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Dharma Talks given at Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center
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2025-05-20 Sensory Clarity and the Joy of Embodiment 48:16
Peter Williams
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To drop out of the mind and into the body is to drop out of time, stress, and separateness and into presence, ease, belonging and joy.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Blessed by the Land:

2024-09-28 Anattā - Dissolving The Sense Of Separation In Nature 45:21
Mark Coleman
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Immersion in nature, with a contemplative awareness, can support insight into the ephemerality of the sense of self. Dissolving of the habit / contraction of self can emerge effortlessly and in doing so reveal its intrinsic empty nature.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Awake in the Wild: September 2024

2024-09-27 Exploring The Beauty And Power Of Love In Nature 43:53
Mark Coleman
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The natural world is a playground for the heart - where love/metta, compassion and joy can be experienced in abundance. Nature is a perfect environment to cultivate these innate heart qualities and where they can also arise effortlessly.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Awake in the Wild: September 2024

2024-09-26 Wisdom Teachings From Nature 55:58
Mark Coleman
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The natural world beautifully and eloquently sings the Dharma. there are countless wisdom teachings emanating from nature. In particular, we explore how nature teaches us about impermanence, dependent arising, perfection and imperfection and belonging.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Awake in the Wild: September 2024

2024-09-24 The Four Foundations In Nature Dharma 43:19
Mark Coleman
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This talk explores how the four foundations of mindfulness can be richly experienced and cultivated in nature meditation retreats. Nature provides in particular a rich arena to cultivate an embodied awareness and to explore vedana, citta and the nature of reality.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Awake in the Wild: September 2024

2024-08-20 Appreciative Joy on Forested Land 38:42
Brian Lesage
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Includes instruction and guided meditation
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Land as Dharma Teacher

2024-08-19 Intimacy and Stepping Out of Human Centric Perception 29:21
Brian Lesage
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Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Land as Dharma Teacher

2024-08-19 Compassion with Land as Dharma Teacher 38:52
Erin Treat
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Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Land as Dharma Teacher

2024-08-19 Morning Instructions: Thinking and Emotions on Forested Land 41:17
Brian Lesage
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Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Land as Dharma Teacher

2024-08-18 Practicing with Inconstancy on Forested Land 36:02
Erin Treat
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Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Land as Dharma Teacher

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