January | Morning Meditation | Living Dharma Program 2022

January | Afternoon Meditation | Living Dharma Program 2022

Paramis Generosity Guided Meditation

Paramis - Generosity Sasa Jataka

with Sally Armstrong
A concise and eloquent description of Wise View - the first factor of the Eightfold Path. Recorded on March 3, 2011 at Spirit Rock.

Wise View

Elad Levinson KM 08.24.14 Part 8

Spirit Rock Monday night dharma talk with Jack Kornfield. From November 9, 2015.

Jack Kornfield - Dharma Talk

Highlights from a Spirit Rock Day Long event - Sustaining Ourselves to Sustain the World with 
James Baraz
Margarita Loinaz and Patricia St. Onge
Ayya Santussika
Thanissara
Wes Nisker


Sustaining Ourselves To Sustain The World - Loinaz And St. Onge AUDIO

Sharda Rogell — A Grateful Heart Meditation

Vinny Ferraro — Seeing through Eyes of Love

In this 20-minute guided meditation, Spirit Rock Staff Dharma Teacher, Dana DePalma, invites you to release tension and embrace the present moment as a friend. 

Spirit Rock Meditation Center http://www.spiritrock.org/

Guided Meditation with Dana DePalma

In this dharma talk given following the 2016 Presidential election, Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield reminds us to shift from the fearful  consciousness of "me vs. others" that creates separation to the consciousness of connection, interdependence and compassion.

Jack Kornfield - Listening with the Heart: Practicing the Dharma in Uncertain Times

Uncertain times are “the perfect place to deepen the practice of awakening,” says Spirit Rock founder Jack Kornfield. In this interview with Michael Krasny on KQED's "Forum," Jack offers advice on finding freedom from worry, anxiety and want and shares what he’s learned as a longtime practitioner of Buddhism and mindfulness.

Jack Kornfield - Learning to Let Go of Anxiety

2017-08/02  SR Family Retreat http://www.spiritrock.org/

Gil Fronsdal - Three Universal Insights - Family Retreat Aug 2017

JackKornfield.2017.CourageandtheSteadyHeart

A guided Metta meditation on 4/6/18 with JoAnna Hardy at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.

2018-04/04  SR Insight Meditation Retreat http://www.spiritrock.org/

Metta, Self to All with JoAnna Hardy

This talk took place on 2011-10-16 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
"The aim of my presentation will be to investigate what mindfulness practice is about according to the early Buddhist discourses. These discourses have been preserved in the Pali Nikayas, in the Chinese Agamas, and at times also in Sanskrit fragments and sutra quotations preserved in Tibetan. From a historical viewpoint, these discourses represent the earliest layer of Buddhist textual material and thus take us back as close as possible to the original instructions delivered by the Buddha. In these texts, we find two basic expositions: 1) the fourfold establishment of mindfulness taught in general; 2) the threefold establishment of mindfulness associated with the Buddha himself. First, I will examine the fourfold establishment of mindfulness, based on the way it is depicted in the different extant versions of the Discourse on Mindfulness and the Discourse on Mindfulness of Breathing. Then, I will compare these to the threefold establishment of mindfulness. Through such comparison, I hope to arrive at key aspects of Buddhist mindfulness practice according to the earliest available textual sources at our disposition."

Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Bhikkhu Analayo on Mindfulness According to Early Buddhist Sources

2016-02/27  SR March Monthlong http://www.spiritrock.org/

"Radical Gratitude" Nikki Mirghafori

2018-11/26  SR Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening http://www.spiritrock.org/

The Mystery of Self and Not Self by Mark Coleman

JackKornfield.2017.TheTruthThatFrees

2019-08/18  SR Concentration Retreat http://www.spiritrock.org/

Nikki Mirghafori—Samadhi: Eight Supportive Conditions and the Five Jhanic Factors

2018-03/24  SR Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home http://www.spiritrock.org/

Expansive Metta - Guided Practice with Oren Jay Sofer

2020-01/17  IMSRC Wisdom and Compassion for Our Time: Insight Meditation Weekend http://www.dharma.org

JoAnna Hardy - Morning Instructions: Breath and Body

2017-10/27  SR Awakening Strength, Courage and Tenderness:  A Retreat for the LGBTQI Gender-fluid Community http://www.spiritrock.org/

Larry Yang - Sharing the Tenderness of the World

MD Unknown http://www.missiondharma.org

Howard Cohn - The Illusion Of Separateness

Recorded at Spirit Rock's Upper Meditation Hall on April 28, 2020

Sounds of Nature and Bell Chimes on the Spirit Rock Land - Meditation

2020-02/29  SR March Monthlong http://www.spiritrock.org/

DaRa Williams —  Brahma Viharas - Compassion

2019-12/13  IMSRC Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat http://www.dharma.org

Pascal Auclair: Guided Meditation–Love As Renunciation

Exploring Illness, Aging and Death - James Baraz, Anna Douglas, Frank Ostaseski

Spirit Rock Meditation Center is dedicated to the teachings of the Buddha as presented in the vipassana tradition. The practice of mindful awareness, called Insight Meditation, is at the heart of all the activities at Spirit Rock. We provide silent meditation retreats, as well as classes, trainings, and Dharma study opportunities for new and experienced students from diverse backgrounds with a willingness to develop their own practice.

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