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Dharma Talks
2015-09-01 On vedana 68:34
Patrick Kearney
Here we explore the Buddha’s concept of vedanā, or feeling, more thoroughly. We see the intimate link between contact (phassa), the immediacy of experience, and feeling. All experience is already accompanied by feeling; or, we can say that we are already moved by this experience. We are moved toward holding by pleasant feeling (sukha vedanā), toward rejection by painful feeling (dukkha vedanā), or toward delusion by neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling (a-dukkha-(m)a-sukha vedanā). Feeling presents us with a world that we have already assessed as requiring response, and have already responded to.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-01 Tracking feeling 65:47
Patrick Kearney
This morning we look at what the Buddha means by vedanā, or “feeling.” We begin with a meditation experiment and go on to explore what the role of affect in the Buddha’s teaching, and in our practice.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-31 Meditation Instruction on the Body 31:15
Bob Stahl
Insight Santa Cruz Insight Meditation Retreat in Germany

2015-08-31 Meeting the Heavenly Messengers 65:41
Bob Stahl
Insight Santa Cruz Insight Meditation Retreat in Germany

2015-08-31 Mindfulness of breathing 1:13:47
Patrick Kearney
We look at the section in Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta where the Buddha speaks of mindfulness of breathing (ānāpāna-sati). We look at the development of the practice from natural awareness to mindfulness to understanding to training to sensing to calming, and we see how the nature of breathing itself transforms as our relationship to it develops.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-31 Growing in Wisdom and Compassion through Embracing Adversity 51:44
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-08-31 Tracking breathing 57:08
Patrick Kearney
This morning we experiment in using breathing as a meditation object. How do we know we are breathing? We find movement in the body, air element (vayo dhātu). We practise precision in our mindfulness of breathing by tracking its location, its length, its shape or form, its clarity, its beginnings and ends. This opens up issues regarding both the nature of breathing and our relationship to breathing.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-30 The one-way street & nibbana - Introducing satipatthana 64:43
Patrick Kearney
We introduce satipaṭṭhāna, the way of mindfulness. More than just a meditation technique, satipaṭṭhāna represents a way of practice that is a “one-way street” (ekāyana magga) leading direct to nibbāna. We examine the meaning of nibbāna, looking at it both cognitively and affectively. And we discuss the relationship between the practice of tracking experience over time, and nibbāna itself.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-30 Non-Self 62:39
Alex Haley
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2015-08-30 Tracking elements 56:58
Patrick Kearney
We begin by discussing our relationship to body, how we find ourselves alienated from the experience of body because of our habit of experiencing body from the outside, as it were. We experience our body through our mental images of our body; how we imagine it looks from the outside, rather than how it actually feels from the inside. Then we experiment with the four mahābhūta, or “great appearances,” earth element (pathavī dhātu), air element (vayo dhātu), fire element (tejo dhātu) and water element (āpo dhātu). These represent the elemental qualities of the body, as sensed from inside the body rather than imagined from beyond the body.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

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