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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat
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| Western nuns and monks from the Theravada monastic tradition teach each year at the Retreat Center. The 2017 course, open to all, will focus on holistic awareness – accessing an awareness that supports and balances the body, heart and mind. Retreatants are asked to observe the eight monastic precepts, which include abstaining from eating after noon each day, and to participate fully in the daily routine of silent sitting, standing and walking meditation. There will also be group meetings with the teachers.
Group practice will begin each morning with an offering to the Triple Gem, such as flowers, light (in the form of candles) and incense or water, as well as chanting. Along with the renunciation, the acts of offering and homage establish the heart-tone of the retreat. |
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2017-04-07 (9 days)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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2017-04-07
Going Forth - A Refuge
1:32:05
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Entering a period of silent retreat simulates the monastic 'Going Forth' with an aspiration to deepen our virtue, samadhi, and wisdom. We take Refuge in our highest spiritual potential as human beings, working from faith in our ability to do this; training and transforming the mind through good-will, wise reflection, and selflessness; and opening our hearts to offer that refuge and safety to others.
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2017-04-08
Puja: Entering The Sacred
53:57
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The sacred is a universal, impersonal but subjective mode of experience - of presence, openness, devoid of self-image. With "Puja" we resonate silence and enter it.
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2017-04-09
Puja: Yoga of Voice, Yoga of Heart
25:57
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Chanting helps to open the body and energize emotional sensitivity. As our voices merge in the group there is harmony. The art of praising a venerable figure uplifts the heart.
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2017-04-09
Channels For Release
64:31
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Mindfulness can be sustained through a neutral act of observing visual, listening auditory or feeling in ones body. The latter is useful for emotions and psychological afflictions that cannot be opened.
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