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Chris Cullen has practised and studied the Buddha's teachings since 1994 and has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats since 2010. He also teaches for Oxford University’s Mindfulness Centre and has a psychotherapy practice in Oxford.
(Gaia House) This recording also includes Christina Feldman
What are the roles and practice of Mindfulness, and how does it work ?
(Gaia House) Metta Practice - Introduction and the Categories of Oneself and Benefactor
(Gaia House) The closing session of the online retreat, featuring Jaya Rudgard and Mat Schencks
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploringintentions in working with thoughts - how to develop mindfulness of thoughts and a deepening understanding of their shaping influence
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of the Buddha's teaching on anatta (not-self), and the importance also of honoring personhood and cultivating flexibility of view so as to respond appropriately to circumstances. The emptiness of all phenomena is also briefly explained and explored.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Brief introduction followed by a guided metta meditation for group, self, and benefactors
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Review of first day instructions, suggestions about deepening and sustaining connection with anchors and practicing with discomfort and pain.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of ways of practicing with perceptions of the five elements - earth, water, fire, air, space - so as to cultivate samadhi, realize non-self (anatta) and understand the appearance and fabrication of perception and intention.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Welcome and introduction to the retreat. Ethical container, simplifying, and silence
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Morning instructions on ways of practicing with thoughts so as to develop a more spacious relationship with thinking and understand more fully the shaping power of perception and papañca (projection, proliferation, objectification.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of ways of practicing and deepening personal and universal insights so as to gradually unbind body and heart (citta) from fabrications that constrict and compress.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Morning instructions on ways of practicing with vedanā (feeling tone)
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) 1st day evening talk about practicing mindfulness of body, including reflections on cultivating samadhi, elements practice and emptiness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of personal and universal dimensions of insight with suggestions on working with sankaras and meditative understanding of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and not self.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A guided standing meditation on elements (15 minutes) followed by simple seated meditation on Metta.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Also speaking are Yuka Nakamura, and Akincano
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Contemplation of Dhammas (especially hinderances and awakening factor)
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Some exploration of dimensions of "I-Making and My-Making", investigating dependent arising of selfing, ways of cultivating the perception "not self" the emptiness of all phenomena, and the im[portace of honoring the "relative self" and personal dimensions.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Cultivations for the opening days of retreat, with some exploration of the Three Refuges, Samadhi, and the five Jhana factors as cultivations.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An introduction to the topic of insight/liberating understanding with some exploration of the domains of personal insight and cultivation of three universal insight contemplations of anicca (impermanence) dukkha (unsatisfactoriness) and anata (not self)
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A talk from the first full day of a retreat exploring how to deepen a sense of enjoyment, grounding and collectedness through cultivation of the five Jhana factors.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploration of the Brahma Viharas, with some reference to their value within mindfulness teaching and psychotherapy.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation. Metta is embodied practice– Categories of community, self, benefactor and good friend.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practices for cultivating appreciative fullness and collectiveness using the Jhana factors. Hindrances are also briefly explored
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on compassion as resonance and appropriate responsiveness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Introduces body practices from the Satipatthana Sutta
(Gaia House) An introduction to the modes of mind framework which is increasingly used within Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. Reflections on how to use this in practice and its deeper relationship with the Four Noble Truths.