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File04_(AM)_Contemplating_elements.mp3Contemplating the Elements1626 viewsPatrick Kearney's Vipassana Retreat Talk at Bodhi Tree Monastery (2009)
The foundation of satipatthana (establishing mindfulness) is the tracking (anupassana), or contemplation, of our experience of body. As we remain present to physical experience over time, we learn to drop beneath our concepts of body to its direct, sensual impact. What we normally take to be “my body†becomes, as we go deeper, different manifestations of the four elements of earth, air, fire and water.
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track07_five-mental-faculties-pt-2.mp3(07) Vipassana Meditation Retreat1610 viewsTrack07 Five Mental Faculties (Part 2) - 10 Vipassana Retreat Talks, by Sayadaw U Janaka (6/12/2003)
The second evening talk on the Five Mental Faculties during an intensive Vipassana (Insight) meditation retreat in the Mahasi Sayadaw tradition of Burma, by the abbot and Meditation Master of Chanmyay Meditation Centre, Yangon, Myanmar.
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huxter_healing_painful_emotions.mp3Healing Painful Emotions1603 viewsHealing painful emotions are instructions for some options to deal with 1. strong physical sensations and 2. difficult emotions if they are arise. It requires that the listener has already developed some skill with meditation for it to be effective. These tracks are not really guided meditations but more instructions for some options for dealing with uncomfortable physical sensations and emotions.
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File10_(AM)_Contemplating_the_thought-stream.mp3Contemplating the Thought-stream1556 viewsPatrick Kearney's Vipassana Retreat Talk at Bodhi Tree Monastery (2009)
Our addiction to thinking creates a major barrier to settling into Samadhi, “unification†or “concentration.†Often we try to push thought away, or simply endure it as an unpleasant fact of life. But the essence of this practice, according to Mahasi Sayadaw, is to note, or be deliberately aware of, whatever is predominant in any of the six sense fields, now. If thinking is currently predominant, then thinking should be our meditation
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huxter_loving_kindness.mp3Loving-kindness Meditation1491 viewsA guided Loving kindness meditation. With this meditation it is important to accept the ebbs and flows of emotions and not to be discouraged if feelings of loving-kindness do not, at first, arise.
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File08_(AM)_Contemplating_feeling.mp3Contemplatingt Feeling1480 viewsPatrick Kearney's Vipassana Retreat Talk at Bodhi Tree Monastery (2009)
This morning we move onto the third satipatthana, that of vedana, usually translated “feeling.†We explore what we mean by feeling, and try to come to an understanding of what the Buddha means by “vedana.†Vedana can be seen as the affective aspect of experience, the capacity of any given experience to move us in some way — to provoke a response. For the Buddha, feeling and response are inextricably linked. To understand what we do, we must understand what — and how — we feel.
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huxter_progressive_relaxation.mp3Progressive Relaxation1456 viewsProgressive Relaxation gives guidance for a common muscle tension and release exercise often used for stress management.
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File07_On_truth_and_Kondannas_awakening.mp3On Truth and Kondannas Awakening1455 viewsPatrick Kearney's Vipassana Retreat Talk at Bodhi Tree Monastery (2009)
We continue with Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (Turning the dharma wheel), completing our examination of the four truths by looking at the Buddha's conception of truth, found in Canki Sutta (MN 95). When the Buddha speaks about “truth,†what does he mean? A proposition? Something to believe? Or is he speaking of something else?
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03_Metta_Meditation.mp33. Metta Meditation- Loving-kindness1445 viewsSharing of the Merits with the Devas; Transferring of Merits to All Loved Ones; Making Aspirations; Closing Invocation.
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File06_(AM)_Contemplating_breathing.mp3Contemplating Breathing1440 viewsPatrick Kearney's Vipassana Retreat Talk at Bodhi Tree Monastery (2009)
This morning we experiment with breathing as our meditation object. We learn to experience breathing as air element (vayo dhatu) — the movements within the body associated with inhalation and exhalation — and cultivate a sense of detail and precision in tracking these movements.
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