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Retreat Dharma Talks
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Journey into Refuge, Presence, and Love
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| In these overwhelming times, let’s deepen refuge, as well as reconnect with community and our shared roots within the sacred web of life. This will be a time of contemplation and remembrance as we journey through the grief of so much loss and the hope of the human spirit, offering thanks for the beauty of this world.
Within contemplative quietude, supported by calm and insight meditation in a mindful, gentle retreat container, we will draw from teachings and practices that enable timelessness and openings into the heart medicine of love and compassion.
The retreat will source from a synthesis of the Theravada Elder’s Way and Mahayana practices and teachings around Quan Yin’s compassionate Bodhisattva Path. This includes mantras, chanting, and ceremony. The retreat concludes with a Quan Yin Compassion Ceremony.
In addition to Dharma talks, meditation instructions, and daily yoga sessions, there will be small group meetings with the teachers. |
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2021-11-19 (10 days)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2021-11-20
The Wise Body
48:43
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Dawn Mauricio
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This talk addresses in broad terms the first foundation of mindfulness. The main points include recognizing our innate wisdom and slowing down to listen to it.
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2021-11-22
True Peace Is Not Far Away
53:02
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Kittisaro
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The revelatory power of contemplating change, unreliability, and not self. What robs the heart of well being? Recognizing hindrances as teachers. Letting go.
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2021-11-23
The Interplay Between Samatha and Vipassana
47:28
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Kittisaro
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Calm and Insight; contemplating supports for samadhi (unification of heart). Vitakka (directed thought), vicara (exploring, receptive attention), piti (joy), sukha (ease). Guided Meditation through 16 steps of Anapanasati Sutta.
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2021-11-23
Inner Peace is Not Apart from Activism
53:12
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Thanissara
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The gift of the 4 Noble Truths in meeting the challenge of these times. A transmission of courage from Ajahn Chah. The profound impact of the Buddha's engagement with the world.
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2021-11-25
The Power of Dharma in Groundless Times.
53:04
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Thanissara
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The danger and opportunity in the dying of an old world. The curriculum of decolonizing internally & externally. The reclamation of an ensouled world. Dharma practice as essential for navigating the shifts of consciousness needed for radical re-orientation within a moment of evolutionary potential.
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2021-11-27
Reflections on the path of practice, Karma and Equanimity
50:47
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Gullu Singh
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on the last night of the retreat we reflected on the path of practice, the fruits that spontaneously emerge from practice, how are actions of body speech and mind, the Buddha called karma, influences everything. the talk ends with some reflections on equanimity and the skillful work we can do to balance our practice with where we are in terms of the three marks of existence.
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