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Retreat Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

This three-month course, including its six-week partials, 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.

2024-09-10 (43 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

  
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2024-10-06 The Fourth and Fifth Aggregates: Sankhara & Vinañña 55:52
Tara Mulay
2024-10-09 Suitable Ways of Meditation Practice : An Overview. 19:26
Jean Esther
These instructions include a brief overview of resting in the body as an anchor, as well as a beginning exploration of the relationship of thought and emotion followed by an introduction to open awareness practice.
2024-10-11 Dependent Origination: Identifying the Place of Power 61:40
Winnie Nazarko
This talks describes the Buddha's realization that all things arise and pass away because of causes and conditions. He saw specifically how suffering/dukkha came to be. Once he understood the causes of the arising of suffering, he was able to "reverse engineer" the process, and see how suffering could be brought to an end. He specifically pointed to the vedana (feeling tone) of experience as a specific arising to relate to wisely. On a larger scale, his teachings on the 8 Fold Path to end the clinging which causes dukkha to arise.
2024-10-16 Equanimity - Guided Brahmavihara 59:08
Kristina Bare
2024-10-18 The Gift of Letting Go 51:23
Kristina Bare
2024-10-19 The 5 recollections: Embracing impermance and letting go. 44:08
Devin Berry
Stories and reflections on the 5 recollections - embracing impermance, karma, and wisdom from the Upajjhatthana Sutta
2024-10-19 The 5 recollections: Embracing impermance and letting go. 0:00
Devin Berry
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Stories and reflections on the 5 recollections - embracing impermance, karma, and wisdom from the Upajjhatthana Sutta
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