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Retreat Dharma Talks

Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

This three-month course, including its six-week partials, 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.

2023-10-24 (43 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

  
2023-11-12 Exploring Vedana 53:10
Jill Shepherd
Looking at the role of Vedanā in fueling reactivity, and ways to relate more skillfully to it; includes an exploration of worldly and UNworldly feeling-tones
2023-11-13 Liberation through non-clinging 63:00
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Mindfulness of the five aggregates of clinging can lead to freedom from clinging and letting go of conceit and wrong view
2023-11-14 Morning Instructions: words of encouragement 54:32  RO Talk is visible to Retreants Only
Brian Lesage
2023-11-14 Forgiveness/ Mercy guidedo meditation 51:10  RO Talk is visible to Retreants Only
Rebecca Bradshaw
Receiving mercy from an archetype or benefactor,
2023-11-14 Equanimity: finding balance, cultivating peace 57:16
DaRa Williams
Arriving home through the practice of equanimity
2023-11-15 Aging, illness, and dying 58:01  RO Talk is visible to Retreants Only
Shelly Graf
2023-11-16 Q&A session 50:09
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Questions about dealing with boredom/sloth and tupor. If there is no self in what is reborn
2023-11-16 The Conditionality of Nibbana 62:09
Tuere Sala
2023-11-17 Morning reflections and silent sit. 55:53
Tuere Sala
2023-11-17 Aversion 60:28
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discusses techniques to use with aversion, including feeling tone
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