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Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge: dharma talks and meditation instruction

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Buddhism
Meditation
Mindfulness
Five Hindrances
Concentration Practice
Awareness
Robert Smalls
Vipassana
Five Aggregates
Civil War
Impermanence
Consciousness
Dukkha
Seven Factors Of Awakening
Dharma
Nibbana
Theravada Buddhism
Emptiness
Silent Meditation
Mindfulness Of Speaking

IMS’s Forest Refuge has hosted experienced meditators since 2003. Its program is specifically designed to encourage sustained, longer-term retreat practice – a key component in the transmission of Buddhism from Asia to the West. Within a harmonious and secluded environment, meditators can nurture the highest aspiration for liberation. In consultation with visiting insight meditation teachers, a pr... more

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Dharma teacher and meditation instructor, focusing on practical applications of Buddhist teachings and the importance of compassion in practice.

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    Canada6 years ago
  • Perhaps a lighter noise gate?

    A lovely podcast - one curiosity;

    Would it be possible for the editors to master with a lower noise gate to allow for the full layer of atmospheric sound? When it goes dead silent between a person’s words it makes it hard to breathe. Good sound breathes with the speaker, lets us feel together in the room.

    Thank you

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Sally Armstrong: Instructions: Metta: self and benefactor
Q: Can you clarify about the creativity in the practice of Metta that you mentioned?
Creativity in metta practice involves connecting with the essence of what brings joy to others without becoming discursive or detailed in thought.
Andrea Fella: Elaboration on Receptive Awareness Instructions
Q: Can you provide an example of recognizing awareness with thought?
It's more productive to notice how thoughts influence your feelings rather than getting caught in the content of thoughts.
Andrea Fella: Elaboration on Receptive Awareness Instructions
Q: Could you explain the difference in how attention shifts between awareness and objects?
Attention doesn't have to shift intentionally; it can naturally fall on objects while also being aware of the awareness itself.
Guy Armstrong: Instructions: Energetic impact of breathing
Q: Would you talk again about when we feel tension in the body as we're breathing? If there's, you know, as I'm breathing, sometimes there's a strip of tension.
If it's just tension that kind of might come and go, then it's nothing really to worry about. We just notice it as one of the elements of the experience.

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