(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) “As you call into the first, so the first answers’ How to approach your mediation object

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The challenge of attending and being mindful. Mindfulness (sati) and Attention (manasikāra) are different things. Attention comes in two forms: voluntary and involuntary attention.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Body as a construct. On touch (phassa) and touching and being touched (phusati). Differing senses create a different relationship - 'seeing', 'hearing' and 'touching' as analogies for attending to something create a different kind of relationship to ourselves. The visual is overdetermined, often at the expense of touch. Feeling the body as an experience of touch rather than being 'observed'.'.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) First morning instructions- inviting the body to be available to attention.

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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided Meditation on practicing with mind-states, both wholesome and unwholesome.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Metta stories, guided meditations...and sending well wishes to hyppopotamus.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Impermanence, Dukkha, and Not-Self

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A few words on establishing contact with reality and maintaining it and guided meditation.

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