Retreat Dharma Talks
at Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland
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Everything Leans–Interconnection and Emptiness on the Path of Freedom
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| Insight meditation retreat exploring dependent origination, emptiness, and fabrication, by inclining perception towards liberating ways of looking. |
2018-12-01 (8 days)
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland
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2018-12-02
The Way We Look Shapes What We See
39:48
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Nathan Glyde
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There is always a little more we can see, and a little more we can learn; especially about how our way of looking is shaping what we see. There is always a way of looking shaping our view, there is no neutral mode, so we don't ever see the world passively. Understanding this brings a deepening understanding of liberation.
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2018-12-03
Anything Can Be a Hindrance or a Teaching
50:33
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Nathan Glyde
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The 5 hindrances to deep ease are ways of looking at and relating with the world. By adjusting our view and creatively participating in the fabrication of body-heart-mind we can get free of these common entanglements of dukkhā.
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2018-12-05
Everything Changes But You
41:08
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Nathan Glyde
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Some very obvious things need to be looked at with more honest clarity; One of those is our sense of self. It just seems so obvious, practically undeniable, that “I am”. Yet a separate self is impossible to find; what a paradox.
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2018-12-07
An Appropriate Response
44:57
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Nathan Glyde
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Emptiness doesn't imply detachment, or that another's suffering doesn't matter. Understanding emptiness and Dependent Origination liberates love from self-concern, and opens wise ways to interact with and change the world. "The Sūtra says that outer things are not at all real – it is the mind that manifests in various ways. This teaching that dismisses outer forms was only a device to counteract the strong attachment that we have to things." –Chandrakīrti
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