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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2007-10-04 Guided Big Mind Meditation 45:42
Shaila Catherine
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This guided meditation explores the vast spacious clarity of awareness. It includes sounds and silence, bells and gongs, intertwined with inquiry into the nature of mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-03 Relationship As Spiritual Practice II 62:54
Donald Rothberg
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We continue our exploration, with a review of why, in the contemporary west, it’s important to develop a fuller sense of relationship as practice, and what the prerequisites for this practice are, in terms of Buddhist resources. Then we explore how in relationship there can be a full sense of inner awareness and roundedness (the “I”), awareness of and xxx toward the other (the “you”), and a third “body” (the feid of the “we”. We use experiential exercises to explore this.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-10-03 Instructional Sit with Body Sweep 57:43
Ruth Denison
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A guided instructional sit, beginning with Metta meditation and expanding into the purposes of reflection. Instructions continuing the practice of attending, investigation with allowance and deep appreciation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Vipassana: Awareness of the Nature of Life

2007-10-03 Truth And Duality 61:06
Christopher Titmuss
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We believe that the now is more important than past and future, there is an essence behind personality and we have to work through our stuff to get to our Buddha nature. Truth dissolves these dualities.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-02 Body Sweeping With Annica 65:01
Ruth Denison
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Teaching on Annica through a guided body sweep.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Vipassana: Awareness of the Nature of Life

2007-10-02 Love And Non-Self 64:54
Christopher Titmuss
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We are preoccupied with self and other. Love needs to be liberated from self and other, popular culture and religion. Authentic love is a liberating force in the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-01 Vipassana Meditation The Science Of Mindfulness 60:07
Ruth Denison
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Instructional overview of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, focusing on intentional investigation, your attention with an allowing attitude. Vipassana, clear seeing, as outcome to this practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Vipassana: Awareness of the Nature of Life

2007-10-01 Guided Movement Meditation 63:04
Ruth Denison
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Cultivating skiils to live closely with this bodily process through sense experience. Practice in lying down, sitting, standing, and moving or walking.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Vipassana: Awareness of the Nature of Life

2007-10-01 Effort + Ease = What Needs To Be Done 52:55
Shaila Catherine
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This talk explores the range of skillful effort, from ardent and zealous practice to spacious relaxation. Shaila points to a nondual realization that reveals our freedom in both action and in ease.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-01 Facing Aggression 54:03
Norman Fischer
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Turning away is so natural to us but we must turn toward the aggression within us if we want to overcome it. Our practice is to do this, be patient with what we find, and learn to let it come and go rather than fix it. Then we will be able to act with kindness, and to change this world inside and out.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

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