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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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2022-10-01 Celebration 63:37
Monica Antunes
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This talk is about practicing in ways that lead to ease, pleasure and joy: it is about cultivation and insight through celebration.
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2022-09-30 Seven Factors of Enlightenment 57:11
Guy Armstrong
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The sequential development of the factors of enlightenment beginning with mindfulness, leading to the arousing factors, then to the pacifying factors. Keeping a special eye on mindfulness, energy, and concentration to keep the factors balanced.
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2022-09-29 Waking up from delusion 54:21
Sally Armstrong
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We often hear about and experience the suffering caused by greed and aversion, yet delusion, the third of the kilesas, or torments of mind, is in some ways a more fundamental cause of suffering because if we weren’t deluded, we wouldn’t believe that by grasping or pushing away we could avoid suffering. The challenge with delusion is its very definition is that we do
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2022-09-27 Choiceless Attention 61:20
Guy Armstrong
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Mahasi Sayadaw taught this style of meditation in which any object that arises in our experience can be the momentary focus of mindfulness, including breath, sensations, sounds, emotions, thoughts, and so on.
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2022-09-26 Walking The Path 55:01
Greg Scharf
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2022-09-26 Morning Instructions 59:50
Carol Wilson
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Intention
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2022-09-25 The Dart: Understanding Vedana 54:08
Carol Wilson
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2022-09-23 Concentration 63:10
Guy Armstrong
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Concentration as a unification of mind brings stability of attention and is the foundation for liberating insight. Benefits of Samatha and vipassana. What blocks concentration and how to develop it in the retreat setting.
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2022-09-23 Morning instructions and guided meditation 58:45
Greg Scharf
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Bringing mindfulness to thoughts and thinking
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2022-09-22 The Judging mind 59:57
Sally Armstrong
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Many of us have a tendency to be critical and judgmental of ourselves and others. In meditation, this habit can seem quite strong and can create a lot of suffering. But mindfulness is a wonderful tool to enable us to see these thoughts for what they are, so we can begin to bring wisdom and understanding to them. The good news is, like any conditioned habit, we can learn to decondition this pattern.
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