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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2019 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life
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| Vipassana, or Buddhist Meditation, is a way of opening to life and seeing clearly the totality of one’s being and experience. The practice is based on cultivating a present-centered mindfulness, leading to an unfolding of our natural wisdom and compassion. The focus of this retreat is to enhance intimacy with ourselves and the world. In order to help participants discover a sense of stillness and deep listening, silence will be maintained throughout the retreat except during question/answer periods and interviews with the teachers. In addition to sitting and walking meditation practice, there will be sessions of mindful movement led each day. |
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2019-05-03 (8 days)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2019-05-04
Meditation: Retreat Instructions, Day 1: Arriving in Presence
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Jonathan Foust
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(Recording not available)
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In this first morning of a week-long meditation retreat, you’ll be guided through a centering body scan and directed to an anchor of your choosing. You’ll hear occasional reminders to help support your practice of arriving and settling in the here and now.
These instructions are from the 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat.
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2019-05-04
Meditation: Retreat Instructions, Day 1: Arriving in Presence
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Jonathan Foust
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In this first morning of a week-long meditation retreat, you’ll be guided through a centering body scan and directed to an anchor of your choosing. You’ll hear occasional reminders to help support your practice of arriving and settling in the here and now.
These instructions are from the 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat.
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2019-05-04
Finding Common Ground Metta
33:05
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La Sarmiento
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From my teacher Thea Elijah, through establishing our connection to the earth, we create common ground upon which we realize our interconnectedness. This meditation guides us through this process so that we can offer lovingkindness to ourselves, a beloved, a neutral person, a difficult person, and all beings.
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2019-05-05
Meditation: Embodying Gratitude
42:48
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Jonathan Foust
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This guided heart meditation explores the practice of bringing gratitude and compassion deeply into the felt-sense of your body and systematically offering well-being and best-wishes to others.
This meditation is from the 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat.
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2019-05-06
Meditation: Retreat Instructions, Day 3: Arriving and Investigating the Flow
37:28
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Jonathan Foust
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In this third morning of a week-long meditation retreat, you’ll be guided through a centering body scan, directed to an anchor of your choosing with options to more deeply investigate what is present, particularly emotions. Toward the end of the meditation you’ll be invited to rest in presence.
These instructions are from the 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat.
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