Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Ruth Denison's most recent Dharma talks

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A guided instructional sit, beginning with Metta meditation and expanding into the purposes of reflection. Instructions continuing the practice of attending, investigation with allowance and deep appreciation.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Teaching on Annica through a guided body sweep.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Instructional overview of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, focusing on intentional investigation, your attention with an allowing attitude. Vipassana, clear seeing, as outcome to this practice.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Cultivating skiils to live closely with this bodily process through sense experience. Practice in lying down, sitting, standing, and moving or walking.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Impermanence; the reality of one last breath

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Impermanence – change in our lives, nature and death

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Opening Talk

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Instructions on Sweeping using the Four Great Elements.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Sweeping meditation in standing and sitting, its purpose, usefulness, aim, and direction.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Ruth recalls learning the "sweeping" meditation technique from her Burmese teacher Ur.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Working with the Five Hindrances and the first 2 foundations of mindfulness.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Mindfulness to body: A guided sweep through the body with emphasis on the head and trunk of the body.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Instructional sit #4: A guided meditation on breath and body using sounding to help explore sensation of experience.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk begins with the First and Second Foundations of Mindfulness and continues with the sharing stories of how and where Ruth began teaching.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Instructional sit #2: A detailed description of the practice of mindfulness to breathing through exploring sensations in the body.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Instructional sit #3: A guided meditation through Anapana Sati.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Instructional sit #1: Guided mindfulness to body through the practice of attention to breathing.

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Incorporating the Dharma in everyday life. Dharma experiences from students and short guided metta.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A talk on death and how we meet it, the possibility of it each day.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Integrating experiences of death and dying in daily life.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Sharings of the dharma experiences both from Ruth Denison and her students.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring the full body from the top of the head to the bottom of the feet. Moving slowly from place to place, tuning in to various sensations on all levels: from the outer flesh and hairs through muscles, bones and cells.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An active Dharma talk through dance and movement. A step-by-step explorative talk, dancing into bodily awareness of joy and mindfulness, using the sense doors of sight, sound, touch and perception

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An explanation of the four elements and an exploration through the body.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An explorative explanation of consciously connecting with the body, developing deep concentration and mindfulness.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A talk on how to sweep through the body, moving from part to part and incorporate the breath.

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Being present for the hindrances with compassion and loving kindness.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Including the five precepts in daily life. Cultivating them in positive action.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Embodying the refuges in thought, speech and action. Comprehension through listening, chanting and movement.

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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) 45 minute Body Sweep

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflecting upon the truths of existence.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Penetrating into the foundations of mindfulness.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Accepting the pervasive truth of unhappiness and seeing it's causes.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding the "basement" of the Buddha's teachings.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Continuing our explorations of the turbulence of mind.