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Dharma Talks
2024-01-02 Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 31:50
Devon Hase
Teaching and practice on awareness of awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-02-13 Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:31
James Baraz
This guided meditation, originally created by Joseph Goldstein, shifts the subject of attention from objects to the awareness that knows.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2023-02-08 Day 6, Module I: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, The Dhammas (Factors of Awakening) 1:48:00
Howard Cohn
2-hour practice period ('module'); includes instruction and guided and silent practice. One of four modules each day on the daily retreat theme, with Howard Cohn, Leslie Booker or Genevieve Tregor. (Howie offers his 'big mind' meditation in this module!)
One World Mindfulness The Four Foundations of Mindfulness - February Retreat 2023

2022-12-22 Choiceless Awareness and Big Sky Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 34:53
Devon Hase
A short overview of Satipatthana practice including choiceless awareness, followed by a guided big mind meditation with singing bowls.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2022-11-01 A heartfelt frame of reference 40:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Offering presence, offering support to our gathering includes both hard work and joyful activities. We preserve skilful states of mind by remembering the big picture - supporting an oasis of trust, peace and virtue.
Cittaviveka CBM 2022 Talks

2022-10-13 Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:34
Devon Hase
A guided practice on open awareness and the nature of the mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-08-29 Awareness Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:12
Mark Coleman
Exploring Open awareness, nature of awareness in this 'Big Mind' meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Loving Awareness: Meeting Reality with Wisdom and Kindness

2022-06-24 Guided Big Mind Meditation 37:47
Caroline Jones
Gaia House Creative, Living Dharma: practising with the similes of the Buddha

2021-06-11 Everything is held in Awareness 46:10
James Baraz
Guided "Big Mind" Meditation to perceive Awareness as the space in which all experience arises and passes away.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy: Opening to Your Natural State of Well-Being

2021-06-02 Day 4 Q&A1 49:13
Ajahn Sucitto
How to relate to afflictive states; thoughts of unwholesome acts arise in meditation; how can I feel safety in my brown body when there is external racism; is the movement of citta saṇkhāra the same as cetana; feels like body grows bigger while meditating; body cells are asking for more oxygen; how to direct energy to peripheral parts of body; remaining with awareness mind while noticing absence of ‘I’; self-consciousness, fear making a mistake and being judged; affected by family’s trauma like citta is haunted.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

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