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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

  
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2023-08-19 01 opening talks and guided meditation 53:38
Jill Shepherd, Elizabeth Day, Willa Thaniya Reid
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Welcome and orientation to the retreat structure and purpose, with guided standing and sitting meditation
2023-08-20 02 instructions: arriving, settling in to the body 64:23  VT Venue Teacher
Elizabeth Day
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Knowing the body in terms of the four elements; guidance for walking meditation at the end
2023-08-20 03 talk: the precepts as support for establishing the wholesome 23:15
Willa Thaniya Reid
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2023-08-21 04 instructions: Mindfulness of the body and mindfulness of breathing 50:29
Jill Shepherd
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Establishing a strong foundation of embodied awareness as an antidote to the tendency to be lost in the mind
2023-08-21 05 talk: the three refuges as support for overcoming the hindrances 26:40  VT Venue Teacher
Elizabeth Day
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2023-08-22 06 instructions: following the pathway of the breath 50:21
Willa Thaniya Reid
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2023-08-22 07 instructions: stabilising present-centered attention on the breathing 40:40  VT Venue Teacher
Elizabeth Day
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Discovering the loveliness of whole-body breathing
2023-08-22 08 talk: the four brahmavihāra as supports for releasing the hindrances 28:39
Jill Shepherd
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An overview of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity, and how they can be used as antidote to the hindrances
2023-08-23 09 instructions and meditation: exploring feelings or vedanā 55:41  VT Venue Teacher
Elizabeth Day
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Beginning with some definition of terminology, then practising with vedanā or feelings
2023-08-23 10 instructions and meditation exploring feeling-tone or vedanā 24:34
Jill Shepherd
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How feeling-tone conditions reactivity when there's no mindfulness, then exploring vedanā in relation to the sense doors of seeing, hearing and the body
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