(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Learning to abide in awareness brings a clarity, and understanding & natural spaciousness in all life. Recognizing this innate awake quality of life is the doorway to freedom.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the fusion of mindful-awareness and love and how the integrating of these essential qualities is essential in life and practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What are the principal obstacles in Meditation and how do we work with them so they become grounds for insight and compassion.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores various facets around relinquishing the ways we are constantly seeking something different than what is actually here and by doinf so, missing the peace that is already here.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dharma Talk from the Monday Night Class at Spirit Rock Meditation center
42 min
About Mark Coleman's most recent Dharma talks (Spirit Rock 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.