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Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

This silent meditation course for experienced practitioners will focus on deepening mindfulness and insight into being with oneself and others. Our guiding map will be the teachings on the Four Applications of Mindfulness (Satipaṭṭhāna), which enable us to tap into the wealth of practical wisdom from early Buddhist contemplative traditions. The teachers will offer gentle and precise training in unifying the mind, guiding us in establishing different modes of awareness and in metta (friendliness). These practices allow for quieting and strengthening the heart, and foster transformative insights, growth and integration.

2018-07-15 (8 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

  
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2018-07-15 Retreat Opening - Arriving and Settling In 51:00
Akincano Marc Weber
Setting up intention.
2018-07-16 Posture: Introduction To Body Contemplation 49:10
Akincano Marc Weber
2018-07-17 Introduction To Metta And Guided Metta Practice 45:17
Chris Cullen
For group, self, and benefactor.
2018-07-17 Flavors Of Not-Knowing 1:12:30
Akincano Marc Weber
Exploration of avija (not knowing) and moha (delusion). Phycological exploration of the hindrances.
2018-07-18 Guided Metta Meditation 47:05
Akincano Marc Weber
No Phrases - using images
2018-07-18 Compassion 60:38
Yuka Nakamura
Compassion is a central mental factor that we want to cultivate on the path. It is both the sensitivity to suffering and the wholesome intention and action to alleviate suffering. Compassion frees the heart from unwholesome mindstates temporarily, is the foundation of moral conduct and supports the unfolding of wisdom.
2018-07-19 Cittanupassana - contemplation of mind states: Background and guidance 51:11
Akincano Marc Weber
2018-07-19 Guided Metta Meditation 44:10
Yuka Nakamura
2018-07-19 Reflections On The Practice Of Anatta - Not Self 62:49
Chris Cullen
Some exploration of dimensions of "I-Making and My-Making", investigating dependent arising of selfing, ways of cultivating the perception "not self" the emptiness of all phenomena, and the im[portace of honoring the "relative self" and personal dimensions.
2018-07-20 Morning Instructions - Mindfulness of mind 50:16
Yuka Nakamura
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