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Mark Coleman's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
Mark Coleman has been engaged in meditation practice since 1981, primarily within the Insight meditation tradition. He has been teaching meditation retreats since 1997. His teaching is also influenced by his studies with Advaita Vedanta and Tibetan teachers in Asia and the West, and through his teacher training with Jack Kornfield. Mark primarily teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, though he also teaches nationally, in Europe and India. He leads backpacking retreats, nature-based retreats, and teaches retreats for environmental activists in the wilderness at Vallecitos Moun...
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Episodes
Mark Coleman: Garden of the Heart 12.06.2026 58:08
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploring the Brahma Viharas in Nature
Mark Coleman: Nature of Awareness Meditation 12.06.2026 47:18
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
Mark Coleman: Nature Reveals the Dhamma 10.06.2026 53:45
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploration of how nature practice is a doorway to understanding the 3 characteristics. The impermanent, uncertain, & selfless nature & self reality
Mark Coleman: Meditation in Nature Instructions-Exploring Vedana & Mindfulness of the Body 09.06.2026 48:56
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
Mark Coleman: Exploring the Foundations of Mindfulness through nature practice 08.06.2026 53:08
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
Mark Coleman: Arriving/Nature Awareness/Open Awareness 08.06.2026 42:10
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
Mark Coleman: Open Awareness in Nature Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 28.05.2026 53:37
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Open Awareness in Nature Meditation
Mark Coleman: Why Practice in Nature - Exploring the Four Foundations of Mindfulness in Nature (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 25.05.2026 57:23
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores why one would practice meditation in Nature, even when conditions are difficult. Mark explores how the Four Foundations of Mindfulness are beautifully explored in Nature.
Mark Coleman: Sangha 09.02.2026 55:02
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Coleman: Guided Meditation 09.02.2026 51:11
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Coleman: Nature as Beloved 13.06.2025 56:24
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploring the four diving abodes amidst the natural world
Mark Coleman: Wisdom Teachings From Nature 11.06.2025 53:31
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploring how the three characteristics are revealed in nature practice
Mark Coleman: Meeting the Reality of the Climate / Ecological Crisis with Awareness, Wisdom and Compassion 10.03.2025 1:01:24
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Coleman: Being the Earth - Rapture, Rupture, Regeneration 10.03.2025 44:50
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Coleman: Taking Refuge 27.01.2025 1:44:56
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Coleman: Exploring the Nature of Awareness 18.11.2024 49:35
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is Awareness. This talk explores its presence, dimensions, function and capacity and how recognizing and abiding in awareness allows freedom and non-reactivity.
Mark Coleman: Resilience in These Challenging Times 28.10.2024 56:32
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Coleman: Anattā - Dissolving The Sense Of Separation In Nature 28.09.2024 45:21
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Immersion in nature, with a contemplative awareness, can support insight into the ephemerality of the sense of self. Dissolving of the habit / contraction of self can emerge effortlessly and in doing so reveal its intrinsic empty nature.
Mark Coleman: Exploring The Beauty And Power Of Love In Nature 27.09.2024 43:53
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) The natural world is a playground for the heart - where love/metta, compassion and joy can be experienced in abundance. Nature is a perfect environment to cultivate these innate heart qualities and where they can also arise effortlessly.
Mark Coleman: Wisdom Teachings From Nature 26.09.2024 55:58
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) The natural world beautifully and eloquently sings the Dharma. there are countless wisdom teachings emanating from nature. In particular, we explore how nature teaches us about impermanence, dependent arising, perfection and imperfection and belonging.
Mark Coleman: The Four Foundations In Nature Dharma 24.09.2024 43:19
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores how the four foundations of mindfulness can be richly experienced and cultivated in nature meditation retreats. Nature provides in particular a rich arena to cultivate an embodied awareness and to explore vedana, citta and the nature of reality.
Mark Coleman: What’s Love Got to Do With It? 08.06.2024 47:26
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores the many dimensions of the heart that effortlessly arise with intimate connection with the natural world, including the four Brahma Viharas.
Mark Coleman: Exploring Dependent Arising and Nature of Self in Nature 07.06.2024 49:08
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores how mindful immersion in nature reveals timeless truths of causality and the emptiness of self.
Mark Coleman: Exploring Wisdom and Insight in Nature Practice 06.06.2024 53:53
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk draws on the innate lessons of nature to deepen understanding of impermanence, time, and imperfection.
Mark Coleman: The Fruits and Blessings of Nature Practice 04.06.2024 57:16
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Why do we practice in nature? This talk explores the dimensions of wisdom and love that are cultivated through mindfulness in nature.
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