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Retreat Dharma Talks

Naturally Arising Ease, Awareness, and Insight

This retreat offers a potent new approach to Insight Meditation in which we open to enhanced capacities of knowing. After engaging in detailed preliminary practices to help us shift out of reactive tendencies of mind and establish genuine availability and embodiment, we’ll then utilize components of the “Nine Bodies of Consciousness” map to access multiple distinct knowing capacities, including intuitive awareness. This practice method fosters the natural arising of ease, awareness, and insight.

For those new to this practice method, which includes two detailed 60-minute guided meditations each day, we encourage you to get a feel for this practice by listening to guided meditations from our previous retreats. These can be found here.

This retreat will be held in noble silence except for the guided meditations, talks, and teacher-led practice support meetings. This retreat is not recommended for those experiencing acute grief or other strong mental or emotional challenges.

2025-05-01 (9 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
2025-05-03 Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:20
Tuere Sala
This talk explores the intersection between the hindrances and naturally arising ease.
2025-05-05 Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:03
Tuere Sala
This is a Nine Bodies Insight meditation exploring the Etheric body dimensions of consciousness.
2025-05-07 Faith: Illuminating the Dhamma for Lay Practitioners (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:29
Tuere Sala
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