(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do we meet the uncertain changing and challenging nature of life? Practice allows us to meet it with awareness, love and non-identification.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Turning towards the pain of ourselves and the world with a curious open heart is the seed for compassion to arise which brings healing and integration.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Observed changes in the climate system, attribution of climate change, Buddhist perspective, Buddhist response to climate change.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What are the important qualities that we bring into our lives from our practice; bringing forth the innate qualities of kindness and compassion into the midst of life.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the Buddha's teaching on the 5 Spiritual Faculties -- the qualities of mindfulness, faith, concentration, wisdom and effort, and how to develop them on the Path.
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.