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Retreat Dharma Talks

Awakening our Natural Wisdom

One-week insight meditation retreat led by Greg Scharf and Jill Shepherd

2017-09-23 (8 days) Te Moata Retreat Center

  
2017-09-24 01 Instructions: beginning with mindfulness of the body and the breath, then opening to sounds 22:01
Greg Scharf
Beginning meditation instructions: mindfulness of the body, breathing, and sounds
2017-09-24 04 Talk: the suffering that leads to the end of suffering 45:56
Greg Scharf
An overview of the Four Noble Truths, and developing a wise relationship to suffering
2017-09-25 07 Instructions and guided metta meditation 45:16
Greg Scharf
Instructions and guided metta meditation for an "easy being"
2017-09-26 09 Instructions and guided meditation: vedana or feeling-tone 23:37
Greg Scharf
Introduction of vedana or feeling-tone
2017-09-26 12 Talk: Walking the Path 50:18
Greg Scharf
This talk uses the Noble Eightfold Path as a framework for understanding how practice unfolds
2017-09-28 16 Instructions and guided meditation: difficult emotions 23:14
Greg Scharf
Instructions on working with difficult emotions, using an expanded version of the RAIN acronym (recognise, accept, investigate, non-identification)
2017-09-28 19 Talk: The development of equanimity 52:32
Greg Scharf
2017-09-29 20 Instructions: Reflections on the Satipatthana Sutta refrain 18:04
Greg Scharf
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