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"