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Dharma Talks Access for Retreatants
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Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
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| This three-month course, including its six-week 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. |
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2010-09-11 (42 days)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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2010-10-14
Courage and Compassion
63:43
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Carol Wilson
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| The natural flow of a retreat - of life - is expansion and contraction. We suffer when we identify with any aspect as being mine or me. |
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2010-10-09
The Buddha's Question
66:27
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Winnie Nazarko
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| The Buddha's life provides insight into the nature of his search, and the framework he used to explain his findings - The Four Noble Truths. |
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2010-10-08
Simplicity Of Non-Reactive Mind
59:51
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Carol Wilson
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| Luang Pu Dun defines the second noble truth as the mind that goes out to satisfy its moods, and the result that comes from the mind going out to satisfy its moods is suffering, - the first Noble Truth is the result of this! This talk describes how the mind can get lost in thoughts and create suffering.
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2010-10-07
Unentangled Knowing
60:27
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Guy Armstrong
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| Upasika Kee talks about finding in meditation an “inward-staying unentangled knowing.” This talk describes what this means in terms of dependent arising and offers three approaches to meditation that specifically aim at this kind of relationship to sense experience.
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