Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks from Retreats

New Year, New Beginnings

This four-day residential retreat is an opportunity to establish, maintain and deepen the practice of insight meditation through exploring a range of different techniques found in the Satipatthana Sutta, the Four Foundations of Mindfulness.

2017-01-04 (5 days) Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

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2017-01-07 11 Instructions: Mindfulness of Mind 13:34
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Bringing awareness to mental activity, and ways of reducing identification with thoughts

2017-01-07 12 Meditation: Mindfulness of Mind 28:13
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Starting with mindfulness of breathing, opening to physical sensations, sounds, thoughts, and emotions

2017-01-07 13 Instructions: Metta meditation 9:29
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An overview of how metta works with insight practice, and how to practice it for the category known as the benefactor

2017-01-07 14 Meditation: Metta for Benefactor 27:06
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2017-01-07 15 Talk: Seven Factors of Awakening, and Energy 45:31
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An overview of the Seven Factors of Awakening: Mindfulness, Investigation, Energy, Joy, Tranquillity, Concentration and Equanimity, then exploring the Factor of Energy in more detail

2017-01-08 16 Instructions: Integrating Practice Into Daily Life 14:45
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Cultivating equanimity and ways to continuing deepening the practice at home

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