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Retreat Dharma Talks at Gaia House

The Nearest Freedom

All the teachings of the Buddha demonstrate how to attain freedom by reducing habitual reactivity. The insight teaching of vedanā offers one of the most direct methods for achieving this freedom. There is no exact English equivalent for vedanā. It is the unavoidable subconscious process that assigns a feeling of pleasure or distress to phenomena as they enter consciousness. When we accept these feelings as truth, we become trapped in habitual reactivity. During this retreat, we will investigate the profound freedom that arises when we recognise vedanā as vedanā.

2024-01-17 (5 days) Gaia House

  
2024-01-17 Opening Session - Overview of Vedanā & Potentials of Practice 16:39
Nathan Glyde
2024-01-18 Patience: It's Like This 24:52
Nathan Glyde
Meditation Instruction
2024-01-18 Patience: It's Like This 24:49
Nathan Glyde
Guided Practice
2024-01-18 Walking Meditation Instruction 3:46
Nathan Glyde
2024-01-18 Opening the Range 48:10
Zohar Lavie
Dharma Talk
2024-01-19 Tolerance: This Too 58:36
Zohar Lavie
Meditation Instruction
2024-01-19 An Empty Dance with Vedanā 64:41
Nathan Glyde
Dharma Talk
2024-01-20 Playing: How and What we Attend 56:24
Nathan Glyde
Meditation Instruction
2024-01-20 Samadhi, with Benefits of Insight in Vedanā 43:41
Zohar Lavie
Guided Practice
2024-01-20 Bringing Insight into the Worldly and Unworldly 49:21
Zohar Lavie
Dharma Talk
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