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Retreat Dharma Talks at Gaia House

Liberating and Compassionate Ways of Looking

In this retreat we attend to our heart-mind and body with sensitivity and curiosity. Cultivating the heart’s capacity for kindness and compassion, we inquire into the Buddhist teachings as liberating ways of looking. Compassionate and transforming perspectives, when wholeheartedly engaged with, will reduce suffering and unveil the potential of the human heart.

We discover how experience is shaped and co-created by our ways of relating to what is unfolding in our inner and outer life. Establishing and deepening this insight can open possibilities of seeing and understanding that allows us to explore new, liberating ways of experiencing ourselves and the world. We may also recognize unexamined, habitual ways to perceive and interpret, along with their accompanying limiting narratives, dynamics and beliefs. Questioning and loosening these, we can sense what is possible for our heart-mind, its receptivity, intuitive intelligence and sense of wonder.

Important note: Yahel Avigur, co-teacher on this residential retreat, is teaching remotely. His teaching is projected via a livestream in the meditation hall.

2024-10-11 (8 days) Gaia House

  
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2024-10-14 Attuning to Spaciousness, 3 Exercises - Dharma Talk & Short Practice Exercises 43:02
Juha Penttilä
2024-10-15 Settling in Spaciousness 44:36
Yahel Avigur
2024-10-15 Boundless Kindness - Radiating Mettā in all Directions 44:25
Kirsten Kratz
2024-10-15 Suffering and Compassion 41:43
Juha Penttilä
Dharma Talk
2024-10-16 An Introduction to 'Not-Self' 38:39
Kirsten Kratz
2024-10-16 Not-Self 40:20
Yahel Avigur
2024-10-16 Turning Towards the Khandhas with Kindness & Disidentification 48:02
Juha Penttilä
Instructions & Guided Meditation
2024-10-17 Fading and the Selfless Nature of Things 39:48
Yahel Avigur
2024-10-17 Instructions - Guiding Your Own Practice 40:27
Juha Penttilä
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