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Retreat Dharma Talks
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
This six-week partial of the three-month course is a special time for practice. Because of its extended length and ongoing guidance, it is an opportunity for students to deepen the powers of concentration, wisdom and compassion. Based on the meditation instructions of Mahāsi Sayadaw and supplemented by a range of skillful means, this silent retreat will encourage a balanced attitude of relaxation and alertness, and the continuity of practice based on the Buddha’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness.
2019-09-10 (43 days)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
Describes ways to work with difficult emotions in general. Offers particular guidance on meditating with the states of desire, anger, self-judgment, grief, and fear.
This talk offers reflections on these important qualities on the spiritual path. It explores this by getting a felt sense of these through a poetic understanding of these terms.
This talk offers reflections on how reflecting on the inevitability of our death as well as the wonder of our birth establishes presence in a powerful and transformative way.
