| This nine-day retreat provides an opportunity to explore different aspects of the Buddha’s teachings on Nibbana, also translated as Awakening, Enlightenment, Liberation, or Freedom. The freedom that is being pointed to here includes freedom from afflictive states such as anger, fear, sadness, greed; and freedom to live with more ease, happiness, and authenticity.
We will use a variety of practices from the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, alongside the four brahmavihara heart practices of kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity, to directly experience these different aspects of freedom for ourselves. |
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2019-08-24
02 instructions: mindfulness of eating
7:32
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Jill Shepherd
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Short instructions on the practice of mindfulness of eating, noticing responses at all six sense doors including the mind, and any reactions of liking or disliking
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2019-08-25
07 talk: Befriending the Mind
51:57
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Jill Shepherd
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An exploration of ways that we commonly struggle with our mental activity, how wisdom and compassion can help release the struggle through practising with the Third Establishment of Mindfulness, Mindfulness of the Mind, and understanding the three characteristics of anicca-dukkha-anatta
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