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Retreat Dharma Talks

January Metta Retreat

2016-01-11 (8 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
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2016-01-12 Morning Instructions: Metta Overview (Day One) 37:43
Heather Sundberg
2016-01-12 Brahma Vihara Practices 13:04
Donald Rothberg
2016-01-12 Every moment of Awakened Awareness is a Meritorious Act 53:27
Sylvia Boorstein
2016-01-13 Day Two: Morning Instructional Sit 41:12
Sylvia Boorstein
2016-01-13 Transformation through Metta Practice 59:04
Donald Rothberg
Metta practice carries a profound intention: To bring kindness and an awakened heart to all beings and all situations in our lives. We explore the nature of this intention, and some of the main ways that metta develops: through a basic stabilizing of our lives and awareness, particularly in living ethically, and in formal practice, as concentration develops; through a process of purification of that which blocks or stands in the way of metta; and through an integration of metta in our lives, to the point where metta is less a doing and practice, and more a way of being, which we then bring into the world.
2016-01-14 Day Three: Morning Instructional Sit: The Dear Friend 38:30
Donald Rothberg
2016-01-14 Compassion: The Spontaneous Wisdom of the Heart 40:26
John Martin
2016-01-14 Radiating Metta: Guided Practice 20:04
Donald Rothberg
2016-01-15 Day 4: Morning Instructional Sit 43:02
John Martin
2016-01-15 Meeting Life with Equanimity 56:28
Heather Sundberg
"Funny, poignant, practical - this Talk explores Six Qualities of Equanimity; the Near Misses, and how to live with these qualities in the foreground of our hearts and lives. Equanimity is the Spacious (1) Balance (2) of the Non Reactive (3) mind-heart, grounded in Wisdom (4), with supports a deep Caring (5) , and leads to an Appropriate Response (6).
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