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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2007-10-08 Hell, Death & Other Delights 57:10
Wes Nisker
Death, Impermanence, Death Poems, Autumn Melancholy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-10-06 A Tribute To Rumi 62:01
Christopher Titmuss
Commentary on 4 poems of Rumi on love and ultimate truth - to mark 8 centuries since his birth in September 1207.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-05 Conditions And The Unconditioned 51:28
Christopher Titmuss
Let us see into unfolding conditions. These conditions are unproblematic; thus liberation is not trapped in conditions, i.e., the unconditioned.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-05 Questions & Answers On Ultimate & Relative Understanding 53:52
Shaila Catherine
The questions and answers address the balance of concentration and inquiry, the three characteristics of experience, and enlightenment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-04 Closing Session 62:03
Ruth Denison
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-10-04 Investigating The Nature Of Mind 51:49
Shaila Catherine
This talk explores various approaches to investigating the nature of knowing, emptiness, and self-construction.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-04 Guided Big Mind Meditation 45:42
Shaila Catherine
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
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
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
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

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