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Two-Month Retreat

This two-month course, including its one-month partials, is a special time for practice. Because of its extended length and ongoing guidance, it is an opportunity for students to deepen the powers of concentration, wisdom and compassion. Based on the meditation instructions of Mahasi Sayadaw and supplemented by a range of skillful means, this retreat will encourage a balanced attitude of relaxation and alertness, and the continuity of practice based on the Buddha’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness.

2009-09-26 (56 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

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2009-11-01 Five Contemplations For Everyone 61:04
Greg Scharf	Download Listen Order
Five contemplations recommended by the Buddha that can lead to a sense of spiritual urgency or Samvega

2009-10-31 Motivations , Agenda, and Aspirations 60:22
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen Order
Being aware of agendas we bring to practice and how they may hinder or support our progress. Letting go of complexification to rest in simplicity.

2009-10-29 Five Hinderances 57:21
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen Order

2009-10-26 Giant Lizards and Exploding Stars - Mindfulness, Curiosity and Liberation 62:16
Greg Scharf	Download Listen Order
Mindfulness is the key to the entire path of practice. We explore the entire universe and plumb the depths of what it means to be human by bring mindfulness to our present moment experience.

2009-10-25 The Immediacy of Mindfulness: 54:46
Annie Nugent	Download Listen Order
Mindfulness takes us out of the stagnant moments of delusion into the clear freshness of the present moment and the freedom that comes with it.

2009-10-22 What Is True Equanimity? 56:07
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen Order
An exploration into what makes equanimity an expression of the awakened mind, how equanimity gives rise to wise action and how our conditioned habits of mind interface with living a life of balance.

2009-10-13 Love and Kindness 57:28
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen Order
Bring metta into the world

2009-10-12 Mindfulness of the Body. 56:42
Sally Clough Armstrong	Download Listen Order
Though the heart of our meditation practice is to understand and free the mind, much of our experience is known through the body, so our relationship to the body is extremely important. Learning how to work skillfully with both pleasant and painful experiences is essential in meditation, and developing a wise attitude to the body that appreciates it yet doesn’t identify with it as me or mine is a great support to the deepening of practice.

2009-10-08 Controlling This Difficult Mind Of Ours 55:46
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen Order
The Buddha encouraged us to discriminate our thoughts into two sets: Those that led to freedom and those that lead to bondage. What are some skillful; tools to work with our persistent and difficult patterns of thought.

2009-10-05 Impermanence 61:16
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen Order
A lot of understanding can come from reflecting on the way impermanence shows itself in our lives both outwardly and inwardly, including our vulnerability to aging and death. But even more penetrating insight comes to the mind that has become still through meditation. Through this way of seeing, the truth of impermanence sinks into our bones and the wisdom of non-clinging becomes very obvious.

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