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Retreat Dharma Talks
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Awakening the Pure Heart
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| This retreat invites you to explore insight and the awakening of the heart. Drawing on a traditional image of the mind being gently cleansed and brightened, we will learn to recognize and release difficult mindstates so that qualities like clarity, confidence, and kindness can naturally arise. |
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2026-05-26 (6 days)
Insight Meditation Community of Richmond
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2026-05-27
The Stained Mind and the Path to Clarity
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Marjolein Janssen
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Drawing on the Buddha's Simile of the Cloth (MN7), this talk explores how greed, aversion, and delusion stain the mind and obscure clear seeing. We look at how these defilements manifest in meditation and everyday experience, and how to meet them with awareness rather than resistance.
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2026-05-29
The Work Only You Can Do: Wisdom and Purifying the Heart
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Marjolein Janssen
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We often hope something outside us will do the purifying for us. The Buddha gently redirects: we need to do the inner work. This talk is based in the Simile of the Cloth sutta (MN7) and explores what that inner purification actually requires, and how wisdom makes it possible.
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