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Retreat Dharma Talks

Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

This six-week partial of the three-month course is a special time for practice. Because of its extended length and ongoing guidance, it is an opportunity for students to deepen the powers of concentration, wisdom and compassion. Based on the meditation instructions of Mahāsi Sayadaw and supplemented by a range of skillful means, this silent retreat will encourage a balanced attitude of relaxation and alertness, and the continuity of practice based on the Buddha’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness.

2022-10-25 (43 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

  
2022-11-04 Exploring feeling tone 58:31
Rebecca Bradshaw
How mindfulness of vedana can break the chain of suffering – providing freedom from our automatic conditioning
2022-11-05 Being somebody and being nobody. 59:02
Brian Lesage
2022-11-06 Brief reflection on navigating fear 57:36  RO Talk is visible to Retreants Only
Brian Lesage
2022-11-06 Right effort 51:14
Jill Shepherd
Exploring ways that effort can become unbalanced, some antidotes, and the Buddhas four-part definition of right effort in the noble eightfold path.
2022-11-07 Thoughts and meditation 55:22
Winnie Nazarko
Is thinking/thought inside or outside of meditation practices? This talk explores how to consider thought, and how do use it to wake up
2022-11-08 Freedom through the practice of impermanence (anicca) 57:34
Bhante Buddharakkhita
The practice of impermanence can help us to overcome all kinds of cravings and experience freedom from suffering.
2022-11-09 Perception: distortions of it and training of it (perception) 52:32
Kim Allen
How we label our experience has it major impact on how much we suffer. We can train this function of mind to be wiser and less distorted
2022-11-11 Guided meditation: metta the neutral and difficult person 46:36
Kim Allen
After establishing metta with an "easy being" we can train the heart to offer goodwill to a person we do not know, and also to one who is challenging for us. Our hearts grow stronger as metta deepens and expands.
2022-11-12 The impulse for intimacy and the Dharma 53:25
Brian Lesage
2022-11-13 Liberation through non-clinging 46:56
Jill Shepherd
An exploration of the clinging aggregate of Saṅkhāra, volitional mental formations, and their role in constructing self-view
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