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Retreat Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

In this retreat we will explore the nature of awareness, or consciousness, which is at the heart of sentient life. Awareness is always with us, revealing the phenomena of our experience, yet we may not have learned how to use it as a focus in meditation. As we deepen our connection to this mysterious capacity for knowing, it becomes a powerful pathway to inner freedom and liberation.

2024-07-16 (10 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

  
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2024-07-16 Morning Instructions 59:46
Guy Armstrong
Choiceless awareness
2024-07-16 Opening evening 53:52
Jaya Rudgard, Sally Armstrong
Viveka/Seclusion. The different ways we practice seclusion when we come on retreat
2024-07-17 Morning guided meditation 56:50
Jaya Rudgard
Gathering and steading attention with body, breath, and sounds.
2024-07-18 Morning Instructions – hindrances in awareness practice 60:08
Sally Armstrong
2024-07-18 Guided Meditation: Metta, Friendliness 42:05
Yuka Nakamura
Metta for self and all directions.
2024-07-18 The Nature of Awareness, Part 1 61:51
Guy Armstrong
Sense consciousness is the simple knowing of a phenomenon at one of the six sense doors. Awareness is the broad field that includes all six types of sense consciousness. Awareness can be freeing when we see that it's empty.
2024-07-19 Working with the Hindrances in Awareness Practice 56:00
Yuka Nakamura
2024-07-20 Morning Instructions - Hindrances in Awareness Practice 57:21
Yuka Nakamura
2024-07-20 Guided meditation on compassion 51:43
Sally Armstrong
Compassion for self and all beings
2024-07-20 Reflections on "don't know mind" 59:58
Jaya Rudgard
Don't know mind, not-self, and the relationship of don't know mind to awareness practice
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