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Retreat Dharma Talks
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Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long
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| An extended period of retreat offers the rare opportunity for sustained and dedicated practice. This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing profound clarity and depth of insight practice. Instruction will follow the traditional four foundations of mindfulness combined with training in lovingkindness and compassion, through a daily schedule of silent sitting, walking, dharma talks and interviews.
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2012-02-01 (29 days)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2012-02-02
What is Mindfulness?
54:27
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Sally Armstrong
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Even though we talk a lot about mindfulness, we often don't fully understand what the Buddha meant by "samma sati" or right mindfulness. This talk explores samma sati and also "sati-panna"-mindfulness wisdom: the wisdom that naturally develops when we pay attention.
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2012-02-04
Awareness and Wisdom
56:16
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Carol Wilson
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Wisdom arises naturally when there is a steady momentum of "pure" awareness. That is, when the mind is not colored by views based in greed, aversion or bewilderment. Learning to recognize and trust this natural process is a keystone of the practice.
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2012-02-06
Patterns of Becoming 1: Introduction
62:29
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Guy Armstrong
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The first of a series of talks exploring how the sense of self is generated over and over, creating patterns of limitation and unease; how mediation practice shows us the release from these cycles.
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2012-02-08
This Precious Opportunity
63:24
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James Baraz
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Suffering can lead to contraction and more suffering or can be a catalyst for awakening. Just why and how some people have the good karma to hear the Dharma and practice is a mysterious blessing and precious opportunity.
This talk explores the different temperaments that fuel practice, known as the Four Iddhipadas.
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2012-02-11
Patterns of Becoming 2: The Five Aggregates
60:41
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Guy Armstrong
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The second in a series of talks explores the formation of self through the five aggregates, a list which describes our total human experience. The Buddha talked about the activities of "I-ing" and "my-ing" as creating a self view around each one of the aggregates.
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2012-02-14
Compassion and Mindfulness
60:14
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Carol Wilson
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The Dalai Lama has said that compassion develops through a deep insight into and understanding suffering. The difficult times we go through on retreat are a wonderful opportunity to explore the possibility of compassion in relationship to our own experience.
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