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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Being seen with the loving gaze of another who sees that you are perfectly in tact. Then practicing with a loved one who is suffering and whom you would like to be able to meet and love with more equanimity.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Our ways of looking are shaped by our views, our patterns of attention, our emotional states, inclinations, intentions and more. Working with these factors we can participate in seeing and sensing the self, others and the world in ways that are onward leading. This talk includes extracts from a practice diary working with a difficult sankhara that was shaping and coloring the perception.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practicing resting in and receiving the loving attention of a loving figure.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) “As you call into the first, so the first answers’ How to approach your mediation object
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) First morning instructions- inviting the body to be available to attention.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A look at the five aggregates as precious dharma lenses. Practicing with "dukkha"and "anatta" as precious dharma lenses.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What, if today, you entertain the idea that "no thing as an enemy"
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Nothing whatsoever should be taken as I me or mine But thougts can feel so much like I me and mine
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Craving is not the same as a passion for practice. Dispassion is a way of attending to experience to unbind self, the tangle of self
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Orientating to the map of insight in cultivation: and preparing the heart for the retreat. Challenging the view that we are doing this alone, and weaving ourselves into a more beautiful story of practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) 20 minute refelections on New Years aspirations plus ceremony
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Working with the middle aperture of attention, neither focused to one nor wide open. Mindful of the whole body and space around the body.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What do you want more than the inerta of involuntary habit of attention.
(Gaia House) The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) This is a shared talk with both Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea. It appears twice as to enable it to be shown for both teachers.
The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Whether or not I see myself as an adherent of the modern world view, how might this view be acting, nonetheless, as a default and almost invisible dogma keeping me bound in certain kinds of suffering and acting to circumscribe and limit what kind of awakening might be possible.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Introduction to Citta s a topic for contemplative practice with moods, mindstates, and emotions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) With earth below and the sky above, our heart is the meeting place for inner and outer.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practicing knowing Vedena can save us a lot of very obvious troubles and a lot of less obvious troubles.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Morning Instruction. The place of samatha. What is contemplative attention? The co-arising of attention and the body.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Acknowledging some of the stark sufferings of our era, and with clarity about the goal of the path, our body can root in timeless refuges.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of teachings is from a retreat for experienced practitioners led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee. Although they attempt to outline and elaborate a little on some of the basics of Soulmaking Dharma practice, still the requirements for participation on the retreat included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice; without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of teachings is from a retreat for experienced practitioners led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee. Although they attempt to outline and elaborate a little on some of the basics of Soulmaking Dharma practice, still the requirements for participation on the retreat included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice; without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of teachings is from a retreat for experienced practitioners led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee. Although they attempt to outline and elaborate a little on some of the basics of Soulmaking Dharma practice, still the requirements for participation on the retreat included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice; without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of teachings is from a retreat for experienced practitioners led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee. Although they attempt to outline and elaborate a little on some of the basics of Soulmaking Dharma practice, still the requirements for participation on the retreat included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice; without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of teachings is from a retreat for experienced practitioners led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee. Although they attempt to outline and elaborate a little on some of the basics of Soulmaking Dharma practice, still the requirements for participation on the retreat included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice; without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of teachings is from a retreat for experienced practitioners led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee. Although they attempt to outline and elaborate a little on some of the basics of Soulmaking Dharma practice, still the requirements for participation on the retreat included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice; without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of teachings is from a retreat for experienced practitioners led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee. Although they attempt to outline and elaborate a little on some of the basics of Soulmaking Dharma practice, still the requirements for participation on the retreat included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice; without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of teachings is from a retreat for experienced practitioners led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee. Although they attempt to outline and elaborate a little on some of the basics of Soulmaking Dharma practice, still the requirements for participation on the retreat included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice; without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of teachings is from a retreat for experienced practitioners led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee. Although they attempt to outline and elaborate a little on some of the basics of Soulmaking Dharma practice, still the requirements for participation on the retreat included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice; without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of teachings is from a retreat for experienced practitioners led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee. Although they attempt to outline and elaborate a little on some of the basics of Soulmaking Dharma practice, still the requirements for participation on the retreat included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice; without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Freely Given Retreats) The talks and exercises from this 'Tending the Holy Fire' retreat are intended for experienced practitioners who already have a working familiarity with this particular Soulmaking paradigm, as outlined, for example, in the following retreats: 'The Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)'; 'Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception'; and 'Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire'. Integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course. Without this practice and knowledge base, the material from this retreat may be confusing and unhelpful.
(Freely Given Retreats) The talks and exercises from this 'Tending the Holy Fire' retreat are intended for experienced practitioners who already have a working familiarity with this particular Soulmaking paradigm, as outlined, for example, in the following retreats: 'The Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)'; 'Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception'; and 'Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire'. Integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course. Without this practice and knowledge base, the material from this retreat may be confusing and unhelpful.
(Freely Given Retreats) The talks and exercises from this 'Tending the Holy Fire' retreat are intended for experienced practitioners who already have a working familiarity with this particular Soulmaking paradigm, as outlined, for example, in the following retreats: 'The Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)'; 'Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception'; and 'Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire'. Integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course. Without this practice and knowledge base, the material from this retreat may be confusing and unhelpful.
(Freely Given Retreats) The talks and exercises from this 'Tending the Holy Fire' retreat are intended for experienced practitioners who already have a working familiarity with this particular Soulmaking paradigm, as outlined, for example, in the following retreats: 'The Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)'; 'Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception'; and 'Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire'. Integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course. Without this practice and knowledge base, the material from this retreat may be confusing and unhelpful.
(Freely Given Retreats) The talks and exercises from this 'Tending the Holy Fire' retreat are intended for experienced practitioners who already have a working familiarity with this particular Soulmaking paradigm, as outlined, for example, in the following retreats: 'The Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)'; 'Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception'; and 'Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire'. Integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course. Without this practice and knowledge base, the material from this retreat may be confusing and unhelpful.
(Freely Given Retreats) The talks and exercises from this 'Tending the Holy Fire' retreat are intended for experienced practitioners who already have a working familiarity with this particular Soulmaking paradigm, as outlined, for example, in the following retreats: 'The Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)'; 'Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception'; and 'Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire'. Integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course. Without this practice and knowledge base, the material from this retreat may be confusing and unhelpful.
(Freely Given Retreats) The talks and exercises from this 'Tending the Holy Fire' retreat are intended for experienced practitioners who already have a working familiarity with this particular Soulmaking paradigm, as outlined, for example, in the following retreats: 'The Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)'; 'Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception'; and 'Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire'. Integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course. Without this practice and knowledge base, the material from this retreat may be confusing and unhelpful.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) We are an open system, nothing we do is inconsequential - including the ways we consciously or unconsciously conceive of, and perceive experience.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Deepening and opening to investigate Citta.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Abiding and pervading with attention to abiding "in" and "as" the bigger body of earth.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What supports us to have the courage to abide more thoroughly and for our body to plump out with affectionate attention.
(Gaia House) Impermanence chant and reflections on insight into the personal, universal and beyond.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Stories and prayers to support practising with multiple perceptions of matter and the body.
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Continuity of openness of the portal of the heart.
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Also includes an exercise to practice awareness of self and other.
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
(Gaia House) Dharma talk from Freeing the Heart, Embracing Your Life long weekend retreat.
(Gaia House) Instructions from the second morning of Freeing the Heart, Embracing Your life long weekend retreat.
(Gaia House) Instructions from the first morning of Freeing The Heart, Embracing Your Life long weekend retreat.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Recognizing a mind state within a continuity of awareness, rather than a construct of self
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Includes chanting, recognizing space can be balancing and intimately tender.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Attending to experience through the lense of the elements, fire, water, earth, air and space. Expanding the range of ways of knowing and seeing experience returns us to the sacred.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What images of the goal of the path inspire us or limit our engagement with the path.
(Gaia House) Reflections on motivation and attitude to formal practice when beginning a longer, solitary practice period.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Responses to questions that have come in during the week.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Handling the spans of the mind in meditation. Recognizing hindrances and waking up.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Intimacy is the heart of the heart. True awareness is where we find complete intimacy with ourselves and others. Underlying from sense contact asks us to tune to the heart itself.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Discernment of Vedana as a key to healing and insight. (Sitting and walking instruction at the end)
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Day one meditation guidance. Valuing and attuning to the body. How concentration can come about through bearing the body in mind
(Gaia House) As we learn to trust the middle way, we find that everyone is right here with us. As notions of self and other drop away, we arrive home, belonging to the totality of all that is.
(Gaia House) The Buddha teaches freedom as the heart/mind that no longer leans on anything at all. And he also teaches a path where we learn how to lean skilfully on things that lead onward towards letting go.
(Gaia House) Returning to the wholeness of what we are - being intimate with the patterns of heart that we have rejected and have not yet been able to embrace, without being defined by them.
(Gaia House) Darkness: the backdrop and the womb, and the night before the dawning of the Radiant Heart
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The awake aspect. How to fall awake in the middle of a spin. Awake to endings, awake to grasping, awake to thought, and the wise attention of not having to pick up every thought
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Anukampa is pulsating along with : chanting with the tender aspect of heart and relationship with pain; from our nervous unrest to the pain of the world
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) When not seeing clearly the nature of reality, a restless twitching momentum drives us into patterns and programs where we are simply; looking for home peace for completion. Recognizing the programming and letting it come to rest. Finding peace in the midst of it all
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Working with 2nd foundation of mindfulness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The un-gluing of the heart-mind from stickiness. Working with the inner critic. Singing a Rumi poem
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Motivation, attitude, mindfulness of body breathing. Being the gracious host for all experience
(Gaia House) The inter-relationship between inner and outer. Knowing that we belong as a basis for meeting and responding to the suffering of our world, both inner and outer.
(Gaia House) Reflecting on mindfulness of body, which helps us to slow down and study the mind. It supports the sensitivity of heart, and is the way to walk our talk'.
(Gaia House) How do we live authentically in relationship with each other? How do we work with the unsatisfactoriness of falling into the same kinds of conversations again and again? Learning to be organs of perception rather than organs of repetition.
(Gaia House) Seeing the process of spinning a separate self into existence and how the power of clear seeing allows this to deconstruct, so that we can come back into the stream of dharma.
(Gaia House) We tend to lean into extremes. How do we find the middle way, again and again? What is it like to tolerate living as the unvarnished living present where the two worlds meet? How to discriminate the greed in the mind from the hearts desire for liberation and truth.
(Gaia House) What is guiding our practice in any one moment? Is it Faith, Energy, mindfulness, samadhi and Wisdom, or not? How these factors strengthen. As these factors strengthen the mind brightens and the motor of awakening has more power.
(Gaia House) What is the right relationship to the body? How is mindfulness of body a necessary foundation for awakening?
(Gaia House) Discovering the unfindability of a fixed self, we can relax into the totality of what we are and make room for life to move through us unhindered.
(Gaia House) Accepting ourselves is the basis of transformation. Including the totality of our experience and bowing to it all.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Resting in the naturalness of the knowing mind
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Samatha as a "standing in the stream" and not being "taken by the stream"
(Gaia House) With ethics as a foundation and some access to samadhi, we can begin to work with the mental patterns that bind us. We can learn to investigate and handle these forces without being pushed and pulled around by them, and we learn through clear seeing how they come to arise and what lets them cease.
(Gaia House) Using mindfulness of body as a way to cultivate samadhi, and provide a firm anchor in the sea of all that life brings.
(Gaia House) When we meet the conditioned patterns of body, heart and mind that arise in our practice with nobility and skill, we are left wider and wiser as a result.
(Gaia House) The teachings refer to metta as an unlimited potential. However all too often we find our capacity for love limited and experience our heart as bound. Metta practice reveals both the limits and the potential.
(Gaia House) which patterns of mind are wholesome and which lead to more suffering? Sila and Samadhi as a basis for presence and the wisdom that sees into the nature of things.
(Gaia House) the middle way between all apparent opposites eg indulgence and denial, or inner and outer, invites us to an intimate meeting with life.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What stands out to us in silence. What is our relationship with silence. What about the silence itself? What is it actually?
(Gaia House) Sometimes we long for stillness and for all activity to come to rest. Sometimes we long for movement and can't bare to be still any longer. In using the practices of stillness and movement of body we start to study this dynamic, and we see the inner life of stillness and movement and how suffering arises through not fully understanding this play: either we get hooked into the things that move because they catch our attention, or we want to reject them for the same reasons. Coming to a wise relationship with stillness and movement brings more rest in a world of things that move.
(Gaia House) To know 'body as body' is the invitation of the first foundation of mindfulness. Coming to a wise relationship with our body which neither glorifies nor rejects our body we can begin to know body as a vehicle for profound wisdom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The cycles of birth and death in physical life and moment to moment practicing dying during our life as a way to freedom