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Retreat Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge

November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-10 (30 days) Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge

  
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2016-11-10 Outline of structures for retreat 14:32
Ajahn Sucitto
There is a need for healthy structures to replace the defective structures of the socially-generated self.
2016-11-11 Acknowledgement of Fields 56:27
Ajahn Sucitto
Experience arises as ‘fields’ – for example the visual field. Skilful fields – ‘places’ to dwell in - are necessary and can be generated - for example the moral field, the devotional / sacred field and the embodied field.
2016-11-11 Strengthening the bodily field through standing 22:18
Ajahn Sucitto
A standing meditation to cultivate a unified, stable and strong bodily field.
2016-11-12 Chanting: the movement into harmony 10:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Chanting is trans-rational - it’s not just what it means but what it does. By incorporating the body’s emotionally sensitive energies, and by attuning to others, it brings us to harmony.
2016-11-12 Fields and forms – the play of consciousness 43:56
Ajahn Sucitto
From awareness in the field of sense data, consciousness selects an object. That process generates a subject. In the split between subject and object, demons arise. The true subject has no object, and cannot be tracked. This is presence, awareness.
2016-11-13 Puja as practice. 11:51
Ajahn Sucitto
The use of chanting, ritual and devotional practice to attune the citta to the field of shared aspiration
2016-11-13 A firm foothold 45:23
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma is a wheel of factors that incline towards awakening. ‘World’ is a wheeling of factors that go nowhere useful. Place a firm footing on the Dhamma through the five indriya.
2016-11-14 Keeping it fresh 26:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Beginning a day, beginning anything, requires openness, letting go of the known. Reorient the mind through deep attention.
2016-11-14 Breaking through the web 63:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Existence is an ongoing arising of dynamic and interdependent factors. We both arouse and support skilful ones and break through the obsessive and deluded ones.
2016-11-14 dep. Origination, feeling, craving 12:12
Ajahn Sucitto
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