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Retreat Dharma Talks

Liberating and Compassionate Ways of Looking

In this retreat we attend to our heart-mind and body with sensitivity and curiosity. Cultivating the heart’s capacity for kindness and compassion, we inquire into the Buddhist teachings as liberating ways of looking. Compassionate and transforming perspectives, when wholeheartedly engaged with, will reduce suffering and unveil the potential of the human heart.

We discover how experience is shaped and co-created by our ways of relating to what is unfolding in our inner and outer life. Establishing and deepening this insight can open possibilities of seeing and understanding that allows us to explore new, liberating ways of experiencing ourselves and the world. We may also recognize unexamined, habitual ways to perceive and interpret, along with their accompanying limiting narratives, dynamics and beliefs. Questioning and loosening these, we can sense what is possible for our heart-mind, its receptivity, intuitive intelligence and sense of wonder.

Important note: Yahel Avigur, co-teacher on this residential retreat, is teaching remotely. His teaching is projected via a livestream in the meditation hall.

2024-10-11 (8 days) Gaia House

  
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2024-10-11 Opening Talk 1:22:05
Kirsten Kratz, Juha Penttilä, Yahel Avigur
2024-10-12 Earth Touching Practice 13:11
Kirsten Kratz
2024-10-12 Arriving on a Retreat, Turning Towards Kind Sensitivity 45:39
Yahel Avigur
2024-10-12 Attuning to Kindness - Instructions and Guided Meditation 30:31
Juha Penttilä
2024-10-12 'Mind Creates the World' - Approaching Practice & the Power of Perception 58:30
Kirsten Kratz
2024-10-13 Fanning the Embers of Metta 42:57
Kirsten Kratz
2024-10-13 Hindrances and the Thinking Mind - Instructions & Guided Meditation 41:43
Juha Penttilä
2024-10-13 Mettā and Samadhi 42:51
Yahel Avigur
2024-10-14 Nourishing Kindness 42:07
Yahel Avigur
2024-10-14 Seeing and Perceiving Impermanence 39:30
Kirsten Kratz
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