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2015-09-02 Tracking experience 1:11:54
Patrick Kearney
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We examine the central activity of satipaṭṭhāna, that of anupassanā, or “tracking” experience over time. We do this by unpacking the sentence, “Here a bhikkhu, surrendering longing and sorrow for the world, lives tracking body as body … feeling as feeling … heart/mind as heart/mind … phenomena as phenomena, ardent, clearly understanding and mindful.”
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-02 Tracking the thought-stream 65:19
Patrick Kearney
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A fundamental principle of satipaṭṭhāna practice is to take what distracts us, what prevents us from practising, and make it our meditation object. Here we look at using the thought-stream as meditation object. We learn how to attend to the process of thinking rather than get caught up in the contents of our thoughts.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-31 Mindfulness of breathing 1:13:47
Patrick Kearney
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We look at the section in Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta where the Buddha speaks of mindfulness of breathing (ānāpāna-sati). We look at the development of the practice from natural awareness to mindfulness to understanding to training to sensing to calming, and we see how the nature of breathing itself transforms as our relationship to it develops.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-30 The one-way street & nibbana - Introducing satipatthana 64:43
Patrick Kearney
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We introduce satipaṭṭhāna, the way of mindfulness. More than just a meditation technique, satipaṭṭhāna represents a way of practice that is a “one-way street” (ekāyana magga) leading direct to nibbāna. We examine the meaning of nibbāna, looking at it both cognitively and affectively. And we discuss the relationship between the practice of tracking experience over time, and nibbāna itself.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-07-01 Reflection: 4 Satipaṭṭhāna channels as a map of experience – identifying them in our experience. 34:04
Akincano Marc Weber
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Sati as attuned attentional relationship. Two dimensions of training mindfulness: (i) temporal continuity (ii) spatial stability. Preferences and inclinations of meditators for one above the other are natural but need challenging. Instructions for a day's practice of kāyānupassanā.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-06-25 Reflection-Quick overview of Satipaṭṭhāna-channels. 44:14
Akincano Marc Weber
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The predicament of mind trying to understand itself; meditation as hopeful but messy business.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-06-24 Reflection: Mapping specific tasks for individual Satipaṭṭhāna channels - Instruction cittānupassanā Questions 48:12
Akincano Marc Weber
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Why body? Purpose and role of body contemplation practices.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-06-16 Bhāvanā & Satipaṭṭhāna: Sketch of the 4 Channels of experience 47:45
Akincano Marc Weber
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Bhāvanā–"Calling into being“ - Satipaṭṭhāna as Orientation
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-05-26 Continua of Practice: The Unified Mind 56:01
Rodney Smith
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In the Third Foundation of the Satipatthana Sutta the Buddha asks us not to weigh in and attempt to change or alter the mind no matter what its current disposition. “Notice,” the Buddha says, “When the mind is delusional or not, confused or not, etc.” He does not encourage us to change the mind, just to notice how it is regardless of its configuration. What is the Buddha trying to show us in this instruction?
Seattle Insight Meditation Society :  Continua of Practice Series
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  • The Unified Mind by Rodney Smith (PDF)

2015-04-04 Satipatthana - Orientation - Breath - 5 Qualities (morning instructions) 39:56
Akincano Marc Weber
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Gaia House :  Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

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