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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
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| 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 Mahasi Sayadaw and supplemented by a range of skillful means, this retreat will encourage a balanced attitude of relaxation and alertness, and the continuity of practice based on the Buddha’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness. |
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2010-09-11 (43 days)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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2010-09-30
Metta
63:40
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Carol Wilson
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Metta, or loving kindness can develop to a powerful force in out hearts and minds. We only need to start where we are, feeding non-hatred in our minds rather than putting our trust in the habits of fear and ill will.
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2010-10-01
The Factors of Awakening
63:18
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Guy Armstrong
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The Buddha talked often of seven factors that prepare the mind for awakening. Headed by mindfulness, the factors are balanced between energizing and calming states. This talk discusses each of the factors, how they are developed, and how to balance them.
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2010-10-07
Unentangled Knowing
60:27
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Guy Armstrong
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Upasika Kee talks about finding in meditation an “inward-staying unentangled knowing.” This talk describes what this means in terms of dependent arising and offers three approaches to meditation that specifically aim at this kind of relationship to sense experience.
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2010-10-08
Simplicity Of Non-Reactive Mind
59:51
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Carol Wilson
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Luang Pu Dun defines the second noble truth as the mind that goes out to satisfy its moods, and the result that comes from the mind going out to satisfy its moods is suffering, - the first Noble Truth is the result of this! This talk describes how the mind can get lost in thoughts and create suffering.
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2010-10-09
The Buddha's Question
66:27
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Winnie Nazarko
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The Buddha's life provides insight into the nature of his search, and the framework he used to explain his findings - The Four Noble Truths.
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2010-10-14
Courage and Compassion
63:43
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Carol Wilson
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The natural flow of a retreat - of life - is expansion and contraction. We suffer when we identify with any aspect as being mine or me.
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