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Shinzen Young

Shinzen Young

What is Mindfulness?

What is Mindfulness?

This retreat involves both talks and practice. In the talks Shinzen will elucidate how mindfulness is defined from numerous points of view. He will also discuss factors that could facilitate or inhibit a global mindfulness revolution. The practice sessions will parallel the talks but from an experiential point of view. You'll be guided in Breath Focus from an advanced perspective, exploring how this practice develops four aspects of mindful awareness: concentration power, sensory clarity, equanimity, and insight.
September 2012

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Josh Korda

Josh Korda

Making Friends with Your Demons and Hungry Ghosts: Buddhist Tools for Recovery

Making Friends with Your Demons and Hungry Ghosts

This retreat will explore the use of Buddhist practices, especially mindfulness and meditation, to help people recover from habitually ingrained addictive behaviors. Tools-such as appropriate attention, acceptance, removing obsessive thoughts, cultivation of kindness, generosity, and gratitude-can help break the cycle of addiction. Each week, Korda will introduce a different meditation techniques to help reduce stress and make recovery more tranquil and joyous.
August 2012

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Anam Thubten

Anam Thubten

The Art of Awareness

Art of Awareness

Awareness or smirti is the heart of Buddhist practice and the teachings of Buddha. Yet it doesn’t belong to Buddhism. Awareness is intrinsic to each of us. It is a state of being conscious and rising above our mental habits that keep us bound to internal limitations. Through awareness we can see the true nature of all things and find unfathomable joy beyond conditions.
July 2012

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Bhikkhu Bodhi

Bhikkhu Bodhi

The Four Protective Meditations

Social Awakenment

From the wide range of meditation subjects found in the Buddha’s discourses, the ancient teachers of the Theravada tradition have selected four subjects and grouped them into a set known as “the four protective meditations”: recollection of the Buddha, the meditation on loving-kindness, contemplating the unattractive nature of the body, and mindfulness of death. The four are called “protective meditations” because each offers protection from a particular unwholesome tendency and reinforces a beneficial quality essential to the path.
June 2012

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Acharya Fleet Maull

Acharya Fleet Maull

Social Awakening: Realizing the Basic Goodness of Society

Social Awakenment

In this online meditation retreat, we will explore a contemplative path to social enlightenment or collective awakening, which calls us to transcend individualism and work together to create a more peaceful and sustainable society grounded in the realization of the innate goodness of all beings as well as the basic goodness of human society itself. May 2012

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Launch RetreatWisdom Collection - April 30, 2012