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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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2011-07-16 Loving Kindness; Reflecting on our Goodness 36:17
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat
2011-02-27 Unentangled Knowing 59:04
"Unentangled knowing" is an approach to meditation in which we are aware of things coming and going at the sense doors without becoming caught in them. Supported by tranquility and insight, we can rest in the knowing while being fully awake to life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong Insight Retreat
2011-02-22 Nature of Awareness 56:04
The Buddha clearly described consciousness as an impermanent part of the mind. Yet many people feel that awareness has some kind of lasting or ongoing nature. How can we understand this seeming contradiction? How can we make awareness itself part of our meditation?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong Insight Retreat
2011-02-19 Metta: Tenderness & Connection 62:07
Metta practice makes the heart more sensitive to the joys and sorrows that sentient beings 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 February Monthlong Insight Retreat
2011-02-12 The Seven Factors of Awakening 62:22
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong Insight Retreat
2011-02-07 Where Does Happiness Come From? 55:37
The Buddha pointed to at least five routes to different levels of happiness for lay people: sense pleasures, merit, concentration, insight, and awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong Insight Retreat
2010-11-17 Emptiness and Karma 60:13
At first glance it might seem the teaching of karma, in which our actions bring results to ourselves, might be in contradiction to the understanding that our experience is empty of a self. However, the two teachings on emptiness and karma actually need each other for liberation to be possible.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat
2010-11-16 The Empty Nature of Awareness 68:12
We can be aware of many objects in meditation. It's also possible to turn our attention to awareness itself. The talk explores what happens when we do this. Is awareness findable? Does it come and go? Is it conditioned? And what is the value of meditating like this?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat
2010-11-16 Big Mind Guided Meditation 44:15
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat
2010-11-14 The Emptiness of Phenomena 57:07
All the phenomena of our senses are empty of any solid substance or essence. It may be more appropriate to refer to phenomena as "appearances" rather than "objects." This theme is explored through the Sutta "A Lump of Foam" in the Samyutta Nikaya.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

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