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Retreat Dharma Talks

Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

What does it mean to be present, connected, and awake? How do we experience true freedom of body, heart, and mind? This silent weekend retreat, open to all, is an opportunity to unplug and explore these questions through Buddhist philosophy and contemplative practices. Guidance in vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness) meditation will be offered, encouraging greater awareness, calm abiding, and open-heartedness. We will practice mindfulness in sitting meditation, walking meditation, and even while eating. Through these ancient practices, still relevant for modern times, compassion and wisdom deepen, and our innate freedom is revealed.

2024-08-30 (4 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

  
2024-08-31 Mindfulness: the rules of the game 57:57
Pascal Auclair
A few words on mindfulness, a guided meditation, and a few words on walking meditation
2024-08-31 Emotions and thoughts, Q&A 58:24
Anushka Fernandopulle
Developing awareness of mine states, and the field of mental objects, plus a Q&A
2024-08-31 Mindfulness: the power of taking care 48:36
Pascal Auclair
Instructions on mental noting, a guided meditation and a 20 minute talk on learning to take care of what's happening now, and now, and now.
2024-09-01 Feeling tone and reactivity 44:30
Anushka Fernandopulle
Recognizing "vedana" or feeling tone - of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral and habitual reactions
2024-09-01 Four objects worthy of your attention 63:50
Pascal Auclair
A short talk, a guided meditation and a Q&A
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