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Christina Feldman's Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

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What I teach is a reflection of the constantly changing nature of my own practice. When I give a talk it is not a set agenda, but something that I've been reflecting about. The talks tend to be in rhythm with my own practice.

At the moment, I'm reflecting on the interplay of the personal and the non-personal, on aloneness and intimacy, on emptiness and embodiment. This process of reflection is a slow one. I hold a question in the background of my consciousness and then prepare to be surprised, to see what actually arises.

I enjoy the dharma a great deal. I try to convey that meditation practice is not a pathway of endlessly overcoming obstacles, but also a path of tremendous joy. It brings a great deal of profound truth to people's ability to find happiness. I have great faith in the Dharma, and a bottomless faith in people's capacity to be wise.

The ancient traditions of Buddhism are as relevant today as they were 2,500 years ago because people's capacity for getting themselves into trouble, for confusion, alienation and separation is not so different from Buddha's time. Vipassana, then and now, offers people an opportunity to transform themselves, and in so doing, transform the world around them.

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2009-07-19 Spaciousness 43:18	Download Listen
Spaciousness is both a cultivation and frution of wise mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-03-28 The Liberated Heart 44:27	Download Listen
The heart that is free from the painful aching sense of lack or incompleteness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : A Taste of Freedom: Insight Meditation Weekend

2009-03-27 Opening Talk 45:06	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : A Taste of Freedom: Insight Meditation Weekend

2009-03-25 Aloneness and Interconnectedness 43:57	Download Listen
These are the two pillars of freedom and compassion cultivated moment to moment in our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : 25th Anniversary of the Women’s Retreat

2009-03-23 The Practice and Fruition of Renunciation 41:27	Download Listen
Renunciation is taught in this tradition as the practice of happiness and freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : 25th Anniversary of the Women’s Retreat

2009-03-21 Spaciousness 51:22	Download Listen
Spaciousness, born of understanding the nature of contracted, is the climate of the heart prevaded with ease and kindness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : 25th Anniversary of the Women’s Retreat

2008-09-05 Wise Intention 51:07	Download Listen
Our intentions link us to the world, sharpen our thoughts, words actions. The intentions of renunciation Kindness and Compassion shape an ethical liberated heart and life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Engaged Mystic: Meditation for Life

2008-09-03 The Engaged Mystic 49:13	Download Listen
The Nobel 8 fold path is a path of awareness that embraces every dimension of our lives – it is the path to freedom and the embodiment of freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Engaged Mystic: Meditation for Life

2008-07-17 Compassion: The Heart Of Awakening Compassion Is Unconditional And Rests Upon A Profound Understanding Of Selflessness 52:21	Download Listen
The heart of awakening compassion is unconditional and rests upon a profound understanding of selflessness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-07-14 Liberation From The Inner Critic 50:07	Download Listen
Self judgment is deeply painful and suffocates the capacity for kindness and freedom. It can also be understood and released.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

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