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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet
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| This retreat focuses on the embodiment of wisdom and compassion. Through the cultivation of samadhi (a gathering of our heart, mind and body energies), we establish a healing foundation for insight into our mistaken identification with patterns of self. As structures of the self are gently released from grasping and aversion, our heart knows the emptiness and peace of its original nature. Authentic, compassionate response and intuitive understanding arise, and the non-dual nature of emptiness and appearance is recognized. |
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2010-03-05 (10 days)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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2010-03-05
The Template and Blessing Chants
51:58
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Kittisaro
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Arriving into a retreat and working within limitation. Being more "here". Calling on the ancestors, devas and earth spirits to bless and protect as the boundary of the retreat is set.
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2010-03-06
How Is It Now?
41:49
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Thanissara
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Training in samadhi. Samadhi as healing. Gathering the three steams of energy, body, mental and heart into awareness. Gently training attention.
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2010-03-06
The Eight Streams of Blessings.
54:49
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Thanissara
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A gradual path. Practice as preparation. An alignment with refuge here and now. Sangha as the relational field. Beyond morality. The chanting of ethics.
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2010-03-07
Awakening
51:45
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Kittisaro
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Meeting ourselves. Limitations of success and sense pleasure. The great reversal. The Buddha's journey. Knowing pleasure, pain, and beyond. Return to the original brightness.
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2010-03-08
It Is Not As It Should Be.
40:55
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Thanissara
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Connecting with the actuality of body. Breath as a basis for samadhi. Cultivating support for stability here and now. Middle ground between pleasure and pain.
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2010-03-09
Dhamma As Nature
39:52
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Kittisaro
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Contemplating the nature of things. Transformation through seeing the nature of hindrance. Balance of samatha and vipassana.
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2010-03-10
Skill With Thought
32:54
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Thanissara
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Five skills to overcome obsessive and negative thought patterns. Skill in relationship with feelings. Working with "just this much".
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2010-03-10
Handful Of Leaves
54:15
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Thanissara
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A teaching for humans, suffering or its end. Asking the world to give us more than it can. Letting be, a gateway to Nibbana.
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