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Retreat Dharma Talks at New York Insight Meditation Center

Thanissara and Sebene Selassie: Reclamation of Heart in Our Times of Dismemberment

Reclamation of Heart in Our Times of Dismemberment: From the Four Truths to the Four Bodhisattva Vows

Within the Four Truths is the potential of the Four Bodhisattva Vows. Together, as a teaching frame, they offer a powerful template to guide our personal practice as it intersects with the collective challenge of our times.

In the journey of awakening, initiation into the timeless Dharma is often accessed through a process of deconstruction of self and a direct meeting of dukkha, suffering, or our unacknowledged shadow. In the same way, the experience of our collective self in these times of intensity, is of daily dismemberment while being plunged into a confrontation with an overwhelming assault from our accumulated, collective shadow.

However, rather than caving in, such intensity can fuel our practice with a necessary sense of urgency. It has the potential to energize not only external acts that protect the Earth, her species, and each other, but more fundamentally, the necessity of embodying the innate freedom, clarity, and loving power of our authentic, intuitive heart, our wise, discerning mind, and our fully embodied innate intelligence.

2017-11-04 (1 day) New York Insight Meditation Center

  
2017-11-04 Afternoon, part 1 - recorded thich nhat hanh chant - poem - dharma talk 62:55
Thanissara
2017-11-04 Afternoon, part 2 - dharma talk - sharing triad - dharma talk 49:25
Thanissara
2017-11-04 Afternoon, part 3 - closing Namo Kuan Shr Yin Pu Sa chant and brief dedication of merit 13:31
Thanissara
2017-11-04 Morning, part 1 - Introduction - chanting - dharma talk 59:08
Thanissara
2017-11-04 Morning, part 2 - intro to dyad then sharing discussion 28:14
Thanissara
2017-11-04 Morning, part 3 - guided meditation lying down: including music and a poem reading - ending morning session. 16:47
Sebene Selassie
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