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Matthew Brensilver's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

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Matthew Brensilver, MSW, PhD, serves on the Guiding Teachers Committee and Board of Directors at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He was previously Program Director for Mindful Schools and for more than a decade, was a core teacher at Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society. Each summer, he lectures at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center on the intersections between mindfulness, science and mental health. Before committing to teach meditation full-time, he spent years doing research on addiction pharmacotherapy at the UCLA Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine. He is the co-au...

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Episodes

Matthew Brensilver: Guided compassion practice: grieving as a factor of growth 06.03.2022

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

Matthew Brensilver: Guided meditation: feeling as a prediction of risk 05.03.2022

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

Matthew Brensilver: Memory, prediction, Bharatanha, and the present 04.03.2022

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Metta practice 03.03.2022

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The alternatives to love, hate or apathy, are not visible

Matthew Brensilver, Phillip Moffitt, Tuere Sala: Dialogue on aspects of freedom. 01.10.2021

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Matthew Brensilver: Tranquilizing side of the 7 Factors: Agitation and temporal density. 30.09.2021

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation - changing conditions 22.05.2021

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Matthew Brensilver: Anatta and its Blessings 21.05.2021

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Matthew Brensilver: Reflections and Guided Heart Practice 20.05.2021

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation 19.05.2021

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Matthew Brensilver, Tuere Sala: Tuere Sala and Matthew Brensilver in dialogue about wisdom 08.10.2020

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dharma Talk

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Reflection & Meditation: Grief & Compassion 08.10.2020

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Meditation

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Feelings and their elaborations 06.10.2020

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Matthew Brensilver: The Parami of Truthfulness 05.10.2020

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dharma Talk

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Settling into the Body 03.10.2020

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Matthew Brensilver: Your Face: The Gaze, Self-view, Intimacy and Letting Go (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 17.05.2020

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Matthew Brensilver: Vulnerability, Porousness, Equanimity & Love (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 14.05.2020

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Matthew Brensilver: Dialectics of Practice - Opening and Protection (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 12.05.2020

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Matthew Brensilver: Addressing Coronavirus with a Dharma View- Monday Night Dharma Talk 09.03.2020

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Matthew Brensilver: Death and the Poignancy of Life 17.12.2019

(New York Insight Meditation Center) William James said that death was the ‘worm at the core’ of the human condition that turns us all into ‘melancholy metaphysicians.’ A century later, awareness of mortality is documented to affect our thinking and emotional lives in powerful ways. It figures prominently in Buddhist practice. In what ways does consciousness of death distorts our view and lead us...

Matthew Brensilver: Day 6 Morning Guided Instructions: Pervasiveness of Feeling (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 23.10.2019

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Matthew Brensilver: Day 2 Morning Guided Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 19.10.2019

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Rest is Available-Body Breathing

Matthew Brensilver: Attention, Wisdom, Grief and Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 15.08.2019

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Brian Lesage, Matthew Brensilver: The Interpersonal Dimension of the Dharma (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 22.06.2019

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Matthew and Brian share reflections on bringing our spiritual practice into the relational field of our lives.

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation: Body and Space (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 21.06.2019

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

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