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Dharma Talks given at Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center
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2025-07-03 Paradox of Life and Death 59:07
Eugene Cash
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
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
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
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
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
Exploring how the three characteristics are revealed in nature practice
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Awake in the Wild

2025-06-10 "When you know the place you are, practice begins" -- Working with obstructions to clear, embodied knowing 49:22
Kirsten Rudestam
This talk describes hindrances as fuel for our practice and offers suggestions for working skillfully with them.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Awake in the Wild

2025-06-05 Grief and the Loss of Identity 45:19
Amana Brembry Johnson
When we can face and mourn our grief, it becomes a portal into transformation and insight.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-04 Mindful of Thoughts and Mind States 56:42
Amana Brembry Johnson
In this instruction we will move from a focus on the object and turn towards an investigation of the quality of the mind and an awareness of what arises in the body
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-03 Being at Home in the Body 47:43
Amana Brembry Johnson
A remembrance of The Body as home and an understanding that we are not the body but a part of an interconnected web of life
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

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