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The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

Throughout this retreat, suitable for both new and experienced meditators, we’ll explore the steps laid out by the Buddha that lead to the sure heart’s release: the purification of conduct, the purification of mind through concentration and insight, the understanding of absolute and conventional reality, and the stages of insight that lead to nibbana (liberation).

Held in Noble Silence, the course will include instructions for sitting and walking meditations, teacher talks and guided lovingkindness meditations, Q&A, and group and individual practice discussions. Instructions will include the four foundations of mindfulness, with emphasis on the relaxed practice of mindfulness of mind. Many of the teachings will draw from the path to awakening as described in the late Mahasi Sayadaw’s Manual of Insight.

2017-05-02 (8 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

  
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2017-05-03 First Morning Instructions 63:54
Kamala Masters
Wise view of how to practice with awareness, followed by instructions, awareness of the six sense doors.
2017-05-03 Metta Guided Meditation 52:35
Kamala Masters
Oneself / easy person
2017-05-03 Understanding The Path 59:09
Mark Nunberg
An introduction to the practice of mindful awareness and deepening experience of freedom that naturally unfolds.
2017-05-04 Guided Meditation Instructions - day two 64:39
Mark Nunberg
Including Q&A
2017-05-04 Guided Loving Kindness Practice 59:23
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Working with dear friends and neutral beings
2017-05-04 Five Spiritual FAculties 63:03
Kamala Masters
Understanding the balancing factors of practice.
2017-05-05 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 58:49
Mark Nunberg
2017-05-05 Suffering and Its Causes 58:53
Deborah Ratner Helzer
The first and second noble truths: the three flavors of dukkha and the three varieties of craving.
2017-05-06 Awareness Of Please And Pain 63:52
Deborah Ratner Helzer
2017-05-06 Guided Metta Meditation - Oneself, Benefactor Dear Friend, Neutral Person, Difficult Person 65:27
Kamala Masters
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