(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Intro and guided meditation.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploration of Equanimity Brahmavihara and guided meditation.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practicing with mudita for an ease being and joy for self

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Inviting faith and wise effort to inspire our practice.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Instructions and guided meditation.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Inviting this warmth in meeting all that we are and cultivating kindness

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Finding a home base to steady our heart.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Learning to live life graceful poise.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Bodhicitta—the mind of awakening—is the aspiration to attain awakening for the benefit of all. Seeing our practice in this light can be a source of inspiration and counteract the tendency to self-centeredness. The talk discusses the historical development of the concept and explains what it means.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Upādāna in different Buddhist Teachings:

– Clinging as fuel for renewed becoming (punabbhava)

– Clinging in the 5 aggregates (khandha)

– Clinging in Dependent Arising (paṭiccasamuppadā)

– Clinging as four specific forms:

(i) kāmūpādāna – clinging to and identification with sensuality (“Seeking” experiences)

(ii) diṭṭhūpādāna – clinging to and identification with views (“Being right, being competent“)

(iii) sīlavaṭūpādāna – clinging to and identification with virtue, practices and ritual (“Having the

right technique“)

(iv) attavādūpādāna – clinging to and identification with doctrines of a self / Self (“Being

someone”)