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Retreat Dharma Talks

Jhanas, Insight & Dependent Origination

This retreat combines the two main elements of the Buddha’s model of liberation: cultivating the meditative absorptions (jhanas), which lead to calm and clarity; and using the concentrated mind to gain insight into the nature of reality.

We explore the insight practices given in the famous Satipatthana Sutta and we also delve extensively into the Buddha’s teaching of the dependent origination (paticca samuppada) of phenomena.

2024-11-22 (11 days) Gaia House

  
2024-11-22 Introduction, Precepts, Access to Concentration Instructions 40:55
Leigh Brasington, Matt Harvey
2024-11-23 The Buddha's Awakening, the Four Noble Truths, and the Eight-Fold Path 56:26
Leigh Brasington
2024-11-24 Working with the Five Hindrances 53:06
Leigh Brasington
2024-11-25 The (first) Four Jhanas 54:33
Leigh Brasington
2024-11-26 Fruits of Spiritual Life (the gradual training) 61:19
Leigh Brasington
2024-11-27 The Immaterial States (the higher jhanas) 44:46
Leigh Brasington
2024-11-28 Dependent Origination 57:43
Leigh Brasington
2024-11-29 The Honeyball Sutta 37:42
Leigh Brasington
2024-11-30 Emptiness 65:14
Leigh Brasington
2024-12-01 Nibbana 62:58
Leigh Brasington
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