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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2002-04-24 The Rapturous Ground Of Being 63:14
Ajahn Sucitto
Describes the “ground of being” as the enlightenment factors. Rapture is a key to the support and uplift of this ground.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-23 Body - Posture - Breathing 46:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Instructions on establishing the posture for full and easeful breathing. Instructions on maintaining awareness through breathing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-22 The Ground Of Relative Emptiness 68:28
Ajahn Sucitto
This ground is empty of hindrances, the underlying ground of the enlightenment factors. It is accessible through samatha practice, vipassana practice, or just in being present.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-22 It's Good To Be Home 64:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Presence, being totally here, is a shared and sharing experience. Before committing to the “doingness” of meditation, check in with the “here-ness.” It is the underlying home of awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-21 Layers Of Conditionality 1:10:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Our experience of identity can be classified on terms of bodily, emotive, cognitive processes/structures. The cognitive layer especially gets distorted with compulsions and judgements.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-20 Embodiment and Disembodiment 1:17:53
Ajahn Sucitto
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-20 Tonality As The Key To Awakening 60:55
Ajahn Sucitto
Overview of the process of awakening of which meditation forms a part - not the whole. All awakening processes are accompanied by a wholesome tonality.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-19 Opening Talk with Beginning and Ending Chanting 62:30
Ajahn Sucitto
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind

2002-04-12 The Four Great Efforts 46:15
Rodney Smith
Balancing between cultivating wholesome qualities and not pursuing them as ends in themselves is the art of Buddhism.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-04-11 Reflections On Emptiness 50:28
Christina Feldman
The Buddha described emptiness as the abode of the great person. It is an understanding, seen so clearly in nature, that is possible for us to see in our own nature.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

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