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Retreat Dharma Talks
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Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart
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| Our heart/mind gets clogged and soured by living in a situation of stress. Stress from performance drives and anxiety are a growing problem – they even affect spiritual and contemplative practice with goal-orientation and insecurity. All this leads to an obscuration of the potential for the heart: spaciousness, groundedness, and compassion. This retreat is aimed at putting us in touch with this fundamental resource, strengthening it, and integrating it into our lives. |
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2018-07-14 (10 days)
Madison Insight Meditation Group
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2018-07-17
11 You Don’t Stop Craving, You Stop Believing in It
68:20
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The mind is a dynamic process with a certain familiarity to it that seems to reiterate and get stuck in wanting and not wanting. Liberation from this begins with not getting involved with, tussling with or pandering to the habit of craving.
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2018-07-18
14 Allowing Innate Intelligence to Arise
55:03
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Two kinds of reflexes occur in the flow of experience: not knowing what to do and knowing what to do. Both are subject to suffering. Recognize that within experience there is an innate intelligence, clarity, refuge if we allow it to arise. Doing is guesswork; being is clearer.
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2018-07-19
17 Walking Instructions: Staying in Flow
4:20
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Ajahn Sucitto
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As we walk, we’re moving through the aggregates, through the field of mind as it opens with its senses of urgency, discord, worry. Sustain mobile mindfulness, walking through your psychological and emotional ‘weather’.
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2018-07-21
19 Careful Thinking to Be Cultivated for Wisdom and Release
37:44
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Used wisely thinking supports liberation. Through wise reflection we begin to understand the views and attitudes that give rise to afflictive thinking. But through patiently resisting acting on these creations, it’s possible to gain authority over one’s mind, rather than be caught in worldly currents.
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2018-07-21
20 Wisdom: Detox for the Heart
59:10
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Ajahn Sucitto
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One of the roles of wisdom is to continually check the toxic influences and open to what is here naturally. The unconditioned can be found through wise reflection and handling of the uncertain and unresolvable nature of conditioned experience. When we no longer resist it or feel agitated by it, the mind is released. The mind released shines in its own luminosity and that radiance gives the heart back its strength.
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