(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Compassion is a beautiful quality of the heart that allows us to meet our humanness and all of our struggles and pain with a kind and embracing love.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How do the qualities of love (metta) and mindfulness relate,support and compliment each other and what happens as we practice these as meditations.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This 2 part series explores how mindfulness and metta, though distinct practices, in a mature practice become unified as a loving, kind presence.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This 2 part series explores how mindfulness and metta, though distinct practices, in a mature practice become unified as a loving, kind presence.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do we bring a loving presence to all of our experience- especially to our humanness, failed intentions. Cultivating mindfulness & kindness with our own experience becomes the template for living a wise life.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk continues an exploration of the Buddhas teachings in the Paramis - specifically focusing on the Parimi of Love ( metta) energy, persistence, truthfulness and morality.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk focuses on the development of 5 of the 10 Paramis: generosity, truthfulness, equanimity, renunciation and wisdon - how they are both innate and also elemental beautiful qualities on the path.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A meditation on the nature of awareness and how all phenomena appear and are known effortlessly in the natural knowing of awareness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An exploration of the quality of love: what is it, how it manifests on the meditative journey and the exploration between emptiness and love; how love unfolds as we lessen identification with a sense of separation.
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.