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2022-04-11 Week 5 - Guided Meditation 27:09
Laura Bridgman
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Intention, effort & stabilising.
Gaia House :  Foundations of Dharma practice: what the Buddha taught.

2022-04-10 The Sister Selā Discourse 1:18:38
Zohar Lavie
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This session starts with a guided meditation (30 mins). Followed by a reflection on the Sister Sela sutta. The latter part is a questions and response session. For privacy, the questions have not been recorded, but it should still make sense.
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - Apr 2022

2022-04-09 Dharma Talk : Passivity and Activity 30:09
Jaya Rudgard
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What are we doing on retreat, and why? Reflections on how times of retreat are relevant to the whole of our life.
Gaia House :  Stillness Moving: The Play of Opposites

2022-04-08 Instructions & Guided Meditation : Rooted in 'Middleness' 57:01
Kirsten Kratz
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As we quieten the noise of aversion and grasping, some stillness and calm can arise in the spacious welcoming of our experience. We can start to feel a freeing of the heart from our often limiting agendas and sense that heart-mind can stay open, connected and engaged, even when we struggle or are not in control.
Gaia House :  Stillness Moving: The Play of Opposites

2022-04-07 Dharma Talk : "From Either-Or" to "Neither-Nor" 49:16
Kirsten Kratz
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The teachings on the Middle Way, in their different expression, all point to a dynamic, responsive balance that aims to avoid skewing to any side of a perceived polarity. They do not imply a "being stuck in the middle", nor do they promise that we can eventually find a place to land, settle and discover freedom in taking a side in any duality. The teachings on the Middle Way keep us on our feet, questioning, opening, refining. They reveal and offer the liberating perception of "Neither-Nor".
Gaia House :  Stillness Moving: The Play of Opposites

2022-04-07 Guided Meditation: No Preference 43:24
Kirsten Kratz
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A guided meditation inviting us to be wth our experience without aversion or clinging, staying open to whatever is arsing in our awareness. Acknowledging that at times we identify and then soldify and even calcify around a position or way of seeing, we explore if it is possible to engage and take a clear ethical stance, without falling into the trap of extreme polarisation. Attending to experience in this way can potentially soften, calm, and mute our habitual reactions.
Gaia House :  Stillness Moving: The Play of Opposites

2022-04-07 Instructions & Lightly Guided Meditation 51:03
Jaya Rudgard
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Feeling tone (vedana), reactivity and spaciousness.
Gaia House :  Stillness Moving: The Play of Opposites

2022-04-06 Dharma Talk: The Experience of "Selfing" - Finding a Middle Way. 45:35
Jaya Rudgard
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How can we navigate through the extremes we encounter in experiencing and perceiving "ourself"? Can we let all parts belong, none of it ‘me’ or ‘not me’ ?
Gaia House :  Stillness Moving: The Play of Opposites

2022-04-06 Instructions & Guided Meditation 53:01
Jaya Rudgard
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Softening the mind's tendency to polarise: the cultivation of friendliness and good will as an antidote to reactivity.
Gaia House :  Stillness Moving: The Play of Opposites

2022-04-06 Instructions & Guided Meditation: Softening Contraction - Bridging the Gap 54:58
Kirsten Kratz
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Paying attention we will recognise how irritation, fear, anger etc lead to contraction that will feed and strengthen the perception of polarities and "either-or". Can we see this is happening, without judgement? Can we open and soften to this with kindness, curiosity, humour and a spacious attitude, thus diminishing the creation of dualities?
Gaia House :  Stillness Moving: The Play of Opposites

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