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Retreat Dharma Talks

Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

This six-week partial of the three-month course is a special time for practice. Because of its extended length and ongoing guidance, it is an opportunity for students to deepen the powers of concentration, wisdom and compassion. Based on the meditation instructions of Mahasi Sayadaw and supplemented by a range of skillful means, this silent retreat will encourage a balanced attitude of relaxation and alertness, and the continuity of practice based on the Buddha’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness.

2018-09-11 (43 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

  
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2018-10-05 Karma 53:43
Greg Scharf
2018-10-06 Expanding Awareness - A Guided Meditation 43:58
Andrea Fella
2018-10-07 The Dance Of Faith And Wisdom 53:38
Jaya Rudgard
2018-10-08 Not Self and Selfing 62:12
Andrea Fella
We can start to understand the teaching on not-self (anatta) by getting familiar with the experience of the sense of self.
2018-10-09 Liberation Through Understanding The Three Marks Of Existence 59:37
Bhante Buddharakkhita
A full understanding of the three marks of existence: impermanence, suffering, and not-self can lead to wisdom and liberating the mind from mental defilements.
2018-10-11 Supports for Steadying the mind: The Jhana Factors 59:55
Sally Armstrong
There are five factors that are supported for deepening concentration, known as the jhana factors. These factors are developed in any kind of intensive meditation practice but are particularly supportive of the development of samadhi. They also serve to counterbalance the hindrances. When the hindrances are not active, the mind and heart can be
2018-10-14 Aging Sickness and Death and the Five Daily Reflections. 58:26
Jaya Rudgard
2018-10-15 Dependent Origination 63:00
Andrea Fella
An exploration of the Buddha's detailed description of how suffering comes to be.
2018-10-16 Q&A 64:40
Joseph Goldstein
2018-10-17 Freedom Through Practicing Right Effort 62:49
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Arousing and balancing effort can serve as a cause and condition for cultivating wholesome states of mind and gaining freedom from unwholesome states of mind.
2018-10-18 Metta Practice: All Beings 46:53
Andrea Fella
2018-10-19 Teaching From The Metta Sutta - Part 2 59:52
Greg Scharf
2018-10-21 Not Knowing 58:51
Andrea Fella
2018-10-22 The Golden Thread Of Equanimity 57:38
Jaya Rudgard
Reflections on equanimity for those continuing and those ending their retreat.
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