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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A description of how intentions lead to actions (cetana leads to kamma) and the importance of being mindful of this building block of reality. Guided meditation and further teachings at the end.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha’s first noble truth names the hard facts of life (birth, aging, illness, death, separation from what we love), then says in brief: it all comes down to the five aggregates of clinging. In this talk we explore the difference between the givens we can’t avoid and the tangles we add, and how seeing the aggregates as “not mine” opens the way to freedom.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The practice of compassion can lead us to happiness, peace and freedom from suffering and its cause.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The practice of Mindfulness of Six Senses can help us to : prevent unskillfulness states of mind from arising, overcome Fetters and finally lead to Awakeninng.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Teachings on Satipatthana and guided RAIN meditation

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The practice of Right Thought helps us to develop generosity, Loving Kindness, Compassion which leads to peace, happiness and freedom.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the 2nd Noble Truth. Craving as the cause of suffering and it's end. In our meditation and our daily lives.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Description and guided practice on working with vedana in the body.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Using the properties of the 4th element to know and experience the breath and lead to insgiht into impermanence

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha described awakening not as a leap to the summit but as a gradual training, one step laid down after another. Drawing on the image of walking (forest monks on tudong, pilgrims, and the cleared trails of these woods), this talk explores the anupubbasikkhā through generosity, ethics, meditation, and wisdom. With the Buddha’s teaching to Gaṇaka Moggallāna, the bird that carries only its wings, and poetry inspired by freedom, we reflect on how one thing lawfully leads to the next. We set up the conditions, and the dhamma does the rest. The arc of the path is long, but it bends toward freedom.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) By practicing the Noble Eight Fold Path we can experience greater joy, happiness and freedom

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Taking the refuge in the Buddha Dhamma and Sangha plus undertaking the five training guidelines can provide a firm foundation for our practice.

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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This guided meditation shifts the subject of attention from objects to the awareness that knows.

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