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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
2015-07-03 Psychological facets of sati in a nutshell – On Desire: taṇhā and the tragedy 57:37
Akincano Marc Weber
(Brief intro:) Mindfulness without Pali - psychological aspects of sati. What can go wrong even if we get what we want; Forms of desire east of the western map for this term (kāma-taṇhā, bhava-t, vibhava-t.)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-07-03 Reflection: Sati as Relationship - External Sense-channels - 5 Questions to the breath 33:49
Akincano Marc Weber
Relational analogies with differing human senses – seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling – Questions to connect more deeply with the breathing experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-07-02 Meditation: Big Vision rather than Saṁsāra-Management. Breath and Being - 4 Ānāpānasati Analogies 54:13
Akincano Marc Weber
Attitudes and expectations re meditation practice: beyond the feel-good factor. How the Vism. illustrates Mindfulness of Breathing.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-07-01 Sati-More on Mindfulness: its Images, Functions and Relations 58:20
Akincano Marc Weber
Sati in the Suttas – Contexts and Descriptions from the Early Buddhist Tradition
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-07-01 Reflection: 4 Satipaṭṭhāna channels as a map of experience – identifying them in our experience. 34:04
Akincano Marc Weber
Sati as attuned attentional relationship. Two dimensions of training mindfulness: (i) temporal continuity (ii) spatial stability. Preferences and inclinations of meditators for one above the other are natural but need challenging. Instructions for a day's practice of kāyānupassanā.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-06-30 Upādāna and diṭṭhi as fuel for suffering 48:01
Akincano Marc Weber
Text and context - vedic background of attachment (upādāna) - diṭṭhi and how we got there in the first place.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-06-29 Intention-attention-mindfulness: choices and challenges. 56:52
Akincano Marc Weber
3 Questions - body as anchor and resting place for attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-06-28 Reflection (and goodbye to 10 yogis) Medakathalikā - Caring for oneself and caring for others 12:00
Akincano Marc Weber
History of the acrobats: Individualism and altruism.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-06-27 Reflection - Four dimensions of contemplative practice. 40:15
Akincano Marc Weber
Naming the big tasks in contemporary language; possible pitfalls in each of the dimensions
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-06-26 On Not-Knowing: What hinders relationship – Agatis and 5 different dimensions of avijjā 54:53
Akincano Marc Weber
Differences between moha and avijjā; a footnote on the wheel of becoming.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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