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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 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.

2022-09-13 (43 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

  
2022-09-23 Concentration 63:10
Guy Armstrong
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.
2022-09-25 The Dart: Understanding Vedana 54:08
Carol Wilson
2022-09-26 Morning Instructions 59:50
Carol Wilson
Intention
2022-09-26 Walking The Path 55:01
Greg Scharf
2022-09-27 Choiceless Attention 61:20
Guy Armstrong
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.
2022-09-29 Waking up from delusion 54:21
Sally Armstrong
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
2022-09-30 Seven Factors of Enlightenment 57:11
Guy Armstrong
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.
2022-10-01 Celebration 63:37
Monica Antunes
This talk is about practicing in ways that lead to ease, pleasure and joy: it is about cultivation and insight through celebration.
2022-10-02 Exploring Sense Of Self 50:49
Carol Wilson
De-mystifying the felt sense of self with steady awareness noticing birth and death of self many times per day
2022-10-03 Morning questions and answers 15:49
Carol Wilson
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