Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge: dharma talks and meditation instruction
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reading from Father Gregory Boyle's "Tattoos on the Heart." Learning our own loveliness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Short intro and chanting of Karaniya Metta Sutta in Pali and in English
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Short reading from college essay exploring spiritual beauty. Discovering the dhamma that is beautiful in the beginning, beautiful in the middle, and beautiful in the end.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A talk exploring the second refuge of the Dhamma. Possible frames for the practice: path as authenticity, path as truth, path as secure attachment, path as beauty.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Thoughts on the cultivation of practice and also the naturalness of our own goodness. Includes a reading of St. Francis and the Sow at the end.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Starting retreat with honoring ancestors of land, lineage, and family of origin. Grounding and embodied sense of taking refuge.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reflections on metta and the power of ordinariness in cultivating this friendliness and goodwill in the heart-mind.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores metta and mindfulness as partners in liberation. It describes the abiding practice in 5 steps, and closes with 3 sacred going home stories.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Buddha touched the earth and asked for help to awaken, and this can be seen as a template for us, even in difficult times. This talk begins with our own embodied experience, reflects on the Satipatthana sutta refrain as a description of how nature supports awakening, and closes with Ajahn Chah, who said that we can learn from Nature enough to be enlightened.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores accessible and reliable sources of joy, and explores the role of joy in awakening.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk is grounded in Ajahn Buddhadasa’s teaching of temporary Nibbana. It explores the Satipatthana Sutta as a doorway into freedom and offers the acronym CARE as a way of bringing the Four Noble Truths into whichever practice we are engaged in.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The importance of patience in our practice, and how the Buddha, referred to it as "the great incinerator"
