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2018-06-03 08 short talk: five aggregates, mindfulness and compassion 19:19
Jill Shepherd
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Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course Week 5: A recap of how the five aggregates combine to form self, and how mindfulness and compassion can help reduce clinging to that self More info here: https://jill0shepherd-insightmeditation.com/2018-05-six-week-study-course-exploring-anatta/
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2018-05-27 07 short talk: The aggregates of perception, mental formations, and consciousness 13:05
Jill Shepherd
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Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course Week 4: An overview of the aggregates of perception, mental formations, and consciousness, plus a brief introduction to the Insight Dialogue guideline of Attune to Emergence
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2018-05-20 06 short talk: three qualities of feeling-tone or vedana, three afflictive energies and three personality types 14:17
Jill Shepherd
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Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course Week 3: Investigating the three qualities of feeling-tone / vedana, how they can condition the three afflictive energies of greed, hatred and delusion, and how these can form into the three personality types
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2018-05-16 Not-Self (Anatta) in the Context of the Three Ways of Seeing Leading to Liberating Insight (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:26
Donald Rothberg
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After clarifying further the fundamental practices of our retreat, particularly the three ways of seeing leading to liberating insight, we examine the third way of seeing—seeing anatta (or not-self). We focus less on understanding this way of seeing conceptually, and more on identifying two main ways of practicing—(1) opening to being mindful of the flow of experience, increasingly with a “thinned out” self or lack of self, and (2) noticing and being mindful of when there is a “thick” sense of self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing and Spacious Awareness Retreat

2018-05-13 05 guided dyad (pairs) practice exploring the impermanent and not-self nature of the body 17:17
Jill Shepherd
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Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course Week 2: guided dyad (pairs) practice, exploring physical sensations in the body (three minutes each), then an example of a time when you became aware of the body's impermanent, unreliable and not-self nature
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2018-05-13 04 short talk: dukkha and an overview of the five aggregates 24:11
Jill Shepherd
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Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course Week 2: Dukkha as the second of the three universal characteristics; its relationship to the five "clinging-aggregates" and ways that we commonly cling to or identify with the body
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2018-05-13 03 short guided meditation: mindfulness of the body and physical sensations 15:13
Jill Shepherd
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Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course Week 2: A 15 minute guided meditation focus on mindfulness of the body and physical sensations
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2018-05-10 Maranasati: "If My Life Is for Rent...Nothing I Have Is Truly Mine." 57:25
Nikki Mirghafori
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Three fruits of maranasati practice are discussed: 1) Preparing for our moment of death with fearlessness and peace. Topics of Near Death Experiences (NDEs) and rebirth are presented with a don't know mind. 2) Living THIS limited, precious life fully, with gratitude, forgiveness, generosity and letting go. 3) Awakening, liberation, nibbana -- Maranasati is a practice towards liberation, arising insights into the three marks of existence (anicca, dukkha, anatta).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Contemplating Death/Awakening to Life (Maranasati Retreat)

2018-05-06 02 short talk: anatta or not-self 13:11
Jill Shepherd
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Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course Week 1: A short introduction to anatta or not-self
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2018-05-06 01 short talk: context of the three universal characteristics, anicca, dukkha, anatta 16:21
Jill Shepherd
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Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course Week 1: A brief overview of the three universal characteristics of anicca / impermanence, dukkha / unsatisfactoriness, and anatta / not-self
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2018-05-06 00 short guided meditation: mindfulness of body and breathing 15:45
Jill Shepherd
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Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course A 15 minute guided meditation as preparation to start the course
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2018-03-28 Things Are Not What They Appear 4: The Emptiness of Self 59:18
Donald Rothberg
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After a review of our first three sessions, exploring three ways that “things are not as they appear,” we explore how there is typically a sense that we are given a world of solid, separate individual beings and objects . We focus here on the counter-understanding related to selves and beings, that the nature of the self is “empty,” as developed in the teaching of anattā or not-self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-11-09 "We are all Connected: Interconnectedness Within and Between Us" 62:58
James Baraz
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The Buddhist concept of Anatta points to the fact that there is no separate self to whom life is happening. We are inter-connected. This talk explores different levels of this truth. As individuals, biologically we are not one being but rather a complex ecosystem comprised of many different beings. We are connected to each other through our relationships. And we are societal creatures who form groups. In the best of conditions those groups sometimes create an extraordinary field where the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2017-10-05 Anatta: The Dukkha and The Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:14
Susie Harrington
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How we create, reify and cling to self. How this is a source of Dukkha and how we can find our way to freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-10-04 From Samadhi Practice to Insight Practice 61:48
Donald Rothberg
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After some further examination of the nature of samadhi practice, we look at the “three ways of seeing that liberate,” focusing especially on impermanence (anicca) and dukkha, with some attention to not-self (anatta)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-09-21 Full Awareness of the Body 48:26
Anushka Fernandopulle
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Understanding meditation practice in the context of dharma. Reflections on how the body (and our dinner) is created from conditions. Exploration of impermanence (anicca) and not-self (anatta) teachings in reference to the body, soup & spoons.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body

2017-09-13 Talk: anatta not-self and the five aggregates subject to clinging 51:34
Jill Shepherd
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Not-self or anatta and an overview of the five aggregates subject to clinging
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-07-28 You Are Not What You Think (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:08
Howard Cohn
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Understanding Anatta and Self View: seeing the difference between ourselves and our views of ourselves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation as a Path to Freedom

2017-07-19 The Dharma in the Holy Land 1 1:12:08
Donald Rothberg
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In the first of two talks reflecting on just returning from five weeks of teaching and traveling in Israel/Palestine, we start to explore two themes: (1) identity in the context of Buddhist teachings about anatta and Donald's experience of being with many people in Israel with very similar East European Jewish ancestry; and (2) how to understand, be with, respond to, and transform unresolved and tragic historical trauma and suffering, found both with Jewish Israelis and Palestinians both in Israel and the occupied territories. A second talk will continue this exploration.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2017-06-15 Anatta - Meditation Instructions Day 6 1:23:05
Nathan Glyde
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Exploring the sense of self and identity through the Buddha's strategy of Not-Self
SanghaSeva :  Opening to Awareness

2017-04-25 Emptiness and Not Self (Anatta) 54:03
Martine Batchelor
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Gaia House :  Son Retreat

2017-03-30 Day 6 - Ways of Looking - Anatta, not self 59:17
Zohar Lavie
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Instructions in the hall - bringing awareness to the interconnected nature of all phenomena and their lack of inherent self existence
SanghaSeva :  Dharmalaya Silent Retreat

2017-03-15 Liberative Dependent Arising: Knowledge and Vision of Anatta 64:19
Phillip Moffitt
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  March Monthlong Retreat

2017-01-06 Day 6 Meditation Instructions - Anatta Way of Looking (Not-Self) 57:22
Nathan Glyde
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SanghaSeva :  Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-05 06 Talk: Three Universal Characteristics and the Five Hindrances 52:00
Jill Shepherd
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The purpose of insight as seeing clearly into the three universal characteristics of anicca - impermanence, dukkha - unsatisfactoriness, and anatta - not-self, and how the five hindrances of sensual desire, ill will or aversion, sloth and torpor, restlessness and remorse, and sceptical doubt get in the way of clear seeing
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  New Year, New Beginnings

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