Guy Armstrong's Dharma Talks
at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Guy Armstrong
I have always enjoyed working with practitioners who are continuing to deepen their practice. In the many long retreats I teach at both IMS and Spirit Rock, I feel free to pass on the deepest pointings I’ve found in the teachings of the Buddha in the Pali Canon. Those are my guiding lights in practice and understanding.
It is fun for me to take the most difficult concepts and put them into accessible language, to unwrap the mystery. So I try to find ways to explore the breadth of concepts like "emptiness" -- to see how the entire path can be explained in terms of this synonym for nibbana. One of my aims is to bring the goal of freedom into the here and now. This way practitioners get a taste of freedom, so they know what they are heading toward on their journey to liberation.
The tools of mindfulness and lovingkindness can be picked up by anyone. They are easy to understand and they bring immediate benefit to our lives. The essence of vipassana is ideally suited to western society, especially to the resonance between our psychological turn of mind and our quest for spiritual understanding.
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2008-04-11
A Brief History Of Buddhism In India - part 1
2008-04-12
A Brief History Of Buddhism In India - part 2
1995-07-26
Accepting Life's Characteristics
1996-03-18
Accepting Ourselves
2013-02-18
Afternoon Bhrama Vihara Practice - Compassion
2005-07-14
An Appropriate Response
2008-02-02
An Attitude Of Mindfulness
2003-11-14
Awakening Concentration
2010-11-16
Big Mind Guided Meditation
2016-02-20
Big Mind Meditation
2003-05-12
Bodhisattva Path: Plus Rigpa & Nirvana
2017-02-24
Brahma Vihara Instructions
2013-02-28
Brahma Vihara Practice
2011-07-20
Brahma Vihara: Equanimity
2004-07-15
Brahma Viharas And The Vicissitudes Of Life
2013-02-05
Brahma Viharas: Metta
2001-06-10
Cascading Pools of Metta
2006-02-09
Concentration
2014-02-26
Connection to Life
2008-02-26
Consciousness, Awareness And Nibbana
2016-02-10
Day 11: Morning Instructional Sit- Choice-less Attention
2016-02-13
Day 14 Brahma Viahara Instructions: Metta - all beings-pervading metta in all d…
2016-02-15
Day 16: Brahma Vihara Instructions: Compassion: Suffering person, benefactor an…
2016-02-20
Day 20: Brahma Vihara Practice: Mudita for the neutral person and the difficult…
2016-02-02
Day 3 Morning Instructional Sit
2016-02-05
Day 6 Brahma Vihara Instructions: Metta for Self, Benefactor and Dear Friend
2016-02-06
Day 7 Morning Instructional Sit
2016-02-01
Delighting in the Wholesome
2000-11-24
Dependent Origination
2012-12-04
Emptiness and Karma
2010-11-17
Emptiness and Karma
2017-05-01
Emptiness: A Practical Introduction for Meditators (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)
2002-02-22
Empty Knowing
1999-03-15
Faith and Awareness
2002-05-08
Faith as a Spiritual Faculty
2017-02-03
First and Second Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-11-30
Formation of Self-View
2010-11-13
Formation of Self-View
2009-02-21
From Ignorance Come Impulses
2013-02-26
Guided Meditation - Empty Awareness
2004-02-17
Healing And Freedom
2005-02-03
Impermanence
2004-10-26
Impermanence: A Characteristic Of Existence
2003-05-14
Integrating Vipassana & Dzogchen
2010-11-11
Introduction to Emptiness Retreat
1999-03-01
Karma
2017-02-22
Karma and the End of Karma (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2002-03-11
Living in a World of Change
2011-07-18
Loving Kindness, Movement of the Heart
2011-07-16
Loving Kindness; Reflecting on our Goodness
2011-07-21
Metta and Connection
2008-02-13
Metta, Tenderness And Connection
2005-07-10
Metta: Its Near & Far Enemies
2008-07-13
Metta: Near And Far Enemies
2011-07-17
Metta: Near and Far Enemies
2004-01-08
Metta: Purity And Purification
2011-02-19
Metta: Tenderness & Connection
2006-02-04
Mindfulness
2014-02-22
Morning Instruction - Expansive Awareness
2010-11-13
Morning Instructions
2013-02-08
Morning Instructions
2013-02-14
Morning Instructions Day 12
2014-02-06
Morning Instructions Day 5
2013-02-10
Morning Instructions, Day 7 - Mindfulness of Thoughts
2012-12-03
Morning Instructions: Big Mind
2014-02-15
Morning Instructions: Day 14
2014-02-10
Morning Instructions: Day 9
1999-03-08
Motivation In Practice
2016-02-20
Mudita for the Neutral Person and the Difficult Person
2008-07-15
Mudita: Guided Meditation
2011-02-22
Nature of Awareness
2003-05-13
Non-Dual Awareness
2012-02-06
Patterns of Becoming 1: Introduction
2012-02-11
Patterns of Becoming 2: The Five Aggregates
2012-02-17
Patterns of Becoming 3: Unentangled Knowing
2012-02-21
Patterns of Becoming 4: Karma and Rebirth
2012-02-26
Patterns of Becoming 5: the End of Karma
2006-04-11
Practicing Rigpa - Part 1
2006-04-12
Practicing Rigpa - Part 2
2000-12-31
Purification Of The Heart
1999-02-22
Purification of the Heart
2003-03-25
Purity And Purification
1996-06-03
Relating Wisely With Anger
1996-06-10
Relating Wisely With Fear
2003-05-11
Relating With Emotions; Plus Mindfulness, Consciousness And Awareness
1999-09-23
Renunciation
2006-04-13
Rigpa Consciousness and Nirvana
2013-02-07
Self and Proliferation
2001-11-29
Since Feeling Is First
2013-06-16
Sutta Study Class Series: Majjhima Nikaya; All the Taints, Part 1 of 2
2013-06-16
Sutta Study Class Series: Majjhima Nikaya; All the Taints, Part 2 of 2
2013-01-20
Sutta Study Class: The Honeyball Sutta (part 1)
2013-01-20
Sutta Study Class: The Honeyball Sutta (part 2)
2006-04-15
Taking the Practice Home
2001-05-23
The Buddha Knows The Dhamma
2001-05-27
The Eight Worldly Conditions
2012-12-01
The Emptiness of Phenomena
2010-11-14
The Emptiness of Phenomena
2010-11-16
The Empty Nature of Awareness
2014-02-05
The First Noble Truth
2005-12-02
The Five Aggregates
2016-02-14
The Five Aggregates Are Not Self
1994-12-30
The Five Hindrances
2001-10-04
The Four Noble Truths
2001-07-09
The Fruits Of Metta Practice
2006-04-09
The History of Buddhism in India - Part 1
2006-04-10
The History of Buddhism in India - Part 2
2002-02-03
The Joy In Renunciation
2016-02-09
The Power of Lovingkindness
2003-11-28
The Power Of Metta
2003-11-01
The Power Of Mindfulness
2011-02-12
The Seven Factors of Awakening
2009-02-14
The Seven Factors Of Awakening - part 2
2002-05-23
The Three Characteristics
1999-02-25
The Three Characteristics
2002-07-20
Transcendent Dependent Origination
2000-11-28
Transcendent Dependent Origination
2013-02-19
Unentangled Knowing
2011-02-27
Unentangled Knowing
2011-07-28
Unentangled Knowing
2016-02-19
Unentangled Knowing
2001-08-01
Vicissitudes of Life
2001-08-01
Vicissitudes of Life
2012-01-15
Week 1, Part 1: Introduction to the Suttas
2012-01-15
Week 1, Part 2: Introduction to the Suttas
2011-02-07
Where Does Happiness Come From?
2011-07-24
Working with Difficult Emotions
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Select one of Guy Armstrong's 17 retreats
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1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
2007-07-13
Metta Retreat
2008-02-01
Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat
2008-04-10
Dzogchen Retreat
2008-07-11
Metta
2009-02-01
Insight Meditation February
2010-11-11
Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat
2011-02-05
February Monthlong Insight Retreat
2011-07-15
Metta Retreat
2011-07-22
July Insight Meditation Retreat
2012-01-15
Sutta Study Class Series with Guy Armstrong & Richard Shankman
2012-02-01
Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long
2012-11-28
Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat
2013-02-03
February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat
2014-02-01
February Month Long Retreat - 2014
2016-01-30
February Month-long
2017-01-28
February Month-long Retreat
2002-05-23
The Three Characteristics
55:31
The three characteristics of existence -- impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and not-self -- summarize the state of this world as in constant dissolution. Yet, a refuge can be found in an ever-available awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2002-02-03
The Joy In Renunciation
56:18
Renunciation of the activities and relationships in our daily life is one of the chief supports of meditative deepening on retreats. Because renunciation is the active practice of non-desire, it leads to greater peace and happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2001-11-29
Since Feeling Is First
58:23
This talk explores the role of heart practices in general, and the brahma viharas in particular, in our overall dharma practice. When we ask, "Is insight enough?" our answer might depend on our relation to the bodhisattva ideal.
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