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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 Mountain Refuge in New Mexico, and at Knoll Farm in Vermont. In the Bay Area, Mark has a counseling practice, where he integrates his studies of psychotherapy and meditative work. He is the author of “Awake in the Wild - Mindfulness in Nature as a path of Self-Discovery." Mark has been an avid hiker, and backpacker for most of his life and spends much of his time in the outdoors. He lives in the woods in Marin County, Northern California.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores how mindful immersion in nature reveals timeless truths of causality and the emptiness of self.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk draws on the innate lessons of nature to deepen understanding of impermanence, time, and imperfection.
(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.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talks explores how one can practice with the four foundations of mindfulness outdoors with the support of the natural world in an embodied and effortless way and how nature illuminates Dharma teachings and wisdom.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) How does the earth wish to move through you?How to inquire deeply into wise responsiveness to the eco- reality.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Being mindful in nature helps reveal how inter-dependent we are wit all life and provides conditions to see through the constructed, separate self.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Nature teaches us so many things about the nature of reality, including how profoundly interconnected and interdependent we are with all life. By sensing this directly, it profoundly shifts and dissolves belief in the reality of a separate, independent self.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring Open awareness, nature of awareness in this 'Big Mind' meditation
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How nature reveals the ephemeral, impermanent, interconnected nature of who we are.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to practically Meet Life with Awareness and Wisdom through mindfulness practice
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Mindfulness of Body and Breath Instructions - 1st day of a retreat
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How we work with the five hindrances and other challenges in meditation and in life with wisdom, kindness and clear awareness
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Do you experience the painful effects of self-judgment, or hurt from your mind's harsh attacks on yourself? If you wish to be free from the torment of the inner critic, then this day is for you.
During our time together, you will learn to work with self-judgment with clarity and skill and develop greater self-acceptance, self-compassion and forgiveness as antidotes to criticism. The day will include a combination of talks and interactive exercises, mindfulness and kindness techniques. This will be a practical and experiential day retreat, taught with lightness, compassion and humor and the need to not take ourselves too seriously!
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) How the Bramha Viharas - the divine abodes of love, compassion, joy and equanimity arise in relationship to being in nature and how they suggest us holding the grief and pain during climate/eco crisis.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Bringing a contemplative awareness in nature reveals profound insight into impermanence, anata (not self) and the nature of reality.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk describes the beauty, joy, presence and wakefulness that arises as we meditate outdoors.
(New York Insight Meditation Center) In his new book From Suffering to Peace – The True Promise of Mindfulness Mark Coleman, author and senior teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, weaves together contemporary applications with mindfulness practices in use for millennia. His approach to mindfulness and meditation empowers us to engage with and transform the inevitable stress and pain of life, so we can discover genuine peace — in the body, heart, mind, and the wider world.
In this evening talk, Mark will lead brief mediations and explore the aspects of his book to help practitioners, of all kinds, access and benefit from the “true promise of mindfulness”.
(New York Insight Meditation Center) In his new book From Suffering to Peace – The True Promise of Mindfulness Mark Coleman, author and senior teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, weaves together contemporary applications with mindfulness practices in use for millennia. His approach to mindfulness and meditation empowers us to engage with and transform the inevitable stress and pain of life, so we can discover genuine peace — in the body, heart, mind, and the wider world.
In this evening talk, Mark will lead brief mediations and explore the aspects of his book to help practitioners, of all kinds, access and benefit from the “true promise of mindfulness”.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores the profound insights that arise in nature meditation practice, including insight into impermanence, selflessness, interdependence.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores some of the benefits and fruits of nature meditation practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We encounter many obstacles, habitual tendencies & patterns. These can be transformed through mindfulness, compassion & intention.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the beautiful quality of compassion for others and the world as central to a Dharma practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An explanation of the teachings of impermanence and Anata, the selfless nature of experience.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This guided meditation explains the first 3 foundations of mindfulness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) this talk explores the essences of mindfulness practice, particularly mindfulness of body.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores how nature calls forth the Brahma Vihara qualities of love, compassion, joy and equanimity.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores various hindrances that interfere with our well being and ways to work with them.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Explore some of the fruits and rewards of this ancient meditation practice
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores how immersion in nature helps open the heart and cultivate the Bramha Viharus of love, compassion, joy and equanimity.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores how a contemplative immersion in nature supports insight into impermanence, death, selflessness and freedom.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores many of the ways meditation/retreat in nature supports mindfulness, joy, peace and well-being.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the relationship between love and nature and how the natural world is a beautiful and profound doorway to love (metta) compassion and joy.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores some of the journeys on the practice of loving-kindness, including the obstacles and fruit of Metta practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Closing retreat instructions and taking the practice into daily life.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Mark explores his journey of his Dharma practice over the last 36 years, starting in London as a punk rocker & ending up as a Dharma teacher at Spirit Rock.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Orientation to the practice of loving kindness starting with Metta , for oneself, loved ones & friends
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This first night retreat talk explores the essence & practice of mindfulness as a support for awareness and insight.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) To understand, release, realize and live the 4 truths. A good introduction to the Buddha's path of practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) You will learn how to recognize judging thoughts and how to deal effectively with inner critical attacks. This will be a practical and experiential course taught with compassion and humor and the need to not take ourselves too seriously.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores how to learn to cultivate kindness and presence in relation to the challenging conditions of life, including the reality of change.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) An explanation of the importance of cultivating compassion toward the pain of oneself and the world.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores the various insights that arise as one meditates outdoors; including insight into impermanence, interconnectedness, selflessness, and love.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) What challenges arise as we meditate in nature? The subtle wanting mind and aversion to the unpleasant are explored in this talk.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Nature is a perennial teacher. This talk explores the natural wisdom and insight that arises when we spend time outdoors with mindful awareness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In every era of human history, people have encountered social upheaval and struggles. From the perspective of the Dharma, what is our response? Buddhist teachings provide a sense of refuge amidst any circumstance.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Compassion guides us to meet the challenges and pain inherent in life. This talk explores how compassion arises to obstacles and its potential.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the journey of the heart. What happens as we cultivate metta practice, both the obstacles, challenges, gifts and fruits.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Insight Meditation is a profoundly liberating practice that is a path to genuine well-being, happiness and freedom. In the daylong, you will immerse yourself in the beautiful quality of mindfulness.
(New York Insight Meditation Center) Guest teacher Mark Coleman will begin with a guided meditation, followed dharma talk on his new book Make Peace With your Mind – How Mindfulness And Compassion Can Help Free You From The Inner Critic, then open up to our practice questions allowing us time to deepen in Sangha through mindful community discussion.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is the inner critic and how does it impact our mind, heart and practice. This talk describes how the critic manifests and the many strategies we can use to find freedom in relation to it.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Learning to abide in awareness brings a clarity, and understanding & natural spaciousness in all life. Recognizing this innate awake quality of life is the doorway to freedom.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the fusion of mindful-awareness and love and how the integrating of these essential qualities is essential in life and practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What are the principal obstacles in Meditation and how do we work with them so they become grounds for insight and compassion.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Mini-talk on the importance of cultivating an embodied mindful attention in meditation.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The meditation instructions begin with an orientation to mindfulness and concentration practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores various facets around relinquishing the ways we are constantly seeking something different than what is actually here and by doinf so, missing the peace that is already here.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this retreat, you will immerse yourself in the beautiful qualities of mindfulness, investigation and insight.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dharma Talk from Monday Night Meditation Class on Monday, August 22nd, 2016
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dharma Talk from the Monday Night Class at Spirit Rock Meditation center
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do the three characteristics of existence - impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not self, apply to the teaching experience and how we hold that as a practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Cultivate awareness through mindfulness meditations and develop a compassionate orientation through heart opening practices. Teachings will focus on the integration of love and awareness so that mindfulness practice is fused with a kind, receptive presence.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explains the Four Noble Truths and how we learn to meet difficult experience with wisdom, not reactivity.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Meditation and Dharma Talk on Metta from our Monday Night Meditation Class with Mark Coleman
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Insight Meditation or Vipassana enables you to see clearly through the truth of our experience. This daylong is especially good for beginning meditators and for those wanting a refresher in Insight Meditation instruction.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dharma Talk by Mark Coleman at Spirit Rock Monday Night Meditation Class on February 8, 2016.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Meditation from Monday Night Meditation Class at Spirit Rock on February 8, 2016
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dharma talk by Mark Coleman recorded at the Monday Night Meditation Class on January 25th, 2016
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Compassion is a central quality in life and practice - and is a beautiful expression of an awakened life. This talk explores what compassion is and how it can be developed and integrated into mindful awareness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What are the hindrances to meditation and how do we work constructively with them?
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Kilung Rinpoche shares his teachings and practices from his new book - The Relaxed Mind. Mark Coemqan leads a Q&A session with Kilung Rinpoche following the dharma talk.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Learn how to be more free from the torment of the inner critic.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Learn how to be more free from the torment of the inner critic.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) learn how to be more free from the torment of the inner critic.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Learn how to be more free from the torment of the inner critic.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dharma talk from Monday Night Meditation from November 30, 2015
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dharma talk from Monday Night Meditation class at Spirit Rock
(New York Insight Meditation Center) Tenzin will offer musical meditations with his transcendent vocals and exquisite lute solos. Mark will talk about meditation in nature and how the natural world is a great support for the cultivating awareness, connection and insight as well as opening the heart to wonder, awe and love. He’ll lead practices that invite us to connect with the nature in the midst of the city. Sara will share the vision of the Awake in the Wild Experience to bring the mindfulness in nature practices to every borough of the city and beyond.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Monday Night Meditation Dharma Talk for Earth Care Week
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) When we cultivate this kind, curious presence to our moment-to-moment experience then clarity, joy, wisdom and compassion can arise in the heart.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) When we cultivate this kind, curious presence to our moment to moment experience then clarity, joy, wisdom and compassion can arise in the heart.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Mindfulness has so many dimensions and can be hard to define, yet it is a central pillar of the Dhamma path. This talk explores some of it's dimensions and qualities.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the central role of compassion in Dharma practice--how we cultivate it and what fruits it brings.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do we integrate practice into daily life? This talk explores how the eight fold path and the five precepts support us in life.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Integrating the qualities of kindness and mindfulness provides the capacity to be with a range of experience in ourselves and others with wisdom and ease.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is awareness-What is the nature of mind-This talk explores awareness & how to understand its innate presence & how it can be recognized.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Final talk -Freeing yourself from the Inner Critic - Part 5 of 5
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Discussion from Daylong: Freeing yourself from the Inner Critic -
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Talks from Daylong: Freeing yourself from the Inner Critic -
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Discussion/Meditation from Daylong: Freeing yourself from the Inner Critic
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Part 1 of 5 from Daylong: Freeing yourself from the Inner Critic
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do we meet the uncertain changing and challenging nature of life? Practice allows us to meet it with awareness, love and non-identification.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Turning towards the pain of ourselves and the world with a curious open heart is the seed for compassion to arise which brings healing and integration.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What are the important qualities that we bring into our lives from our practice; bringing forth the innate qualities of kindness and compassion into the midst of life.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the Buddha's teaching on the 5 Spiritual Faculties -- the qualities of mindfulness, faith, concentration, wisdom and effort, and how to develop them on the Path.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha clearly laid out a path that describes the human condition and how to navigate the varieties of suffering and pain with awareness, inquiry, mindfulness and compassion. This talk explains essential aspects of working with our human plight.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) For thousands of years people have cultivated mindfulness as a complete path to awakening. Contemporary research reveals how mindfulness improves attention, reduces stress, and increases health, well being and the capacity for happiness. Mindful awareness allows you to be attentive in the present moment with the quality of acceptance, spaciousness and equanimity. It is the foundation for living with wisdom and compassion and is the seed from which springs much joy and peace.
On this day you will learn the foundations of mindfulness that enable you to live with a clear and wakeful presence in every aspect of your life. We will explore this innate quality of awareness and what interferes with establishing this mindful presence. Participants will learn to cultivate awareness through accessible yet profound meditations on the breath, the body, and how to work with emotions and thoughts that can hamper our well being. You will also learn how mindful awareness provides the basis for insight and freedom.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) For thousands of years people have cultivated mindfulness as a complete path to awakening. Contemporary research reveals how mindfulness improves attention, reduces stress, and increases health, well being and the capacity for happiness. Mindful awareness allows you to be attentive in the present moment with the quality of acceptance, spaciousness and equanimity. It is the foundation for living with wisdom and compassion and is the seed from which springs much joy and peace.
On this day you will learn the foundations of mindfulness that enable you to live with a clear and wakeful presence in every aspect of your life. We will explore this innate quality of awareness and what interferes with establishing this mindful presence. Participants will learn to cultivate awareness through accessible yet profound meditations on the breath, the body, and how to work with emotions and thoughts that can hamper our well being. You will also learn how mindful awareness provides the basis for insight and freedom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What are the hindrances to meditation - how do they manifest and how do we develop a skillful compassionate and wise relationship to them.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddhist path supports an opening of the heart to Joy. This talk explores paths to joy and what allows the heart to awaken to=happiness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is compassion? How to cultivate and practice it, in and out of meditation
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Intro to integrating kindness into the practice of mindfulness
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Mindfulness is so much more that attention. Supporting wholesome qualities like patience and equanimity, Right Mindfulness specifically develops wise action in our lives and in the world.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How meditation cultivates the light of awareness & takes us home to our true nature.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Compassion is a beautiful flowering of the heart, as it turns to face suffering and pain in ourselves and others. This talk illuminates that process and how we can encourage compassion by turning to meet pain with a kind heart.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What stops us from resting in the heart of love. What hindrances arise in meditation when cultivating metta? This talk explores the power of loving kindness, its obstacles and how to work with them top liberate the heart.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Flowering of the Heart is a beautiful expression of the unity of love and awareness. The fruit of compassion allows us to meet our suffering with kind presence.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores what mindfulness is, what supports it and what is revealed in awareness as we cultivate it.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk covers the four noble truths and how by learning to open to our experience we learn how to develop mindfulness, compassion, space and freedom.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What does it mean to let go in the context of the complexity of our lives and desires-how do we access inner peace that is available here and now.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An exploration of identification with the sense of self and how to see through this identification.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How come we forget about impermanence or try to deny the reality of change, aging and death. What happens when we turn toward this fact - so it supports life, freedom and well being and we use it as a inspiration to practice and experience the preciousness of the moment
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This recording includes Dharma talks, Q&A, sitting practice, and walking meditation instructions.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores how do we bring Metta (love) into the world and all the places that Metta is needed in our lives
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores how mindfulness and metta (love) work together – so we meet ourselves/others and life with wisdom, awareness, and love
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is the place of passion? How do we incorporate all dimensions of ourselves and live a fully engaged life that includes all of who we are?
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An orientation to mindfulness and loving kindness retreat
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Through practice, the heart flowers by integrating mindfulness and metta (loving kindness) and through turning toward our suffering with kind attention and loving acceptance.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is mindfulness? How does it function and most importantly how does it allow us to be present to our experience and bring about a spacious, non-reactive response to the moment, that facilitates freedom.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is it's place in our lives. How do we cultivate it and what hinders clarity of intention.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Stillness and Motion: The Dance of Life, with Vinn Marti
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha spoke highly of generosity.
- how does generosity open the heart and bring connection, openness and many wholesome qualities?
- what supports and hinders this beautiful quality?
- how to practice this in simple gradual and life changing ways?
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to work with the inevitable challenges and vicissitudes of life
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to turn the attention to gratitude and appreciation as a support to turn the mind away from wanting and deficiency.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Overview of vipassana/mindfulness meditation instructions
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to work with the inevitable pain and stress in life - using three methods: 1) Mindfulness, 2) Resourcsing, 3) Loving-kindness
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Opening day mindfulness meditation instructions and orientation to the principles of mindfulness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do we apply the Buddha's teaching of cessation from suffering to our everyday lives? What is key is the attitude and our relationship to suffering - that becomes the doorway to peace.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores how to work & live with the changing nature of life...
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores how the qualities of Mindfulness & Kindness are essential ingredients for meeting experience with wisdom, clarity & love...that allows us to hold ourselves, and difficult times with greater ease and compassion.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is the place of passion in the spiritual path in a lay life
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring the 5 senses and how these are a vehicle for mindfulness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is the path to genuine renunciation & release of that all which doesn't serve our happiness or awakening.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores some principles and practices of kindness via the metta practice, its obstacles and what helps to open the heart to oneself and others.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the paramis of wisdom and renunciation - specifically how to renounce the various thoughts, views, habits and actions that cause pain and inhibit joy.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Kindness is the cornerstone of the spiritual path. This talk explores how it is developed in ordinary and beautiful ways in our life.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The mind makes many ideas, views & misconceptions about the process of waking up - this talk points to the importance of understanding that awakening is a process, not a state...
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What did the Buddha actually teach about mindfulness? How does it differ from a simple attention? This talk explores mindfulness in the context of the Buddhist Path and it leading from pain to peace.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploration and inquiry on the experience/suffering/liberation of the construct of self.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An exploration of the practice of mindfulness and hot it helps navigate the hindrances of desire, aversion, doubt, sloth and restlessness in meditation and the path.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is the quality of awareness that facilitates a joyful presence and attitude toward experience that allows us to know the peace beyond the changing conditions of life?
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Human life requires much tenderness and vulnerability to work with inevitable pain and suffering - the practice of compassion is a wonderful vehicle for this orientation.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do we move in the world with love, kindness and care - as exemplified by the practice of metta
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to awaken joy through mindfulness, awareness and inclining the mind to that which uplifts the heart...
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) On this daylong, Mark gives an overview of Mindfulness teachings and practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Compassion is an essential quality on the path of life - how do we cultivate this, what gets in the way and how does the caring heart move in the world in openness to pain.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What is Metta - loving kindness - and how do we work with obstacles and barriers so the heart can be open and free to love.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Deep wisdom teachings use the language of poetry, metaphor and simile to point to the timeless truths. In this talk Mark shares examples of wisdom teachings from Buddhist sources throughout the ages.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha's teaching on Papancha - the proliferating tendency of mind - obscures a natural freedom and peace. This talk explores how proliferation happens conditioned by desire, aversion, views and the sense of personal identity and how awareness is key in understanding this pattern and freeing it.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What is mindfulness - how can we develop it in our meditation and lives and how does awareness reveal freedom and its obstacles - i.e. the hindrances to meditate and how to to overcome them.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A day exploring the practice of metta - lovingkindness & compassion - and discussing how to bring these into every part of our lives.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is the self, how is it constructed - Who do you take yourself to be. This talk explains how to examine the nature of self - the attachment to self image/identity & how a mindful relationship to it can bring much clarity & peace.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do you work with desire and attachment in the midst of daily life? Buddhist teachings give clear guidance on the power of exploring and understanding how the process of attachment arises and how we can cultivate a healthy relationship to desire and the sensory world. Mark gives many anecdotes from his personal journey with this theme.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha taught about 4 kinds of attachment - one of those is attachment to views & opinions. This talk explores understanding views & how to work with our attachment to them.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What does it mean to see through the veil that clouds our perception and to sense, perceive and know the mystery in all it manifestations.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is your relationship to gratitude? How do you orient to the world? Noticing the blessings and knowing you have enough - or focusing on what is missing?
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the understanding of the changing nature of self and explores it through the teachings of the 5 skandas (aggregates).
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploration of Awareness through Space and Sound; use of Bells and Bowls
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is the role of concentration on the Path... Why is it important, how to develop it on & off the cushion and what are the obstacles.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the pervasiveness of the judging mind and how to work constructively with it through mindfulness, metta, understanding and inquiry.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Practical strategies to free oneself from the negative impact of the judgmental mind.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the origins and negative impacts of the judging mind and how to practically understand and use effective procedures based in mindfulness, metta, and inquiry.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The use of wise energy/effort on the path of practice- and an exploration of the Buddha's teaching on the four wise efforts.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Taking our practice into the world. The Buddha's teaching on the eightfold path guides us to look at every aspect of our lives. This path focuses on the stages of ethics, livelihood and wise speech.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is mindfulness - what are the essential aspects of mindfulness and what are the key points elucidated by the Buddha in how to use mindfulness as a path to awaken.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Lama Palden Gyatso, incarcerated and tortured for 33 years in Tibet by the Chinese, talks about his experience and how practice helped him through horrific suffering.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is wisdom - How do we cultivate an experiential, lived wisdom in our lives, so we live wisely in our relationships with ourselves, each other and the world...
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Introduction to mindfulness with a guided meditation and QA
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Orientation to the retreat and mindfulness practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is faith? What role does faith play in Dharma practice? This talk explored levels of faith and how essential it is in guiding our practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do we take the wisdom, clarity and insight and the depth of meditative experience into our lives, relationships and all that we do. At the same time, knowing that it is all a seamless continuity of mindful awareness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Joy is an essential factor of awakening and every step of the Buddhist path supports an opening to happiness, joy and peace -- all the way to Nibbana -- the greatest happiness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do we turn towards and open to the inevitable pain and suffering in life? This talk explores how to meet our difficulty with a kind loving presence and patience and in doing so create a freedom, peace and ease in our hearts.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is investigation as a factor of awakening? How do we cultivate it, what supports it and how do we apply it to our direct experience in meditation.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What are the seven factors of awakening? How do these qualities support the journey of unfoldment?
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do we stay mindful in the world of technology, email and internet? How Buddhist teachings on mindfulness and intention help give us presence in the midst of it all.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is romantic love & how does it compare to metta/boundless love that is the heart's true capacity
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Compassion is a beautiful quality of the heart that allows us to meet our humanness and all of our struggles and pain with a kind and embracing love.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How do the qualities of love (metta) and mindfulness relate,support and compliment each other and what happens as we practice these as meditations.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This 2 part series explores how mindfulness and metta, though distinct practices, in a mature practice become unified as a loving, kind presence.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This 2 part series explores how mindfulness and metta, though distinct practices, in a mature practice become unified as a loving, kind presence.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do we bring a loving presence to all of our experience- especially to our humanness, failed intentions. Cultivating mindfulness & kindness with our own experience becomes the template for living a wise life.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk continues an exploration of the Buddhas teachings in the Paramis - specifically focusing on the Parimi of Love ( metta) energy, persistence, truthfulness and morality.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk focuses on the development of 5 of the 10 Paramis: generosity, truthfulness, equanimity, renunciation and wisdon - how they are both innate and also elemental beautiful qualities on the path.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A meditation on the nature of awareness and how all phenomena appear and are known effortlessly in the natural knowing of awareness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An exploration of the quality of love: what is it, how it manifests on the meditative journey and the exploration between emptiness and love; how love unfolds as we lessen identification with a sense of separation.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to work with, understand and free oneself from the tyranny of the inner critic (judge).
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to work with, understand and free oneself from the tyranny of the inner critic (judge).
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 Meditation) What is necessary for maintaining our practice in daily life, through inspiration, silence, Sangha and informal practice of mindfulness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is the Buddha's teaching on interdependence that arises from practice & what is his teaching on the nature of reality. It is inter- dependent and inter-connected.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do the practices of mindfulness and metta (loving kindness) work together - and the important of bringing a kind loving presence to working with difficulties and pain.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Using the metaphor of light as awareness, this talk weaves in poetry, and teachings of the Buddha to explore the role of mindfulness in the path of practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Understanding how mindful awareness supports acceptance, letting go and finding peace amidst all conditions.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do the practices of mindfulness, metta and compassion weave together and support our journey in wholeness, healing and the end of suffering. This talk also relates how these practices support the work of psychotherapists and healers.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to work with Desire. Understanding its bind of attachment, craving & aversion - using humor & awareness as supports for freeing ourselves from desires grip.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha stressed the importance of "being a lamp unto ourself" and to know the truth of suffering - as a vehicle for understanding & liberating ourselves from inevitable challenges of life.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is the relationship between love, attachment & aloneness. How does aloneness support us coming home to ourselves.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A short talk on compassion practice, a guided compassion meditation and a discussion about the practice. Questions and answers.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the unity of mindfulness and metta and how we work with obstacles to meditation that arise doing metta (loving Kindness) practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha gave many teachings to explore how self-identity and attachment to self arise through identification with the five skandas/aggregates (body, feelings, perceptions, mental processes and consciousness). this talk explores this theme and how to work with the "selfing" process.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Given on MLK Day this talk explores compassion & how the teachings of Buddha & MLK urge us to develop the heart of compassion.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How do we bring love and compassion into our lives and relationships and what ares of our lives will benefit from the qualities of metta.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What is compassion - how do we cultivate this precious heart quality towards our own suffering and towards the suffering in the world.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha spoke highly of the value of Sangha, as a refuge and a support for practice & understanding. This talk explores what Sangha is & its positive values.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do we open our hearts to the fullness of ourselves, our pain, and the whole human experience...
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to work with judgement & free yourself from the torment of the critic
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to cultivate wise speech so out words bring harmony, clarity & truth. Following the Buddha's guidlines on speaking.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) As human beings, we move between the boundless, profound dimensions and the more mundane, worldly realms of body and mind. How do we in our practice cultivate an openness and receptivity to our boundless nature and not be so caught in our mind.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Mindfulness practice and the body - Learning to cultivate the awareness of the body as temple, as mystery and as a vehicle for mindfulness and awakening
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the Buddha's central teaching on the Four Noble Truths - how to understand and work with the reality of suffering, the forces of desire and aversion (the causes of suffering) and how that leads to the possibility of freedom (Third Noble Truth).
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How does our meditation practice relate to the natural world? How does nature support our awakening. This talk explores how nature supports us to be more aware & develop awe, wonder, love, appreciation, peace and connectedness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is Equanimity? Why is it so difficult to be at ease in difficult circumstances. What supports this beautiful quality of the heart and how does it relate to metta (love), compassion and appreciative joy.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The beauty of Joy. How dharma teachings and practice supports the awakening of joy. This talk also explores joy as mudita - the appreciative joy.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The place of compassion in our lives & practice - What supports the heart to open & what hinders compassion from opening.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to cultivate and develop those qualities of compassion and appreciative joy and work with potential obstacles.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Overview of loving kindness practice,metta practice - supports,obstacles and fruits.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk gives a thorough overview of the practice and application of metta (unconditional love). Also explored is the unity of mindfulness and metta, and how when metta is cultivated it becomes a source of wisdom in our lives.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Mindfulness of the body as a vehicle of awakening - this talk explores what's challenging about being in the body - working with physical pain, difficult emotions, and how mindfulness practice helps bring insight and ease.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk discusses the Buddha's Teaching and the Enneagram's teaching on suffering; its cause and cessation and how the development of compassion heals and transforms suffering in ourselves and in the world.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What are the joys and fruits of the practice of Vipassana/mindfulness? This talk elaborates the peace, joy, freedom that arises from meditation; especially in regard to seeing clearly the nature of thought, papanca and disengaging from the delusions of mind.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk points to how human beings straddle both mundane and divine realities. How we live dominated by left brain conceptual mind and how we have the potential to know dimensions of peace and freedom more characterized by the right brain hemisphere.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What is the experience of compassion, how does it arise, what are it’s obstacles. This talk also discusses the Bhrama Vihara of mudita, appreciative joy and how we cultivate this rare and beautiful quality of gladness and celebrating the joys of others.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the unity of mindfulness and the qualities of loving kindness, how they support each other and how this leads to living with wisdom and compassion in the world.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk discusses the qualities of metta, and the unity of mindfulness and metta -- and how compassion arises as a natural turning of the loving heart.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is the nature of the self? What did the Buddha teach about the self - the suffering that arises from our misperceptions about who we are and the freedom that comes from understanding our true nature.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk elucidates the Buddha's teaching as the 4 Noble Truths and how the teachings of the Enneagram also impact self understanding when seen in the context of mindfulness practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is the role of loving kindness in Dharma practice. How do we cultivate it, what are the obstacles, and what is the full expression of the heart.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk elucidates the Buddha's teaching on Sattipattana - mindfulness of Body - what is mindfulness, what is its function, and how it illuminates the understanding of suffering, impermanence and selflessness.
(Unknown) How to work with the three fundamental attitudes or habitual tendencies of mind that obscure our ability to be present and how the mindfulness ultimately reveals and liberates these forces so we can abide more in the peace of our true nature.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk describes the quality of gratitude, the blessing of gratitude and how we can cultivate and practice this essential quality on the path.
(Unknown) This talk explores the common obstacles to practice the Five Hindrances of: restlessness, sleepiness, doubt, grasping and aversion. The Hindrances are discussed in the context of the Buddha’s central teaching on the Four Noble Truths.
(Unknown) This talk explores the heart qualities of loving-kindness (Metta) compassion (Karuna) appreciative joy and equanimity (Upekkha) and how they are innate to the heart, yet can be developed and cultivated through practice.
(Unknown) What are the principal obstacles on the path and how do we work with them? How do we work with the forces of desire, resistance in our practice and how through meditation we can transform them.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is the relationship of Nature in our Dharma practice? This talk explores how nature is a preeminent teacher that brings peace, joy and wisdom.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is the relationship of Nature in our Dharma practice? This talk explores how nature is a preeminent teacher that brings peace, joy and wisdom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Taking the practice of loving kindness into our lives, relationships and the world.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores how the heart of metta develops into compassion as it meets suffering in oneself and the world and becomes appreciative joy as it meets the happiness of others
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This Talk explores some of the common obstacles to the development of Metta. In particular the force of aversion, self hatred and the "critic"
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What are the Buddha's teachings on the nature of the self? A practical and accessible discourse on this essential Buddhist teaching.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding the five hindrances, particularly the forces of grasping and aversion - as a vehicle to wake up from our suffering and to discover peace and ease in the present.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Working skillfully with the thinking mind. Understanding how perceptual distortion and mental proliferation obscures the truth and takes us away from the present.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk elucidates perspectives on the Buddhist Path. The possibility of freedom here and now and how to integrate understanding into our lives.
(Unknown) This talk explores how the practice of letting go-- in relationship to desire, aversion, control, spiritual materialism and sense experience-- can facilitate greater freedom in our lives.