Morning Instruction & Closing Guided Meditation: Calling in Kindness (10-13-20)
Poem "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Episodes (16)
Morning Instruction & Sit: Opening to Life (10-12-20)
Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2)
Our capacity to hold through and stay with our experience as it is, is the grounds of insight. When the mind feels relatively stable, we are invited to open up and allow whatever’s arising to arise. In this guided practice period, we open to and acknowledge the whole of our experience and our relationship to it.
Loss of Dignity Through Ownership (part 2 of 2): Dependent Origination (10-12-20)
Poem "For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet" by Joy Harjo
Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Three Invitations to Liberation (10-11-20)
Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2)
By orienting our perception to the three marks of existence — anicca, anatta, and dukkha — our heart and mind begin to open and transform the way we relate to life as it expresses itself.
Morning instruction followed by guided meditation.
Morning Instruction & Sit: What is Mindfulness? (10-10-20)
Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2)
Mindfulness has two aspects. General comprehension understands the purpose and suitability of what we’re doing, while bare attention is the remembering to be present.
Talk ends with guided instruction on a mindful movement practice Arinna learned in a Thai monastery.
Cultivating Joy (10-10-20)
Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2)
"In these times, where there’s a weighty expression of ignorance and a turning towards an intensification of greed, and of hatred, it sometimes feels like that’s so overwhelming that there is no path. And yet there is. Cultivating joy is a beautiful antidote to that place we come to when we feel like there isn’t a path — and there is."
Morning Instruction & Sit: The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness (10-09-20)
Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2)
The first three foundations of mindfulness are about knowing the experience as mental objects. Whether it’s a body sensation, thought, feeling, or feeling tone, we are invited to note both when they arise and when they are absent. In the fourth foundation, we are invited to acknowledge our experience in a larger framework through the lenses of: the hindrances, the five aggregates, the six sense spheres, and the four noble truths.
Refuges & Precepts, Silent Meditation (10-08-20)
Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2)
When we take the refuges we acknowledge that we’re entering into the sacred path of remembering — that this living body, our hearts and our minds, are structured and geared towards living in the deepest communion, well-being, peace, and the highest happiness.
The Four Remembrances (10-08-20)
Arinna 25:51: “Why contemplate anicca, anicca, and the vicissitudes of life? Because, in the acknowledgment that everything is changing, and that we can’t hold on […] When we allow nature to be be as it is — ourselves included — then that frees up ourselves from the constriction of ownership into a relationship of seeing ourselves and understanding ourselves as precious and sacred.”
Quotes from:
Marc Ian Barasch “Field Notes on the Compassionate Life”
“Reflections on Impermanence: Life of Chagkar. A Book of Teachings by the 18th Century Wandering Tibetan Yogi”
John O'Donohue "Beannacht (Blessing)
Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Finding a Home Wherever We Are (10-7-20)
Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1)
As we come to the end of the first week of our queer retreat, how can we stay sustained in our practice?
Morning instructions offered by Arinna, followed by guided meditation by Mel Pak Coats.
Self Forgiveness Metta (10-6-20)
Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1)
Metta through forgiveness of the self.
Arinna Weisman
enOctober 06, 2020
Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Gathering Our Energies (10-6-20)
Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1)
Gathering our beautiful engergies to sustain our relationship with our experience. Morning instruction followed by guided meditation.
Loss of Dignity Through Ownership (part 1 of 2): Understanding Ourselves as Part of Nature (10-5-20)
Ownership obscures the dignity of life, we can't see dignity when we own
Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation (10-04-20)
Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1)
Finding our channel of love.
Arinna Weisman
enOctober 04, 2020
Metta (10-4-20)
Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1)
Metta before bed.
Arinna Weisman
enOctober 04, 2020
Mel Pak Coats: Guided Sit with Metta (10-03-20)
Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1)
Guided Afternoon Sit, with Metta led by Mel