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Diana Clark's Dharma Talks at Big Bear Retreat Center
Diana Clark
Diana Clark, PhD, offers Dharma teachings grounded in many years of meditation practice, retreat experience, and study, as well as a deep trust in the Buddha’s path of peace and freedom. Her teaching invites people to discover greater ease, clarity, and freedom in the midst of ordinary life. Diana was trained as a retreat teacher by Gil Fronsdal and Andrea Fella. Her background also includes serving as a professor of Theravāda Buddhism at the Institute of Buddhist Studies and working as a cancer researcher. She has a PhD in biochemistry. These varied forms of practice, teaching, and inquiry inform an approach to the Dharma that is careful, experiential, and engaged with everyday life. More than a thousand of Diana’s talks and guided meditations are available at AudioDharma.org. Her website is DianaClarkDharma.org.
2025-06-25 Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Thinking 49:39
Big Bear Retreat Center Opening the Heart, Deepening Wisdom
2025-06-24 Neither Tarrying nor Hurrying: The Art of Allowing 43:38
Exploring how the practice of allowing offers a third way—beyond control or avoidance—into presence and insight.
Big Bear Retreat Center Opening the Heart, Deepening Wisdom
2025-06-23 Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of the Body 58:51
Big Bear Retreat Center Opening the Heart, Deepening Wisdom
2025-06-22 The Near Shore: Meeting Dukkha with Dharma 37:20
A reflection on the discomfort of the “near shore” and how turning toward difficulties—rather than away from them—opens the path to freedom.
Big Bear Retreat Center Opening the Heart, Deepening Wisdom

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