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Retreat Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

Three Month - Part 1

This six-week partial of the three-month course 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 Mahasi 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.

2014-09-13 (43 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

  
2014-09-14 Retreat Opening 49:14
Carol Wilson
Taking the refuges and precepts
2014-09-15 Opening Meditation Instructions 42:29
Joseph Goldstein
2014-09-15 Unpacking Right Mindfulness 56:08
Andrea Fella
2014-09-16 Morning Meditation Instructions 44:30
Carol Wilson
2014-09-17 Meeting The Five Hindrances With Mindfulness 56:10
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Guided Meditation on the five hindrances; sense desires, ill-will, restlessness and worry, sloth and torpor and doubt
2014-09-17 Why We Practice: The Wisdom of Seeing Impermanence 55:26
Joseph Goldstein
2014-09-19 Faith: Giving Confidence For Our Path 56:04
Carol Wilson
2014-09-20 Morning Meditation Instructions 60:11
Joseph Goldstein
Working with thoughts
2014-09-21 Mindfulness Of the Five Hinderances 59:23
Bhante Buddharakkhita
The practice of mindfulness of the five hindrances can help to understand their impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and impersonal nature and thereby experience freedom
2014-09-22 Guided Meditation On Pain 60:06
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Meeting pain with mindfulness is a very skilful way of understanding the true nature of unpleasant physical sensation.
2014-09-22 Body and Mind 60:22
Andrea Fella
An exploration of mental and physical experience through the teaching of the aggregates
2014-09-24 Morning Meditation Instructions 62:13
Winnie Nazarko
Some examples of how things can be noted when practicing "open awareness". Response to a question about "trying" in meditation
2014-09-24 Viriya: energy strength and courage 57:26
Joseph Goldstein
Perseverance and effort
2014-09-25 Holy Curosity 56:49
Winnie Nazarko
The role of investigation (Dhammavicaya) in opening wisdom, which liberates the mind. a description of the way investigation happens in teacher/retreatant interviews
2014-09-26 Morning Meditation Instructions 59:20
Joseph Goldstein
Understanding intention
2014-09-26 Guided Meditation On Forgiveness 60:54
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Forgiveness does not mean condoning others evil or unskillful behaviors, but it does mean letting go of the emotion connection of feeling hurt and wounded.
2014-09-26 Understanding Dukkha: The First Noble Truth 58:00
Carol Wilson
2014-09-27 Guided meditation 59:32
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Mindfulness of the body feelings, emotions, thoughts, and hindrances.
2014-09-28 The Five Aggregates of Clinging 57:01
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Understanding the five aggregates of clinging from moment to moment of our experience can open the door to peace, happiness and freedom.
2014-09-29 Patience 57:34
Andrea Fella
2014-09-30 Metta Pratice: Self, Benefactor and Friend 44:19
Andrea Fella
2014-10-01 Q & A - Discussion 59:25
Joseph Goldstein
2014-10-02 The Seduction of Doubt 58:00
Winnie Nazarko
The hindrance of doubt is difficult to recognize and if unseen can derail meditation practice. How to see doubt and practice skillful relationship to it.
2014-10-03 Guided Metta Meditation 1:12:43
Winnie Nazarko
Guided metta meditation with 'neutral' person being added to self, benefactor and friend. Initial comments plus Q&A
2014-10-03 Concocting sense of Self: An Exploration 58:55
Carol Wilson
2014-10-05 The How of Happiness 60:51
Bhante Buddharakkhita
The Noble Eightfold Path provides and indispensable frame work for cultivating true happiness, inner peace and ultimate liberation
2014-10-06 Investigating Mindfulness itself 59:44
Andrea Fella
2014-10-07 Guided Metta Meditation 48:27
Joseph Goldstein
Working with Neutral Person
2014-10-08 The Buddha's Journey 56:36
Joseph Goldstein
How the Buddha's Life journey relates to our own.
2014-10-09 Compassion and Not-Self 48:54
Winnie Nazarko
A discussion of the truth of Not-Self and how we can see it in our own direct experience. How this seeing comes out of compassion and supports it.
2014-10-10 Instructions for Metta for the Difficult Person 55:30
Erin Treat
2014-10-10 Purifying Mind and Heart 62:26
Carol Wilson
How all aspects of the path are tools to support transforming the habits of our consciousness.
2014-10-11 Gratitude and Generosity 48:28
Erin Treat
2014-10-12 Transforming Fear Into Freedom 61:44
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Through mindfulness and wisdom (understanding) we can transform fear into freedom.
2014-10-13 Perception and Papanca 60:02
Andrea Fella
2014-10-15 2nd Noble Truth 57:27
Joseph Goldstein
Three kinds of craving
2014-10-17 Wisdom and Compassion 61:22
Carol Wilson
Wisdom needs compassion, compassion needs wisdom; mindfulness cultivates both.
2014-10-18 Equanimity 51:19
Erin Treat
2014-10-19 The Third Nobel Truth 61:39
Bhante Buddharakkhita
The practice of mindfulness of fetters (mental defilements)
2014-10-20 The Experience Of Wisdom 63:06
Andrea Fella
2014-10-21 Big Mind - Guided Meditation 47:23
Joseph Goldstein
2014-10-21 Guided Metta Meditation 46:22
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Expanding our hearts and minds to embrace all beings in the world
2014-10-23 Happiness At the Happiness Of Others 49:25
Winnie Nazarko
A description of the beautiful quality of Mudita (appreciative joy) and how it can be developed
2014-10-24 Poems from the first Buddhist Nuns 55:16
Carol Wilson
Poems as translated by Susan Muscott in The First Buddhist Woman
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