The Practice of Meditation. This Retreat will focus on The Mahamudra Instructions of Tipun Pema Chogyal. This short text shows us how to identify and respond to the many kinds of obstacles that can occur in practice. The aim of the retreat is to enable us to maintain calm, clear awareness whatever occurs.

Dates: 7-14 July 2024

Martin Breuger and Robert are organising. Waldemar did the audio recordings. Reiner Steiner did the video recordings.

Index

"(00:00:00) Fragmentation - one thing many things"

"(00:10:56) The benefit of not being special"

"(00:17:30) Text - introducing vipassana"

"(00:25:29) Analysing the root of abiding and movement"

"(00:32:02) Practice - what is the essence of this abiding like"

"(00:33:40) Experiences of the essence of abiding"

"(00:36:56) Text - abiding - movement - awareness"

"(00:39:45) Reflections on abiding - movement - awareness practice"

"(00:56:17) Small Dharma study groups - learning by doing"

"(01:06:33) Text - the looker and the looked at"

"(01:13:04) Questions - awareness self-existing"

"(01:19:39) Subjectivity as an arising"

"(01:25:17) Question - border between self and other"

"(01:28:08) Text - free of assumption and its assertion"

"(01:32:53) Unawareness - an account"

"(01:44:07) Without even a name - the gurus kindness"

"(01:55:03) Analysis done by inherent awareness"

"(02:01:10) Question - teacher - opening the door"

"(02:03:20) Question - finding the way out of the jungle"

"(02:06:05) Question - into the outside world"

"(02:09:33) Question - implanting the view - transmission"

"(02:16:46) Text - identifying vipassana"

"(02:44:46) Discursive thought recognizing itself"

"(03:03:51) Sitting with an unpleasant thought"

"(03:04:38) Arising and vanishing"

"(03:13:00) Question - merging with the storyline"

"(03:16:39) Text - the best kindness"

"(03:29:33) Practice with whatever comes"

"(03:31:19) Available - no agenda"

"(03:31:54) Compassion inseparable from emptiness"

"(03:33:05) Question - outward effect of practice"

"(03:37:00) Text - analysis in terms of the three times"

"(03:49:57) Question - cutting the root"

"(03:56:58) Question - thinking about the future"

"(03:59:48) Question - prediction of place and date of death"

"(04:00:52) Question - enlightenment as motivation"

"(04:10:22) Text - no existence through birth cessation abiding"

"(04:38:34) Question - chair as just a concept"

"(04:39:46) Text - analysis in terms of things and no-things"

The Mahamudra Instructions of Tipun Pema Chogyal

Text in English at https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mahamudra-Instructions-Tipun-Pema-Chogyal-BT-31-01-2024.pdf

Text in German by Robert Jaroslawski at https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mahamudra_Tipun_Deutsch_V.1.5_Final-1-06-02-2024.pdf

Notes on Mahamudra by Padma Karpo

in English at https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Notes-on-Mahamudra-Padma-Karpo-JLow-27-02-2024.pdf

in German at https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Notes_on_Mahamudra_Padma-Karpo_German_RJ_V.1.11_Final.pdf

Again, Jonathan (Jon) Lever has usefully prepared the topics on each day of the retreat in separate recording snippets.

For a better understanding of the retreat, each day is separate so that you can follow the flow of the teaching in the correct chronological order.

Content also available at https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-records/the-practice-of-meditation-audio-berghof-july-2024/