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Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

Western nuns and monks from the Theravada monastic tradition teach each year at the Retreat Center. The 2014 course, open to all, will focus on holistic awareness – accessing an awareness that supports and balances the body, heart and mind.

2014-04-13 (9 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2014-04-13 Refuge As A Direct Experience 27:02
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Refuge as a return is our most valuable resource - awareness from this place come intentions that enrich us.

2014-04-13 Refuge As A Direct Experience -- RECOVERED 64:41
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Refuge as a return is our most valuable resource - awareness from this place come intentions that enrich us. Copy of http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/9/talk/22908 with recovered audio

2014-04-14 Puja; Lifting, Opening the Heart 23:13
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Praying is a way of lifting and opening the heast. It is a kind of offering. A skill that enables the meditator

2014-04-14 Entering the Process Of the Dharma Through Breathing 49:59
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The Buddha's right view is that there is no "thing" only process. The breathing is a supremely skillful process that supports happiness and freedom

2014-04-14 Ripening spiritual Authority: The Five Indriya 1:15:50
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Indriya "faculties" have innate potential for awakening. Details are given on how they are to be developed and combined

2014-04-15 Opening The Field Of The Refuge 41:51
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Faith in awakening is the heartfelt initiator of the practice. It envisions that the process of Dharma is beautiful in the beginning, the middle - the end

2014-04-15 Out of the Compulsive world 50:46
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The effect of the social structures pressures our sensitivity and has to be dissolved. We do this through real organic breathing

2014-04-15 Movement, Mirrors and Balance 49:47
Ajahn Jayanto	Download Listen
Finding balance and consistency in using the stuff of life to learn how the heart moves and deepens the practice

2014-04-16 Where is the Buddha? And where am I? 23:21
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Using a devotional form catalysis a heart energy that is relational. This rather than any image is Buddha"

2014-04-16 Questions and Answers 56:19
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2014-04-16 Q&A 1:26:32
Ajahn Sucitto, Ajahn Jayanto, Ajahn Metta	Download Listen

2014-04-17 The Signless Gates Of Liberation 18:27
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Liberation is signless not a sensation, emotion or thought. The gates are signless, desirelessness and emptiness. "uncertainty" is the approach to these gates.

2014-04-17 Framed By Awareness 56:32
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Our mind /body is held in the grip of kamma, framed by anxiety, grief and other forms of dukkha. Mindfulness replaces this frame with clear, emphatic awareness.

2014-04-17 Evening Chanting and Dharma Talk - Count Your Blessings 52:34
Ajahn Metta	Download Listen
Reflections on patience. How can we develop patience in our practice and in our everyday life situations.

2014-04-18 Guided Meditation On Standing 30:17
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The session deals with subtle bodywork - moving breath through the abdomen, chest and head

2014-04-18 The Thermals Of Awakening 53:51
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The supportive factors of meditation build up to a rising current that carries the mind to greater clarity, confidence and collected samadi

2014-04-18 Heart Body 42:36
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Reflections on body contemplation and loving kindness.

2014-04-19 Out Of the Orphanage 64:46
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Citta (awareness, mind psyche) needs skillful "attachment" to be healthy - upright-the basis for liberation. To be motivated towards this - is healthy motivation - not craving

2014-04-19 There Is Aging 42:06
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Reflections on the process of aging, how it effects us, finding ways of using awareness and mindfulness to make this process conscious

2014-04-20 The Way Out Of Suffering, Stress 65:32
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There are emotions that support the way out of dukkha. These can be summarized as basic clarity, basic heart and basic strength

2014-04-21 Reflections On The Triple Gem 45:04
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Themes for daily reflection to set up Dharma practice everyday

2014-04-21 Closing Talk and Ceremony 68:57
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