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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2025-02-17 Taking Refuge ~ A Path to Freedom 1:57:53
Noliwe Alexander
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-02-17 Short Satipatthana Reflection 57:27
Devon Hase
Teachings on all Four Foundations of the Satipatthana Sutta leading into a silent sit.
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2025-02-16 Piti and Passaddhi 55:50
Devon Hase
Teachings on Liberative Dependent Co-Arising, with a focus on Piti leading into Passaddhi. References to Joseph Goldstein, Mingyur Rinpoche, and Disney's Sword in the Stone.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-14 Reflecting on Wellbeing with Pamojja (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:57
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-14 Step 2 and Love 50:44
Kevin Griffin
2-part Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma and Recovery

2025-02-13 The Simile of the Cook: Taking Feedback in Our Practice 1:16:43
Juliana Sloane
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thursday Morning Women’s Group

2025-02-13 Morning Instructions - Intention (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 18:26
Tuere Sala
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2025-02-12 Awakening in a World in Turmoil 2: Seeing the World with Dharma Eyes 65:07
Donald Rothberg
How do we see the world, especially and social world, from the perspective of awakening--with, we might say, "dharma eyes"? We explore this question in a time of great turmoil and concern in the world, particularly in the U.S. We start with several passages coming from an awakened mind and heart, including a passage from the Metta Sutta--how would one then look at the larger world? We explore how the Buddha himself looked at the world and social structures, particularly in terms of caste and gender. From our practice seeing greed, hatred, and delusion in ourselves, we learn how to see these qualities in others, and in the world. From our ethical training, we learn how to see when we are not following the ethical guidelines and when others are not, including on a larger social level. We also see how we can understand some of the larger social issues, particularly related to the climate crisis, racism, and gender, in terms of greed (especially), hatred, and delusion. We close, in this context, first with a pointing to ways of responding, using Joanna Macy's model of three ways that the "Great Turning" occurs, and then with a poem.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-02-12 Guided Meditation: Exploring Feeling-Tone and Reactivity 0:00
Donald Rothberg
(Recording not available) 
After guidance in developing concentration and mindfulness, we practice in silence. Then there is guidance related to mindfulness of the feeling-tone (the Second Foundation of Mindfulness), particularly the pleasant or the unpleasant (and whether there is reactivity, grasping after the pleasant and pushing away in some way the unpleasant), related to the theme of the talk given after the meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-02-12 Mindfulness of Strong Emotions 58:57
Devon Hase
Instructions and guided practice on meditating with strong emotions - light RAIN with somatic experiencing using orienting, titrating, and pendulating.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

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