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Retreat Dharma Talks
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Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
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| This six-week partial of the three-month course is a special time for practice. Because of its extended length and ongoing guidance, it is an opportunity for students to deepen the powers of concentration, wisdom and compassion. Based on the meditation instructions of Mahāsi Sayadaw and supplemented by a range of skillful means, this silent retreat will encourage a balanced attitude of relaxation and alertness, and the continuity of practice based on the Buddha’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness. |
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2022-10-25 (43 days)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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2022-11-02
Faith and wisdom
43:11
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Kim Allen
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This pair of faculties – broadly speaking, the "heart" and the "mind" – can be harmonized such that our practice grows strong and balanced.
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2022-11-03
Guided loving-kindness meditation
44:32
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Brian Lesage
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This talk offers reflections on the importance of kindness for ourselves. This is followed by a guided meditation that includes receiving kindness, kindness for a benefactor, and kindness for oneself.
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2022-11-06
Right effort
51:14
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Jill Shepherd
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Exploring ways that effort can become unbalanced, some antidotes, and the Buddhas four-part definition of right effort in the noble eightfold path.
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2022-11-07
Thoughts and meditation
55:22
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Winnie Nazarko
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Is thinking/thought inside or outside of meditation practices? This talk explores how to consider thought, and how do use it to wake up
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2022-11-14
Deep roots of compassion
44:09
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Winnie Nazarko
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This talk reflects on the deep causes and conditions for what arises in our individual experience. This view supports an understanding of "not self" and compassion
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2022-11-16
Comparing mind
49:10
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Jill Shepherd
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An exploration of mana, comparing mind, and its roots in craving for becoming and non-becoming
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2022-11-23
Uplifting the heart
52:22
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Diana Clark
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The Buddha often waited until someone's heart and mind were "uplifted" before giving them transformative teachings. How might we use beauty as a support for our practice towards greater freedom/Nibbana?
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2022-11-27
Contemplation of impermanence and death
54:24
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Jill Shepherd
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Exploring practices from the first establishment of mindfulness that support insight into impermanence of the body, and some of the benefits that come from prractising maranasati, contemplation of our own mortality
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2022-11-28
Forgiveness
50:22
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Winnie Nazarko
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In meditation practice, particular places of hurt me arise repeatedly. These places may be is by mindful reflection on the theme of forgiveness and the wisdom of letting go.
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2022-11-30
Sila and the ending of suffering
54:04
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Diana Clark
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Ethical behavior promotes the ending of greed, hatred, and illusion. Nibbana be described as the ending of greed hatred and delusion. How is ethical behavior an essential an integral part of practice?
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