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Dharma Talks given at Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center
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2026-06-28 Evening Guided Appreciative Joy Meditation 41:57
Kate Siber
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Short mudita story and guided meditation offering appreciative joy to a being or a few and receiving mudita for self
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Nature: Embodying the Four Elements

2026-06-28 Opening to Wonder: The Water Element 46:43
Pamela Weiss
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This talk explores the element of water and how water describes awakening in Theravada and Zen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Nature: Embodying the Four Elements

2026-06-27 Evening Guided Metta Mediation 27:57
Kate Siber
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Letting the forest find you and finding yourself within the forest. Offering radiating loving-kindness to those around you and out onto the land.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Nature: Embodying the Four Elements

2026-06-27 Guided Meditation - 3rd Foundation 47:07
Pamela Weiss
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This is guided meditation on citta explores working with thoughts & feelings.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Nature: Embodying the Four Elements

2026-06-26 Evening Guided Metta Mediation 23:13
Kate Siber
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Short story about the undefended heart and "putting down the you." Guided loving-kindness meditation, breathing in for self, breathing out for those around you.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Nature: Embodying the Four Elements

2026-06-26 Untangling Karma 47:54
Pamela Weiss
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This talk on the Air Element explores animacy, possibility, mortality and the living web of reciprocity
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Nature: Embodying the Four Elements

2026-06-26 Second Foundation of Mindfulness: The Elements of Vedana (Guided Meditation) 49:37
Shinmu Tamori Gibson
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Pleasant, unpleasant, neither; exploring the second foundation of mindfulness; satipatthana
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Nature: Embodying the Four Elements

2026-06-25 Evening Guided Metta mediation 22:25
Kate Siber
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Breathing in care for oneself from all those around you and breathing out care for oneself.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Nature: Embodying the Four Elements

2026-06-25 Earth meeting Earth: A Solo Path Guided by Interconnection 45:12
Shinmu Tamori Gibson
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bell hooks, the ball of honey, dogen: to study the Buddha Way…, humming with humming birds (Faith’s Hymn by Beautiful Chorus)
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Nature: Embodying the Four Elements

2026-06-25 Guided Meditation - 1st Foundation 42:03
Pamela Weiss
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This is a guided meditation on body and breath.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Nature: Embodying the Four Elements

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