| This nine-day online retreat provides an opportunity to explore the Four Noble Truths that form the heart of the Buddha’s teaching. These teachings invite us to examine our relationship to dukkha: stress, distress, unsatisfactoriness, suffering, on deeper and deeper levels.
Most of us though, have an instinctive resistance to suffering, so we need to practice working skilfully with the different obstacles that often show up along the path to freedom. As we learn how to release these obstacles, we’re able to live with greater ease, happiness, and peace, and to connect with the wisdom and compassion that are our true nature. |
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2020-08-21
04 talk: the context of our practice
21:27
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Julie Downard
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Acknowledging the context we find ourselves in:
The lineage that has gone before, our local and global circumstance
What we're doing here
The preciousness of this opportunity and reflection on our good fortune
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2020-08-23
14 instructions: mindfulness of body
28:58
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Julie Downard
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How mindfulness of the body supports the steadiness and unification of mind known as samadhi, which in turn supports vipassana, clear seeing.
This process is also about opening and softening the heart.
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