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2015-09-15 Faith 62:48
Kamala Masters
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Confidence in our innate potential for transformation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-15 The not-self characteristic - Part 2 58:57
Patrick Kearney
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We continue with Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta, here focusing on the turning point represented by disenchantment (nibbidā). This creates a process of the fading of obsession, liberation and the exhaustion of birth. The Buddha expresses as a state of intimacy, conveyed by the statement, “There is no more of this!”
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-15 Morning Instructions - 3 month retreat 16:24
Sally Armstrong
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Breath, body and sounds
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-14 What is Mindfulness? 55:38
Sally Armstrong
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Mindfulness is becoming very popular in many areas of modern life: as a stress reduction, in schools, prisons, hospitals, in the workplace and so on. But what is mindfulness, and what was the Buddha talking about when he encouraged us to practice it? Right mindfulness, or Samma Sati, develops wisdom and understanding, decreasing unwholesome states of mind, increasing wholesome ones and leading us to more freedom and clarity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-14 The not-self characteristic - Part 1 1:11:45
Patrick Kearney
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After teaching the first Buddhist meditation retreat to the five ascetics, the Buddha introduces the topic of not-self (anattā) with Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta. Tonight we look at the Buddha’s perspective on how we create a self by clinging to five categories or “bundles” (khandha) of experience. The key moves are: “This is mine;” “I am this;” and “This is my self.”
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-13 Finding Refuge 52:45
Greg Scharf
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An exploration of the subject of talking refuge - includes chanting of the refuges and precepts in Pali
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-13 Where Does it All Go Wrong ? 58:38
Christina Feldman
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Gaia House :  Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - MBCT/SR Foundations

2015-09-13 Day One Instructions For the Three Month Retreat 39:56
Guy Armstrong
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-12 The Skill of Remembering 61:58
John Peacock
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Gaia House :  Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - MBCT/SR Foundations

2015-09-12 The four truths 1:16:26
Patrick Kearney
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Having opened the hearts of his five companions with his teaching of the middle way, the Buddha now teaches the four truths of the noble ones (cattāro ariya-saccāni). These are: dukkha; its arising; its cessation; and the path leading to its cessation. This discourse centres on dukkha and craving (taṇhā), because the Buddha is concerned here with what coloured his own practice before his awakening – his sense of drivenness, of trying to get in the future something missing now.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

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