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Dharma Talks Access for Retreatants
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The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet
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| This retreat focuses on the embodiment of wisdom and compassion. Through the cultivation of samadhi (a gathering of our heart, mind and body energies), we establish a healing foundation for insight into our mistaken identification with patterns of self. As structures of the self are gently released from grasping and aversion, our heart knows the emptiness and peace of its original nature. Authentic, compassionate response and intuitive understanding arise, and the non-dual nature of emptiness and appearance is recognized. |
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2010-03-05 (9 days)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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2010-03-08
It Is Not As It Should Be.
40:55
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Thanissara
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| Connecting with the actuality of body. Breath as a basis for samadhi. Cultivating support for stability here and now. Middle ground between pleasure and pain. |
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2010-03-07
Awakening
51:45
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Kittisaro
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| Meeting ourselves. Limitations of success and sense pleasure. The great reversal. The Buddha's journey. Knowing pleasure, pain, and beyond. Return to the original brightness. |
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2010-03-06
The Eight Streams of Blessings.
54:49
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Thanissara
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| A gradual path. Practice as preparation. An alignment with refuge here and now. Sangha as the relational field. Beyond morality. The chanting of ethics. |
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2010-03-06
How Is It Now?
41:49
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Thanissara
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| Training in samadhi. Samadhi as healing. Gathering the three steams of energy, body, mental and heart into awareness. Gently training attention. |
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2010-03-05
The Template and Blessing Chants
51:58
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Kittisaro
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| Arriving into a retreat and working within limitation. Being more "here". Calling on the ancestors, devas and earth spirits to bless and protect as the boundary of the retreat is set. |
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