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Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

An extended period of retreat offers the rare opportunity for sustained and dedicated practice. This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing profound clarity and depth of insight practice. Instruction will follow the traditional four foundations of mindfulness combined with training in lovingkindness and compassion, through a daily schedule of silent sitting, walking, dharma talks and interviews.

2012-03-01 (27 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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2012-03-15 Returning to the Luminous Mind & Heart 55:39
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen Order
A discussion of how the mind is often clouded with unskillful states, the armies of Mara. The Four Powers (Iddhipadas) are ways to develop a more awakened mind.

2012-03-14 The Grace of Connection 58:02
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen Order
A Brahma Vihara talk that emphasizes the importance of equanimity as the foundation for metta, compassion and appreciation. Also the relationship of Wisdom and Equanimity as mutually causal, and how wisdom both sustains equanimity and is a reflection of equanimity.

2012-03-13 Freedom of Mind and Heart 57:34
Larry Yang	Download Listen Order
The Third Foundation of Mindfulness

2012-03-12 Crows Speak: Seven Factors of Awakening 50:06
John Travis	Download Listen Order
Through a poem, personal stories, and teachings, the talk explores the seven factors of awakening.

2012-03-11 Compassion as the Path and Expression of Awakening 59:40
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen Order
A "talk from the heart" blending aspects of wisdom and compassion. Teachings on the five recollections, the three characteristics and how to work with difficulties in cultivating compassion are offered through stories from the life of the Buddha, Dipa Ma, Darlene Cohen, Ruth Denison and His Holiness the Karmapa.

2012-03-10 Get a Grip: Concentration as the Antidote to the Flurried Mind 58:31
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen Order
A review of the hindrances and the way in which the factor of concentration, when applied, steadies the mind and allows for clear seeing to prevail.

2012-03-09 Feeling-Tone and Its Importance for our Practice 58:08
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen Order
We explore the pivotal practice of mindfulness of feeling-tone (vedana), by 1) understanding feeling-tone in the context of the teaching of dependent arising; 2) examining the nature of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral; and 3) suggesting a number of ways of practicing with feeling-tone.

2012-03-08 The Wise and Fearless Heart 56:13
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen Order
This talk explores the nature of fear and how it can be countered by the development of the heart. The spacious heart, trained in kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity, supports us in all circumstances.

2012-03-07 Frog Clarity...5 Spiritual Faculties 53:07
John Travis	Download Listen Order
One of John's Poems. Talk based on 5 spiritual faculties, more based on faith and heart.

2012-03-05 Body as Teacher: First Foundation of Mindfulness 58:04
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen Order
The central theme of this talk is the Body is the Teacher. Based on the Satipatthana Sutta with First Foundation emphasis, the talk outlines Mindfulness of Breathing, of the four postures, and of full awareness in the continuity of all activities. Offers practical instructions, personal stories, and stories from the time of the Buddha.

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