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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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2018-07-21
21 Q&A
61:55
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Working with sexual energy (0:08); social justice in line with Dhamma (15:20); mindfulness, thinking, speaking & listening (35:03)
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2018-07-22
22 The Comfort Place Is Here
57:24
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The end of retreat provides the occasion to experience endings and separation. Check the tendency to rush into the future, the desire to get out of the uncomfortable and move towards the comfort zone. These boundaries of entering something unknown are important places to pause and notice what’s happening. The comfort place is here, don’t leave it. Feel the disturbances, and meet them with mindful and loving acceptance.
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2018-07-23
23 Closing Exhortation: Being Is First, Doing Is Second
27:58
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Ajahn Sucitto
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As soon as something comes to mind, the impulse is to do something about it. This is just blind. The most important piece is be something first. It shouldn’t take that long, just 10 seconds. Even if being something is being aware of confusion, aware of dukkha, drop into the center of your reactivity. Then awakened intelligence has the possibility to arise in the pause.
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