Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) In this talk, Aishah Shahidah Simmons explores the Buddha's teaching on the Five Hindrances — Sensual Desire, Ill Will, Sloth and Torpor, Restlessness and Worry, and Doubt — drawing on the Saṅgārava Sutta's water similes, the lineage of Sayagyi U Bha Kin through Rev. Dr. Leon E. Wright, and the words of Toni Cade Bambara and Audre Lorde. Offered through a BIPOC lens on Juneteenth, this teaching invites recognizing the hindrances with tenderness, not self-judgment, as a lifetime's practice toward liberation.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Includes instructions on 6-Part walking meditation at the end.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sets the condition for wisdom to arise - help us see through the concotions of perception, thought and view.

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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of the First Establishment of Mindfulness