Arinna Weisman

The Present Moment and the Doorway to Clarity, Love and Joy: Weekend Online Meditation Retreat - Tucson Community Meditation Center, April 29th - 30th, 2022

Arinna gives morning instructions on the power of intention, followed by a guided meditation:

"The theme of this day is beginning again and we'll be exploring through the day the different conditions that support us to come back to begin again. And, the very beginning of the beginning — the ground of being for the returning to ourselves — is placing ourselves in the understanding that we are a sacred being always deserving of love; that we have been given Buddha nature, the capacity to heal, to practice the path and to be transformed by the path"

The Present Moment and the Doorway to Clarity, Love and Joy: Weekend Online Meditation Retreat - Tucson Community Meditation Center, April 29th - 30th, 2022

Arinna leads a brief guided loving kindness (metta) meditation:

"No matter what we have said or done or felt or thought, in each moment we are deserving of love"

The Present Moment and the Doorway to Clarity, Love and Joy: Weekend Online Meditation Retreat - Tucson Community Meditation Center, April 29th - 30th, 2022

Arinna gives a dharma talk on taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha:

"Part of taking refuge is this understanding that we actually are not solitary individuals. Part of taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha is acknowledging that just like trees, there is this energetic root system that connects us all"

The Present Moment and the Doorway to Clarity, Love and Joy: Weekend Online Meditation Retreat - Tucson Community Meditation Center, April 29th - 30th, 2022

Arinna opens the weekend retreat with a guided meditation:

"We're practicing beginning again, all together. It might be helpful to connect with your willingness to be open: 'I would like to be open to myself right now, to care, to companion myself, or stand by myself'"

Lotus Insight Sangha - Online Day of Mindfulness: Learning to Let Go, April 9th, 2022

Arinna closes the day-long retreat with guided loving kindness (metta) meditation:

"No matter how many times we have acted out of greed, out of hatred or delusion — no matter how many times we have hurt ourselves or others, in this moment and in all moments that come after this moment — we are always deserving of love. And we access this love through the gateway of forgiveness"

Lotus Insight Sangha - Online Day of Mindfulness: Learning to Let Go, April 9th, 2022

Arinna gives a dharma talk on the Three Poisons of greed, hatred, and delusion, and their antidote: forgiveness and love:

"But to hold the dynamic in love — to forgive it over and over again — is to create the very opposite of that tightening and fixing, is to begin to open and allow. And in the environment of opening and allowing, things begin to come into balance, heal and integrate"

Lotus Insight Sangha - Online Day of Mindfulness: Learning to Let Go, April 9th, 2022

Arinna leads a guided meditation and then gives brief morning instructions to open the retreat:

"It might be that we find ourselves in the stream where the mind is soft and open and resilient. Or, it might be that we're in a place of struggle and contraction. Neither is better than the other, because the experience is the experience of the river of coming and going. How we relate to it is where the healing happens"

Lotus Insight Sangha - Online Day of Mindfulness: Learning to Let Go, April 9th, 2022

Arinna opens the day of mindfulness by contextualizing taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha:

"So when we take refuge in the Buddha, that's what we're taking refuge in — that like him and other other beings who attained the equivalent of Buddhahood, like Kuan Yin or Tara — we too have that capacity. And, even when there's some doubt as you hear that, your doubt isn't as big as that unworded intuition that it's true. Because otherwise, you wouldn't be in this room. So, we take refuge in that heritage, in that possibility, and in the moments that we have already experienced which indicate something larger than the normal habitual minds that we live with — we take refuge in that."

Online Teaching with Insight Community of the Desert, Mar 13, 2022. The second installment in a series on the Five Training Precepts.

Arinna Weisman joins this day to give a dharma talk on The Second Precept: not taking what is not freely given:

"Sometimes when we talk about The Precepts, [they] are often framed a little bit like the Ten Commandments traditionally — it's easy to forget that the heart of The Precepts are about this acknowledgement that we have the capacity to be free"

Online Teaching with Insight Community of the Desert, Mar 13, 2022. The second installment in a series on the Five Training Precepts. This day, Arinna joins us to speak to the Second Precept: Not taking what is not freely given.

Arinna Weisman leads a guided meditation preceding the dharma talk.