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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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2017-10-08 Third foundation of mindfulness 59:49
Sally Armstrong
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In the third foundation of mindfulness, the Buddha instructs us to bring awareness and clear seeing to the contents of the mind. In a nonjudgmental way, we are invited to be aware of whether the mind is affected by lust, ill will or delusion, and also when the mind is not affected by these states. Included in this practice are various experiences of concentration, expansion, and contraction in the mind. The section ends by including awareness of the liberated mind, even if this is only a temporary experience. The thrust of this section is to notice both the wholesome and the unwholesome qualities of the mind and by that very noticing increase the wholesome and decrease the unwholesome.
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2017-10-06 Meeting Dosa with Mindfulness and Wisdom 62:42
Carol Wilson
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2017-10-06 Guided Loving Kindness For Neutral Person 49:33
Sally Armstrong
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2017-10-05 The Five Aggregates Are Not Self 62:23
Guy Armstrong
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The five aggregates describe our whole human experience without reference to an "I" or "my". It is freeing to see in this way without the burden of self.
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2017-10-03 Practice As A Path Of Happiness - Part 2 64:11
James Baraz
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Continuation of the last talk: using intention, mindfulness, difficulties, and gratitude as supports to greater well being in practice.
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2017-10-02 Arousing and Balancing The Five Spiritual Faculties 61:21
Bhante Buddharakkhita
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When the five spiritual faculties are balanced. one can progress faster on the path to peace, happiness and final liberation.
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2017-10-01 Second foundation of mindfulness 59:51
Sally Armstrong
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Vedana, or the feeling tone of pleasant, unpleasant or neither-pleasant-nor-unpleasant that arises with each sense contact, was considered important enough by the Buddha to be a foundation of mindfulness, one of the five aggregates, and central to the teaching on dependent origination. It is also at the heart of the Dart Sutta in the Samyutta Nikaya, where the Buddha talks about the two common responses to suffering: to bemoan and lament the fact that suffering is happening, but often to try to avoid the unpleasant by chasing after the pleasant. This talk looks at these different teachings to help us understand the importance of bringing mindfulness to vedana in our practice and in our lives.
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2017-09-30 Seven Factors Of Awakening 49:31
John Martin
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2017-09-29 Perception, Papañca, and Sakkaya Ditthi. 57:51
Carol Wilson
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The process of perception feeding proliferation of thought can create the magic show of personality show.
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2017-09-29 Guided Metta Meditation 34:55
Bhante Buddharakkhita
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Radiating Metta toward your friend can help to build a stronger connection between oneself and others.
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