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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2009-03-18 Practicing Compassion, pt II 56:58
Donald Rothberg
We continue to explore the practices to develop, examining the nature of compassion - its relationship to the other brahmaviharas, the receptive and active dimensions of compassion, the near and far enemies; how we might practice compassion in the world - interpersonally and socially; and the relationship of compassion and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-03-17 Rivers of Wisdom 50:49
Adrianne Ross
How seeing the Five Aggregates as unsatisfactory, impermanence and not self leads to liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation March Month Long

2009-03-16 The Wisdom of Insecurity 49:58
Nina Wise
In this time of economic uncertainty, how do we cultivate equanimity and well being. Guidance for transforming hard times into good times.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-03-15 Metta - Seeing Our Goodness 59:46
Dori Langevin
Exploring the history of the Metta Sutta and Metta as antidote to ill-will
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation March Month Long

2009-03-14 About Meditation and Love 59:18
Marie Mannschatz
Meditation as a life-long practice
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation March Month Long

2009-03-13 Full Moon - Metta Talks 59:49
John Travis
John's poem with the Journey of the Heart
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation March Month Long

2009-03-12 The Perfection of Resolve 58:33
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation March Month Long

2009-03-11 Practicing Compassion, I 58:28
Donald Rothberg
The practice of compassion can occur both as a formal practice - one of the four practices of the Brahmaviharas - and as an everyday practice in the context of our lives. Compassion practice works because it helps us to to open to our deeper being. Yet to do this, we have to learn also to open to pain - and suffering - understood as the reaction to pain.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-03-10 Parami of Viriya 57:52
Adrianne Ross
Courageous energy, passion for truth. Working with different energy states and blocks.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation March Month Long

2009-03-09 Equanimity 61:04
Mark Coleman
What is Equanimity? Why is it so difficult to be at ease in difficult circumstances. What supports this beautiful quality of the heart and how does it relate to metta (love), compassion and appreciative joy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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