True North Insight: dharma talks and meditation instruction: Recent Episodes
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True North Insight (TNI) is a charitable organization offering a full schedule of Buddhist insight (vipassana) meditation retreats and courses in English and French. Insight meditation practices were taught for more than 2600 years as part of a path to liberation of mind and heart from suffering. They are dedicated to cultivating awareness, kindness and compassion, bringing more mindfulness and calm into our daily life. This simple and profound awareness practice is at the heart of many spiritual paths.
(True North Insight) Enseignement sur la pratique, méditation guidée, enseignement sur la conscience, pratique guidée et questions/réponses
(True North Insight) Guided meditation strongly inspired by Joseph Goldstein’s Big Mind meditation
(True North Insight) Enseignement, pratique guidée, enseignement et pratique guidée à nouveau
(True North Insight) This talk points to both the fruit of equanimity as well as its cultivation in meeting the challenges of being human
(True North Insight) Identifying pleasant/unpleasant/neutral vedanā and their relationship to the five hindrances.
(True North Insight) Identifying the five hindrances as the object of our meditation can loosen the grip of self identification with these often unpleasant mental states.
(True North Insight) These guided instructions within formal meditation practice are also applicable in meeting our emotions in our everyday lives.
(True North Insight) As we discover the 3 characteristics of life in our meditation practice, we begin to recognize their truth in all aspects of life beyond our mediation practice. Through this clear understanding, compassion for self and others emerges organically. The cultivation of compassion practice directed towards our own or others suffering can also strengthen this quality in our minds and hearts. This talk includes some guided practice.
(True North Insight) Guided instruction in bringing one’s attention to body, breath and sound as foundational for meditation practice.