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Dharma Talks Access for Retreatants
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Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
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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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2010-10-23 (42 days)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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2010-11-11
The Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
57:31
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Greg Scharf
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| An overview of the 7 Factors of Enlightenment - powerful, wholesome, helpful, mental factors which arise naturally in practice and directly incline the mind & heart toward liberation |
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2010-11-08
Compassion
56:33
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Annie Nugent
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| Compassion can show itself in a soft and quiet way, but it can also be quite fiery too. However it shows itself, at it's core is the deep resonance and understanding of suffering – and the wish to alleviate it.
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2010-11-07
Not Self and Selfing
57:10
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Andrea Fella
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| An exploration of the Buddha's teaching on anatta (not Self) and how we can understand this teaching by observing what we take to be self. |
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2010-11-06
The Spiritual compost
48:04
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Winnie Nazarko
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| It is clear that spiritual practice is aimed towards the development of wholesome states. Yet our mind-streams have currents of greed, hatred and delusion - how can we use these very states to our own benefit? |
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2010-11-01
Clear Awareness Of four Postures - and everything inbetween.
58:16
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Annie Nugent
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| The first foundation of mindfulness: The Body. We discuss the aspect of the four postures:sitting, standing, walking and lying down.... and everything in between these postures. A dynamic way to come to liberation...and one that the Buddha tells us we cannot do without if we aspire to freedom.
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2010-10-30
Pith Practice Teachings
40:40
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Winnie Nazarko
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| This is a brief, concise summary of: the orienting context of meditation practice; basic tasks and principles of meditation; and how to approach challenges. |
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