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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2015-10-19
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness
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Sally Armstrong
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The Satipatthana Sutta (usually translated as the Foundations of Mindfulness) offers a complete description of the practice of mindfulness, beginning with the direct awareness of the breath and the body, progressing through mindfulness of vedana or feeling tone, to the more subtle object of the Third Foundation, mindfulness of mind states. The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness represents the culmination of this series of practices, and can be seen as a direct pointing, again and again, to the possibility of freedom through direct awareness of where we get caught, and how to turn the mind towards liberation. This talk is an overview of the practices of the Fourth Foundation, which can be seen as both the last in the sequence of practices, and as a progression in itself. It also covers how the Fourth Foundation can be skillfully interwoven into our practice of the other foundations.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
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2015-10-19
Bowing to Instinct and Embracing Desire
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Leela Sarti
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A gnawing sense of incompleteness underlies much of our experience. Desire is thehuman response to the discontent described in the first noble truth.
Desire and human istinctual nature cannot be supressed, so what does it mean to bow
down to our nature and practice in a way that truly embraces the fact that we are
animals, with a hunger for life and experiences? We must learn to use desire, not be
used by it, but in our practice we have to take to heart that there is more to desire
than suffering. There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual and there is a drive
for trancendence that is implicit in the most sensual of desires.
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Gaia House
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Embodying the Awakened Heart
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2015-10-17
Noble View
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Leela Sarti
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How much of the time do we live in the dreamlike nature of thoughts and perceptions? Our sensory awareness tends to go to the external. The more we get clear about that
it becomes meaningful to stay in and with ourselves.
We have the capacity to see life in a clear and transparent way, that is aligned with the
depth of reality and makes our inner reality a sanctum and a sacred ground.
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Gaia House
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Embodying the Awakened Heart
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2015-10-12
The Third Foundation of Mindfulness: Mindfulness of States of Mind
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Sally Armstrong
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In the third foundation of mindfulness, the Buddha instructs us to bring awareness and clear seeing to the contents of mind. In a nonjudgmental way, we are invited to be aware of whether the mind is affected by lust, ill will or delusion, and also when the mind is not affected by the states. Included in this practice are various experiences of concentration, expansion and contraction in the mind. The section ends by including awareness of the liberated mind, even if this is only a temporary experience. The thrust of this section is to notice the wholesome and the unwholesome qualities of the mind, and by that very noticing increase the wholesome and decrease the unwholesome.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
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