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Retreat Dharma Talks at Gaia House

Natural peace - Exploring Vastness of Awareness

Over this online course we explore the practices of vastness of awareness. Through these practices we may notice how the mind can appear to us in meditation as a bright, spacious, unshakable and sky-like space.

These expansive meditative states are revered as potent meditative vehicles and are described as containing all the noble qualities of mind and heart. Such beautiful perceptions support a natural and nourishing sense of compassion and samadhi to arise. From this basis we start opening to the freedom that comes through sensing the Empty malleable nature of phenomena, the self, and even awareness itself.

In this course we cultivate these meditative grounds through simple and practical exercises including listening and opening up the sense of awareness, as well as insight meditation practices. The course follows the Ways of Looking and Emptiness framework presented in Rob Burbea’s work Seeing that Frees.

2025-04-02 (57 days) Gaia House

  
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2025-04-02 Week 1, Part 1 - Simple Mettā Meditation for Settling 32:31
Yahel Avigur
2025-04-02 Week 1, Part 2 - Introduction to the Themes of the Course 31:20
Juha Penttilä
2025-04-02 Week 1, Part 3 - Opening to the Vastness of Awareness 28:08
Yahel Avigur
Guided Meditation
2025-04-09 Week 2, Part 1 - Samadhi & Vastness 33:14
Yahel Avigur
Teachings & Reflections
2025-04-09 Week 2, Part 2 - Anicca in the Context of the Vastness of Awareness 25:02
Juha Penttilä
Guided Meditation
2025-04-16 Week 3, Part 1 - Mettā-based Samadhi 30:12
Yahel Avigur
Guided Meditation
2025-04-16 Week 3, Part 2 - Teachings & Reflections 23:22
Juha Penttilä
2025-04-16 Week 3, Part 3 - Allowing into the Vastness 35:53
Yahel Avigur
Guided Meditation
2025-04-16 Week 3, Part 5 - Dana (Generosity) 4:36
Yahel Avigur, Juha Penttilä
2025-04-23 Week 4, Part 1 - Compassion-based Samadhi 30:24
Yahel Avigur
Guided Meditation
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