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Dharma Talks
2026-01-09 Morning Instructions 47:53
Nathan Glyde
Life-Giving Attention
Gaia House Rest & Renewal

2026-01-09 Setting the Wheel in Motion 1:10:09
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma and Recovery

2026-01-08 Talk - The Gifts of Dana 39:28
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Rest & Renewal

2026-01-08 Guided Meditation 37:12
Sumedha
Learning from life - letting attention listen.
Gaia House Rest & Renewal

2026-01-08 Morning Instructions 54:17
Jaya Rudgard
Seeing practice as continuous through the day, and using an anchor to steady the mind.
Gaia House Rest & Renewal

2026-01-07 Opening Talk for the Retreat 64:18
Jaya Rudgard, Nathan Glyde, Sumedha
Cultivating our potential & nurturing the goodness that is already here.
Gaia House Rest & Renewal

2026-01-07 Three Watches of the Night and Practicing Here and Now on Retreat 47:33
Erin Treat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Winter Insight Retreat 2026

2026-01-07 Reframing Perception IV ~ Linear & Cyclical Time 54:27
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Morning
Aloka Earth Room

2026-01-07 Wisdom of the Body: Liberation 28:37
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2026-01-07 Practicing with Intentions 60:13
Donald Rothberg
We explore the centrality of being skillful with intentions in our practice and a number of different ways of practicing to cultivate skillful intentions, in part related to the New Year. We look at the Buddha's account of karma (kamma in Pali) as intention, and his teaching on the importance of reflection in living with skillful intentions. Remembering the Chinese Chan (Zen) teacher Yunmen's speaking of the centrality of "appropriate response," we develop a simple model for developing skillful intentions leading to skillful or appropriate responses. We also explore the variety of types of intentions, and recent Stanford research about how we might skillfully (and successfully) follow intentions to develop new routines. We then look at the importance for identifying our deeper intentions of develop an intuitive listening to life and to what calls us, in part exploring the theme of listening through poems. The talk is followed by a short guided meditation on intentions and then by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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