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Tempel Smith's Dharma Talks at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Tempel Smith
Tempel Smith spent a year ordained as a monk in Burma and teaches Buddhist psychology and social activism in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently part of the IMS/Spirit Rock Teacher Training Program.
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2019-02-05 Day 3 - Instruction for Loving Kindness for Oneself (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:48
Practicing metta for an easy being and for oneself, with an emphasis in establishing loyalty to be kind to yourself in all conditions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong
2019-02-03 Day One - Instructions for Mindfulness of Sound, Body and Breath (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:22
Settling into mindfulness for the month long retreat. Approaching sounds, body sensations, and the breath as a home base, with ease, patience, and kindness of attitude.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong
2018-08-10 Day Four, Guided Kindness Meditation-Forgiveness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:48
With the practice of Forgiveness Meditation, we release our hearts from the pain of resentment without losing a healthy sense of boundaries or accountability.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight for Young Adults
2018-08-09 Beginning Insights of Vipassana Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:06
After even a few days of insight meditation, we can begin to see clearly that thoughts are only concepts in the present. We can also see the impermanent and ever changing conditional nature of all of our experiences.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight for Young Adults
2018-07-16 Developing Inner Sanctuary (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:35
Through difficult experiencing in practice and in times of easy, loving-kindness meditation purifies and heals the heart, opening us up to inner sanctuary. This ripening of loving kindness sanctuary is the taste of meditative samadhi.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta
2018-07-07 Dependent Origination: The Full Teachings of the Buddha - Day 3 6:34:20
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2018-07-06 Dependent Origination: The Full Teachings of the Buddha - Day 2 7:05:37
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2018-07-05 Dependent Origination: The Full Teachings of the Buddha - Day 1 7:04:33
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2017-11-16 Not yet titled 1:45:45
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dedicated Practitioners Program Six; 2nd Retreat
2017-08-10 Becoming Mindful of Thought (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:54
Most people are lost in thought, mesmerized by thought, experiencing the content of thought as real events. With the practice of mindfulness we can first learn to turn away from the dominance of thought, and then bring awareness to the direct experience of thinking as a present time experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat for Young Adults

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