Please note, I will finish this when I come home next weekend!!
Saturday October 10, 2026
Part one, Orientation
This is your retreat! Go to the bathroom as needed, get a snack as needed. We will have breaks approximately every hour and 10 minutes. ...
The silence, the facility, and the staff of Insight Meditation Center(IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts and other meditation centers offer renewal and a sense of the true hearts release. IMS is a support for the resolution of deep seeded dukkha (suffering.) Deep ...
Review, Foundations of Meditation, Mindfulness, Class VI, September 15, 2026
This practice is about understanding suffering and the release of suffering. We do this by studying the mind and body through direct experience. Through this process we are ...
Check in
Review : causes and conditions; mindfulness of feeling leading to mindfulness of mind;
Example: Visiting my daughter Lenora in CT: she became extremely angry with us.
Have you ever had someone get mad at you? Really mad? How did you feel? ...
Foundation of Meditation, Mindfulness, Class IV, September 1, 2026. Check in, Review
Mindfulness is the great liberator. Without mindfulness, investigation and effort, we unconsciously experience patterns of mind that are cyclic. This is called samsara. ...
I. Check in, Review
Everything we experience is an opportunity for freedom from suffering. Either suffering is happening, and we are identifying causes and conditions for that, and then we are able to come out of that suffering through the practice of ...
Foundations of meditation, Class II, August 11, 2026
Check in: did everyone get the group email? Name; how did your meditation practice go this week?
Note about the book: Larry Rosenberg is is following the sutta: Mindfulness of breathing; Story: BagPiper ...
Foundations of Meditation Class I
Welcome and class orientation: Let’s treat this as a small community for the next 7 weeks. In the teachings of meditation, spiritual friendship is of the utmost value. We call the holy community of practitioners, this is ...
One Day Lovingkindness Retreat, Saturday, April 4, 2026
Review, three aspects of Noble Eightfold path: Morality, Concentration and Wisdom
Wisdom: Wise View and Wise Intention
View: Interdependence, karma, four truths, three characteristics
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Part I, Orientation and Presence, 9-130
Today’s retreat is an incredible opportunity! You are given a quiet space, with beautiful people, working towards freedom and love. We all need to love and to be loved. We all are on a quest to find the richness of ...
Buddha’s Quote on loving yourself :”You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire ...
Foundations of Meditation, Loving Kindness, Class III, March 2026, notes:
I. Review and tonight:
What we are here to do tonight is a more deeper dive into the suffering process and how we use mindfulness and loving kindness to alleviate ourselves of ...
