Retreat Dharma Talks
at SanghaSeva
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Metta and Emptiness - Online
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| An online version our Emptiness and Metta retreat. Teachings and practices in Hebrew (by Zohar) and English (by Nathan). |
2020-04-10 (6 days)
SanghaSeva
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2020-04-10
Opening Talk - Metta and Emptiness
39:19
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Nathan Glyde
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Introducing the main concept of this retreat: sankhara-fabrication. In particular the insight that experience is 'made up' from an object in attention and an atmosphere of attention. The latter we could call the way of relating, or way of looking (as Rob Burbea teaches it). We can pay attention to different objects, and that affects expereince. We can also develop ('bhavana' = cultivate) other atmospheres or modes of attending.
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2020-04-11
Day 1 Instructions - Welcoming Body in a Spacious Awareness
54:31
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Nathan Glyde
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Supporting steadiness, openness, and dedication in our practice. Via a spread and open awareness that is intentionally receiving–inviting–the present body sensations into the spacious awareness. Our dedication is to stay steady with it, and to re-open and re-invite, when our attention, naturally, moves away. All of this is done with a gentle atmosphere of metta–kindness.
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2020-04-11
Hebrew - What is Metta?
46:40
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Zohar Lavie
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Talk in Hebrew, about how experience is fabricated. Particularly by the way of relating of 'firing the second arrow' of 'dukkha' towards what is difficult, and how we can find a more appropriate and liberating response via a 'metta' way of relating.
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2020-04-12
Easing Escalation
43:28
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Nathan Glyde
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Skilfully meeting the hindrances to meditation and to well-being in life, by understanding the dependent origination of experience: particularly fabrication (escalation–papancha, etc.) based on reactivity to unseen vedana.
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