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Bonnie Duran's Dharma Talks
Bonnie Duran
Bonnie met the Dharma in 1982 at Kopan Monastery and in Bodh Gaya India. Since then she has practiced long and short retreats with Joseph Goldstein and other eastern and western monastics and lay teachers. She is a graduate of the IMS/SRMC teacher training programs and is also involved with Indigenous ceremonies and practices. She is currently a core teacher of the IMS teacher training program and the SRMC Dedicated Practitioners Program. Dr. Duran is a Professor of Social Work and Public Health at the University of Washington in Seattle.
2021-12-07 Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:43
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love--a Metta and Qigong Retreat
2021-09-10 Sit with Instructions: 4 Foundations - Elements 64:33
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Retreat is Ceremony
2021-09-09 Opening Ceremony and introduction of teachers. 1:50:19
Includes a blessing by Dean Hoaglin of the Miwok Tribe. Teachers: bruni davila, Jeff Haozous and Elvina Charley introduce themselves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Retreat is Ceremony
2021-07-12 Dana, Sila, Bhavana- Dharma practice is 24/7 58:37
A brief description of Breath stroking and calming our heart with love…..and then a description of Ven. U Panditta’s teachings on Dana/Generosity, Sila/Ethical Conduct, and Bhavana/Mental Cultivation. Awakening is available in this very life!!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP
2021-07-10 Pervading Love - Guided Meditation 40:21
This is a guided meditation starting with Metta for ourselves, then easy people, and ending with neutral people.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP
2021-07-09 Metta/Lovingkindness and Purification of negative mental factors 53:48
Metta/Lovingkindness practice strengthens wholesome mental factors and allows us to see more clearly our negative mental factors. Seeing more clearly an important source of our suffering, hate/aversion, we are able to work more directly for our own and others' happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP
2021-07-07 Metta/Lovingkindness from our Benefactors and Ancestors 34:12
This is a guided meditation with Benefactors…..Lovingkindness is an important mental factor for our everyday lives and for Dharma practice. It promotes happiness in ourselves and those all around us. It is a mental attitude of enlightened beings… Non-duality- All my relations. Our ancestors wanted the best for us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP
2020-06-20 Closing Session 41:16
This recording also includes Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Decolonizing the Mind and Cultivating the Causes of Happiness
2020-06-19 Truth, Reconciliation, Forgiveness, Current Events 39:26
Gaia House Decolonizing the Mind and Cultivating the Causes of Happiness
2020-06-19 Morning Instructions: The Four Elements 50:08
This recording also includes Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Decolonizing the Mind and Cultivating the Causes of Happiness

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