Seattle Insight Meditation Society

This talk is also presented in video here: https://seattleinsight.org/Talks/Talk/TalkID/1209

This talk is also presented in video here: https://seattleinsight.org/Talks/Talk/TalkID/1210

Practice and Reflection Notice when the mind is gripped by wanting or not wanting. Underneath all the thoughts and stories, connect with the basic quality of pleasant or unpleasant. Try to distinguish between your engagement (thoughts, preferences, and emotions) and vedana itself. Acknowledge the vedana and meet the experience with compassion instead of resistance. Can your happiness be freed from the quality of vedana (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral)?   This talk is also presented in video here: https://seattleinsight.org/Talks/Talk/TalkID/1205

This talk is also presented in video here: https://seattleinsight.org/Talks/Talk/TalkID/1203

Practice and Reflection Try this exercise when the mind is at ease, receptive, and still. Release into each moment of sense contact. Release the stories, impulses, and labels that arise with that contact. Simply rest in the knowing of each moment. Now, invite a deeper release of the idea of you experiencing this contact. What if the idea of “me” didn’t need to be present to be aware? With curiosity and innocence, allow the essence of awareness to simply, directly know. Let the sense of “me” rest, soften, dissolve.  This talk is also presented in video here: https://seattleinsight.org/Talks/Talk/TalkID/1201

This talk is also presented in video here: https://seattleinsight.org/Talks/Talk/TalkID/1200

Practice and Reflection We are constantly creating our reality from a moment of sense contact. This manufactured world defines how we think, feel and act. Practice seeing through this illusionary world by returning to the direct contact of your senses. Ask, what is my mind adding to this contact? What other points of contact are present, especially ones that don’t trigger reactivity? What is the overall state of mind and emotions? How does that state distort my interpretation of my senses? This talk is also presented in video here: https://seattleinsight.org/Talks/Talk/TalkID/1196

Offered by Tuere Sala as part of a two-day non-residential retreat over Zoom, 2020 June 14 This talk is also presented in video here: https://seattleinsight.org/Talks/Talk/TalkID/1192

Offered by Tuere Sala as part of a two-day non-residential retreat over Zoom, 2020 June 14 This talk is also presented in video here: https://seattleinsight.org/Talks/Talk/TalkID/1193

Offered by Tuere Sala as part of a two-day non-residential retreat over Zoom, 2020 June 14 This talk is also presented in video here: https://seattleinsight.org/Talks/Talk/TalkID/1194

Offered by Tuere Sala as part of a two-day non-residential retreat over Zoom, 2020 June 14

Offered by Tuere Sala as part of a two-day non-residential retreat over Zoom, 2020 June 13

Offered by Tuere Sala as part of a two-day non-residential retreat over Zoom, 2020 June 13; begins with a discussion of dana This talk is also presented in video here: https://seattleinsight.org/Talks/Talk/TalkID/1188

Offered by Tuere Sala as part of a two-day non-residential retreat over Zoom, 2020 June 13 This talk is also presented in video here: https://seattleinsight.org/Talks/Talk/TalkID/1189

Offered by Tuere Sala as part of a two-day non-residential retreat over Zoom, 2020 June 13 This talk is also presented in video here: https://seattleinsight.org/Talks/Talk/TalkID/1190