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Retreat Dharma Talks
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Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties
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| In Buddhist practice, confidence, energy, mindfulness, collectedness and insight are cultivated together as the five spiritual faculties (Indriya). These qualities exist naturally in the mind and have both a linear and dynamic interplay. By developing them in meditation practice, we more clearly understand what needs balancing in both our meditation and overall spiritual cultivation.
When all five faculties are brought to fulfilment they overflow in the heart’s release. A heart released from suffering and its causes has an embodied realisation of Nibbāna: freedom from the stress inherent in misunderstanding the world. |
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2025-02-21 (10 days)
Te Moata Retreat Center
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2025-02-22
03 meditation: Arriving more fully here
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Jill Shepherd
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Settling in to the body sitting, breathing, balancing the overall energy through the rhythm of breathing in and out
Closing with short instructions for maintaining continuity of mindfulness
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2025-02-22
04 talk: Taking the Refuges and Precepts
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Jill Shepherd
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Introducing the five indriya, focusing on the first one, confidence or trust, and how taking refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha and committing to the five precepts helps strengthen inner confidence
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