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2024-01-13 | Day 3 | Satipatthana Intensive | Joy and the Factors for Awakening | Joel Barna

00:00:26 - Joy and the Factors for Awakening

00:14:06 - Joel Offers An Activity - Please See below for Details

00:16:55 - Joel Invites Reflections in Response to the Exercise

00:26:19 - Joel Reads from Page 30 of the Chant Book - Instructions for Zazen

00:35:48 - Joel Invites Comments and Thoughts

00:40:04 - Satipatthana Meditation 'Awakening'

Exercise - 20 minutes total:

In small groups: Sit for five minutes, and consider whether you feel within yourself any or all of the factors of awakening, - which are • mindfulness, • desire for investigation-of-dharmas, • energy, • joy, • tranquillity, • concentration, • equipoise.

There is no wrong answer -- it's just an investigation.

Then take a two minutes each to share your perceptions.

Then use the rest of the time to talk about what you heard from your group mates, and maybe about the fact that all of us have what we need for awakening.

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00:00:26 - Dharma Talk - Mental Formations

00:23:20 - Questions and Comments

00:33:23 - Joel Offers the Next Exercise - (See Below for Instructions)

Exercise - Total time 20 minutes:

Sit for 5 minutes. At first, pay attention to your mental states and take note when they involve either grasping (lust) or aversion (anger). Note how such states show up in the body. For the last minute or so turn your attention to the spacious big mind that such thoughts arise in. See if your body and mind feel different

- take 2 minutes each to share your experience with others in your group

- Use the remaining time to reflect back what you have heard from others

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2024-01-12 | Day 2/Part 2 | Satipatthana Intensive | Joel Barna

00:00:21 - dharma Talk - Satipatthana Intensive 'Feeling Tones'

00:37:00 - Questions and Comments

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00:00:27 - Dharma Talk

00:13:10 - 1st Exercise - Kim Describes the Exercise 'I Am Sitting’. (Please See Below for Instructions)

00:15:28 - 2nd Exercise - 20 Minute meditation with Analyo 'Anatomy - Satipatthana'

00:35:11 - Part 2 - Elements and Space

00:54:42 - Exercise - For 4 minutes contemplate the 4 elements: wind, fire, water and earth . ( See Exercise 3 Below)

01:00:06 - Reflections on the 4 Elements Exercise

Day 2 Exercises:

I Am Sitting Exercise 1

For 4 minutes say to yourself "I am sitting"

At first it may be hard and gradually make it soft. Then as ;you soften, say to yourself, "I am sitting, but this time being awake as when you walk outside to a blue sky and a cool breeze. And after enjoying that continue to say I am sitting, but this time become present to the glorious space you've become.

Now take the remaining time to share one at a time your SAP experience. Soft...Awake...Presence

About 3-4 minutes each depending on the size of your group.

Exercise 3 -

4 minutes contemplate the 4 elements: wind, fire, water and earth . Take about 4 minutes each to talk about where you went on this miraculous journey.

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2024-01-11 | Day 1 | Satipatthana Intensive | Joel Barna

00:00:26 - Joel Opens up the intensive and offers Guidelines

00:02:55 - Book Mentioned - Satipatthana Meditation A Practice Guide - Analayo

00:12:41 - A Reading from the Satipatthana Sutra

00:38:53 - Joel brings the Readings to a Close

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2024-01-14 | Precepts Ceremony 2024 | Joel Barna

Partipants discuss Case 14, Attendant Huo Offers Tea:

Attendant Huo asked Deshan, “Where have all the past saints gone?”

Deshan said, “What? What?”

Huo said, “I gave the command for an excellent horse like a flying dragon to spring forth, but there came out only a lame tortoise.”

Deshan was silent.

The next day, when Deshan came out of the bath, Huo served him tea.

Deshan passed his hand gently over Huo's back.

Huo said, “This old fellow has gotten a glimpse for the first time.”

Again, Deshan was silent.

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