Supporting the Dharma
Kittisaro and Thanissara offer their Dharma work and Dharma teachings freely.
They rely entirely on Dana (donations) to enable them to continue offering retreats, on line study courses and support of outreach in South Africa. If you would like to support them through offering Dana, you can do so here: Thank you.
Dana for SMS Study-Practice Program, either a single donation of monthly donation, can also be made here.
They rely entirely on Dana (donations) to enable them to continue offering retreats, on line study courses and support of outreach in South Africa. If you would like to support them through offering Dana, you can do so here: Thank you.
Dana for SMS Study-Practice Program, either a single donation of monthly donation, can also be made here.
Insight Meditation Society Retreat - Kittisaro & Thanissara - March 2011
1.
Opening Talk: Heartwood - Thanissara
Entering the retreat vehicle,
Not stopping at initial benefits of practice,
Journey to inner most heart
2.
Mindfulness: Feet Touching the Earth - Kittisaro
Mindfulness: guide to true nature,
bringing light of awareness to body and breath
3.
Unification of Body, Mind, Heart - Kittisaro
Cultivation of Samadhi & Jhana factors,
Healing aspect of Path,
Being Present
4.
Independent Abiding - Thanissara
Supports for cultivation of Samadhi, (gathered and focused heart/mind)
Fruits of Samadhi
5.
The Prisoner - Thanissara
The light of awareness illuminates the dark,
Working with the hindrances.
6.
Reading the Book of the Heart - Kittisaro
Two great oxen: samatha (calming) & vipassana (insight) meditation
Game park of the mind,
Hindrances as teachers
7.
A Sacred Gateway - Kittisaro
What comes, goes;
Contemplation of impermanence,
Letting Go and Peace
8.
The River of the Self - Thanissara
Calm and Insight meditation as a base for an exploration of the 5 khandas
The Khandas - what constitutes self
Replacing reactivity with Mindfulness
9.
Sujata’s Gift - Thanissara
The Buddha’s journey and the 4 truths
The unknowing of knowing
10.
Ice to Water as Dukkha to Peace - Kittisaro
Working with the 4 truths
Letting go of the boulder
The Buddha meets a poisoned well.
Returning to the root
11.
Return to the Deathless - Kittisaro
Radical reflection;
Interdependence;
The disappearance of ‘thing-ness’
12.
Without Walls of the Mind - Thanissara
Practice of dispassion leading to Nibbana
Methods to open into the ‘deathless’
13.
Honoring our Human Journey - Thanissara
Not being in too much of a hurry to get to the end.
Mindfulness as a healing container for meeting and transforming our deeper wounds
The power of patience.
14.
A Kind Abiding - Kittisaro
Kindly receiving the unkind
The power of kindness
Wisdom is being nothing while compassion is being everything
15.
The Empty Bell - Kittisaro
Love as a quality of attention
Ethics brings freedom from oppression
Being empty allows for authentic response
16.
Guided Loving Kindness Meditation - Thanissara
17.
A Mindful Way - Thanissara
Rooted in Mindfulness through training of attention to body and breath
Mindfulness discerns the difference between mind and its activity,
Mindfulness and ethics as a container for skilful living
A fluid sense of self
Refuge in mindfulness
Retreat Dharma Talks from Dharmagiri Visiting Teachers
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Remember the Mountain - Ajahn Sucitto: December 2010
The Heart Sutra - John Peacock - March 2011