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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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2015-10-16 Impulses Come From Ignorance 56:48
Guy Armstrong
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Ignorance is the first link in the chain of dependent origination. The talk explores how formations are conditioned by ignorance to create three levels of obscuration, and how the path of sila, samadhi, and pañña works through them to touch enlightenment.
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2015-10-15 The Experience Of Wisdom 60:22
Andrea Fella
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2015-10-13 The Sure Heart's Release - Part 1 - Dana 50:57
Kamala Masters
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2015-10-12 The Third Foundation of Mindfulness: Mindfulness of States of Mind 59:26
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 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 the 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 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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2015-10-11 An Independent Abiding 49:58
Greg Scharf
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2015-10-09 Seven Factors of Enlightenment 61:04
Guy Armstrong
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The Buddha pointed to seven meditative factors that when developed lead to liberation. This talk explains how the factors are developed, beginning with mindfulness and continuing through the arousing factors and the pacifying factors.
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2015-10-08 Perception and Papanca 53:51
Andrea Fella
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2015-10-08 Big Mind Guided Meditation 44:20
Guy Armstrong
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2015-10-07 Guided Metta 45:18
Kamala Masters
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Oneself, benefactor, dear friend and neutral person
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2015-10-05 The Second Foundation of Mindfulness: Feeling Tone 57:36
Sally Armstrong
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Vedana, or the feeling tone of pleasant, unpleasant or neither-pleasant-nor-unpleasant that arises with each 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 all of 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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