Retreat Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
|
Three-Month Retreat - 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. |
2017-09-12 (43 days)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
|
|
|
2017-09-26
The Dharma As A Path Of Happiness
62:26
|
James Baraz
|
|
With so much focus on suffering and the end of suffering, it's sometimes easy to forget this is a path of happiness. The Buddha was called the happy one. This talk presents the teachings held in that perspective.
|
2017-09-28
First and Second Noble Truths
60:17
|
Guy Armstrong
|
|
The First Noble Truth of suffering is to be fully understood. The Second Noble Truth says that the origin of suffering is craving, which is to be abandoned.
|
2017-10-01
Second foundation of mindfulness
59:51
|
Sally Armstrong
|
|
Vedana, or the feeling tone of pleasant, unpleasant or neither-pleasant-nor-unpleasant that arises with each sense 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 these different teachings to help us understand the importance of bringing mindfulness to vedana in our practice and in our lives.
|
|
|