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Retreat Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC

2025-02-06 (8 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

  
2025-02-08 Peace in the Presence of the 5 Hindrances 1:46:10
Jean Esther
When we bring mindfulness and non-identification to difficult mind states such as the hindrances they become less of an obstacle and more of doorway to freedom.
2025-02-09 Lovingkindness Practice 44:11
Éowyn Ahlstrom
Reflections and Guided Practice on Lovingkindness
2025-02-09 Joy 37:51
Chas DiCapua
Understanding Worldly and Unworldly joy. How they are different and what each leads to.
2025-02-10 Meditating with Emotions 69:56
Chas DiCapua
How to relate to emotions in a way where we are neither pushing them away, or being lost in their content.
2025-02-10 Metta Practice for Neutral Person & Difficult Person 46:21
Jean Esther
We expand or awareness of our interconnectedness as humans when we practice Metta for both the "Neutral Person" and the "Difficult Person". Sometimes the Difficult Person can be ourselves. The end of this Guided Practice offers a compassion practice for oneself.
2025-02-10 What Faith Means in our Practice and How it Can Support Us 44:19
Éowyn Ahlstrom
Faith Doesn't mean blind beliefs; rather it means growing confidence in the way things are, including our ability to practice well.
2025-02-11 Morning Instructions: Working with Thought 60:23
Jean Esther
When we begin to see the arising and passing of thought as not me, not my, and not mine, there is room loosen the grip of grasping and aversion. We can begin to see thought truly as one of the six sense doors.
2025-02-11 Three Characteristics 51:55
Chas DiCapua
Descriptions of the three characteristics and the role they play in the Buddha's path to awakening.
2025-02-12 Loving Kindness Practice 35:26
Chas DiCapua
Using the directional method for spreading Loving Kindness outwards.
2025-02-12 The 8 Fold Path as a Practice for Living our Lives 54:44
Jean Esther
A General Over View of the 8 fold Path with particular emphasis on Ethical Conduct (Sila) in relation to others in our world.
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