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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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2008-02-15
Joy Ushers In Calm
60:36
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Heather Martin
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| By welcoming joy we become content, so we relax, thus letting go of the need to do something - anything about it - thus calming down. Inner and/or outer joy facilitates the shift from doing to being - from trying to letting go - crucial steps on the path to awakening. |
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2008-02-13
Metta, Tenderness And Connection
60:06
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Guy Armstrong
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| Metta practice makes the heart more sensitive. This tenderness becomes the avenue for us to discover our deep connectedness to all of life and end a sense of isolation. |
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2008-02-12
Seclusion
57:07
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Carol Wilson
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| Seclusion - viveka in Pali - is a theme the Buddha was asked about: "Teach me...release, emancipation, seclusion for beings." This talk explores various aspects of this word viveka: seclusion of body, seclusion of mind, seclusion from suffering - and how these are manifest in the retreat setting and mindfulness practice. |
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2008-02-11
The Hindrances And The Awakening Factors
60:37
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Heather Martin
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| What obstructs us and what helps us on our journey to awakening. How these two clearly explained aspects of our experience alternatively trap us and free us over and over again, as we invite their interplay. |
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2008-02-10
Choosing Kindness Rather Than Judging
58:58
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Sally Clough Armstrong
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| Many of us have internalized the message that we are not ok. To begin to be free of this distorted view, we need to understand how it became formed and why it no longer serves us. It is important to bring humor and kindness to this practice. |
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2008-02-08
Papanca - Why I Can't Be Happy Now
66:52
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Howard Cohn
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| Our thinking mind, when unnoticed, spreads out into imaginary worlds about an imaginary version of ourselves. How mindfulness helps us recognize the various trances our mind spins. |
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2008-02-07
Inspiration For Practice: The Four Heavenly Messengers
61:22
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Heather Sundberg
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| The talk explores the story of Prince Siddartha's encounters with the Four Heavenly Messengers - old age, sickness, death and those who have 'gone forth' in search of the highest happiness. Woven with personal stories and the examples of contemporary masters, the talk also offers practical advice on how to use the experience of the Four Messengers as our teachers and inspiration in practice. |
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2008-02-06
Four Noble Truths
60:40
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Carol Wilson
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| The Buddha said that our path of awakening is like swimming upstream - in relationship to the habits of society and the habits of our own minds. So our deep motivation needs to be supported by accurate information. The 4 Noble Truths is a basic context/description of life, suffering and freedom that serves to support and inform all our various methods of practice. |
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