Jeanne Corrigal is the guiding teacher for the Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community, and a graduate of the 2017-2021 IMS teacher training program. She deeply appreciates metta and nature based practices. She has been practicing since 1999, and is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner and Community Dharma Leader Programs. Jeanne is certified with Indigenous Focusing Oriented Trauma Therapy (IFOT), is a certified MBSR teacher, and she has trained with Mindful Schools and Somatic Experiencing. She is Métis, and one of her first teachers in loving presence was Cree Elder Jim Settee.
The image of a bird flying is offered as a way of bringing together the big picture of the Satipatthana Sutta teachings, with the three characteristics as the environment the bird is flying in. The three characteristics are then situated in the refrain of the Satipatthana Sutta, which is seen as a practice from nature, to reveal our inner nature. This teaching is applied to our lives through exploring how to work with self judgement. The talk ends exploring this practice in the world, for the benefit of all beings.
The four wise efforts are explored as a path to freedom with the hindrances. Several practices are offered for each effort, with particular emphasis given to abandoning unwholesome states that have arisen, through a relationship of non-clinging. The talk concludes with reference to Indigenous Elder Stan Rushworth and the thought that working with the hindrances shows us a way of showing up in a sacred way in the world.
This talk offers a way of abiding in joy and other wholesome qualities through an acronym of CARE - Connect, abide, release/refresh, enjoy. A short talk is followed by a short guided meditation in abiding and radiating sympathetic joy.
This talk reflects on joy and metta as central to the practice, and as supports for non-clinging. It explores this theme through the suttas, in everyday practice, and in challenging times.
