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Retreat Dharma Talks at Gaia House

Awakening the Heart

2010-10-23 (7 days) Gaia House

  
2010-10-23 Opening Talk for the Awakening Heart 38:57
Yanai Postelnik
This talk also includes Leela Sarti
2010-10-24 The Turn 51:33
Leela Sarti
A talk on the liberating power of mindfulness and how to turn towards the teeming flow of experience in body, heart and mind and the capacity to be awakened by all things.
2010-10-24 Meditation Instructions - Walking and Sitting 58:13
Yanai Postelnik
These instructions also given by Leela Sarti
2010-10-26 Desire and the Sacred Impulse 46:04
Leela Sarti
There is more to desire than suffering. Can we make a gradual change in how we relate to desire, without rejecting our vitality but with a capacity to tolerate the inevitable failure of all grasping?
2010-10-27 Loving Kindness Guided Meditation 35:49
Leela Sarti
2010-10-27 Vulnerability and Freedom 57:34
Yanai Postelnik
Recognising the insecurity of our life can compel us to endlessly seek control, or invite us to learn to be at ease with our vulnerability and enter it consciously as a gateway to freedom.
2010-10-28 Inner Radiance 54:42
Leela Sarti
A talk about our innate goodness and the natural radiance of the mind; loving kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. The talk reflects on relationships and living with integrity.
2010-10-29 The Heart of Dharma 52:52
Yanai Postelnik
In our hearts we all long to be released from the ongoing suffering inherent in unsuccessfully seeking satisfaction through sensory experience. The liberating heart of dharma is revealed when we come to rest in the realisation that what we are looking for has been right here all along.
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