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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2009-04-20 Burma Night (Part 1) 39:28
Jack Kornfield
Burma Slide Show and Choir
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-04-18 Four Noble Truths 62:03
Mark Coleman
This talk explores the Buddha's central teaching on the Four Noble Truths - how to understand and work with the reality of suffering, the forces of desire and aversion (the causes of suffering) and how that leads to the possibility of freedom (Third Noble Truth).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Vipassana for the Curious

2009-04-17 What Is Mindfulness? 57:07
Diana Winston
An introductory talk on mindfulness given on a beginners retreat. We learn the basics of mindfulness, what gets in the way, and how to deepen and cultivate it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Vipassana for the Curious

2009-04-15 Mudita, pt II 63:12
Donald Rothberg
Mudita practice both opens us to joy and extends that joy beyond our usual boundaries, transforming our conditions that limit joy to a limited circle and focus on the negative. We explore some of the roots of this personal and social conditioning and end by identifying some of the qualities of mature joy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-04-13 Aliveness & Awareness 8:30
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-04-08 Shamata with Object; Sight, Sound 1:27:36
Mingyur Rinpoche
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mahumudra

2009-04-04 Spring Fever Part 3 41:33
Ajahn Amaro
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Fever

2009-04-04 Spring Fever Pt 2 46:40
Ajahn Amaro
see part 1.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Fever

2009-04-04 Spring Fever Pt 1. 40:31
Ajahn Amaro
We often relate to arisings and beginnings as intrinsically and wholly good (think kids and puppies, spring flowers...), but surely there's more to the story, for everything in nature tends to create its opposite. This will be a day of reflections and practices on the themes of interest and enthusiasm, and their painful shadow, the obsessive quality of becoming. Most usefully we will explore the ways that the heart can be freed from such obsessive addictions so the cycles of nature can be integrated harmoniously.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Fever

2009-04-01 Sylvia Boorstein in dialog with Rabbi Jeff Roth 58:28
Sylvia Boorstein
Dialogue between Rabbi Jeff Roth and Sylvia Boorstein about the expression of Dharma truths using a Jewish idiom. Rabbi Roth is a graduate of the Spirit Rock Dedicated Practitioner Program.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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