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Retreat Dharma Talks at Gaia House

Practising Emptiness - From Not-Self to the Emptiness of All Things (online series)

Insight into the emptiness of self and of phenomena is a powerful vehicle for liberation on the Buddhist path.

Over this nine week course we explores a gradually deepening pathway of practice. Through cultivating subtlety of view, developing meditative sensitivity and skilful technique we can begin to understand experientially both these aspects of emptiness.
The qualities of acceptance and allowing form an initial meditative basis for our practice. Gradually, we turn to the anattā way of looking, gently relaxing identification with the aggregates — the levels of experience usually taken to be “me” or “mine.”

From this point we turn to see the world of experience as inseparable from the aggregates themselves, and to open into their emptiness, and by extension the emptiness of all things. This realisation invites a profound freedom, radiating from the nature of things.

The course follow the Ways of Looking and Emptiness framework presented in Rob Burbea’s book Seeing that Frees.

2026-02-19 (57 days) Gaia House

  
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2026-02-19 Wk 1, Pt 1, Welcome & Introduction; Short Guided Metta Practice 23:38
Juha Penttilä, Yahel Avigur
2026-02-19 Wk 1, Pt 2 - Talk - Practicing Insight 34:04
Yahel Avigur
2026-02-26 Wk 2, Pt 1 - Introduction; Short Guided Practice (Body): Easy Metta Practice 19:02
Yahel Avigur
2026-02-26 Wk 2, Pt 3 - Guided Practice 27:02: Same as Earth - Guided Meditation with the Elements 27:02
Yahel Avigur
2026-03-05 Wk 3, Pt 2 - Talk - Anatta: Relaxing Identification, the Practice of "Not in My Control" 35:59
Yahel Avigur
2026-03-12 Wk 4, Pt 1 - Introduction; Short Guided Practice : Metta to Experience 24:27
Yahel Avigur
2026-03-12 Wk 4, Pt 3 - Guided Practice - Liberating Relationship with Vedana 28:12
Yahel Avigur
2026-03-19 Wk 5, Pt 2 - Talk - Seeing Through Self-Views and Understanding the Fabrication and Fading of Self-Sense 39:08
Yahel Avigur
2026-03-26 Wk 6, Pt 1 - Introduction; Short Guided Practice - Kindly Settling In 24:07
Yahel Avigur
2026-03-26 Wk 6, Pt 3 - Guided Practice - Anatta: Part of Nature 32:48
Yahel Avigur
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