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Sharda Rogell's Dharma Talks
Sharda Rogell
My focus in teaching is to provide the support that students need to turn their life to the dharma, to truth, and to find ways to come out of their pain and suffering. The retreat experience is an invaluable aid to this exploration; however, what matters more is how one integrates this under- standing into everyday life.
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2016-09-02 Widening our Lens to the Way Things Are 51:13
If we try to get the conditions of our life to match our expectations, we will be disappointed again & again. Understanding the Buddha's teaching on 'dukkha' helps us let go and see more clearly.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight meditation Retreat
2015-09-04 Entering the Dharma Stream 54:59
As we shift from a self-centered view to a dharma-centered view, we enter the authentic truth of our experience, and see with new eyes, even when facing difficult mind states. What can support this turning?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Retreat
2014-11-27 Returning to a Grateful Heart 47:35
When the heart releases naturally, the grateful heart opens with joy. This talk ends with a fifteen minute gratitude meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat
2014-11-24 The Wisdom of Dukkha and Sukha 50:00
The Buddha invites us to open to all experience just as it is. When we open, we deepen our experience to allow both pleasure and pain and enter the stream of life without resistance or grasping.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat
2014-08-30 Flowing with Life as it Is 50:12
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Retreat
2014-07-15 Increasing Happiness (Sukha), Decreasing Dukkha 56:42
With wise and clear intention, we invite the conditions for transforming our heart-mind. We directly attend to the prickliness of aversion and resistance and open to the way things are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat
2014-07-14 Mudita- Empathetic Joy-Introduction and Guided 44:39
Mudita is one of the divine Abodes. The quality of the heart that feels happiness for others' good fortune. An introduction followed by a 20 minute guided meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat
2014-07-11 Removing Veils from the Heart 54:56
Exploring what covers over our innate goodness, including near and far enemies of loving kindness (metta), attached love and hate, and how to uncover the beautiful qualities of our hearts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat
2014-07-10 Guided Loving Kindness on the Body 42:39
Brief talk and guided meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat
2014-01-03 Compassion and Equanimity 52:10
Dharma practice shows us how to awaken to the stillness of the unmoving mind, where joys and sorrows move freely through our heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Retreat

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