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Sally Armstrong's Dharma Talks
Sally Armstrong
Sally Clough Armstrong began practicing vipassana meditation in India in 1981. She moved to the Bay Area in 1988, and worked at Spirit Rock until 1994 in a number of roles, including executive director. She began teaching in 1996, and is one of the guiding teachers of Spirit Rock's Dedicated Practitioner Program. Sally has always been inspired by the depth and the breadth of the Buddha’s teaching, as presented in the suttas of the Pali Canon, because the truth and power of the Buddha’s words still speak to us today. Her intention in teaching is to make these ancient texts and practices accessible and relevant to all levels of practitioner, from the very new to the dedicated meditator.
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2016-02-11 Day 12 Morning Instructional Sit: Standing Posture 17:46
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Month-long
2016-02-10 Factors that Support the Deepening of Meditation. 55:35
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There are five factors, known as the jhanic factors, that are cultivated in meditation practice, especially as our practice deepens on long retreats. These factors collect and gather the attention, and then bring the qualities of joy and contentment into the mind and heart. From this place, the mind naturally settles into one-pointedness and equanimity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Month-long
2016-02-09 Day 10 Brahma Vihara Instructions: Metta-Neutral Person 45:37
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Month-long
2016-02-05 Day 6 Morning Instructional Sit 15:54
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Month-long
2016-02-04 Renunciation as a Support for Practice 56:26
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Renunciation can seem like rejection or a penance. But true renunciation is more like relinquishment - letting go of what no longer serves us, allowing the mind and heart more space to open and find freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Month-long
2016-02-02 Day 3 Brahma Vihara Instructions 57:58
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Month-long
2016-02-01 Day 2 Morning Instructional Sit 9:54
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Month-long
2016-01-31 Cultivating Mindfulness 50:35
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Month-long
2015-10-19 The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 57:05
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The Satipatthana Sutta (usually translated as the Foundations of Mindfulness) offers a complete description of the practice of mindfulness, beginning with the direct awareness of the breath and the body, progressing through mindfulness of vedana or feeling tone, to the more subtle object of the Third Foundation, mindfulness of mind states. The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness represents the culmination of this series of practices, and can be seen as a direct pointing, again and again, to the possibility of freedom through direct awareness of where we get caught, and how to turn the mind towards liberation. This talk is an overview of the practices of the Fourth Foundation, which can be seen as both the last in the sequence of practices, and as a progression in itself. It also covers how the Fourth Foundation can be skillfully interwoven into our practice of the other foundations.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2015-10-12 The Third Foundation of Mindfulness: Mindfulness of States of Mind 59:26
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In the third foundation of mindfulness, the Buddha instructs us to bring awareness and clear seeing to the contents of mind. In a nonjudgmental way, we are invited to be aware of whether the mind is affected by lust, ill will or delusion, and also when the mind is not affected by the states. Included in this practice are various experiences of concentration, expansion and contraction in the mind. The section ends by including awareness of the liberated mind, even if this is only a temporary experience. The thrust of this section is to notice the wholesome and the unwholesome qualities of the mind, and by that very noticing increase the wholesome and decrease the unwholesome.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

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