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Retreat Dharma Talks

June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-01 (30 days) Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge

  
2012-06-02 Additional Meditation Instructions 58:30
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Detailed meditation instructions regarding sitting, walking practice, general activities, instructions and interviews.
2012-06-02 Qualities Of Mindfulness (Sati) 65:47
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Synonyms, definitions, role of Sati in Abhidhamma, illustrations for Sati.
2012-06-04 Attitudes In Mindfulness Meditation Do Matter 58:26
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Awareness of attitudes in meditation both helpful and unhelpful.
2012-06-05 Contemplation Of Postures 57:07
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Contemplation of standing, sitting, lying down and walking
2012-06-06 Discovering The Nature Of The Mind 58:42
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Contemplation of absence/presence condition, arising and passing, opposites, causal development of mental factors.
2012-06-08 Developing Observational Skills 61:19
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Observing and describing the structures of experience in terms of time, location, characteristics, intensity, continuity, etc.
2012-06-09 Benefits Of Mindfulness Meditation Meditation 61:25
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Happiness arising due to virtue, concentration, insight knowledge, purification of view, arising due to mindfulness meditation.
2012-06-11 Patience, Neutrality, Equanimity About Formation 58:43
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Nature and significance of P., N., E., in meditation and outside of retreat.
2012-06-12 Staying Composed and Equanimous In Contemplation 55:38
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Composure, Six factored Equanimity, Clear Comprehension Of Activities
2012-06-13 Five Controlling Faculties 57:56
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Five Controlling Faculties And Balancing Them
2012-06-15 Sense Of Urgency 47:41
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Nature of urgency, causes for its arising, consequences.
2012-06-16 Sharpening The Controlling Faculties, Part II 55:56
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Impermanence, seeing only destruction of arisen phenomena.
2012-06-18 Contemplation Of Feeling, Part I 51:27
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Distinction worldly - unworldly feelings, instructions, general aspects of feeling.
2012-06-19 Contemplation Of Feelings Part II 54:51
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Contemplation of unpleasant and neutral feelings
2012-06-20 Spiritual Friendship 65:38
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Qualities of a spiritual friend and principals of cordiality.
2012-06-22 Dhammanupassana - Part I 57:15
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Etymology, description, contemplation of hindrances
2012-06-23 Dhammanupassana Part II 61:41
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Contemplation of aggregates, general aspects, perception, aggregate of perception.
2012-06-25 Dhammanupassana III 55:01
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Contemplation of aggregate of volitional formations and aggregate of consciousness.
2012-06-26 Dhammanupassana IV 56:38
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Contemplation of awakening factors, especially investigation of states.
2012-06-28 Benefits Of Mindfulness Meditation - Part II 57:28
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Contemplation of dissolution - Equanimity - Nibbana
2012-06-29 Noble Search and Nobel Results 1:13:27
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Nobel search - benefits of practice - Four Noble Truths - Nibbana - Qualities of a stream entrant.
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