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Retreat Dharma Talks

February 2010 Month Long

2010-01-31 (29 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
2010-02-12 Trance of Time 65:55
Howard Cohn
Explaining concepts of time and its influence on our experience of life.
2010-02-13 Compassion and Emptiness 62:00
Carol Wilson
2010-02-15 Abundant Enoughness: The Practice of Contentment 61:01
James Baraz
The Buddha spoke of Nekkhama or renunciation as source of happiness. This is because it gives rise to contentment-seeing this moment as complete as it is. This talk explores the experience of inner contentment.
2010-02-16 Impermanence 61:04
Andrea Fella
Everyone knows that "things change". Yet as the Mahabarata points out "only the surface-mind understands, the actual sense never goes into our heads". Exploring our experience deeply, we can move past the surface understanding to deeply recognize this truth.
2010-02-17 Hitting the Wall of Sakhaya Ditthi 63:16
Carol Wilson
2010-02-18 The Awakening of Equanimity 1:10:49
Howard Cohn
Describes the development of equanimity through the vehicle of mindful attention.
2010-02-19 Awakening Joy 66:13
James Baraz
Practice is more than just opening to suffering. It is a path of happiness. We can incline the mind to open to and awaken wholesome states that lead to well-being and, ultimately, liberation.
2010-02-20 Clinging and Identification with I, Me and Mine 59:34
Sally Armstrong
The Buddha saw that we continually cling to and create a sense of self out of five aspects of our experience. Seeing this process clearly can lead to the possibility of letting go and freedom.
2010-02-21 The Obvious 58:16
Andrea Fella
We often understand our habits and patterns as having many complex layers, and think we need to dive into the midst of the layers in order to "really" understand the pattern. This talk explores a gentle investigation of what is obvious in our experience, which allows a natural, organic understanding to emerge.
2010-02-24 Empty of Self / Full of Everything 63:13
Howard Cohn
Emptiness is creative expression and creative potential. Both appreciating the immediate expression of emptiness as everything as well as emptiness as creative possibility to plant seeds of awakening.
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