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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Our ways of looking are shaped by our views, our patterns of attention, our emotional states, inclinations, intentions and more. Working with these factors we can participate in seeing and sensing the self, others and the world in ways that are onward leading. This talk includes extracts from a practice diary working with a difficult sankhara that was shaping and coloring the perception.

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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Citta – at the heart of our experience. The wonders and challenges of the beast.

Examples of things Buddhists happily disagree with each other.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on the reality of our human vulnerability and the invitation to embrace this.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Hedonic tone (vedanā) as a feature of human experience is the major factor in governing involuntary attention – vedanā rules much of our attention. The reflections unpack the role of feeling tone on attention, intention and the cultivation of mindfulness. Learning to cultivate attention beyond gratification and avoidance and to uncouple attention from pleasant or unpleasant feeling tone.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Morning Instructions day 4.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Kafka and the girl with a lost doll.

Satipaṭṭhāna and Suttas in general – a little history.

Satipaṭṭhāna as a cartography of human expericence: the 'raw materials' to establish mindfulness in. (This is not the satipaṭṭhāna as exercise but their use as a map of the somatic, hedonic, affective and discursive aspects of mind.) This orientation helps greatly with the actual practice of satipatthana exercises outline elsewhere.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practicing resting in and receiving the loving attention of a loving figure.

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