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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2008-08-28 What Kind Of Effort? 51:31
Anna Douglas
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Exploring the place of effort in practice and how we need different kinds of effort at different stages; includes stories.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2008-08-25 Bringing The Practice Home 56:49
Adrianne Ross
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An end of retreat talk: Practice and principles to bring our insights and practice into our lives. Includes wise intention, renunciation, loving kindness and balanced effort and mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration

2008-08-23 Vipassana Jhanas 62:07
Steve Armstrong
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Insight knowledge unfolds with increasing maturity of the jhanic factors of mind. Stability of mind enables increasing depth of liberating knowledge.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration

2008-08-22 Why Exchange Sukkha For Dukkha 65:37
Phillip Moffitt
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Once you learn to find a calm abiding of the mind there are many kinds of joy and bliss that may arise. Yet, you are asked to turn your calm mind to the practice of insight in order to experience the dukkha the Buddha describes in the First Noble Truth. Why give bliss (sukkha) for dukkha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration

2008-08-21 Falling In Love With The Breath 57:45
Sally Armstrong
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Though the teachings on dukkha (suffering) are an important part of the Buddhist path, a skillful relationship to sukha (pleasure) actually played a significant part in the Buddha's awakening. This talk explores the wise use of pleasure and the cultivation of beautiful qualities of mind, especially in concentration practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration

2008-08-20 Arousing And Tranquilizing Factors Of Concentration 64:16
Steve Armstrong
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration

2008-08-19 Development Of Five Jhanic Factors And Antidotes To Hindrances 57:25
Adrianne Ross
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Development of the five jhanic factors to support concentration practice and explanation of their use as antidotes to the hindrances.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration

2008-08-18 Big Problem 54:48
Norman Fischer
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The human problem and what to do about it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2008-08-15 The Ocean Of Our Experience - The Practice Of Equanimity 51:07
Larry Yang
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How does the practice of Equanimity apply to our meditation practice and our lives in the householder world?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  People of Color Retreat

2008-08-14 Tranquility And Concentration 63:49
Bhante Buddharakkhita
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The tranquility and concentration factors of enlightenment are the natural outcome of mindfulness and wise attention. With a concentrated mind, one can see things as they really are. This is the path of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  People of Color Retreat

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