(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) You will learn how to recognize judging thoughts and how to deal effectively with inner critical attacks. This will be a practical and experiential course taught with compassion and humor and the need to not take ourselves too seriously.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores how to learn to cultivate kindness and presence in relation to the challenging conditions of life, including the reality of change.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores the various insights that arise as one meditates outdoors; including insight into impermanence, interconnectedness, selflessness, and love.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) What challenges arise as we meditate in nature? The subtle wanting mind and aversion to the unpleasant are explored in this talk.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Nature is a perennial teacher. This talk explores the natural wisdom and insight that arises when we spend time outdoors with mindful awareness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Monday Night Dharma talk
52 min
About Mark Coleman's most recent Dharma talks (New York Insight Meditation Center)
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Mark Coleman has been engaged in meditation practice since 1981, primarily within the Insight meditation tradition. He has been teaching meditation retreats since 1997. His teaching is also influenced by his studies with Advaita Vedanta and Tibetan teachers in Asia and the West, and through his teacher training with Jack Kornfield. Mark primarily teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, though he also teaches nationally, in Europe and India.
He leads backpacking retreats, nature-based retreats, and teaches retreats for environmental activists in the wilderness at Vallecitos Mountain Refuge in New Mexico, and at Knoll Farm in Vermont. In the Bay Area, Mark has a counseling practice, where he integrates his studies of psychotherapy and meditative work. He is the author of “Awake in the Wild - Mindfulness in Nature as a path of Self-Discovery." Mark has been an avid hiker, and backpacker for most of his life and spends much of his time in the outdoors. He lives in the woods in Marin County, Northern California.