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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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2025-04-05 Morning reflections – Different tools and practices. Different reasons for sleepiness and lethargy. 50:20
Akincano Marc Weber
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Relationship of different instructions to each other. Many spices, but we don't cook with all of them at once. Orientation: how to find out and recognize what's going in your mind. (Using the satipaṭṭhāna map) Relationship: a) getting reliably in touch with and b) learning to relate skillfully to the states. Shifting attention away from habits. Mindfulness does not mean 'no discernment' – it is quite capable on discerning what is wholesome and unwholesome.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-04 The five hindrances / nivarana 46:09
Thimo Wittich
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working with the five hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-04 Introduction and guided meditation on compassion 45:58
Yuka Nakamura
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-03 Three Friends: Appamada – Sati – Sampajañña 55:48
Akincano Marc Weber
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The interplay of three functions of the mind in helping the contemplative practice. Appamada – an attitude of care Sati - a relationship: mindfulness as creating presence Sampajañña – a value context
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-03 Brahmavihara Guided Meditation 41:49
Thimo Wittich
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Spreading the radiant qualities of the heart
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-03 Walking instructions: Mindfulness as an active and relational act. 6:42
Akincano Marc Weber
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The overstretching of the visual metaphor for mindfulness ('observe, witness, get in perspective, look at' can leave us with the (erroneaous) impression that mindfulness can only 'observe' and wait. Let's not turn mindfulness in the John Silver's parrot on our shoulder.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-03 Morning instructions: Mindful awareness and meeting physical pain in meditation. 41:59
Yuka Nakamura
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-02 Awake mind, wise mind. 62:05
Yuka Nakamura
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To bring attention to the right things in the right way is crucial for our path. Through the mindful contemplation of our experience we can gain insight and develop liberating wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-02 Brahmavihāra – Introduction to the four immeasurables. Guided Mettā Exercise. 40:46
Akincano Marc Weber
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The Four Immeasurables. Brahmavihāra are not mere emotions but constitute different tones of relational empathetic resonance. They constitute nothing less but our humanity. Brahmavihāras are cultivations not just 'states'. They are more than empathy but intentntional attitudes.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-02 Morning reflection: Cultivating voluntary attention: Relating to one's patterns, voices, habits. 44:21
Akincano Marc Weber
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The workings of not-knowing – the workings of attentional habits. Involuntary attentional patterns seem to govern much of our experience. Yet training is possible, training is needed. Such training entails acknowledgement, attentional tasks and specificity. Negotiating pain.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

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