2008-06-14 Buddho, Dhammo, Sangho 67:43
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Using Buddho, Dhammo, Sangho as a reminder not to take refuge in conditions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-14 Evening Chanting In English 12:16
Ajahn Candasiri	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-14 Mirror, Mirror... 1:13:34
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Developing gratitude, contentment, and joy plus more reflections on the fetters.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-13 Four Times Three Equals Twelve 69:00
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Ajahn Sumedho reflects on the use of the Four Noble Truths to investigate experience. He also continues to explore the fetters that block the spiritual path, while also speaking about the paticca samuppada, or Dependent Origination.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-13 Challenging Conditions 58:46
Ajahn Candasiri	Download Listen
Using Awareness to question and challenge the identification with the five khandas. Working with death.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-12 I'm Right, You're Wrong 1:12:42
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-12 I, Me, Mine 51:00
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Ajahn Amaro picks up on themes that Ajahn Sumedho has been reflecting on during this retreat, including metta (loving kindness), and the fetters that obstruct the spiritual path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-11 Security In Awareness 63:25
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-11 This Is Not The Ideal 65:57
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-11 Evening Chanting In Pali 13:36
Ajahn Candasiri	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-10 History Of Zero 65:45
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Reflections on Sakkayaditthi personality view.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-10 Metta For All Conditions 61:28
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Contemplating Metta as unconditional love and acceptance.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-09 Happiness And The Way Of The Bodhisattva 62:45
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-06-09 The God Of Deathlessness 50:57
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Awareness and Belief systems. Personality view as a limitation, a fetter.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-09 The Point That Includes 63:11
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
A wide-ranging talk about many aspects of Buddhist practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-08 Unenlightened Personalities 1:10:22
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-08 Me, Ajahn Sumedho, Center Of The Universe 60:03
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
A talk on the delusion of Sakkayaditthi, personality view, and its relationship to the three cravings. The talk also includes some instruction on the sound of silence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-07 The Place Is Here, The Time Is Now 1:11:00
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-07 Unborn, Unformed, Uncreated, Unconditioned 57:49
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
A talk about the nature of the unconditioned and using the Four Noble Truths as a contemplative tool.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-06 The Essence Of Buddhadhamma 1:12:52
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
The deeper and direct meaning of the three refuges and eight precepts are described and reflected on, in addition to a general reflection on how to relate to practicing the essence of the Buddhadhamma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-06 The Essence Of Buddhadhamma - without opening and closing chanting 43:42
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
The deeper and direct meaning of the three refuges and eight precepts are described and reflected on, in addition to a general reflection on how to relate to practicing the essence of the Buddhadhamma. (The opening and closing chanting has been edited out of this recording.)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-02 Wise Understanding 64:28
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-05-31 Joy Of Practice 69:45
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What are the joys and fruits of the practice of Vipassana/mindfulness? This talk elaborates the peace, joy, freedom that arises from meditation; especially in regard to seeing clearly the nature of thought, papanca and disengaging from the delusions of mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation for the Curious

2008-05-26 Five Guidelines For Practicing With Conflict 46:54
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore five aspects of bringing our practice to conflicts - inner, interpersonal, group, or social: 1. At the heart of such practice is transforming reactivity and responding skillfully. Also crucial are different ways of: 2. grounding and centering in the body, 3. resting in the heart, 4. maintaining a non-dual vision, and 5. continuing to be deeply engaged and acting without attachment to immediate outcomes, once we have acted responsively.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Path of Engagement

2008-05-24 Dharma Of Recovery 4 26:04
Noah Levine	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dharma and Recovery

2008-05-23 Dharma Of Recovery 4 31:24
Noah Levine	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dharma and Recovery

2008-05-22 Metta Sutta 41:04
Stephanie Tate	Download Listen
Loving Kindness Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dharma and Recovery

2008-05-22 Dharma Of Recovery 2 54:36
Noah Levine	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dharma and Recovery

2008-05-22 Dharma Of Recovery 3 12:10
Noah Levine	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dharma and Recovery

2008-05-21 Dharma Of Recovery 1 50:49
Noah Levine	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dharma and Recovery

2008-05-21 Maintaining A Sense Of Vision And Practice In The Midst Of Conflicts 58:12
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Why is it so difficult to bring practice into situations of conflict? We look at five reasons for these difficulties, each of which suggests an aspect of our practice in the midst of conflicts. We then explore some resources for nondual conflict transformation, particularly the middle way of the Buddha and a "both-and" vision for working with conflicts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Path of Engagement

2008-05-21 Mindfulness In Relationship To Food 59:54
Pablo Das	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dharma and Recovery

2008-05-19 The Fool's Path 42:25
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Accepting Our Human Condition, Laughing With Ourselves, Stumbling Toward Enlightenment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-05-14 Self And Not Self III 57:31
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Transformation Beyond the Constricted Self After a review of teachings about not-self, and an exploration of the ways that the self appears as an overlay on, or constriction of, the flow of experience, we look in this final talk at what si there when a constrictive self is absent: 1) individuality without identification, 2) awareness, 3) wmptiness of phenomena and self, and 4) compassion and responsiveness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-05-14 Essential Dharma, Class 7 - Wise Mindfulness 54:07
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
Wise Mindfulness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Dharma 2008 - Session II

2008-05-13 Acknowledging The Elephant In The Room 62:34
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Awareness of the body in the body is a key part of the Dharma. Yet, many times the body is not fully explored in its many dimensions of offering both a means for being present in the moment and finding freedom from clinging.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Awakening in the Body

2008-05-09 Keeping It Real 44:30
Noah Levine	Download Listen
How to bring the Dharma from our retreat experiences into the real world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) :  Yucca Valley Spring Insight Retreat

2008-05-08 Boundless & Connected 40:58
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The themes of boundless loving kindness and the connectedness with nature are themes that run trhough womens' sacred literature, crossing cultures and time.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Women in Meditation

2008-05-07 Self And Not-Self - part 2 61:10
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We first review the basic teachings on self and not-self, exploring the possible confusion and the paradoxes, as well as the teaching of the five skardhas. We then explore three main forms through through which the self appears.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-05-06 Understanding The Judgmental Mind 50:37
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The judgmental mind is a cause of deep suffering that can be understood and released
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Women in Meditation

2008-05-05 Acceptance And Transformation 48:52
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen
Acceptance is the wise understanding of what is. The kindness of acceptance is the alchemy that allows for transformation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Women in Meditation

2008-05-05 Perception & Awareness 59:31
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
The Dalai Lama once said that all of our problems stem from mistaken perception. That is why there is so much emphasis on true knowledge. This talk explores the quality factor of perception, and how when it is colored by unwholesome states of mind we cannot accurately recognize reality, and so respond in ways that only increase our confusion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) :  Yucca Valley Spring Insight Retreat

2008-05-04 Precious Human Life 44:22
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The contemplation of what makes our life precious brings commitment and a sense of urgency to our practice. It is learning to remember what is of enduring value in this fleeting, fragile life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Women in Meditation

2008-05-03 Ode To Mindfulness 47:19
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
Why we practice mindfulness & why we feel such gratitude for this particular teaching. In this talk, the melding of mindfulness and metta become clear thrugh story and poetry.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) :  Yucca Valley Spring Insight Retreat

2008-04-30 Self And Not-Self - part 1 61:15
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Is there a self?? To explore these questions is to enter the territory of paradox. We investigate how to understand both conventional and conceptual approaches to self....
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-04-25 Left Brain, Right Brain, It's Implications For Practice 45:40
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk points to how human beings straddle both mundane and divine realities. How we live dominated by left brain conceptual mind and how we have the potential to know dimensions of peace and freedom more characterized by the right brain hemisphere.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Natural Liberation

2008-04-23 Can't Complain - part 2 49:00
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Continued from last week
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-04-16 Can't Complain 1:14:19
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
A discussion of "complaining" -what is the wise response to feelings of despair, dismay - and that experience of feeling victimized when one knows that no "one" is a victim.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-04-12 A Brief History Of Buddhism In India - part 2 1:12:31
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
This is the second of two talks outlining key developments in the evolution of Buddhist schools in India between the death of the Buddha and the emergence of Dzogchen. This talk covers briefly the origins of the Mahayana, Naganjuna, Yogacara and Vajrayana.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dzogchen Retreat

2008-04-11 A Brief History Of Buddhism In India - part 1 56:06
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
This is the first of two talks outlining key developments in the evolution of Buddhist schools in India between the death of the Buddha (463 BCE) and the emergence of Dzogchen (ca. 6th cent.). This talk covers the stages of classical (or Nikaya) Buddhism up to the beginning of the Mahayana.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dzogchen Retreat

2008-04-09 Mindfulness Of The Body, III 67:19
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the body goes against the grain of our culture yet is fundamental for most of us to bring awareness, compassion and wisdom to daily life. We explore some of the transformation possible through mindfulness of the body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-04-04 The Buddha's Way To Happiness 67:28
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
The Buddha's evolving understanding of happiness and his awakening based on his life experiences.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 101

2008-04-03 Suffering And The End Of Suffering 61:58
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 101

2008-04-02 The Clarity And Promise Of Mindfulness 63:49
Heather Martin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 101

2008-03-25 All Beings Cheer You On 51:04
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
This talk, given at the end of a month long retreat, puts our practice in the context of a larger stream of awakening occurring on the planet.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-25 Morning Teachings, Track 1 Of 2 64:27
Ajahn Jamnian	Download Listen
Spirit Rock presents Ajahn Jumnien's Meditation Retreat in the Thai Forest Tradition held at The Angela Center. Teachings are given in Thai with English translations by Amdee Vongthongsri and Christoph Koeck. Other public teachings from the retreat will be added. Please go to Dharma Seed's Retreat Talks page to find the talks. It is listed as: SR 2008-03-04 Meditation Retreat in the Thai Forest Tradition.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) :  Meditation Retreat in the Thai Forest Tradition

2008-03-25 Morning Teachings, Track 2 Of 2 42:50
Ajahn Jamnian	Download Listen
Spirit Rock presents Ajahn Jumnien's Meditation Retreat in the Thai Forest Tradition held at The Angela Center. Teachings are given in Thai with English translations by Amdee Vongthongsri and Christoph Koeck. Other public teachings from the retreat will be added. Please go to Dharma Seed's Retreat Talks page to find the talks. It is listed as: SR 2008-03-04 Meditation Retreat in the Thai Forest Tradition.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) :  Meditation Retreat in the Thai Forest Tradition

2008-03-24 "The Spatula By The Toilet Shines With Light" 61:10
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
The Dharma opens us to a mystery--the mystery of awakening, of practice, of each moment. When we see through the eyes of mystery, the world reveals its inherent luminosity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-24 Evening Teachings 63:38
Ajahn Jamnian	Download Listen
Spirit Rock presents Ajahn Jumnien's Meditation Retreat held at The Angela Center. Teachings are given in Thai with English translations by Amdee Vongthongsri and Christoph Koeck. Other public teachings from the retreat will be added. Please go to Dharma Seed's Retreat Talks page to find the talks. It is listed as: SR 2008-03-04 Meditation Retreat in the Thai Forest Tradition.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) :  Meditation Retreat in the Thai Forest Tradition

2008-03-19 Us As The World And The World As Us: The Two Truths 43:07
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
This is a talk about form, manifested as the personal, and emptiness, the vast universal activity of the Dharma - the two truths express in our lives as our practice deepens more and more clearly
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-14 The River Of Life 48:21
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
Exploring the ways that insight into impermanence deepens our appreciation for the beauty and mystery of life
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-13 Rain - Difficult Emotions As A Path To Awakening 52:52
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
This is a talk on working with difficult emotions and how they can be an expression of truth, a doorway to the Dharma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-12 Papanca - The Unbidden Wandering Of Mind 51:04
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
As mindfulness deepens, we can uncover the 4 root causes of getting lost in our thinking, as well as remembering the aliveness of being when we step aside from thinking.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-11 The Three Characteristics And Their Subtle Expressions 55:25
John Travis	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-10 Paradox And Awakening 62:55
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
How do we make sense of the differing and sometimes contradictory teachings we hear; one of the fruits of practice is the resolution of paradox.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-07 What Kind Of Effort? 51:10
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Exploring the different kinds of effort needed as our practice matures. This talk is meant for both senior students and those new to practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-05 Wisdom & The Paramitas - part 1 55:07
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-02-28 Mingling Our Minds With The Dharma 63:31
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
This talk describes how the journey of our life and practice is to mingle our hearts and minds fully with the Dharma. The eight-fold path is the descriptive template we can use; this talk focuses particularly on wise view and wise intention, the first two steps.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-27 The Universality Of The Dharma 47:15
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
The Universality of the Dharma
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-02-27 Growing Goodness 60:16
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Many of the Buddha's teachings are counter intuitive - we sit still to find freedom, we let go to receive. Opening to suffering and working skillfully with the kilesas - greed, aversion and delusion - actually bring us greater freedom and happiness. This talk is on the beautiful qualities called the Paramis that directly counter the force of the kilesas.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-26 Consciousness, Awareness And Nibbana 63:33
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
It is the direct realization of the unconditioned, or nibbana, that is considered enlightenment in the Buddha's teachings. This talk explores how consciousness and awareness can be understood as links in practice to the flavor of the unconditioned.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-25 Monday Night Meditation 1:41:16
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-02-25 Faith And Wisdom 55:43
Heather Martin	Download Listen
Two of the five Spiritual Faculties. Exploring: -What we actually believe in, rely on, value. -The difference and sometimes distance between knowledge, ideas, beliefs and wisdom - the integrated absorbed and deeply understood truths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-23 Big Mind Meditation 43:33
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
A version of Joseph Goldstein's Big Mind meditation using bells and reminders to allow your mind to be like a clear empty sky and allow the different experiences to arise and pass without interference.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-22 The Four Reminders 69:07
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
We have the opportunity to make something of this precious life, that has such fortunate conditions that can also quickly change. The seeds we plant have results. Orienting ourselves toward the Dharma can free us from the samsaric loop.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-21 Unity Of Emptiness And Compassion 60:51
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-20 Knowing What You Think You Don't Know 46:57
Naomi Newman	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
Part 1 of 3
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Dharma: Core Buddhist Teachings

2008-02-12 Seclusion 57:07
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
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

2008-02-11 Peacemaking In The Middle East 61:15
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
The hundred beautiful seeds of peace in Israel and Palestine, as reflected in the words of the Dhammapada.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2008-02-11 Monday Night Talk with Jack Kornfield 61:15
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-02-11 The Hindrances And The Awakening Factors 60:37
Heather Martin	Download Listen
What obstructs us and what helps us on our journey to awakening. How these two clearly explained aspects of our experience alternatively trap us and free us over and over again, as we invite their interplay.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-10 Choosing Kindness Rather Than Judging 58:58
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Many of us have internalized the message that we are not ok. To begin to be free of this distorted view, we need to understand how it became formed and why it no longer serves us. It is important to bring humor and kindness to this practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-08 Papanca - Why I Can't Be Happy Now 66:52
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Our thinking mind, when unnoticed, spreads out into imaginary worlds about an imaginary version of ourselves. How mindfulness helps us recognize the various trances our mind spins.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-07 Inspiration For Practice: The Four Heavenly Messengers 61:22
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
The talk explores the story of Prince Siddartha's encounters with the Four Heavenly Messengers - old age, sickness, death and those who have 'gone forth' in search of the highest happiness. Woven with personal stories and the examples of contemporary masters, the talk also offers practical advice on how to use the experience of the Four Messengers as our teachers and inspiration in practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-06 Four Noble Truths 60:40
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
The Buddha said that our path of awakening is like swimming upstream - in relationship to the habits of society and the habits of our own minds. So our deep motivation needs to be supported by accurate information. The 4 Noble Truths is a basic context/description of life, suffering and freedom that serves to support and inform all our various methods of practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-04 Mindfulness Of The Body 65:43
Heather Martin	Download Listen
Why and how mindfulness of the body reveals so much so clearly as we untangle the knots.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-03 Looking For Happiness In All The Wrong Places 56:31
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Because we don't understand what brings us true happiness, we often find ourselves trying to control or resist our experience, in a futile attempt to find relief. Seeing more clearly and working skillfully with our difficulties brings us true peace and calm.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-02 An Attitude Of Mindfulness 52:18
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The right attitude for meditation is one that is free of greed, aversion and delusion. The talk also explores the functions of mindfulness, attention and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-01-30 Three Ways Of Deepening Daily Life Practice 58:57
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
It's very challenging for our daily lives to be places of deep transformation, yet many of us want this. After looking at one of the challenges, we explore three ways to meet the challenges: 1) knowing what is important 2) taking "our bodies as our monasteries" 3) learning to "break the mirror", get unstuck, over and over again. For each of the three ways, a dharma reading and a poem are given.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2008-01-30 Ways Of Deepening Daily Life Practice 58:57
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-01-28 The Discussion Of The Wisdom Dakini 1:14:52
Lama Palden	Download Listen
Dakinis are activity aspects of awakened mind. Outwardly the dakini can support, nurture and protect us. She also can show up to cut through conceptuality. Ultimately dakini is the wisdom aspect of our own minds; the openness aspect that is the space for and is inseparable with everything that is. When this aspect is realized all phenomena, all experience become workable, eventually blissful. True nature is wisdom, openness, compassion and love.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-01-24 Vast Sky Visited By Clouds 55:01
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
After sharing a personal story, th talk explores working with some of the challenging states of mind and body, followed by a teaching on the essence of Prajnaparamita, emphasizing the qualities of vast space, bliss and compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Coming Home: A Retreat for Experienced Women Practitioners

2008-01-24 Finding A Reliable Refuge 67:12
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Turning toward the Dharma by reflecting on the refuge of the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha and the possibility of a kind of happiness and well-being born of mindfulness that is free and open.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat