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Heather Martin's Dharma Talks
Heather Martin
Heather Martin has been meditating since 1972, and practicing Vipassana since 1981. Beginning with S.N. Goenka, she has since been influenced by both Burmese and Thai streams of the Theravada tradition, and by Tibetan Dzogchen with Tsoknyi Rinpoche. Most recently she has been studying with Burmese Sayadaw U Tejaniya.
2013-02-06 Morning instructions 14:14
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat
2013-02-05 The Foundation of Freedom is Accepting 53:18
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 February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat
2013-01-17 De-mystifying Metta 65:09
What Metta isn't and what it really can be, in its many degrees of juice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat
2012-01-09 Metta Concentration 58:22
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.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta
2011-01-16 Metta Chants 10:40
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat
2011-01-13 The Joy of a Friendly Heart 68:34
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.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat
2010-03-22 Compassion is Wisdom Responding 54:22
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long
2010-03-20 Guided Metta Meditation 43:12
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long
2010-03-14 Refining Balance 56:19
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 March 2010 Month Long
2010-03-08 The Four Truths 58:10
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.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March 2010 Month Long

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