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Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

The Buddha's teachings offer a pathway to discover inner peace, freedom and the compassionate heart. Through understanding the way things are, we can come to know what it means to awaken in the midst of our life, to be deeply connected to our experience, and yet not bound by it. This silent retreat will focus on cultivating a quality of conscious presence that embraces our heart, mind and body with acceptance and wisdom.

2016-12-29 (10 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2016-12-29 Opening Talk 1:23:40
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Reflections on renunciation and letting go as a foundation for deepening practice and well-being.

2016-12-29 Opening Talk - Edited 51:10
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen

2016-12-30 Kayanupassana - Body Posture 1:43:24
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
The body as support for contemplation.

2016-12-30 Questions and Answers 31:06
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen

2016-12-30 Meditation and Letting Go 53:08
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Reflections on renunciation and letting go as a foundation for deepening meditation practice and wellbeing.

2016-12-31 Second Morning Instructions - Body Breathing 45:39
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen

2016-12-31 Abiding as and in and through body 60:41
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
What supports us to have the courage to abide more thoroughly and for our body to plump out with affectionate attention.

2017-01-01 Morning Instructions 53:26
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Mindfulness Of Body.

2017-01-01 Guided meditation on the full awareness of the breathing body 41:23
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen

2017-01-01 Preamble: A look at the causes for sleepiness. Main Theme: Saddhā – trust in the context of the 5 Cardinal virtues (pañcindriyāni) 59:04
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Identifying intellectual, volitional, emotional and social dimensions of trust. Balancing the virtues.

2017-01-02 On the role of hedonic tone (vedanā) in meditation. 47:16
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Reflections and an exercise.

2017-01-02 Guided metta meditation 45:58
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Abiding and pervading with attention to abiding "in" and "as" the bigger body of earth.

2017-01-02 Embracing our aliveness. 65:22
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen

2017-01-03 Morning Instructions 51:06
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen

2017-01-03 Reflections and Guided Meditation 38:36
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Reflections on the four universal forms of empathy (brahmavihāra) and a brief guided mediation on muditā

2017-01-04 Morning instructions and reflections. 51:49
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Deepening and opening to investigate Citta.

2017-01-04 Guided Meditation On Foregivness 40:14
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen

2017-01-04 Grasping and Identification (upādāna) 69:59
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Where the heart gets stuck. From the metaphor to its 4 specific applications.

2017-01-05 Morning Reflection 49:14
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen

2017-01-05 Guided Metta meditation. 45:20
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen

2017-01-05 Creativity of perception 61:18
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
We are an open system, nothing we do is inconsequential - including the ways we consciously or unconsciously conceive of, and perceive experience.

2017-01-06 Morning Reflection: 47:07
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
4 Dimensions of Mind-Cultivation (bhavanā) \| Attention and Mindfulness: Stages

2017-01-06 Acting from the courageous heart. 62:55
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Reflections on inner and outer activism: responding to greed, hatred, and delusion in the world from a place of courageous compassion.

2017-01-07 Closing Talk 68:15
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen