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Dharma Talks Access for Retreatants
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Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat
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2008-02-01 (28 days)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2008-02-28
Mingling Our Minds With The Dharma
63:31
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Carol Wilson
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| This talk describes how the journey of our life and practice is to mingle our hearts and minds fully with the Dharma. The eight-fold path is the descriptive template we can use; this talk focuses particularly on wise view and wise intention, the first two steps. |
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2008-02-27
Growing Goodness
60:16
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Sally Clough Armstrong
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| Many of the Buddha's teachings are counter intuitive - we sit still to find freedom, we let go to receive. Opening to suffering and working skillfully with the kilesas - greed, aversion and delusion - actually bring us greater freedom and happiness. This talk is on the beautiful qualities called the Paramis that directly counter the force of the kilesas. |
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2008-02-26
Consciousness, Awareness And Nibbana
63:33
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Guy Armstrong
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| It is the direct realization of the unconditioned, or nibbana, that is considered enlightenment in the Buddha's teachings. This talk explores how consciousness and awareness can be understood as links in practice to the flavor of the unconditioned. |
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2008-02-25
Faith And Wisdom
55:43
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Heather Martin
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| Two of the five Spiritual Faculties.
Exploring:
-What we actually believe in, rely on, value.
-The difference and sometimes distance between knowledge, ideas, beliefs and wisdom - the integrated absorbed and deeply understood truths. |
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2008-02-23
Big Mind Meditation
43:33
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Howard Cohn
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| A version of Joseph Goldstein's Big Mind meditation using bells and reminders to allow your mind to be like a clear empty sky and allow the different experiences to arise and pass without interference. |
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2008-02-22
The Four Reminders
69:07
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Howard Cohn
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| We have the opportunity to make something of this precious life, that has such fortunate conditions that can also quickly change. The seeds we plant have results. Orienting ourselves toward the Dharma can free us from the samsaric loop. |
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2008-02-20
What Actually Is The Truth?
58:48
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Heather Martin
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| How this truth-telling practice is a process which reveals ever deeper levels of what really is so. In this way, what we mistook for real is seen through and released, over and over again, leaving - what? |
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2008-02-18
Equanimity: The Eye Of The Storm
63:28
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Howard Cohn
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| The culmination of the Brahma Viharas, the ten paramis, and the factors of awakening. Equanimity allows us, like the Buddha, to 'sit in the middle'. Moment to moment mindfulness brings balance and openness to meet our joys and sorrows. |
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2008-02-16
Coming Out Of The Fog Of Delusion
56:31
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Sally Clough Armstrong
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| The distortion of delusion operates in many ways, including when we are disconnected from our direct experience, or only allow in information that doesn't challenge our deluded state of mind. Learning how to recognize when delusion is distorting our experience allows us to wake up out of its spell and discover clarity and peacefulness. |
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