Arinna Weisman

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: Deepening into the Heart of Love and Freedom with Noliwe Alexander, Lama Rod Owens, MA, Arinna Weisman, Katy Wiss and Melvin L. Escobar, LCSW, RYT

Describing part of my personal journey in discovering the truth of the teachings of the Dhamma

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/63226

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: Deepening into the Heart of Love and Freedom with Noliwe Alexander, Lama Rod Owens, MA, Arinna Weisman, Katy Wiss and Melvin L. Escobar, LCSW, RYT

Guided meditation, calling in presence and kindness.

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/63219

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: Deepening into the Heart of Love and Freedom with Noliwe Alexander, Lama Rod Owens, MA, Arinna Weisman, Katy Wiss and Melvin L. Escobar, LCSW, RYT

Retreat opening with the teachers offering the refuges and precepts.

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/63217

Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2)

Our capacity to hold through and stay with our experience as it is, is the grounds of insight. When the mind feels relatively stable, we are invited to open up and allow whatever’s arising to arise. In this guided practice period, we open to and acknowledge the whole of our experience and our relationship to it.

Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2)

By orienting our perception to the three marks of existence — anicca, anatta, and dukkha — our heart and mind begin to open and transform the way we relate to life as it expresses itself.

Morning instruction followed by guided meditation.

Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2)

Mindfulness has two aspects. General comprehension understands the purpose and suitability of what we’re doing, while bare attention is the remembering to be present.

Talk ends with guided instruction on a mindful movement practice Arinna learned in a Thai monastery.

Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2)

"In these times, where there’s a weighty expression of ignorance and a turning towards an intensification of greed, and of hatred, it sometimes feels like that’s so overwhelming that there is no path. And yet there is. Cultivating joy is a beautiful antidote to that place we come to when we feel like there isn’t a path — and there is."

Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2)

The first three foundations of mindfulness are about knowing the experience as mental objects. Whether it’s a body sensation, thought, feeling, or feeling tone, we are invited to note both when they arise and when they are absent. In the fourth foundation, we are invited to acknowledge our experience in a larger framework through the lenses of: the hindrances, the five aggregates, the six sense spheres, and the four noble truths.