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Retreat Dharma Talks

Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

In the Buddha’s teaching, going on retreat can be understood as a powerful form of “taking refuge,” by temporarily retreating from our external responsibilities to take care of our inner life.
The peaceful natural environment of Te Moata supports deep rest and renewal, which in turn, supports the strengthening of our inner resources, our connection with sangha/community and our capacity to live with more ease and freedom in whatever circumstances we find ourselves in.

2022-08-26 (10 days) Te Moata Retreat Center

  
2022-08-28 09 instructions: relational practice exploring mindfulness of the body 12:52  RO Talk is visible to Retreants Only
Jill Shepherd
Practising bringing awareness to physical sensations in the body
2022-08-28 10 talk: Five Hindrances 48:01  VT Venue Teacher
Di Robertson
2022-08-29 13 instructions: feeling-tone or vedanā part 2 20:54
Jill Shepherd
Beginning to deconstruct our experience into its component parts, beginning with sense contacts and feeling-tones, and seeing how these condition reactivity when there's no mindfulness
2022-08-29 14 meditation: standing, noticing feeling-tones 24:23
Jill Shepherd
2022-08-29 15 talk: An overview of the four brahmavihāra heart qualities 40:37
Jill Shepherd
kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity
2022-08-30 16 instructios: mindfulness of hearing 11:45
Jill Shepherd
Opening up the field of awareness from breathing, to physical sensations to receiving sounds
2022-08-30 17 meditation: mindfulness of hearing 29:55
Jill Shepherd
2022-08-30 18 instructions: mindfulness of mindfulness 6:50
Jill Shepherd
Bringing awareness to the quality of mindfulness itself, and changing to different "styles" of mindfulness to help the mind stay balanced.
2022-08-30 19 instructions: mettā practice 16:21  VT Venue Teacher
Di Robertson
An introduction to some of the different ways that mettā can be practised
2022-08-30 20 meditation: mettā for an easy being, oneself, then someone we care about 31:27  VT Venue Teacher
Di Robertson
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