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Yanai Postelnik's Dharma Talks at Gaia House
Yanai Postelnik
Yanai Postelnik has been engaged in full-time dharma practice and service since 1990. He is inspired by the Thai forest tradition and nourished by time spent in nature, and has been teaching retreats around the world for over 25 years. Yanai is a member of the Guiding Teacher Council of Gaia House, in Devon, England, and of the Core Faculty of Insight Meditation Society, Massachusetts. Since 2018, Yanai has been engaged with Extinction Rebellion, seeking to bring about urgent change in the face of the climate and ecological emergency, in the service of all beings.
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2010-12-10 Opening Talk for Loving Kindness Weekend 48:16
This talk also includes Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Loving Kindness Weekend
2010-11-17 Investigation, Noble Uncertainty, Spiritual Inquiry 56:51
The awakening factor of investigation moves us to look deeply into our experience, acknowledging that there is always more to understand in the simplicity and mystery of being alive here and now. As we learn to bring a deep and open-hearted curiousity to our each moment and to our very existence itself, without taking any position on our self or this world, life can open to reveal the deepest truth of freedom.
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat
2010-11-11 Goodness and Joy : Uplifting the Heart 53:34
Spiritual practice rests on a deep trust in the fundamental wholesomeness of our hearts seeking for happiness. We can learn to honour the goodness of our core motivation, even as we recognise our need to deepen the skill and wisdom with which we pursue genuine wellbeing. This includes recognising the importance of connecting with that which brings joy to our heart as part of our spiritual practice, and honouring our own wholsesome qualities and actions.
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat
2010-11-07 Seasons of the Heart: the Third Foundation of Mindfulness 49:49
This talk reflects on ways of practicing skillfully with mind states and emotions. These sometimes challenging areas of experience are a gateway to deepening clarity and opening the heart, when met in the present moment with understanding, acceptance and kindness.
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat
2010-11-03 Inspiration and Ardency 34:52
Connecting with whatever inspires us is an essential part of practice and supports a sense of heartfelt purpose and energy in meditation, expressed as ardency. Rather than 'effort-ing' in practice, born of a sense of obligation or fear, the quality of ardency through which we are moved to engage with our spiritual journey wholeheartedly, is born out of energised love and a clear commitment to what we value and hold as most important in life.
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat
2010-10-29 The Heart of Dharma 52:52
In our hearts we all long to be released from the ongoing suffering inherent in unsuccessfully seeking satisfaction through sensory experience. The liberating heart of dharma is revealed when we come to rest in the realisation that what we are looking for has been right here all along.
Gaia House Awakening the Heart
2010-10-27 Vulnerability and Freedom 57:34
Recognising the insecurity of our life can compel us to endlessly seek control, or invite us to learn to be at ease with our vulnerability and enter it consciously as a gateway to freedom.
Gaia House Awakening the Heart
2010-10-24 Meditation Instructions - Walking and Sitting 58:13
These instructions also given by Leela Sarti
Gaia House Awakening the Heart
2010-10-23 Opening Talk for the Awakening Heart 38:57
This talk also includes Leela Sarti
Gaia House Awakening the Heart
2010-06-16 Love 53:43
Gaia House Insight Meditation - Awakening Love and Wisdom

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