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Anushka Fernandopulle: Feeling Tone and Reactivity Sep 05, 2026

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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Tuning in to Vedana. (Pleasant, unpleasant, neutral) and on habitual responses.

Ajahn Jutindharo: Arriving, Settling & Welcoming Sep 05, 2026

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(Gaia House)

Pascal Auclair: High Quality Contact Sep 05, 2026

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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

Dawn Mauricio: Morning Instructions: RAIN with Emotions and Thoughts (Retreat at Spirit Rock) Sep 05, 2026

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Use the RAIN acronym for emotions (not just unpleasant ones) and thoughts as a way to be with their direct or somatic experience.

Dawn Mauricio: The Gift of Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) Sep 04, 2026

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An exploration of the five hindrances (desire, aversion, sloth & torpor, restlessness, and doubt). This talk draws on classical teachings, personal stories, and the Buddha's water similes to ask what happens when we get curious about these states instead of fighting them.

James Baraz: Instructions on Working with the Breath and Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) Sep 04, 2026

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Instructions on working with the breath and body.

Donald Rothberg: Dukkha and the End of Dukkha: The Core Teaching of the Buddha Sep 03, 2026

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(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha famously said, "I teach dukkha [suffering or reactivity or a sense of unsatisfactoriness] and the cessation of dukkha.” We explore this core teaching as it is expressed in the Four Noble Truths and the teachings of the Two Arrows and Dependent Origination, including ways that it can be confusing. We suggest ways to understand and implement this teaching both in formal meditation and in everyday life. (See document 328 below, on "Four Meanings of Dukkha, and Contact to Grasping in the Dependent Origination Model.")

James Baraz: Wise Effort in Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) Sep 03, 2026

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Wise Effort as an important issue in practice. This talk explores finding the balance between too much and too little as well as understanding the four classical Wise Efforts described in the teachings.

Howard Cohn: 1st morning Mindfulness of Breath and Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) Sep 03, 2026

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Bringing together awareness with body and breath so that contusions for calming and stilling can occur naturally, making it easier to notice all sense experience.

Brian Lesage: The Beauty of Ethical Integrity Sep 02, 2026

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(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)

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