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2020-02-23 Mindfulness of Breathing 11:37
Ajahn Sucitto
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Mindfulness of breathing is the gathering of attention around a process that is flowing and fluid. The steady and suffusive quality of breathing eases tensions in the heart and mind. The thinking process quietens down and external sights and sounds don’t impinge allowing the natural qualities of the heart become more apparent.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal

2020-02-22 Whatever the Content, Establish the Container 35:19
Ajahn Sucitto
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Mindfulness replaces self as the container and arbiter if experience. Self finds it difficult to be with the disagreeable, the crazy, the chaotic, the out of control. Self searches for success, and dreads failure. Mindfulness can handle real life: no success, no failure.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal

2020-02-21 Streaming vs Clinging (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:27
Tempel Smith
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We are in an ever changing universe, yet conventionally don't understand this. Mindfulness brings us so much intimacy with things as they truly are that we wake up to this streaming nature. We have to let go of old habits of clinging to align with the stream we are in.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong

2020-02-15 Instructions and guided meditation practicing mindfulness of breathing 32:35
Jill Shepherd
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Settling into retreat by beginning with mindfulness of breathing, to steady the awareness before we move into Metta practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Strengthening the Heart: Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-02-14 Vedana-The 2nd Foundation of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:34
Tempel Smith
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In every moment of subjective experience there is a quality of pleasure, displeasure or neutrality. Bring mindfulness to the quality of Vedana trains us how not to add suffering when pain arises or pleasure fades.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong

2020-02-14 Day 13 Morning Meditation Instructions - Mindfulness of Vedana and Intention (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:22
Tempel Smith
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From the basis of our simple practices we can include mindfulness of how intentions and actions arise in reaction to what is pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral (vedana). The unconscious actions we take in response to vedana are the conditioning circumstances for our suffering. It behooves us to raise awareness to how our reactivity to vedana further conditions our patterns of craving, aversion, and ignorance.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong

2020-02-13 Self Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:27
Beth Sternlieb
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Compassion - Mindfulness, Kindness and Our Common Humanity
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong

2020-02-13 Hold the Heart Steady against the Push of Ill-Will 43:56
Ajahn Sucitto
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The general mode is to change the outside world to please the heart, but this can never satisfy. We practice instead to change the heart, to make it strong enough to withstand the push of ill-will. Refuges include the Triple Gem, brahmavihāras, mindfulness of body and precepts.
Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa :  Ajahn Sucitto, Firm Centre Open Heart Retreat

2020-02-11 Four Noble Truths & Mindfulness of Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:15
John Martin
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This talk provides an overview of the Four Noble Truths, with primary focus on the Noble Truth of Dukkha and the Noble Truth of the Cause of Dukkha. Mindfulness of death is reviewed as a support for practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Monthlong

2020-02-11 Cultivation 52:16
Winnie Nazarko
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The idea of cultivation (Bhavana) is the key to Buddhism. This talk relates this concept to the development of the four foundations of mindfulness, especially the first.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  February 2020

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