Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks from Retreats

Monday and Wednesday Talks

Regular weekly talks given at the lower Spirit Rock meditation hall

Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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2012-08-01 Guided Meditation on Self and Not-Self Part I 23:53
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen

2012-08-01 Self and Not-Self IV- The Core Teachings of the Buddha Part II 57:55
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After a brief review of past weeks, we examine the Buddha's basic teachings on self and not-self in terms of 1. the model of the "aggregate" of experience, 2. The link between a sense of self and conceptualization, and 3. practices to discern self and open to not-self.

2012-08-08 Self and Not-Self V-A sequence of Training in Opening to not-self 48:58
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After a review of our explorations of the last sessions, we outline a five-stage model for opening sequentially to more subtle aspects of not-self.

2012-08-13 Jack Kornfield with Chade-Meng Tan, author of Search Inside Yourself 65:29
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
A conversation with Chade-Meng Tan, a conversation and dialogue....

2012-08-20 Meeting Life with Kind Presence 45:23
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk explores how the qualities of Mindfulness & Kindness are essential ingredients for meeting experience with wisdom, clarity & love...that allows us to hold ourselves, and difficult times with greater ease and compassion.

2012-08-22 Self and Not Self VI--Integration and Review 59:21
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore in this integrative sessions, how a "thick" sense of self appears in various ways, and how we open to experience with progressively "thinner" senses of self. We also look at how anxiety and disorientation may arise at each stage, and how to understand what skillful uses of self are.

2012-08-29 Self and Not-Self VII-Self and Not-Self in the context of Global Crisis. 69:46
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
With the background of the last weeks exploration of our individual practice to see self and open increasingly to not-self, we connect that practice with our responses to global crisis, particularly global climate disruption. We see its roots in part in individualist models of self, and point to the importance of dharma practice in our responses to crisis.

2012-09-05 Relating Wisely the Sense of Self 33:10
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
Talk explores the 5 aggregates and the 3 characteristics using stories, suttas and practical exercises to develop relating wisely to the sense of self.

2012-09-10 Natchiketa & the Lord of Death 67:43
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Initiation, Forgiveness & the Timeless Realm

2012-09-17 The Buddhas Last Teachings 66:08
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
The story of awakening and how we can find justice, compassion & wisdom where we are...

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