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Spirit Rock Meditation Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction
The teachings of the Buddha (Dharma) and the practices of Insight Meditation (Vipassana) and loving-kindness meditation (metta) are at the heart of all the programs we offer at Spirit Rock. Practicing Insight Meditation develops mindfulness, the capacity to pay attention to each moment of life and to see clearly the truth of our experience. Studying the Dharma provides insights into the conditions that define and limit our experience of life. And cultivating an attitude of loving-kindness allows us to stay present to what's true and what's difficult in our lives with compassion for ourselves a...
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Jul 9, 2026
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Episodes
Gina LaRoche: What Is Freedom? Reflections on Juneteenth, Liberation, and the Path of Practice 15.06.2026 1:34:04
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
JoAnna Hardy: Belonging to the Earth (Series 1/3): John Francis 14.06.2026 1:05:56
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Francisco Morillo Gable: Washington Heights Brown Boy 14.06.2026 41:09
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Francisco Morillo Gable: Meditation - Washington Heights Brown Boy 14.06.2026 28:13
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Tuere Sala: Guided Meditation and Movement (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 13.06.2026 59:44
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Kevin Griffin: Right Intention 12.06.2026 54:04
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Phillip Moffitt: Fireside Chat on Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 11.06.2026 1:07:13
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this talk, you are invited into a relaxed, fireside chat exploring awareness as the mind-heart’s capacity to know without grasping, fixing, or becoming entangled in what is known. Through reflections on aspects of the Naturally Arising Practice Method (dharmaground.org/teachings) including: inward-staying (from Upasika Kee Nanayon's pointer), knowing experience f...
Grace Fisher: We Are All Visitors 11.06.2026 1:01:50
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Phillip Moffitt: Resting in Spacious Knowing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 11.06.2026 1:05:07
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This guided meditation establishes mindfulness through the Arriving Sequence (a part of the Naturally Arising Practice Method - dharmaground.org/teachings) before turning toward objects of experience. The practice then cultivates embodied knowing, sensing the space within and without, and eventually opens to the vastness of consciousness knowing space. This spacious...
Tuere Sala: Guided Meditation and Movement (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 10.06.2026 55:12
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Donald Rothberg: Buddhist Practice and Transforming Social Conditioning 2 10.06.2026 1:02:17
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin by reviewing briefly last week's session, including how contemporary practice can expand the traditional focus on ignorance to include contemporary psychological and social perspectives on further dimensions of ignorance, including our initially unconscious social conditioning. We look again briefly at how the Buddha related both to caste and to women's rol...
Tuere Sala: Renunciation and the Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 09.06.2026 1:06:16
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Alex Haley: Exploring Awareness Utilizing the Naturally Arising Practice Method (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 08.06.2026 1:02:03
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the Naturally Arising Practice Method (see dharmaground.org/teachings), which emphasizes softening into direct experience rather than forcing the mind. By establishing supportive conditions and maintaining curiosity, participants can learn to ground themselves in their own capacity for knowing, allowing insight and clarity to unfold more effortles...
Amana Brembry Johnson: Weaving Wise Livelihood into Contemplative Life 08.06.2026 1:45:26
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Denise Ackert: Metta for Going Home (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 05.06.2026 44:39
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Denise Ackert: Receiving Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 03.06.2026 41:37
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Donald Rothberg: Buddhist Practice and Transforming Social Conditioning 1 03.06.2026 1:00:25
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin by focusing on a fundamental perspective for our practice: How our practice moves from underlying ignorance to wisdom. We look at both the traditional understanding of such ignorance and how contemporary psychological and social perspectives help us to identify further dimensions of ignorance, including our initially unconscious social conditioning. We star...
Kodo Conlin: RAFT: Mindfulness with Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 03.06.2026 53:27
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Principles and clear practices for wise mindfulness with emotions. An alternative to "RAIN" is "RAFT": recognize, allow, feel, tease apart (and trust).
Kodo Conlin: Five Faces of Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 02.06.2026 1:14:29
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) As mindfulness practice unfolds, our experience of dukkha (suffering, dis-ease) naturally shifts and changes. Compassion morphs to meet it. This talk explores five faces of compassion that are cultivated through our mindfulness practice: patience, capacity, humility, spaciousness, and not-self.
Denise Ackert: Radiating Loving Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 01.06.2026 42:12
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Sean Oakes: Sakka Sings Impermanence and Bliss: The King of the Gods’ Verse After the Buddha’s Death 01.06.2026 1:40:21
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Pawan Bareja: Resilience During Climate Change 31.05.2026 46:09
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Kodo Conlin: Settling In Easefully (plus walking instructions) (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 31.05.2026 45:19
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We invite the mind and body to unwind easefully, as we arrive for this first full day of practice. This guided meditation emphasizes simplicity, ease, and settling while introducing mindfulness practice with the breathing.
Kaira Jewel Lingo: From Separation to Belonging: Abiding in Earth's Wisdom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 28.05.2026 52:32
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores how slowing down, coming into the body, and paying attention to the living world around us can help heal the sense of separation so many of us carry. Drawing from Buddhist practice, we’ll reflect on how presence, embodiment, and relationship with the Earth can open the heart and deepen our capacity for love. At its core, this is an invitation to f...
Juliana Sloane: Adorning the Heart and Mind with Generosity 28.05.2026 1:04:00
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Begins with a 30m meditation and is immediately followed by a Dharma talk. (Group discussion has been omitted.)
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