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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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2025-01-03 Seeing is Believing 63:06
Catherine McGee
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Our ways of looking are shaped by our views, our patterns of attention, our emotional states, inclinations, intentions and more. Working with these factors we can participate in seeing and sensing the self, others and the world in ways that are onward leading. This talk includes extracts from a practice diary working with a difficult sankhara that was shaping and coloring the perception.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2025-01-03 Metta loving kindness for our own body and all bodies 43:56
Yanai Postelnik
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2025-01-03 Morning reflection on Contemplation of mind states (cittānupassanā). 52:40
Akincano Marc Weber
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Citta – at the heart of our experience. The wonders and challenges of the beast. Examples of things Buddhists happily disagree with each other.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2025-01-02 Vulnerability and Openness 66:04
Yanai Postelnik
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Reflections on the reality of our human vulnerability and the invitation to embrace this.
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2025-01-02 Reflections on vedanā (hedonic tone) and guided practice 43:39
Akincano Marc Weber
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Hedonic tone (vedanā) as a feature of human experience is the major factor in governing involuntary attention – vedanā rules much of our attention. The reflections unpack the role of feeling tone on attention, intention and the cultivation of mindfulness. Learning to cultivate attention beyond gratification and avoidance and to uncouple attention from pleasant or unpleasant feeling tone.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2025-01-02 Practicing with Vedena 58:35
Catherine McGee
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Morning Instructions day 4.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2025-01-01 Kafka – Love, Loss and the Satipaṭṭhāna 68:20
Akincano Marc Weber
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Kafka and the girl with a lost doll. Satipaṭṭhāna and Suttas in general – a little history. Satipaṭṭhāna as a cartography of human expericence: the 'raw materials' to establish mindfulness in. (This is not the satipaṭṭhāna as exercise but their use as a map of the somatic, hedonic, affective and discursive aspects of mind.) This orientation helps greatly with the actual practice of satipatthana exercises outline elsewhere.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2025-01-01 In whose gaze your defenses drop 43:21
Catherine McGee
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Practicing resting in and receiving the loving attention of a loving figure.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2025-01-01 Meditation instructions - sustaining attention and meeting the challenges/hindrances 42:10
Yanai Postelnik
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2024-12-31 Samadhi : part 1 62:29
Catherine McGee
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“As you call into the first, so the first answers’ How to approach your mediation object
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