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2018-10-11 Whole Life Practice 28:48
Kim Allen
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Gregory Kramer's 5 tenets of making the Dharma a whole life practice.
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-10-11 06 Day 2 Pausing before “the Next” 8:20
Ajahn Sucitto
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Transitions points are an opportunity to train one’s reflexes to return to the base – the ground as fundamental orientation. At the moment of reflexive response, pause. The reflex isn’t good or bad, just pause and check it as a habit of training. It can be helpful to rise into a bodily response rather than habit reactive responses. Whatever our intention or purpose can be more measured.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-11 Heart Meditation - Mudita (Joy) 34:35
Sebene Selassie
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-10-11 Cracking the Code on Suffering: Vedana 52:15
Anushka Fernandopulle
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Exploration of feeling tone and our habitual reactivity. Guided practice and explanation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness and Heartfulness for Insight and Liberation

2018-10-11 05 Day 2 Morning Instructions: Bear in Mind – You’re a Threesome 61:50
Ajahn Sucitto
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The verbal, heart and body fields are mutually affected. Of the three, body doesn’t lie and is the one that can discharge stress. Refer to how experiences of the heart and mind arise in the body with disengaged awareness. Learn to release stress when it arises, and acknowledge the patterns of behavior that generate it. [52:00 Begin Walking Instructions] Notice the Parts that Don’t Seem to Be Doing: The whole body is walking. Some parts are doing, some are receiving – they’re part of the field of awareness and sensitivity. The parts that don’t seem to be doing are helping to discharge stress.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-11 04 Standing Meditation: Standing to Promote Energy Movement 17:45
Ajahn Sucitto
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Use the standing form to establish alignment in an upright posture that allows energy to move through stuck places. [10:27 transition to sitting posture]
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-11 03 Day 2 Pāli Pronunciation 15:01
Ajahn Sucitto
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Ajahn Sucitto provides an overview of Pāli pronunciation to aid with chanting. [5:00 Begin Morning Chanting]
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-11 02 Day 2 Morning Puja: Recollection and Chanting 48:07
Ajahn Sucitto
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We can use pūjā and chanting as a means for connecting with the heart in a meaningful way, to recollect values in a slowed down process of mind: What am I rising up to? Inclining towards? What’s important for me? The Buddhist convention is to recollect the Triple Gem – drop below personhood to something more fundamental and universal.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-10 The Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:43
Chas DiCapua
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A description of each noble truth, their relationship to each other, especially the first two, and their relationship to freedom from suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness and Heartfulness for Insight and Liberation

2018-10-10 01 Day 1 Opening: An Attitude of Practice Rather than a System 47:16
Ajahn Sucitto
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Rather than rely on a system, cultivate an attitude towards practice. Systems have uses, but can eventually curtail what we’re trying to drop into. Part of the theme of this retreat is about recognizing some of the stressful systems that get built into our minds around speed and progress – and awakening out of them. [24:06 Begin Guided Meditation] Establishing Ground and Space through Breathing: We can use the body as a channel to settle the mind. Use the out-breath to ground, use the in-breath to lift. These two together give you a form with a distinct foundation and uprightness to it.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

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