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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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2018-07-15
04 Walking Instructions: Can You Move without a “There”?
7:36
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Our walking is generally to get “there,” which carries with it a certain quality of distress. Instead, try walking without a “there”. Check the mental constructions of destination- including a ‘spiritual’ one - instead pay attention to how the body walks. It’s more peaceful that way!
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2018-07-15
06 Using Thought for Recollection
38:20
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Dhamma practice is generally marked by a tangle of thoughts. But thought can be used for recollection. Taking words into the heart, we consider what has meaning, what serves as refuge, setting distractions aside.
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2018-07-16
07 Posture and Breath for Chanting
21:21
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Chanting begins with opening the belly, chest and throat. Posture and relaxation help clear blocked areas so the heart tone of chanting can vibrate and deepen through the body. [9:50 – 21:30 breathing and voice exercises]
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2018-07-16
09 Don’t Resist the Disorientation Experience
53:01
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Ajahn Sucitto
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On retreat there can be disorientation – new people, place, restrictions that weren’t there before. Disorientation is a tough medicine, but we use it to meet the boundary of the habitual self with its instinct to ‘make things go my way'. Stay with the discomfort, so that the mind changes direction: to the settled ground, through the body.
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2018-07-16
10 Discerning Your Way Through Systems
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Ajahn Sucitto
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One of the fundamental obstacles for unawakened beings is the attachment to systems and customs. Rather than a habit of a system or technique in meditation, rely on organic human intelligence. Discern what is skillful and unskillful, necessary and unnecessary. Keep paring away what’s not needed and dwell in what remains. Something is waiting to meet you – a certain stillness and firmness of the spirit.
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