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Guy Armstrong's Dharma Talks
Guy Armstrong
I have always enjoyed working with practitioners who are continuing to deepen their practice. In the many long retreats I teach at both IMS and Spirit Rock, I feel free to pass on the deepest pointings I’ve found in the teachings of the Buddha in the Pali Canon. Those are my guiding lights in practice and understanding.
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2011-10-03 Unentangled Knowing 59:49
The talk explores how the sense of self is created through the links in dependent origination. “Unentangled knowing” describes how a meditator can be in a state of full awareness of things coming and going at the sense doors without being caught in them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2011-09-25 Five Aggregates: Self and Emptines 62:21
Understanding the five aggregates can help us understand the absence of a self in sensory experience and also the insubstantiality of phenomena.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2011-09-18 Working with Difficult Emotions 62:43
We can come to a greater freedom in life by investigating the nature strong emotions and our relation to them. This talk explores working with four emotions in particular: desire, sadness, anger and fear. Publishable online for the general public
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2011-09-11 Keys To A Long Retreat 58:33
When starting a long retreat, we should establish a proper attitude to our practice and also appreciate the purpose of renunciation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2011-07-28 Unentangled Knowing 61:13
The talk explores how the sense of self is created through the links in dependent origination. When craving is absent, we can become aware of all our experience in a state of unentangled knowing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat
2011-07-24 Working with Difficult Emotions 63:29
By developing a more accepting attitude toward difficult emotions and by understanding their nature, we can come to a greater sense of freedom in life. This talk explores five strong emotions (desire, anger, fear, sadness and self-judgment) and how to work with them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat
2011-07-21 Metta and Connection 59:52
Metta practice makes the heart more sensitive to the joys and sorrows we are subject to. This tenderness becomes the avenue for us to discover our deep connection to all of life and end a sense of isolation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat
2011-07-20 Brahma Vihara: Equanimity 58:48
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat
2011-07-18 Loving Kindness, Movement of the Heart 46:01
Friend; Near and Far Enemies
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat
2011-07-17 Metta: Near and Far Enemies 59:27
Metta (loving kindness) practice leads us into the exploration of all of the heart's responses to life. Especially good grounds for understanding are in the experience of loving kindness, its near enemy of affection with attachment, and its far enemy of ill will.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat

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