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Dharma Talks given at Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center
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2025-07-18 The Water Element: Mystery, Fluidity, and Impermanence 32:06
Pamela Weiss
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This talk explores explores the water element, including guided meditation on big mind arising and passing, and lessons from the Pali Cannon and the Genjo Koan
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Nature

2025-07-17 The Wisdom of Fire 37:33
Amana Brembry Johnson
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Fire as a living being that is capable of creating wholesome transformation or devastating destruction both internally and externally
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Nature

2025-07-16 The Body As Earth 44:54
Amana Brembry Johnson
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During these disorienting and unstable times, awareness of the Earth Element in the body offers both a refuge and a responsibility to be present for what has arisen and what is arising in our world today.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Nature

2025-07-16 The Air Element: Breath, Breeze, and Space 45:09
Pamela Weiss
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Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Nature

2025-07-03 Paradox of Life and Death 59:07
Eugene Cash
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Exploring how the Buddha gave up the intoxication with youth, health and life. How mindfulness of death supports opening to our Buddha nature. Includes personal story about the experience of discontinuity in my near death experience.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life

2025-07-01 Anathapindika and the Presence of Mindfulness 54:32
Eugene Cash
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How Satipatthana directs us to the development of not just being present but presence of Mind. Presence of mind support letting go. Anathapindika faces death directly and is given instructions of not clinging to anything. This Sutta changes the teachings of Buddhism for non-monsastics.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life

2025-06-29 Normalcy of Life and Death 47:41
Eugene Cash
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How we understand death dharmically and in our personal lives holds the potential for mindfulness of death in ways that enrich and bring the fruits of the dharma into our lives.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life

2025-06-13 Nature as Beloved 56:24
Mark Coleman
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Exploring the four diving abodes amidst the natural world
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Awake in the Wild

2025-06-12 Belonging, Reciprocity and Gratitude 40:42
Kirsten Rudestam
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This talk looks at the dependent co-arising in the context of nature-based practice and the tenderizing of the human heart.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Awake in the Wild

2025-06-11 Wisdom Teachings From Nature 53:31
Mark Coleman
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Exploring how the three characteristics are revealed in nature practice
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Awake in the Wild

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