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2015-10-12 The Third Foundation of Mindfulness: Mindfulness of States of Mind 59:26
Sally Armstrong
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In the third foundation of mindfulness, the Buddha instructs us to bring awareness and clear seeing to the contents of mind. In a nonjudgmental way, we are invited to be aware of whether the mind is affected by lust, ill will or delusion, and also when the mind is not affected by the states. Included in this practice are various experiences of concentration, expansion and contraction in the mind. The section ends by including awareness of the liberated mind, even if this is only a temporary experience. The thrust of this section is to notice the wholesome and the unwholesome qualities of the mind, and by that very noticing increase the wholesome and decrease the unwholesome.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-12 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 4 66:04
Mark Nunberg
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Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling

2015-10-11 Freeing Ourselves by Loving Ourselves 64:36
Tara Brach
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In this human realm, healing and spiritual realization are rooted in awakening a love for the life that is here. This talk looks at our habit of feeling we should be different than we are, and the ways that mindfulness and self-compassion help enable us to not only embrace our inner life, but bring genuine healing to others.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-10 Mindful Eating 7:58
La Sarmiento
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-09 Seven Factors of Enlightenment 61:04
Guy Armstrong
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The Buddha pointed to seven meditative factors that when developed lead to liberation. This talk explains how the factors are developed, beginning with mindfulness and continuing through the arousing factors and the pacifying factors.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-09 The Four Great Elements - the Four Great essentials 58:43
Marcia Rose
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How ultimately and mindfully connected are you to these most basic and universal experiences...your body in its elemental nature. This talk includes a guided meditation to put you in touch with the direct experience of the body as earth, water, fire and air elements
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-08 Morning Reflection: Feelings - Vedana 11:04
Marcia Rose
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Feeling of pleasant, unpleasant or neither pleasant nor unpleasant/neutral arise in response to every contact that comes through each of our sense doors. Feelings are what conditions our mind to try to hold on to the pleasant or push away,avoid or ignore the unpleasant. Mindfully observing feelings with more equanimity is a very helpful door to open our door way out of suffering
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-05 The Second Foundation of Mindfulness: Feeling Tone 57:36
Sally Armstrong
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Vedana, or the feeling tone of pleasant, unpleasant or neither-pleasant-nor-unpleasant that arises with each contact, was considered important enough by the Buddha to be a foundation of mindfulness, one of the five aggregates, and central to the teaching on dependent origination. It is also at the heart of the Dart Sutta in the Samyutta Nikaya, where the Buddha talks about the two common responses to suffering: to bemoan and lament the fact that suffering is happening, but often to try to avoid the unpleasant by chasing after the pleasant. This talk looks at all of these different teachings to help us understand the importance of bringing mindfulness to vedana in our practice and in our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-05 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 3 1:27:05
Mark Nunberg
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Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling

2015-09-28 Satipatthana Series - The first foundation of mindfulness: the body 59:36
Sally Armstrong
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In the Satipatthana sutta on the foundations of mindfulness, the first area of practice is the body. The Buddha gives us many different practices and ways to investigate the body. This talk explores these practices, beginning with the breath, but going on to other practices that we don't often teach, such as the four elements, the 32 parts of the body, and corpse contemplations. Each of these practices can be a powerful doorway to wise seeing and freedom. This talk is the first of a series of four on each foundation of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

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