Arinna Weisman

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023

Arinna gives a dharma talk on renunciation:

"There's something quite honourable about each of us in our struggle because it is the struggle that becomes the conditions for awakening"

This dharma talk is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ9DSuiFR5o

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023

Arinna leads a guided meditation:

"Whatever we find in this moment becomes the invitation to call in our presence, our kindness, our effort, our compassion, our discernment"

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023

Arinna leads a guided loving kindness (metta) meditation:

"We call on the intuition that knows we are always deserving of love, especially when we feel imperfect in our responses to ourself, or to life. It's easy to use the teachings as a way to criticize ourselves or compare ourselves or judge ourselves, and the antidote to this is the practice of metta"

This recording is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab7imbDrdSs

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023

Arinna leads a guided meditation:

"The Buddha said that the root of our suffering is in the dynamic of wanting, not wanting, or confusion. And believing that whatever we are wanting — even in our meditation practice — is the right thing to want. But, if the dynamic or the experience of the meditation is being driven by wanting or not wanting, then that isn't freedom"

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023

Arinna gives an introduction to practice for new meditators and then leads a guided meditation:

"In our own words, how would we like to meet ourselves? Not just as this person in this moment that might feel solid and a little separate, but as a wild and beautiful expression of nature, and of community"

This recording is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD7zdkcrjyA

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023

Arinna leads the refuges:

"So maybe for today, it's just the perfect amount of time to come together and connect with each other, and hear each other, and reflect back to each other what is lovely about ourselves. And that is one of the most important refuges that the Buddha talked about"

This recording is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkkhyWbMrUw

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023

Arinna gives a dharma talk on patience:

"And we could say then how deep patience is rooted in the heart's calling for healing and peace and awakening, because without patience, we're caught in the habitual stream of reactivity — and we know that anytime we are, the consequence of that is always harming"

This dharma talk is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEYwVDUGnKU

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023

Arinna opens the two-day retreat with a guided meditation:

"We don't have to go anywhere else really, but just to say this hello — 'I’m here'. Acknowledging the different sensations that are being communicated, another form of greeting. Awareness greets the sensations of the life of the body"

New Year's Retreat in Colfax: Entering Our Lives with Awareness and Loving Kindness, with Arinna Weisman and Melissa Coats, Dec 27, 2022 - Jan 1, 2023

Arinna gives a dharma talk on equanimity and learning to hold what we've been given to heal:

"Sometimes when it's one wounding on top of another on top of another, that it feels like — for some of us at least — the fabric is torn enough that it isn't ever fully sewn back together. But, how that torn fabric is held has totally changed. Because often I feel beautiful, even with the torn fabric. And that's where equanimity is — is in that grace of holding what is torn"

This dharma talk is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfs9iD-KaZg

New Year's Retreat in Colfax: Entering Our Lives with Awareness and Loving Kindness, with Arinna Weisman and Melissa Coats, Dec 27, 2022 - Jan 1, 2023

Arinna gives morning instructions, followed by a brief guided meditation:

"Here's my question to us: how can we honor ourselves by offering ourselves a vision, without that vision triggering our shame? How can we? Because I know when we think about liberating ourselves from capitalism, changing the structures of homophobia, racism, classism, ableism, xenophobia — just to name a few — there's no shame in that vision of co-creating cultures and structures that are deeply respectful of our beautiful selves"

This recording is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsmqSFChn8U