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Retreat Dharma Talks

Monday and Wednesday Talks

Regular weekly talks given at the lower Spirit Rock meditation hall

Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
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2013-04-24 Dependent Origination I 50:20
Donald Rothberg
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An introduction to the core teaching of Dependent Arising, with a brief account of (1) what we bring to experience (links 1-5), (2) What happens in experience (links 6-9), and (3) The consequences of experience (links 10-12). This is an analysis of the roots of suffering (dukkha) and how it is perpetuated.
2013-04-29 How to Be an Earthling... 46:09
Wes Nisker
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2013-05-01 Dependent Origination II 67:47
Donald Rothberg
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After some general background on dependent origination, we look in detail at the twelve links (nidana) with an interest in seeing how we can intervene to break cycles of conditioning and unskillful action.
2013-05-06 Buddha's Awakening: What Really Happened... 54:45
Eugene Cash
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Buddha's relationship to his body as a doorway to Enlightenment.
2013-05-08 Dependent Origination III- Intervening to end the cycle of suffering. 64:18
Donald Rothberg
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After a brief review of dependent origination we look at ways of understanding several examples of suffering according to the model, and then point to multiple ways that we intervene-especially in the areas of action, direct experience, dispositions and ignorance.
2013-05-13 Patience and Perseverence 65:46
Phillip Moffitt
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2013-05-15 Dependent Origination IV-Review and Introduction to Liberative Dependent Origination 62:35
Donald Rothberg
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After a brief review of dependent origination. We also review ways of intervening in the cycle of suffering, and then begin to explore the teaching of "liberative" or "transcendental" dependent origination-focused on the causes and conditions leading to freedom and liberation.
2013-05-20 The One Who Knows... 52:05
Jack Kornfield
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2013-05-20 Guided Meditation with Sound 24:48
Jack Kornfield
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Jack leads a guided meditation on sound. Using bells and spoken word
2013-05-22 Dependent Origination V- Liberative Dependent Origination 61:30
Donald Rothberg
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The last in a series of talks--an outline of the twelve factors of "liberative" or "transcendental" dependent origination, an analysis of the cycle leading from being able to work with suffering through to liberation.
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