The Insight Meditation Society’s Forest Refuge supports the practice of more experienced meditators on personal retreat. Our teachers provide guidance and support in insight and lovingkindness practices drawn from the Buddhist meditative tradition. Please visit dharma.org for more information.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The presentation of the satipatthana is of experience divided between ‘me' and ‘the world'. Through practice, we see through this boundary and undertake the responsibility of participating in and co-generating a reality rooted in Dhamma.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) 1) priorities for lay practice- recollections to establish steady orientation to Dhamma; 2) mindfulness when talking and using computers etc.; 3) energy, qi, Anapanasati and integration of energy; 4) on chasing the unicorn; 5) wisdom and samadhi; 6) mudita, rapture (piti) and stability; 7) contemplating the arising of the ‘me' sense, dependent on phenomena.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Based on a heart that integrates around goodwill, key features of letting go arise. These are a successive process of disengagement, dispassion, cessation and release (or relinquishment). For example bitterness and guilt can be felt as they are and move on.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The renunciate quality of retreat removes our psychological cushions. Therefore soothing, not intensity, is needed. Gaining health and psychological flex, we can disband the fantasies that haunt the heart.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Touch sense establishes relationship and presence within the shared field. When this is safe, citta can unfold, and we re-form.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Through consciousness, boundaries form between subject and object; thus, me and the world. Through the stress of that, the me closes into a bag. Defense and acquisition strategies. Heart (citta) is not consciousness and can turn away from creating the same me bag. This is through regulating inner-outer sensitivities to a harmonious whole.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Effort is the engagement of heart with a topic. In satipatthana, the engagement is with body as an intelligent entity. When heart meets the ‘spinal sense' there is resolve and stability.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A review of the Satipatthana as a holistic practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How precepts and understanding support environmental balance
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Wise reflection - advice from the Buddha to Mohanama
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Advice from the Buddha on some ways of cultivating wise attention to feed/support wholesome qualities of mind, and starve the unwholesome habits
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The ups and downs of experience in our practice is completely normal - an encouragement that all is the path.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Awareness of thinking
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Awareness of kilesa with right attitude
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Right View - Attitude in mind that's aware
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided meditation, silent sitting, and further reflections
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Equanimity can be a dynamic balancing between the ups and downs of our lives. We also explore working with worry and the joy and wonder of equanimity.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Practice "being equally near" all aspects of our bodies, minds, and emotions.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Equanimity and the Brahma-viharas balance each other and bring about their full expression.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Meditation with Sympathetic Joy
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Using "So Much Happiness" by Naomi Shihab Nye, we explore how releasing the sense of self allows unbounded happiness to emerge.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided meditation on Sympathetic Joy, including self, dear one, and friend whom you are envious of.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Sympathetic Joy sometimes reveals its opposite, such as envy or jealousy. This can be a gift that grows into wisdom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) When we relax the thinking mind, a natural joy is revealed, independent of the conditions of our lives.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Compassion meditation with the body and breath.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Compassion can be freed of patterns of codependency. We learn to trust suffering as a teacher.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Begining with the body, offering compassion to all aspects, including mind and emotions.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The movement of compassion between the personal and universal helps us when our hearts are closed and when overwhelmed.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Bring the vastness of the earth and spaciousness of air in offering metta to all aspects of ourselves and all beings.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring how to not hold hatred in our hearts using this sutta.
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