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Anushka Fernandopulle's Dharma Talks
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Anushka Fernandopulle
I am a lifelong spiritual practitioner who has trained for over 20 years in the Theravada Buddhist tradition in the U.S., India and Sri Lanka. I live in an urban area and consider how the practices can translate for my fellow citizens with a busy modern life; I am most interested in bringing these ancient teachings to the contemporary world, informed by my love of creative arts, technology, politics and pop culture. I also have an MBA and am particularly interested in the practice as it relates to leadership development -- how we can each see through the things that hold us back from manifesting our unique gifts and talents in the world. I am on the Spirit Rock Teacher's Council and teach at other meditation centers, but also do a lot of teaching & coaching in tech companies, nonprofit organizations, and less overtly spiritual settings. For more information, please visit: www.anushkaf.org
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2017-09-22
32 Parts of the Body - Guided Meditation 5 - Bile ,Phlegm, Pus, Blood, Sweat, F…
2017-09-20
32 Parts of the Body: Guided Meditation 2 - Flesh, Sinews, Bones, Marrow, Kidney
2012-05-22
An Overview of the Noble Eightfold Path
2018-10-09
Attention to the Body
2016-03-22
Bright Guardians of the World
2011-11-22
Buddha's Recipe for Happiness
2012-07-19
Catching the Right Thought Trains
2026-03-13
Choiceless Attention (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-07-13
Compassion Practice
2018-10-11
Cracking the Code on Suffering: Vedana
2025-07-20
Cultivating a Tone of Kindness
2017-07-21
Cultivating Goodwill towards All (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-07-01
Day 2: Morning Instructions & Sitting Meditation
2016-07-02
Day 3: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation
2016-06-13
Day 3: Morning Instructions
2016-06-14
Day 4: Afternoon Instructions
2016-07-03
Day 4: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation
2018-04-13
Day Four: AM Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-04-10
Day One: PM Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-03-30
Day Three: Afternoon Instructions- Unstoppable Friendliness
2017-03-29
Day Two: Afternoon Instructions-Working with Thoughts
2018-04-11
Day Two: AM Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-03-15
Developing Perception that Frees
2025-08-14
Dharma and Our Connection to the Earth
2010-09-27
Dharma and Technology
2012-02-12
Dharma and Technology: Craving and the Arising of Self
2012-02-12
Dharma and Technology: Mindfulness and Focus
2018-10-10
Dharma as Nature
2011-11-26
Dharma in the World
2025-03-18
Dharma of Time and Space
2015-07-22
Distortions of Perception, Mind & View
2016-03-01
Diving Into Long Retreat
2017-09-23
Elements of Nature, elements of the body
2017-07-15
Entering Retreat: Dharma as Nature (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-07-15
Equanimity
2026-03-16
Equanimity or Upekkha (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-04-14
Evolving Together: Meditation and Modern Science, Talk 3
2025-03-08
Feeling Tone: Cracking the Code on Patterns of Suffering
2026-03-09
Feeling Tone: Cracking the Code on Reactivity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-03-02
Finding Your Anchor in Meditation
2017-07-18
Fourth Day Morning Instructions-The Sixth Sense Door: Working with Thoughts (Re…
2017-09-21
Full Awareness of the Body
2013-11-28
Gratitude, Joy & Humility
2014-07-11
Guided Loving Kindness-Benefactor
2018-04-12
Insight and Awakening
2011-11-24
Instructional sit
2014-03-02
Intro to Insight Meditation: Mindfulness and Friendliness
2014-03-02
Intro to Insight Meditation: Root Cause of Suffering
2013-02-09
Intro to Insight, Practicing in your Life
2013-02-09
Intro to Insight, Thoughts and Emotions
2010-12-01
Investigating the Dharma: Refuges, Hindrances, Mindfulness
2018-04-13
Knowing the Animal Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-10-24
Love, Revolution and Idea of Self
2013-07-17
Loving The Enemy
2023-02-10
Metta for All Beings
2025-07-17
Metta for All Beings
2009-07-23
Metta in the context of spiritual practice.
2018-07-15
Metta: Car Wash of the Heart (Retreat st Spirit Rock)
2025-03-03
Metta: Cultivating Kindness and Goodwill
2010-07-08
Mindfulness & Liberation of the Body
2013-09-22
Mindfulness and Innovation
2013-09-22
Mindfulness and Innovation: Awareness of Thought
2014-10-26
Mindfulness and Sports
2025-03-12
Mindfulness of "Knowing" through Six Sense Doors
2026-03-05
Mindfulness of the Body, Continuity of Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-03-28
Morning Guided Instructions: Breath and Body
2013-08-31
Morning Instructions
2026-03-03
Morning Instructions - Day 1 of Monthlong (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-07-11
Morning Instructions: Goodwill for Someone Easy and Yourself
2017-07-22
Morning Instructions: Things are as they are (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-03-31
Open Awareness Instructions & Q&A
2026-03-19
Personality View or Sakkaya Ditthi (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-04-14
Questions and Answers (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-07-15
Refuge and Renunciation
2017-01-26
Returning Home From Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-05-25
Right Action 1 - Morning Session
2012-05-25
Right Action2 - Morning Session
2012-05-23
Right Speech and Listening
2026-03-12
Samadhi or Collectedness of Mind and Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-07-19
Shifting Perspective towards Freedom
2016-03-08
Six Sense Spheres and Reflections on Long Retreat
2017-01-02
Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Monday Night Meditation
2013-11-25
Suffering and Kindness
2014-07-12
Summer Camp of Metta
2015-07-18
The Skate Park of Your Mind
2014-12-10
They Tried to Bury Us, But They Didn't Know We Were Seeds
2017-01-24
Thinking and Mind-objects: Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-01-24
Thinking and Mind-objects: Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-04-11
This Animal Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-10-10
Thoughts Are Not the Enemy of Meditation
2018-10-12
Three Characteristics of Experience
2014-12-11
Thursday Morning Guided
2013-07-13
Voyage on the Ocean of Metta
2016-01-28
Waking Up in Every World
2012-06-30
Walking as Spiritual Practice
2011-03-14
Watching the News Through the Lens of the Dhamma
2017-01-25
Working with Vedana: Tonal Quality of Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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Select one of Anushka Fernandopulle's 33 retreats
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1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
2009-07-17
Metta Retreat
2010-07-07
People of Color Meditation Retreat
2010-11-30
Discovering Presence in Each Moment
2011-11-18
Thanksgiving Insight Retreat
2012-05-21
Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path
2012-06-28
Annual People of Color Retreat: Deepening Your Dharma
2012-07-13
July Insight Meditation Retreat
2012-10-18
Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2013-07-12
Heart of Love Metta Retreat
2013-08-28
Labor Day Retreat
2013-11-22
Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat
2014-07-09
Metta Retreat
2014-12-08
Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science
2015-07-17
July Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-01-24
Waking up in Every World
2016-02-27
March Monthlong
2016-04-11
Evolving Together: Mindfulness, Meditation and Modern Science Retreat
2016-06-11
Walking Our Path Together: Insight Meditation with LGBTQI Community
2016-06-30
Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color
2017-01-22
Mindfulness of Body, Speech and Mind
2017-03-27
Insight and Awakening: The Liberating Art of Samatha-Vipassana
2017-07-14
July Insight Meditation Retreat
2017-09-18
Finding Freedom in the Body
2018-04-09
Insight and Awakening
2018-07-11
July Metta
2018-10-09
Mindfulness and Heartfulness for Insight and Liberation
2023-01-28
February Insight Meditation One Month Retreat
2025-03-01
March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
2025-07-09
Summer Lovingkindness Retreat
2025-07-18
Summer Insight Meditation Retreat
2025-08-11
Nature is Our Body: Dharma and Connection to the Earth (248R25)
2026-03-02
2026 March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
2025-03-18
Dharma of Time and Space
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The past and future are only thoughts in the present. But even the present moment is constructed, concocted, conditioned and may not exist absolutely as we believe it to be. Our experience of the senses is dependent on our sense organs thus animals have different eyes and experience the world very differently. Different human cultures experience and interpret sense experience differently as well. Plus practice tips on week 3 of a monthlong retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
