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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
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| 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 Mahāsi 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. |
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2022-09-13 (43 days)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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2022-09-14
Morning Instructions
55:32
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Guy Armstrong
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Introducing the modified meditation instructions from Mahasi Sayadaw, beginning by choosing an anchor in breath, body posture, or sounds.
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2022-09-15
Samma Sati
60:38
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Sally Armstrong
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What is mindfulness, and what was the Buddha talking about when he encouraged us to practice it? Right mindfulness, or Samma Sati, develops wisdom and understanding, decreasing unwholesome states of mind, and increasing wholesomeness.
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2022-09-16
Mindfulness of Breathing
56:52
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Guy Armstrong
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The foremost meditation practice in the Theravadan tradition. There are many benefits and also some potential obstacles in this practice.
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2022-09-22
The Judging mind
59:57
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Sally Armstrong
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Many of us have a tendency to be critical and judgmental of ourselves and others. In meditation, this habit can seem quite strong and can create a lot of suffering. But mindfulness is a wonderful tool to enable us to see these thoughts for what they are, so we can begin to bring wisdom and understanding to them. The good news is, like any conditioned habit, we can learn to decondition this pattern.
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2022-09-23
Concentration
63:10
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Guy Armstrong
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Concentration as a unification of mind brings stability of attention and is the foundation for liberating insight. Benefits of Samatha and vipassana. What blocks concentration and how to develop it in the retreat setting.
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2022-09-27
Choiceless Attention
61:20
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Guy Armstrong
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Mahasi Sayadaw taught this style of meditation in which any object that arises in our experience can be the momentary focus of mindfulness, including breath, sensations, sounds, emotions, thoughts, and so on.
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2022-09-29
Waking up from delusion
54:21
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Sally Armstrong
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We often hear about and experience the suffering caused by greed and aversion, yet delusion, the third of the kilesas, or torments of mind, is in some ways a more fundamental cause of suffering because if we weren’t deluded, we wouldn’t believe that by grasping or pushing away we could avoid suffering. The challenge with delusion is its very definition is that we do
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2022-09-30
Seven Factors of Enlightenment
57:11
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Guy Armstrong
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The sequential development of the factors of enlightenment beginning with mindfulness, leading to the arousing factors, then to the pacifying factors. Keeping a special eye on mindfulness, energy, and concentration to keep the factors balanced.
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2022-10-01
Celebration
63:37
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Monica Antunes
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This talk is about practicing in ways that lead to ease, pleasure and joy: it is about cultivation and insight through celebration.
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