Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Heather Martin's most recent Dharma talks

(Bellingham Insight Meditation Society) with Pascal Auclair

(Bellingham Insight Meditation Society) with Pascal Auclair

(Bellingham Insight Meditation Society) with Pascal Auclair

(Bellingham Insight Meditation Society)

(Bellingham Insight Meditation Society)

(Bellingham Insight Meditation Society)

(Bellingham Insight Meditation Society)

(Bellingham Insight Meditation Society)

(Bellingham Insight Meditation Society)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) There are two minds

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Contacting our tenderness, through some sweet little stories, and then allowing that heart quality to expand everywhere, in all directions excluding nothing and no being at all.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Some of the beacons in the unfolding of Heather's practice journey, and the deep trust that grows when we are able to stay with our direct experience.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A guided session. We can forget that there's a whole range of qualities of friendliness that are non-doing or passive. Listening, caring, empathizing, respecting, allowing, appreciating, honoring and more.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Their respective functions and how integrating them brings real well being.

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) From immediate and personal to vast and all inclusive, immeasurable, boundless; how we enable this growth in our practice.

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to recognize and not be caught by the contracting heart and the forces which diminish metta.

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Conventional Reality which keeps us small and running and ultimate reality which expands us into here.

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) 12 beautiful deepening stages as we are transformed from being stuck to becoming free.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Understanding how applying our mindfulness to these 4 key areas of experience actually completely changes everything, breaks the usual trance.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) - A brilliant technique to focus us - So many ways to look into and nourish our hearts, without which we just can't calm down. - the mother of the collection of all 4 Brahma Viharas and their dance together - The most profound inner abiding

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Equanimity

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Allowing the unreliability of it all to uncouple our grasping, while encouraging calm, kindness, gratitude and collectedness to keep us afloat...

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Balancing on the many fine lines of practicing skillfully

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Neutral Person

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) First get to know them, really stay with them and nourish their arising; in particular sustain mindfulness and sink deeply into into experience, in a gentle steady to sustainable way.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Friend

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Letting go of: All the wishing for more, for less, for anything else, the whining and defining, the needing and the resisting. Just this simple quiet opening. Aaahh!

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What Metta isn't and what it really can be, in its many degrees of juice.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The skill of dropping more fully into the beautiful experience of these wishes, abiding within them, with deeper restfulness. It is through this kind of experience that pure compassion can arise.

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring how metta cheers us, how a cheerful heart calms and relaxes us; and how a calm, relaxed state ushers in more understanding and so, more metta.

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Using the Seven Factors of Awakening as a template, mirroring our progressive theme this month, exploring the dance between the active and the passive practices. Focusing on the shift from energy to rapture to serenity , and sweetness, and especially seeing how that shift is so effectively ushered in by more reflections and practices which uplift the heart.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How the first two Noble Truths describe Samsara and the circular chain of Dependent origination, and how the third and fourth Truths have been expanded to form Transcendental dependent arising, which beautiful topics will be further explored during this month - long retreat.