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Retreat Dharma Talks at Gaia House

Meeting Uncertainty with Wisdom and Courage: Perennial Teachings for a Changing World

2,600 years ago the Buddha offered us responsive ways of relating to our dynamic, unreliable, and interrelated world. These treatments of the human condition are as relevant now as they were then. They draw attention to inconstancy and stress, not for fatalistic acceptance and withdrawal, but rather as an invitation to sensitively tend to the creative process of life.

Insights are an invitation to change how we relate. For it is through ways of relating that we radically transform our lives: either by contracting experience in dukkha and distress or by opening towards freedom and the true heart’s release.

2021-06-04 (6 days) Gaia House

  
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2021-06-07 Guided Appreciative Joy Meditation with Intro 42:31
Zohar Lavie
Muditā meditation
2021-06-07 Anicca Brings Possibilities 40:35
Zohar Lavie
2021-06-08 Day 4 - Instructions: A Vast Awareness 54:49
Zohar Lavie
Equanimous and spacious, we can allow all things to arise and pass within a calm and sensitive awareness.
2021-06-08 Guided Equanimity Practice with Intro 42:33
Nathan Glyde
The fourth of the brahmavihārās, Upekkhā, is a well rooted flexibility; a deeply steady openness; a kindly unshaken intimacy with all things.
2021-06-08 The All of the All is Fabricated 54:57
Nathan Glyde
Maintaining a deep practice across the whole of our life is supported by wisdom and clear intention, and those are rooted well in an understanding of the dependent origination of dukkha and release.
2021-06-09 Path Making: A Transition and Continuation 37:40
Nathan Glyde
A review of the practices, and ways we can keep them going, and developing onwards in new creative ways.
2021-06-09 Sharing the Benefits 6:12
Zohar Lavie
The last meditation of the retreat: feeling into the benefits of our time of practice, and wishing them to be a support that can touch all beings: especially those who really need the peace and calm, the kindness and compassion, the clarity and wisdom at this time.
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