(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Meditation & Dharma Talk

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Talk Synopsis: Clearing the Poisons – Greed and Aversion

This talk explores how the Buddha’s teachings on dukkha and the three unwholesome roots—greed, aversion, and delusion—relate to the common mental obstacles that arise in meditation and daily life. Framed through the lens of the five hindrances, the talk looks closely at how these energies obscure attention and contribute to suffering.

The talk includes a practical discussion of temperament—how some of us tend more toward craving, others toward irritation or confusion—and how understanding these patterns can support clarity and compassion. Rather than trying to get rid of these states, the emphasis is on recognizing and relating to them with awareness, in line with the Buddha’s instruction to know dukkha and its causes.

Grounded in the Four Noble Truths, the talk points toward a path of practice that works with what's difficult—not as a problem to fix, but as a doorway to insight and freedom.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Gullu reviews focused awareness and expands the frame to include feeling tone, hindrances, and thoughts and emotions.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A body scan mediation practice to strengthen the capacity to sense in to various parts of the body and connect with sensation with an added twist of appreciating each part of the body and wishing it well.

(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)

(Big Bear Retreat Center)

(Big Bear Retreat Center) Gullu explores Vendana (Hedonic Tone) which is a central and vital Buddhist teaching and the speaks about the Sallata Sutta which explores how we make our suffering worse with resistance, seeking pleasure to cover over the pain, and over-identifying with pain. Sutta text can be found at: https://links.gullusingh.com/8d6c9a

(Big Bear Retreat Center)

(Big Bear Retreat Center)