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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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2008-02-04 Morning Instructions 56:40	Download Listen
Morning Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat for MBSR & MBCT Professionals

2008-02-03 Morning Instructions 49:16	Download Listen
Morning Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat for MBSR & MBCT Professionals

2008-02-02 Gladdening The Heart 52:16	Download Listen
Loving kindness, generosity, appreciative joy and spaciousness are the cornerstones of a gladdened heart upon which our practice deepens.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat for MBSR & MBCT Professionals

2007-07-20 Nibhana 46:31	Download Listen
The 3rd Nobel Truth the Buddha describes as the heartwood of the path. This talk focuses on the insights and renunciations that liberate the heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Path of Liberation

2007-07-18 Intimacy, Acceptance And Release 45:25	Download Listen
In the path of liberating our hearts we learn to be intimate with all things. This talk focuses upon the power of aversion to create alienation and division and the power of mindfulness to uproot ill will.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Path of Liberation

2007-07-15 Wisdom Of Boredom 48:04	Download Listen
Boredom is one of the mental states most difficult to understand yet a familiar companion in our lives. Boredom has much o teach us about the sources of wakefulness and is a doorway to understanding calm and equanimity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Path of Liberation

2007-03-15 Intimacy, Acceptance, Release 45:40	Download Listen
Intimacy is the heart of mindfulness. This talk explores the power of aversion and the freedom from aversion.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Women In Meditation

2007-03-13 The Long Journey To A Bow 48:13	Download Listen
This talk explores Mana or the conceit of self that manifests as superiority/inferiority or equality
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Women In Meditation

2007-03-09 Opening Talk Woman's Retreat 47:58	Download Listen
A Background to this practice of Insight Meditation, Precepts, Beginning Instruction
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Women In Meditation

2007-03-07 Wisdom Of Disappointment 44:31	Download Listen
Disappointment is one of the hearts most frequent visitors. It can be a doorway to despair and bitterness or acknowledged as being the starting point of every a journey of liberation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Women In Meditation

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