Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Beginning by orienting to appreciation as a support for settling the body, heart and mind into well-being

(note: due to a technical glitch, the recording stopped after the first set of instructions and the ending instructions weren't included)

(Auckland Insight Meditation) The importance of cultivating dharma joy or well-being, which includes qualities such as ease, warmth, happpiness, contentment, gladness, delight, bliss, as supports for the path to freedom

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring how body sensations can be an early warning system that reactivity is taking over; and the benefits of bringing mind and body into harmony with each other

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Bringing awareness to how we're paying attention, allowing it to be relaxed and easy as we steady our mindfulness on the experience of breathing

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An overview of how the path cultivates clarity of mind, through mindfulness and knowing the obscurations.

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Establishing awareness of the body sitting, then experience of breathing, attuning to the rhythm of receiving and releasing, and gently letting go of involvement in thinking

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Short reflections on the preliminary processes of this retreat: orienting to steadiness and stability, and noticing what gets in the way; sensitising ourselves to the stress of self-referencing thought-patterns, and to the ease that becomes available when they're released.

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Cultivating stability as one of the beneficial conditions htat supports insight to arise

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Beginning by establishing a kind relationship to technology, then people on the screen, then settling into the body and orienting to ease

(Auckland Insight Meditation) How to approach the online retreat format