Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks from Insight Meditation Society

Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

The Buddha's teachings offer a pathway to discover inner peace, freedom and the compassionate heart. Through understanding the way things are, we can come to know what it means to awaken in the midst of our life, to be deeply connected to our experience, and yet not bound by it.

This retreat will focus on cultivating a quality of conscious presence that embraces our heart, mind and body with acceptance and wisdom. Insight meditation practice will be supported by instructions, lovingkindness meditation and regular meetings with the teachers.

2010-12-28 (10 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2010-12-29 Awakening To What? 54:10
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
What is awakening? What do we awake to? What do we awake from? What allows for awakening to unfold.

2010-12-31 To Trust In Being 56:01
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Discovering how to rest in being requires us to examine the compulsive doing activity through which we seek to establish our worthiness and identity. Trusting where we are, we can come to rest in the wide-open nature of aliveness.

2011-01-01 Stitching Our Life Into Wholeness. 47:42
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
This talk explores the definitions power and impact of mindfulness.

2011-01-03 The Heart Of Silence 59:28
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
What stands out to us in silence. What is our relationship with silence. What about the silence itself? What is it actually?

2011-01-04 Big Mind/Heart Meditation 46:55
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Citta - mind heart is open like silence, like space. Guided meditation resting in the sky like nature of mind.

2011-01-04 Being Part Of It All 56:28
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
To deeply realize that we are inextricably a part of a vast web of life, we are invited to open to a deeper inner connection, and to recognize that we are not different to all that is around us.