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Dharma Talks given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2025-10-14 Lovingkindness and Making Peace with Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:37
Bob Stahl
As our meditation practice matures, we may recognize the importance of relinquishing opinions, grudges, judgments, and resentments through honest reconciliation. This is the path of the heart that leads to deeper wisdom and peace. We will learn about these 4 important practices of reconciliation: Reconciliation for the times we’ve been hard on ourselves Reconciliation to those we’ve hurt Reconciliation to those who’ve hurt us Reconciliation with the way things are
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration and Insight Meditation Retreat (270R25)

2025-10-13 Indigenous Healing Through the Dharma 1:30:29
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-10-12 Afternoon Meditation Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:35
Bob Stahl
Choiceless or Open Awareness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration and Insight Meditation Retreat (270R25)

2025-10-11 Ordinary Love 40:20
Devon Hase
In this evening talk, devon hase reflects on metta as a simple act of caring — the willingness to stay close to our own experience, even when it feels plain or uncertain. Through stories of early practice, pilgrimage, and everyday kindness, she shows how love reveals itself in ordinary moments, asking nothing special of us beyond our presence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Remembering Each Other Always (LB1C25)

2025-10-11 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:49
Bob Stahl
Bringing awareness to the nature of change with either the breath, sounds or sensations. Transitioning from solely concentration to insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration and Insight Meditation Retreat (270R25)

2025-10-10 Two Wings of a Bird: Concentration and Insight (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:34
Bob Stahl
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration and Insight Meditation Retreat (270R25)

2025-10-10 Step 10 and Inventory of the Mind 1:12:26
Kevin Griffin
Meditation, Dharma talk, & short Metta practice
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma and Recovery

2025-10-09 The Invitation of Refuge 63:18
Grace Fisher
Begins with a 30m meditation & includes a dharma talk. (Group discussion has been omitted.)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thursday Morning Women’s Group

2025-10-08 I Have a Right to Be Here: The Freedom of Belonging (Part 2) 1:24:27
Heidi Bourne
Includes a mixture of meditation and dharma talk. (Group discussion has been omitted.)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-10-07 1st Morning Talk and Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:11:46
Victoria Cary, Bob Stahl
Supporting attitudes of practice and instruction on the Mindfulness of the Breath, Sounds or Sensations.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration and Insight Meditation Retreat (270R25)

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