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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.
2011-07-20 Brahma Vihara: Equanimity 58:48
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat
2011-07-18 Loving Kindness, Movement of the Heart 46:01
Friend; Near and Far Enemies
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat
2011-07-17 Metta: Near and Far Enemies 59:27
Metta (loving kindness) practice leads us into the exploration of all of the heart's responses to life. Especially good grounds for understanding are in the experience of loving kindness, its near enemy of affection with attachment, and its far enemy of ill will.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat
2011-07-16 Loving Kindness; Reflecting on our Goodness 36:17
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat
2011-02-27 Unentangled Knowing 59:04
"Unentangled knowing" is an approach to meditation in which we are aware of things coming and going at the sense doors without becoming caught in them. Supported by tranquility and insight, we can rest in the knowing while being fully awake to life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong Insight Retreat
2011-02-22 Nature of Awareness 56:04
The Buddha clearly described consciousness as an impermanent part of the mind. Yet many people feel that awareness has some kind of lasting or ongoing nature. How can we understand this seeming contradiction? How can we make awareness itself part of our meditation?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong Insight Retreat
2011-02-19 Metta: Tenderness & Connection 62:07
Metta practice makes the heart more sensitive to the joys and sorrows that sentient beings are subject to. This tenderness becomes the avenue for us to discover our deep connection to all of life and end a sense of isolation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong Insight Retreat
2011-02-12 The Seven Factors of Awakening 62:22
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong Insight Retreat
2011-02-07 Where Does Happiness Come From? 55:37
The Buddha pointed to at least five routes to different levels of happiness for lay people: sense pleasures, merit, concentration, insight, and awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong Insight Retreat
2010-11-17 Emptiness and Karma 60:13
At first glance it might seem the teaching of karma, in which our actions bring results to ourselves, might be in contradiction to the understanding that our experience is empty of a self. However, the two teachings on emptiness and karma actually need each other for liberation to be possible.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

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