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Akincano Marc Weber's Dharma Talks
Akincano Marc Weber
Akincano Marc Weber (Switzerland) is a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist. He learned to sit still in the early eighties as a Zen practitioner and later joined monastic life in Ajahn Chah’s tradition where he studied and practiced for 20 years in the Forest monasteries of Thailand and Europe. He has studied Pali and scriptures, holds a a degree in Buddhist psychotherapy and lives with his wife in Cologne, Germany from where he teaches Dhamma and meditation internationally.
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2025-04-02 Brahmavihāra – Introduction to the four immeasurables. Guided Mettā Exercise. 40:46
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The Four Immeasurables. Brahmavihāra are not mere emotions but constitute different tones of relational empathetic resonance. They constitute nothing less but our humanity. Brahmavihāras are cultivations not just 'states'. They are more than empathy but intentntional attitudes.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW
2025-04-02 Morning reflection: Cultivating voluntary attention: Relating to one's patterns, voices, habits. 44:21
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The workings of not-knowing – the workings of attentional habits. Involuntary attentional patterns seem to govern much of our experience. Yet training is possible, training is needed. Such training entails acknowledgement, attentional tasks and specificity. Negotiating pain.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW
2025-04-01 In Praise of Unification 58:33
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About the value of samatha – the practice of stillness – and samādhi – the state of unification brought about by samatha practice. Terminology: Why concentration is a bad word for either samatha or samādhi. What the diffence of attention and mindfulness is. The intrinsic value of unification, its relationship to vipassanā. Four reasons why Buddhist traditions value the practice of stilling the mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW
2025-01-06 Morning Reflection: 4 Tasks of Satipaṭṭhāna & 4 Dimensions of contemplative practice 54:19
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Naming the tasks of the individual satipaṭṭhāna channel; psychological map of the contemplative territory. (Including some common hangups)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2025-01-05 Guided Mettā–Forgiveness- Gratitude Meditation (no phrases) 43:58
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Guided practice on the themes of mettā, gratitude, connectedness, and forgiveness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2025-01-04 Metaphors of realisation: Sudden and Gradual 1:10:58
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How do we make ourselves growth and realisation? Tracing the historical, psychological and Two sources of valid forms of knowlege: – Paccakkha "before the eye," i.e. 'perceptible to the senses' 'direct experience'. – Anvaya – 'inference' History of Sudden & Gradual. Aside of the the historical background, these terms have taken on a metaphorical meaning: the talk looks at how these metaphors chart the path of practice, their respective analogies and their images, their framing of the probleme and their respective values and drawbacks. – May these metaphors ultimately have their bases in the differeing mind functions of samādhi (gradual) and sati (sudden)? The speaker, despite little canonical evidence, thinks so.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2025-01-03 Morning reflection on Contemplation of mind states (cittānupassanā). 52:40
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Citta – at the heart of our experience. The wonders and challenges of the beast. Examples of things Buddhists happily disagree with each other.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2025-01-02 Reflections on vedanā (hedonic tone) and guided practice 43:39
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Hedonic tone (vedanā) as a feature of human experience is the major factor in governing involuntary attention – vedanā rules much of our attention. The reflections unpack the role of feeling tone on attention, intention and the cultivation of mindfulness. Learning to cultivate attention beyond gratification and avoidance and to uncouple attention from pleasant or unpleasant feeling tone.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2025-01-01 Kafka – Love, Loss and the Satipaṭṭhāna 68:20
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Kafka and the girl with a lost doll. Satipaṭṭhāna and Suttas in general – a little history. Satipaṭṭhāna as a cartography of human expericence: the 'raw materials' to establish mindfulness in. (This is not the satipaṭṭhāna as exercise but their use as a map of the somatic, hedonic, affective and discursive aspects of mind.) This orientation helps greatly with the actual practice of satipatthana exercises outline elsewhere.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2024-12-31 Different kinds of Attention; their role and relationship to Mindfulness 56:54
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The challenge of attending and being mindful. Mindfulness (sati) and Attention (manasikāra) are different things. Attention comes in two forms: voluntary and involuntary attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

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