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Retreat Dharma Talks at SanghaSeva

Mettā and Samādhi

A retreat offered online for Tovana (Israel Insight Society). This retreat is bilingual Hebrew (Zohar) and English (Nathan)

2020-08-05 (4 days) SanghaSeva

  
2020-08-05 Guided Meditation Opening the Metta And Samadhi Retreat 43:20
Nathan Glyde
2020-08-05 Hebrew - Metta and Samadhi 59:33
Zohar Lavie
In Hebrew: Exploring how metta and samadhi co-create conditions and experiences of non-dukkha. How metta reveals intimacy, and expresses non-demanding. And how samadhi tunes us beyond our habitual capacities, so we can linger in what is deeply okay, and open into liberating well-being.
2020-08-06 Hebrew - Day 1 Instructions - Wide Body Awareness And Attending With The Breath 62:02
Zohar Lavie
In Hebrew
2020-08-06 Hebrew - Guided Mettā to Easy Person, Self and All Beings 44:23
Zohar Lavie
In Hebrew
2020-08-06 Opportunities for Samadhi and Metta 50:37
Nathan Glyde
Drawing the hindrances towards samadhi. Exploring how we can find ways to ease greed and aversion by relating to them as energy, rather than as content and story. Based around the insight that all obstacles to practice arise in our ways of relating. And remembering there is always a possibility for another way of relating, leads us towards the liberation of possibilities.
2020-08-07 Day 2 Instructions - Inviting In Ease And Well Being 57:35
Nathan Glyde
Two radical non-habitual approaches: lingering with what is perceived as pleasant, and bringing kindness to what is perceived as unpleasant.
2020-08-07 Guided Mettā to Easy, Self, Neutral and All 44:01
Nathan Glyde
Getting deeply familiar with the felt-sense of wishing well-being and kindness, and allowing ourselves to be deeply touched as we wish particular aspects: clarity of mind; health in body; peacefulness; at-home-ness in our bodies and in the world; contentment; joy; and profound ease and freedom with all things.
2020-08-08 Hebrew - Day 3 Instructions - Mettā to All Kinds of Phenomena 60:12
Zohar Lavie
In Hebrew
2020-08-08 Closing Talk - Metta and Samadhi into the Whole of our Life and World 33:59
Nathan Glyde
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