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Retreat Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration

On this silent retreat, suitable for all, we will cultivate awareness in the stillness of sitting, as well as in all our general activities. This balance of simple yet continuous attention to the direct experience of the mind and body is a powerful foundation for the gradual development of meditative confidence and stability of mind, and for deep insights to arise. These transform our relationship to all life experiences. With awareness in the midst of our daily activities, we can recognize an enduring sense of well-being in every situation.

2016-08-05 (10 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

  
2016-08-05 Opening Talk: awareness, schedule, formal refuges and precepts 58:01
Steve Armstrong
2016-08-06 Morning instructions 53:03
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Easing gently into the retreat
2016-08-06 Attitude and awareness 56:38
Steve Armstrong
The path, The practice and the necessity of the right attitude as a foundation
2016-08-06 Reflections on the days practice 13:15
Steve Armstrong
Today we have spent our time wisely
2016-08-07 Morning instructions 41:57
Steve Armstrong
Attitude in awareness
2016-08-07 Embodiment and awakening 58:47
Mark Nunberg
Understanding mindfulness of body as a basis for liberating the mind
2016-08-08 Day three - guided meditation instructions and Q&A 58:56
Mark Nunberg
Awareness of body in attitudes of mind
2016-08-08 Trusting our experience 53:06
Deborah Ratner Helzer
The unfolding of our practice is a natural, organic process
2016-08-09 Morning instructions and Q&A 62:04
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Letting nature take it's course
2016-08-09 Understanding and working with the torments 59:14
Steve Armstrong
2016-08-09 Evening reflection– "Today we have lived a good life" 15:45
Steve Armstrong
Practicing the three trainings of the Noble Eightfold path effects restraint of the kilesas, awareness of obsessive kilesas, and understanding the latent kilesas.
2016-08-10 Morning instructions "Working with the kilesas" 60:54
Steve Armstrong
2016-08-10 Understanding pain 63:18
Mark Nunberg
How wisdom and seclusion allows for equanimity with the inevitable pain in life
2016-08-11 Day six – guided meditation instruction and Q/A 59:19
Mark Nunberg
Meditation instruction emphasizing awareness of the feeling tone
2016-08-11 The factors of awakening 61:12
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Working with wholesome mental states
2016-08-12 Morning instructions and Q/A 62:44
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Opening to awareness of wholesome mental states and ideas about self
2016-08-12 Four Noble Truths– Bedrock Buddha Dhamma 58:56
Steve Armstrong
2016-08-12 Evening reflection– Today we have live a Noble life 11:05
Steve Armstrong
2016-08-13 Morning instruction– Stop, wait, do nothing, Let awareness find you 61:23
Steve Armstrong
2016-08-13 Wholehearted engagement without attachment 63:15
Mark Nunberg
Review of the Buddha's gradual training in light of living in the world with wisdom
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