and released, over and over again, leaving - what?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-18 Equanimity: The Eye Of The Storm 63:28
Howard Cohn
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The culmination of the Brahma Viharas, the ten paramis, and the factors of awakening. Equanimity allows us, like the Buddha, to 'sit in the middle'. Moment to moment mindfulness brings balance and openness to meet our joys and sorrows.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-16 Coming Out Of The Fog Of Delusion 56:11
Sally Armstrong
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The distortion of delusion operates in many ways, including when we are disconnected from our direct experience, or only allow in information that doesn't challenge our deluded state of mind. Learning how to recognize when delusion is distorting our experience allows us to wake up out of its spell and discover clarity and peacefulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-15 Joy Ushers In Calm 60:36
Heather Martin
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By welcoming joy we become content, so we relax, thus letting go of the need to do something - anything about it - thus calming down. Inner and/or outer joy facilitates the shift from doing to being - from trying to letting go - crucial steps on the path to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-14 At The Still Point Of The Turning World 61:06
Howard Cohn
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Exploring the concept of time and the way our reality is colored by the views of time that obscure the inexhaustible resource of the present moment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-13 Metta, Tenderness And Connection 60:06
Guy Armstrong
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Metta practice makes the heart more sensitive. This tenderness becomes the avenue for us to discover our deep connectedness to all of life and end a sense of isolation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-13 Essential Dharma - part 1, week 7 - part 1 of 3 30:15
Richard Shankman
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Part 1 of 3
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Dharma: Core Buddhist Teachings

2008-02-12 Seclusion 57:07
Carol Wilson
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Seclusion - viveka in Pali - is a theme the Buddha was asked about: "Teach me...release, emancipation, seclusion for beings." This talk explores various aspects of this word viveka: seclusion of body, seclusion of mind, seclusion from suffering - and how these are manifest in the retreat setting and mindfulness practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

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