Exploring Annicca (change), Dukkha (stress) and Anatta (not self), their relationship to one another, and the role they play in freeing the mind/heart.
Some exploration of dimensions of "I-Making and My-Making", investigating dependent arising of selfing, ways of cultivating the perception "not self" the emptiness of all phenomena, and the im[portace of honoring the "relative self" and personal dimensions.
Both Sayadaw U Jagara and Nikki Mirghafori share answers and reflections on pre-written questions: What’s the nutriment for equanimity and doubt? What is the difference between a cause and a condition? Explain anatta — If there is not a self, whose kamma gets reborn? Etc.
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 6: Non-grasping as the connection between anatta and Nibbana
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Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 5: short guided meditation cultivating compassion for oneself and others
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Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 5: A recap of how the five aggregates combine to form self, and how mindfulness and compassion can help reduce clinging to that self
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Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 4: An overview of the aggregates of perception, mental formations, and consciousness, plus a brief introduction to the Insight Dialogue guideline of Attune to Emergence
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 3: Investigating the three qualities of feeling-tone / vedana, how they can condition the three afflictive energies of greed, hatred and delusion, and how these can form into the three personality types
After clarifying further the fundamental practices of our retreat, particularly the three ways of seeing leading to liberating insight, we examine the third way of seeing—seeing anatta (or not-self). We focus less on understanding this way of seeing conceptually, and more on identifying two main ways of practicing—(1) opening to being mindful of the flow of experience, increasingly with a “thinned out” self or lack of self, and (2) noticing and being mindful of when there is a “thick” sense of self.
