Donald Rothberg: Bringing the Retreat Home: "Let Your Life and Practice Be One” (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) As we are poised to return from one or two months of practice, we consider a number of supports for continuing our practice in all the parts of our life, whether more individual, more relational, or more collective, including the archetype of the Bodhisattva, which can inspire us to connect inner and outer practice.
Sharda Rogell: Staying Home While Connecting with Others (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do we relate to others while staying connected to ourselves, so we don't get LOST. The Power of Present Moment mindfulness.
Heather Sundberg: Integrating Insights to Deepen Our Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This innovative talk describes the process and advanced practice of Integrating our Insights, including types of insight, what the mind does immediately after an insight, teasing apart the clinging & the natural impulse to integrate insight, how to test the insight, how to include & purify 'the clinging that remains', and learning to live the insight.
Oren Jay Sofer: Renunciation: The Freedom of Non-Grasping (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The entire path can be understood as a cultivation of the ability to let go. In this talk, we explore this core quality of renunciation in Buddhist practice: What it is and what it isn't, what we let go of and how, what supports the maturing of renunciation. We include some specific suggestions for ways to practice renunciation in lay life as well.
Sharda Rogell: Meeting the Buddha: Commentary on Sutta
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk is an offering of one of the discourses from the Majjhima Nikāya (MN 140) in which the Buddha gives a disciple named Pukkusāti, who has never met the Buddha and doesn't know he's talking with him) a powerful teaching on the destruction of all suffering.