(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is the role of loving kindness in Dharma practice. How do we cultivate it, what are the obstacles, and what is the full expression of the heart.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk elucidates the Buddha's teaching on Sattipattana - mindfulness of Body - what is mindfulness, what is its function, and how it illuminates the understanding of suffering, impermanence and selflessness.
(Unknown) How to work with the three fundamental attitudes or habitual tendencies of mind that obscure our ability to be present and how the mindfulness ultimately reveals and liberates these forces so we can abide more in the peace of our true nature.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk describes the quality of gratitude, the blessing of gratitude and how we can cultivate and practice this essential quality on the path.
(Unknown) This talk explores the common obstacles to practice the Five Hindrances of: restlessness, sleepiness, doubt, grasping and aversion. The Hindrances are discussed in the context of the Buddha’s central teaching on the Four Noble Truths.
(Unknown) This talk explores the heart qualities of loving-kindness (Metta) compassion (Karuna) appreciative joy and equanimity (Upekkha) and how they are innate to the heart, yet can be developed and cultivated through practice.
(Unknown) What are the principal obstacles on the path and how do we work with them? How do we work with the forces of desire, resistance in our practice and how through meditation we can transform them.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is the relationship of Nature in our Dharma practice? This talk explores how nature is a preeminent teacher that brings peace, joy and wisdom.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is the relationship of Nature in our Dharma practice? This talk explores how nature is a preeminent teacher that brings peace, joy and wisdom.
50 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.