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Retreat Dharma Talks

March Monthlong

An extended period of retreat offers the rare opportunity for sustained and dedicated practice. This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing profound clarity and depth of insight practice. Instruction will follow the traditional four foundations of mindfulness, combined with training in loving-kindness and compassion, through a daily schedule of silent sitting, walking, dharma talks and practice meetings with teachers.

2020-02-29 (29 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
2020-02-29 Brief Intro to Felt Sense of Satipatthana 25:53
Phillip Moffitt
2020-03-01 Qualities of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:26
Andrea Fella
2020-03-02 Day 2 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 40:54
DaRa Williams
2020-03-02 Day 2 Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:16
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Metta
2020-03-02 Cultivation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:54
Winnie Nazarko
2020-03-03 Brahma Vihara Instructions 24:22
Noliwe Alexander
2020-03-03 Day 3 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:15
Bhante Buddharakkhita
2020-03-03 Embodied Awareness: Postures and All Activities (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:18
Eugene Cash
We explored how to practice with an embodied awareness 24/7. Practice using a full awareness that allows us to be mindful through the knowing our body experientially veiled of thoughts, ideas and commentary. This direct knowing is proprioceptive, kinesthetic, often referred to as felt sense knowing.
2020-03-04 Morning Instructions 42:47
Andrea Fella
Relax, Receive, Allow
2020-03-05 Day 5 Brama Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:05
Andrea Fella
2020-03-05 Day 5 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:17
Phillip Moffitt
With Refuges and Precepts
2020-03-05 The Four Noble Truths as the Twelve Insights (Part 1) 58:46
Phillip Moffitt
2020-03-06 Day 6 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:32
Eugene Cash
2020-03-06 Day 7 Brahma Vihara Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:51
Winnie Nazarko
Metta for difficult person
2020-03-06 The Theory and Practice of the 4 Elements (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:22
Bhante Buddharakkhita
2020-03-07 Day 7 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:18
DaRa Williams
2020-03-07 Day 8 - Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:29
Phillip Moffitt
2020-03-07 Compassion: The Courage to Turn Towards Suffering - While Turning Towards Wisdom and Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:31
Noliwe Alexander
2020-03-09 Day 9 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:21
Bhante Buddharakkhita
2020-03-09 Day 9 Brahma Vihara Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:29
Eugene Cash
2020-03-09 Feeling Tone (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:36
Andrea Fella
2020-03-10 Day 9 Brahma Vihara Practice- Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:19
Bhante Buddharakkhita
2020-03-10 Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:49
DaRa Williams
2020-03-11 Letting Go - Release - Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:35
Eugene Cash
Satipatthana - Four Foundations of Mindfulness offers us specific meditation practices with the body, breath, in four postures, in all activities, with the elements, with death, vedana, the heart/mind and the dharmas including hindrances and the seven factors of awakenings. Each of these practices includes a through line: One abides independent, not clinging to anything in the world. The not clinging to body, heart, mind or any experience is both the foundation of the Buddha's teaching and the doorway to freedom. It's the experience of coming into alignment with ' he way things are.'
2020-03-12 Day 12 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 38:13
Eugene Cash
2020-03-12 Brahma Viharas - Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:17
DaRa Williams
2020-03-13 Brahma Vihara Practice - Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 40:16
Andrea Fella
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