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2015-09-17 Working with Emotions in the Body 53:54
Christiane Wolf
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Hands-on description on working with anxiety, a physician's take on the 32 parts of the body practice, all 4 satipatthanas grow from here.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body

2015-09-08 The fourth satipatthana 69:05
Patrick Kearney
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Tonight we explore the fourth satipaṭṭhāna, that of tracking dharma or dharmas (dhammānupassanā). Tracking dharma (singular) involves learning the conceptual framework that gives meaning to the experiences we undergo. We learn to read our experience. When experience means something, then it can transform our life. Tracking the dharmas (plural) entails learning to perceive our experienced world as no more than a flow of phenomena, that arise and cease dependent on conditions. This represents the maturity of insight into not-self (anattā).
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-07 The three satipatthanas 1:18:37
Patrick Kearney
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We survey the first three of the four satipaṭṭhānas, here translated as “foundations of mindfulness” or “domains of mindfulness” – the places where we station our mindfulness. These are body (kāya), feeling (vedanā) and heart/mind (citta). We see these domains represent a linear progression from less to greater ethical sensitivity; and we also see how feeling holds the practice together.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-05 The insight chorus - Part 1 - Impermanence & emptiness 67:17
Patrick Kearney
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We look at the first three sentences of the chorus of Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, where the Buddha explains the arising of insight (vipassanā). We examine “tracking body as body internally and externally,” where the assumed boundary between self and other begins to dissolve. Then we look at how the practitioner opens into the perception of impermanence – “tracking the nature of arising and ceasing as body.” Finally, we examine the entry into emptiness, where the practitioner is mindful that “body is,” for understanding (ñāṇa) and continuous mindfulness (paṭisati).
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-02 Tracking experience 1:11:54
Patrick Kearney
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We examine the central activity of satipaṭṭhāna, that of anupassanā, or “tracking” experience over time. We do this by unpacking the sentence, “Here a bhikkhu, surrendering longing and sorrow for the world, lives tracking body as body … feeling as feeling … heart/mind as heart/mind … phenomena as phenomena, ardent, clearly understanding and mindful.”
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-02 Tracking the thought-stream 65:19
Patrick Kearney
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A fundamental principle of satipaṭṭhāna practice is to take what distracts us, what prevents us from practising, and make it our meditation object. Here we look at using the thought-stream as meditation object. We learn how to attend to the process of thinking rather than get caught up in the contents of our thoughts.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-31 Mindfulness of breathing 1:13:47
Patrick Kearney
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We look at the section in Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta where the Buddha speaks of mindfulness of breathing (ānāpāna-sati). We look at the development of the practice from natural awareness to mindfulness to understanding to training to sensing to calming, and we see how the nature of breathing itself transforms as our relationship to it develops.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-30 The one-way street & nibbana - Introducing satipatthana 64:43
Patrick Kearney
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We introduce satipaṭṭhāna, the way of mindfulness. More than just a meditation technique, satipaṭṭhāna represents a way of practice that is a “one-way street” (ekāyana magga) leading direct to nibbāna. We examine the meaning of nibbāna, looking at it both cognitively and affectively. And we discuss the relationship between the practice of tracking experience over time, and nibbāna itself.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-07-01 Reflection: 4 Satipaṭṭhāna channels as a map of experience – identifying them in our experience. 34:04
Akincano Marc Weber
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Sati as attuned attentional relationship. Two dimensions of training mindfulness: (i) temporal continuity (ii) spatial stability. Preferences and inclinations of meditators for one above the other are natural but need challenging. Instructions for a day's practice of kāyānupassanā.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-06-25 Reflection-Quick overview of Satipaṭṭhāna-channels. 44:14
Akincano Marc Weber
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The predicament of mind trying to understand itself; meditation as hopeful but messy business.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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