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Sharda Rogell's Dharma Talks
Sharda Rogell
My focus in teaching is to provide the support that students need to turn their life to the dharma, to truth, and to find ways to come out of their pain and suffering. The retreat experience is an invaluable aid to this exploration; however, what matters more is how one integrates this under- standing into everyday life.
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2013-06-24 Awakening Wisdom 62:24
What does it mean to Awaken the Dhamma Mind?
Gaia House Coming Home - Insight Meditation
2013-06-23 Exploration of Mind 1:10:13
What is Mind? Two supports and three questions to support continuity of awareness.
Gaia House Coming Home - Insight Meditation
2013-05-18 Equanimity Right Where We Are 49:10
Equanimity is not a destination to arrive at but something we can practice right in the moment with any conditions that arise. How do we practice?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes
2013-05-17 Guided Loving kindness Meditation with Benefactors 35:54
A guided meditation where one receives the wishes from people who care about you and are extending their wish for your happiness and well- being. Includes people from ordinary life as well as spiritual benefactors. (Phrases adapted from John Makransky
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes
2013-05-17 Introduction to Loving kindness Meditation with Benefactors 2:38
Recognition of the wholesome states of mind is important in their cultivation. Mindfulness of the body is encouraged as a support.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes
2013-02-12 Essential Dharma, Part 2, Week 6, B 46:21
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma: Core Buddhist Teachings, Part 2
2013-01-03 Factors of Awakening - Equanimity 57:19
Equanimity is both our practice and the goal of the teaching. We start where we3 are with an attitude of welcoming all things.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Retreat
2012-12-30 Factors of Awakening - Joy 53:18
We find joy in sensual pleasure but the true joy comes when we relax into the present moment and let go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Retreat
2012-10-22 Spiritual Bypassing 23:01
It is possible to use our practice to keep away difficult emotions that we think are "bad" or "wrong" and this causes a split in our way of being in the world. When we practice a meditative approach to our emotions, we begin to wake up all parts of ourselves, and reclaim our humanity and our aliveness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Trauma and Mindfulness: Continuing Class (5-week class series)
2012-09-01 Unbinding our Heart and Mind 56:59
The Buddha's teaching addresses the problem in life. Thoughts themselves are not the problem, rather the greed, hate and delusion bound up in the thought. A personal story exploring how to unbind ourselves from these conditions that cause us pain.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Retreat

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