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Nikki Mirghafori's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

Nikki is of Persian heritage, and was introduced to contemplative practices and yoga in the early 1980's, to meditation in 1991, and to Theravada Buddhism in 2003. She has studied with various Western and Eastern teachers, with a keen interest in intensive silent retreats. She studied jhanas and detailed analytical vipassana with the renowned meditation master Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw who instructed her to teach. She is also a Spirit Rock authorized retreat teacher, a Stanford trained compassion cultivation instructor, and a UCLA certified mindfulness facilitator. She teaches Buddhist meditati...

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Sayadaw U Jagara, Beth Sternlieb, Kodo Conlin, Nikki Mirghafori: Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 09.12.2022

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Sayadaw U Jagara, Beth Sternlieb, Kodo Conlin, Nikki Mirghafori: Mindfulness of Death Q/A Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 08.12.2022

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Nikki Mirghafori: How Do I Want to Have Lived? Deathbed Visualization 08.12.2022

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Nikki Mirghafori: The Ultimate Letting Go and Forgiveness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 07.12.2022

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Sayadaw U Jagara, Nikki Mirghafori: Wise Attention, Mindfulness, And Eight Ways to Reflect on Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 05.12.2022

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Difference between attention and mindfulness. Visuddhi Magga 8 ways of reflecting on death. Five hindrances, briefly touched.

Nikki Mirghafori: Morning Instructions: This Could Be My Last Breath (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 05.12.2022

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Nikki Mirghafori: Why Practice Mindfulness of Death? 04.12.2022

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Sayadaw U Jagara, Beth Sternlieb, Kodo Conlin, Nikki Mirghafori: Morning Sit with Instructions: Embodiment and Aliveness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 04.12.2022

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Sayadaw U Jagara, Beth Sternlieb, Kodo Conlin, Nikki Mirghafori: Opening Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 03.12.2022

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Nikki Mirghafori: Guided Meditation: Connect & Continue (Vitakka & Vicara) As Our Two Best Friends in Concentration Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 17.08.2022

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this guided meditation, we explore connecting with our intention, relaxing the body, and then devote ourselves to the first two jhanic factors: vitakka and vicara, initial application and sustained application, or connect and continue. The guidance ends with planting the seeds for gladness and joy by noticing the absence of the hindrances, as taught in the satipa...

Nikki Mirghafori: Samadhi, the Five Jhanic Factors, and the Five Hindrances 16.08.2022

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is samatha Practice (concentration)? Why practice samatha? What is the different between samatha (a practice), samadhi (the state), and vipassana (insight practice)? What are the five jhanic factors? And how do we work with the five hindrances, or rather, "coverings," in samatha practice as opposed to insight practice?

Nikki Mirghafori: Gladening our hearts with generosity to self and others - Monday Night Dharma Talk 04.04.2022

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Nikki Mirghafori: Emptiness: The Womb of Love and Service 10.04.2021

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) When we step out of our habitual ways of seeing the self and the world, clinging to constant self-interest lessens/drops away, and love and service become natural responses.

Nikki Mirghafori: Guided Meditation: Freedom from the Clinging of Self (and Buddha's Instructions to Bahiya) 10.04.2021

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Nikki Mirghafori: Evening Reflections: Appreciation as a Way to See Our Day 09.04.2021

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Nikki Mirghafori: Noticing Absence, Letting Go of Self-Reference 09.04.2021

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this guided meditation, we explore voidness/emptiness through the absence of observed phenomena. Our habitual self-referential frame of reference is also invited to be seen and examined, and momentarily let go of to notice the freedom of the way of seeing free of self-ing.

Nikki Mirghafori: Guided Meditation: Life as A Dream 08.04.2021

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this guided meditation, we explore emptiness as a way of seeing the dreamlike nature of what we assume to be our fixed reality. "Thus shall you think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, A flash of lightning in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream."

Nikki Mirghafori: The Five Daily Reflections 31.08.2020

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Nikki Mirghafori: The Eight Jhanas and the Three Characteristics 25.08.2019

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Nikki Mirghafori: Connecting with the breath as a good friend 21.08.2019

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Easing into samadhi (concentration) through befriending the breath.

Nikki Mirghafori: Samadhi: Eight Supportive Conditions and the Five Jhanic Factors 20.08.2019

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is samadhi (most often translated as concentration)? Why do we engage in samatha practice on this path? How does it differ from vipassana? Eight supportive conditions to establish samadhi are discussed. A brief exposition of the five jhanic factors are offered at the end of the talk.

Nikki Mirghafori: Illness as a Doorway to Freedom 23.07.2019

(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) Nikki Mirghafori shows us that illness and hardship are not just to be endured, they can actually be our teachers on the path.

Diana Clark: Realizing Resilience 16.07.2019

(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) Diana talks about how to develop resilience in the face of difficulties. By practicing noticing one’s thoughts and emotions, starting with the easier and gradually moving toward the more difficult can be a compassionate and skillful way to develop strength. She talks about how this resilience creates the conditions that can allow one to help others a...

Shaila Catherine: Taking the Problem out of Pain 16.07.2019

(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) In this talk, Shaila Catherine encourages practitioners to view illness and pain as opportunities to practice equanimity, patience, and mindfulness of the body. When we are sick or in pain, we can still practice being attentive to present conditions, and reflect that all beings are all also subject to illness and death. Illness is not wrong; it is in...

Nikki Mirghafori: The Joy of Samadhi (Concentration) - Day 2 of 2 13.04.2019

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

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