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Retreat Dharma Talks

Two-week insight meditation retreat

A two-week retreat for experienced meditators led by Willa Thaniya Reid, Elizabeth Day and Jill Shepherd, combining approaches from the Thai Forest and Western Insight traditions.

2023-08-19 (15 days) Te Moata Retreat Center

  
2023-08-27 21 reflection: establishing new pathways 9:18
Willa Thaniya Reid
2023-08-27 22 talk: Coming into Presence 29:45  VT Venue Teacher
Elizabeth Day
2023-08-28 23 reflection: Third Establishment of Mindfulness, citta or heart-mind 26:37
Willa Thaniya Reid
2023-08-28 24 reflection: The importance of steady and refined mindfulness 35:27  VT Venue Teacher
Elizabeth Day
2023-08-28 25 talk: Exploring the Awakening Factors 31:11
Jill Shepherd
An overview of the seven awakening factors of mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy (pītī), tranquility, samādhi and equanimity, and how these work together to support conducive conditions for insight to arise
2023-08-29 26 talk: An overview of the Five Clinging-Aggregates, based on the Phena Sutta 34:30
Willa Thaniya Reid
2023-08-30 27 meditation: exploring the insubstantiality of experience 52:25
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with physical sensations, knowing them as impermanent and insubstantial, then opening to sounds and mental activity; simply recognising experiences being known, without identifying with them as I, me, or mine
2023-08-30 28 talk: Encouragement of what's possible 26:59  VT Venue Teacher
Elizabeth Day
2023-08-31 29 reflection: Release the grip; come into full awareness 19:29
Willa Thaniya Reid
2023-08-31 30 talk: An overview of the Noble Eightfold Path 35:57
Jill Shepherd
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