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Matthew Brensilver's Dharma Talks
Matthew Brensilver
Matthew Brensilver, MSW, PhD, serves on the Guiding Teachers Committee and Board of Directors at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He was previously Program Director for Mindful Schools and for more than a decade, was a core teacher at Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society. Each summer, he lectures at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center on the intersections between mindfulness, science and mental health. Before committing to teach meditation full-time, he spent years doing research on addiction pharmacotherapy at the UCLA Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine. He is the co-author of two books about meditation during adolescence.
2016-12-30 Intensity, Clinging and Anatta in the teen years (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:09
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Teen Retreat
2016-11-25 Spirit Rock-Attention, Love and Service 45:10
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-11-22 Spirit Rock-Samadhi in the Context of Letting Go 48:44
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-11-20 Spirit Rock-Metta in the Post Obama Era 28:37
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-10-01 Where You At, Where You Going 55:30
with JoAnna Hardy, Matthew Brensilver, Vinny Ferraro
We look at the different doorways that we enter the dharma through and reflect on what would be a stretch for us personally.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Kind Awareness: The Integration of Metta and Vipassana
2016-05-09 Anxiety and Tranquility 58:29
Audio recording of Monday Night Meditation class with Matthew Brensilver on May 9th, 2016
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2016-04-18 Grief, Love and Groundlessness 53:49
Audio recording of the Monday night class on April 18, 2016 with Matthew Brensilver.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2016-01-01 Going Home 1:32:42
Along with Marv talking about Resources, Dawn about Sangha groups and "T" about precepts/closing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Teen Retreat
2015-12-31 Q&A 36:45
Matthew, Marv and Joanna answer questions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Teen Retreat
2015-12-30 The Intensity of Being a Teenager 44:39
Reflections on the first noble truth, love and relationship.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Teen Retreat

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