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Dharma Talks
2005-10-21 The Four Great Efforts 60:33
Martine Batchelor
This talk explores meditation as a cultivation of the four great efforts. These efforts inspire us to be more conscious of the inner and outer conditions that underpin our experience and to creatively engage with these conditions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-10-23 Awakening 66:59
Martine Batchelor
Awakening is an exploration of mystical states and insights; a presentation of the four stages of awakening and their relevance to our practice and daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-10-25 Selfing, Love And Compassion 62:03
Martine Batchelor
Looking at how we built positive or negative selfing and how meditation helps us to develop non-grasping love and from that actively manifest compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-10-27 10 Ox-Herding Pictures 66:10
Martine Batchelor
A description of the stages on the meditative path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-04-14 Non-Grasping 69:37
Martine Batchelor
This talk explores the process of grasping, which limits and reduces us. It also looks at non-grasping in various areas or our life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-04-16 Compassion And Wisdom 66:05
Martine Batchelor
This talk looks at the intimate connection between wisdom and compassion. Insight into the three characteristics leads to compassion. Compassion needs to be tempered by wisdom so it does not become misguided or superior.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-10-30 Breaking Free of Habits: Part 2 1:25:21
Martine Batchelor
During this daylong we will work with the habits that bind us and stop our potential for wisdom and compassion from manifesting fully. We will use the meditative tools found in the Vipassana and Zen traditions, like watching the breath, listening and questioning, to see how we can engage creatively with our habits and transform them into positive functions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-10-30 Breaking Free of Habits: Part 1 60:28
Martine Batchelor
During this daylong we will work with the habits that bind us and stop our potential for wisdom and compassion from manifesting fully. We will use the meditative tools found in the Vipassana and Zen traditions, like watching the breath, listening and questioning, to see how we can engage creatively with our habits and transform them into positive functions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-02-10 Meditation, mindfulness and meditative inquiry 45:28
Martine Batchelor
Australian Insight Meditation Network (MIMG)

2009-11-10 Meditation for Life 47:11
Martine Batchelor
Meditation is not an idea of getting to a mystical state but of helping us to release. It is not an exotic practice but it is more like eating, brushing our teeth - it is a way to nourish ourselves and to open and finally to let go. It is a lifelong journey where we learn to let go and stop grasping as we become aware of our life in each moment, accept each moment as it is. Meditation can help us to be more in the world, by being here and now we can be skillful and respond to whatever happens in the present. We develop clarity, we see the changing nature of things. When we are engulfed by feelings we can step back and say ‘how long will this last?’ We do not have to feed the feelings, we just need to be with them and watch them as they change. We can bring creative awareness to everything that we do and use it to be fully where we are, to be in our relationships in our life.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

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