Dharma Talks
given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Dolls, loss, love and the narrative cure. Kafka consoles a girl with a series of letters about a lost doll. An excursion into four different and indispensable tasks for any contemplative practitioner:
(i) Calming & stabilzing
(ii) Dis-identification and decentering
(iii) Deep Inquiry and thorough contemplative Investigation
(iv) The bigger Picture – gaining an universal perspective on the personal
Satipaṭṭhāna as map of experience.
Somatic - hedonic - affective - discursive 'raw-materials' in these four categories.
Relationship between these channels.
Citta and the particular challenges with the states of the mind as objects of practice.
Establishing a somatic vocabulary for your moods.
The ending of something as an easy connection point to citta-states.
Breakdown of types of ignorance in Buddhist teaching. Unpacking some of the terms avijjā and moha. Sketching their different use in the old texts despite their occasional synonymous use.
Excursions into conditionality.
