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Dharma Talks
2025-03-23 Light on effort, an oar in the stream 40:37
Ajahn Sucitto
With effort, citta is the main thing. It’s both the heart quality from where intention streams and that which harvests the results. Then one knows where to best apply energy and how that’s done. Practise the application of effort to mindfulness of breathing, acknowledging and moderating the tools being used and the material they’re being applied to. When you practise rightly, there will be fortunate results.
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-15 The Process and Experience of "Streaming" 53:36
Tempel Smith
The Buddha wanted us to learn how to wakefully "stream", to realize we are forever and only a stream of mental and physical phenomena. We have no part internally or externally which is permanent, though in daily life we subjectively feel as if there is a lot of dependably permanent parts of life. With the deepening intimacy of mindfulness all there is is a flow and change. With patience we can learn to find liberation within the universal aspect of impermanence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-13 Instructions and Guided Meditation: Choiceless Attention 59:12
Tempel Smith
There is a style of mindfulness practice where we lightly attending a central, familiar anchor of attention, such as the breath or scanning the body, and then intentionally choose to watch our minds move through its habits and its nature. In this style of mindfulness practice we can watch our attention move through our six sense doors of stimulation. With this style of meditation we can directly see the dharma nature of our mind. With this style of practice we have to be careful we not lose attentiveness, which can be a shadow side of choiceless attention. We want to keep learning and discovering the dharma, and not space out into half committed mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-12 Mindfulness of "Knowing" through Six Sense Doors (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:27
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-11 The Peace Beyond 29:37
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-11 The Peace Beyond 41:30
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-10 Morning Instructions on Mindfulness of Arising & Vanishing (Anicca) & Intention or Volition (Cetana) (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:35
Tara Mulay
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-08 Vedana: The 2nd Foundation of Mindfulness 54:44
Tempel Smith
An incredibly important aspect of mindfulness is to direct attention to "vedana" which is the tone of every moment which is either pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. This one tone of conscious experience is at the very root of all suffering and therefore all liberation from suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-07 Mindfulness and Inquiry into the Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:39
Kristina Bare
Seeing deeper into the true nature of body while cultivating the first two awakening factors of mindfulness (sati) and inquiry (dhamma vicaya)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-07 Instructions and Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of Thought 59:08
Tempel Smith
5 mins for chanting refuges and precepts, then a careful guided meditation on mindfulness of thought. We create a base of being mindful with the breath and body to allow us some perspective on thought as a direct stream of phenomena.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

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