(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A teaching for humans, suffering or its end. Asking the world to give us more than it can. Letting be, a gateway to Nibbana.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Five skills to overcome obsessive and negative thought patterns. Skill in relationship with feelings. Working with "just this much".
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Bowing as inner attitude and as skillful means. A gathered heart and meeting obstruction. Compassion as capacity.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Connecting with the actuality of body. Breath as a basis for samadhi. Cultivating support for stability here and now. Middle ground between pleasure and pain.
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About Thanissara's most recent Dharma talks (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Thanissara, from London, was a monastic for 12 years in the tradition of Ajahn Chah and has taught internationally for over 35 years. She is co-founder of Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat, South…
Africa, Sacred Mountain Sangha, California, and Chattanooga Insight, Tennessee. She has an MA in Mindfulness Psychotherapy Practice from the Karuna Institute UK and is co-author of Listening to the Heart, A Contemplative Guide to Engaged Buddhism, author of Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth, and several books of poetry.