(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores how the heart of metta develops into compassion as it meets suffering in oneself and the world and becomes appreciative joy as it meets the happiness of others
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This Talk explores some of the common obstacles to the development of Metta. In particular the force of aversion, self hatred and the "critic"
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What are the Buddha's teachings on the nature of the self? A practical and accessible discourse on this essential Buddhist teaching.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding the five hindrances, particularly the forces of grasping and aversion - as a vehicle to wake up from our suffering and to discover peace and ease in the present.
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.