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Susie Harrington has been meditating since 1989, and been engaged in Insight meditation practice since 1995. She began teaching in 2005, with the guidance of Guy Armstrong, Jack Kornfield and more recently Joseph Goldstein. She often offers retreats in the natural world, believing nature to be the most profound dharma teacher, and a natural gateway to our true self. Her teaching is deeply grounded in the body and emphasizes embodiment of our practice in speech and daily life. For more information go to desertdharma.org.

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Susie Harrington: Monday Night Dharma Talk - Gratitude, Breathing In Breathing Out 13.12.2021 49:39

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Susie Harrington: Hindrances and Distractions: Portals to the Path (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 01.12.2021 1:04:39

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The path of practice has many challenges. How we meet those and turn toward them and learn form them is possibly the most important aspect of our practice. This talk looks at these challenges in the retreat setting and suggests ways of meeting them.

Susie Harrington: Introduction and Guided Meditation: Equanimity 15.11.2021 47:26

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

Susie Harrington: Guided Meditation; Unentangled Knowing 13.11.2021 52:32

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Recommended for times when the mind is settled and willing to explore the subtler process of mind.

Susie Harrington: Navigating The River With ease and Energy 07.11.2021 59:17

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Energy and wise effort on the path of practice

Susie Harrington: Morning Instructions and Reflection 07.11.2021 44:20

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Deeping samadhi - hints, and suggestions

Susie Harrington: Your Mind Is Your Friend: Cultivating A wise And Kind Relationship With Thoughts 01.11.2021 57:58

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Working with thoughts and thinking on the path to a collected, stable, and joyful mind.

Susie Harrington: Intention: Bringing Wisdom to the Moment 02.01.2021 42:33

(Sky Mind Retreats) Wise intention plays out in concentric circles of time. We may tend to make big broad objectives, but it is how these come to play out in the hours and the moments of our days that will guide the effectiveness and usefulness of our intentions. Part 2 of a two part series with Womb of Attention as part 1.

Susie Harrington: The Wholesome Womb of Attention: Yoniso Manasikara 01.01.2021 57:46

(Sky Mind Retreats) Fundamental to our experience is where our attention lands. Our attention can be run by habit and conditions or, with practice and the training of the mind, we can make choices about what and how we pay attention. This choice, and what unfolds as a result, can make all the difference. Wise Intention is Part 2 of this two talk series.

Susie Harrington: Guided Meditation: Four Elements Meditation 05.03.2020 40:10

(Sky Mind Retreats) A guided Elements Meditation with 8 minute intro to finding balance and accessing ease through earth connection. Second morning of retreat 3 in 15 month program. (Program Sponsored by the Sati Center)

Susie Harrington: Day 24 Afternoon Instructions: Upekkha (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 25.02.2020 44:23

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided meditation for embodying equanimity: neutral, friend and self

Susie Harrington: Anatta: Understanding No Permanent, Abiding Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 17.02.2020 1:03:23

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha's teaching leading to the freedom from the clinging to I, Me and Mine.

Susie Harrington: Day 12 Afternoon Instructions: Radiating Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 13.02.2020 41:06

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Susie Harrington: Day 10 Morning Instructions: Dhammavicaya (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 11.02.2020 45:16

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided meditation exploring investigation/ inquiry/discrimination, through the lenses of wisdom.

Susie Harrington: Dhammavicaya: Opening the Door to Insight (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 10.02.2020 55:52

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dhammavicaya, the factor of discrimination, is one of the 7 factors. IT is a lens through which we can meet our experience, and cultivate understanding & insight.

Susie Harrington: Day Four Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 05.02.2020 44:46

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) 8-precept intro and chanting; at 15 minutes, practicing in the body instructions with body scan and practice guidance.

Susie Harrington: Listening Our Way Into the Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 04.02.2020 59:59

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The body is our home, our vehicle to freedom and our connection to the Great Mystery. This talk explores the skillful means and the opportunities of this foundational practice.

Susie Harrington: Monday Night Dharma Talk 09.12.2019 1:00:18

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Susie Harrington: Day 3: Selfing & Freedom from Selfing (Retreat at Spirit Rock): Afternoon Session 15.11.2019 55:40

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The activity of selfing is dukkha. Freedom from selfing is onward leading towards liberation.

Susie Harrington: Seven Factors and the Practice of Concentration (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 25.08.2018 1:01:01

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The cultivation of the seven factors in samadhi and vipassana practice.

Susie Harrington: Jhanic Factors in Samadhi Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 21.08.2018 59:41

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The supports and obstructions for samadhi: The hindrances and jhanic factors: vitakka, vicara, piti, sukha, ekaggata.

Susie Harrington: Impermanence is a doorway to Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 15.05.2018 56:58

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) the Buddha taught that the recognition of arising and passion away (Anicca) is the doorway to freedom. In this talk, we explore impermanence and it’s relationship to dukkha. To let go ov our argument with the reality – with the way things are, to the nature of changing phenomena, opens up to the possibility of ease and freedom: “All things are impermanent/ They aris...

Susie Harrington: Monday Night Dharma Talk: A discussion about teaching in nature, learning form nature, and the nature of emptiness. 20.03.2018 1:02:10

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Susie Harrington and Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel

Susie Harrington: Questions and Responses (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 18.03.2018 58:07

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Questions and responses from the Question Bowl: Kamma, conditions, our basic goodness and more.

Susie Harrington: Buddha's Life Part 3 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 09.03.2018 1:01:33

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Continuing the story of the Buddha's life through his awakening and his setting the wheel of the Dhamma in motion. (Note: it is largely understood to have been a Brahma God, Sahampati, who asked the Buddha to teach--not a Brahmin as mentioned in the talk.)