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2014-09-23 Body: A Matter of Life 47:34
Shaila Catherine
This talk was given as a part of the series "Enhancing Mindfulness Skills: A Seven-Week Series Dedicated to Cultivating Transformative Insight." This talk focuses on "Four Elements." It is a traditional practice of mindfulness of the body. In ancient India, the materiality of the body was thought to be composed of four elements—earth, fire, wind and water. These four elements, in turn, have twelve characteristics—(earth) heaviness and lightness, hardness and softness, roughness and smoothness; (fire) heat and coolness; (wind) pushing and supporting; (water) fluidity and cohesion. All of these characteristics can be known with our mind and in our body. Discerning the characteristics of material elements will lead to a profound contemplation of impermanence and death. Seeing the impermanence of the body, we know we cannot control it. The body is not-self, it is not possessable, not I, and not eternally me. Understanding the impermanence of material elements and this body composed of elements, we learn to let go. This talk concludes with a guided meditation of body scans, with emphasis on the four elements and their respective characteristics.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2014-09-22 Guided Meditation On Pain 60:06
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Meeting pain with mindfulness is a very skilful way of understanding the true nature of unpleasant physical sensation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-21 Mindfulness Of the Five Hinderances 59:23
Bhante Buddharakkhita
The practice of mindfulness of the five hindrances can help to understand their impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and impersonal nature and thereby experience freedom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-18 The Wisdom of the Body 57:38
Richard Shankman
This talk discusses why we bring mindfulness to the body. What are the various insights we can have through these practices and how they can help us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2014-09-17 Meeting The Five Hindrances With Mindfulness 56:10
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Guided Meditation on the five hindrances; sense desires, ill-will, restlessness and worry, sloth and torpor and doubt
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-16 Breath: An Intimate Focus for Attention 45:06
Shaila Catherine
This talk was given as a part of the series "Enhancing Mindfulness Skills: A Seven-Week Series Dedicated to Cultivating Transformative Insight." How do we approach the breath? The breath can be used in a variety of ways to enhance mindfulness and to cultivate the insight into impermanence. Observing the breath calms the mind and allows us to tune into present moment experience. By observing the changes in breathing we can assess our feelings, emotions, and moods. Realizing the impermanent, conditioned, changing nature of the breath supports a skillful and powerful recollection of death. Let this contemplation of death be poignant enough to stir a sense of urgency. Reflect on what is really important in life.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2014-09-16 Introduction to Mindfulness Course - 2014 7:51:06
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center

2014-09-15 Unpacking Right Mindfulness 56:08
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-13 Mindfulness and the Recollection of Being 57:24
John Peacock
Gaia House Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - The Foundations of MBCT & MBSR

2014-09-10 Transforming Unhealthy Habits through Mindfulness 1:24:50
Hugh Byrne
When harmful or unhealthy habits form, they can cause us much suffering and they can be hard to change because they are carried out automatically and without conscious awareness. Mindfulness is a key to changing harmful or unwanted habits as it provides skillful methods and practices to bring them into the light of awareness. Three elements of mindfulness are particularly important in changing unhealthy or unwanted habits - Intention, Attention, and Attitude. The talk explores these three elements with a focus on Intention.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

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