(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Key to all of our suffering and eventual freedom, mindfulness of vedan disrupts our unconscious struggle to reject unpleasant experiences, crave pleasant experiences,

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Includes meditation & dharma talk (the participant Q/A has been removed).

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The three part arriving practice prepares the mind-heart for both vipassana and samadhi practice. It is preliminary meditation that establishes mindfulness, calm, and o

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An introduction to a new approach to practice. A movement from a results based orientation to "Practicing Practice."

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Begins with a 30m meditation followed by a Dharma Talk

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) During this talk we look at the different facets of khanti (patience). Khanti is one of the ten paramis. We investigate how to cultivate patience and how to be with imp

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this talk of a series of talks on developing metta or lovingkindness, we look at the question of how we connect and integrate metta with our development of clear see

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We start with a short period of metta or some other heart practice, noticing how mindfulness brings us back to the practice when we are distracted. Then there is a long