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Chas DiCapua: Thoughts: what they are and how to practice with them Oct 03, 2026

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(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploring thoughts not as their content, but as the phenomena that they are. Practices to realize their insubstantial and unsatisfactory nature.

Jeanne Corrigal: Dharma talk: Finding Freedom in the Bumpy Ride Oct 03, 2026

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(Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community) Drawing on the four foundations of mindfulness and the Four Noble Truths, we explore the difference between the inevitable difficulties of human experience and the suffering that arises through grasping and resistance. By noticing feeling tone, reactivity, and the embodied qualities of tightness and ease, we can begin to recognize moments of release and cultivate a wiser relationship with experience. Readings from The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi by Susan Moon; Remembering How I Got Here in the First Place by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer; The Second Music by Annie Lighthart.

Jeanne Corrigal: Meditation - Feeling Tone: Pleasant, Unpleasant, or Neither Oct 03, 2026

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(Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community) Exploring vedanā, or feeling tone, we notice the pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral quality of experience and the reactions that may follow. Staying grounded in the body, this practice invites curiosity about grasping and pushing away, and the possibility of responding with greater wisdom and freedom.

Jeanne Corrigal: Morning instruction: The Body as a Home Base Oct 03, 2026

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(Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community) Beginning with the body as a home base for attention, we explore an easeful, gentle way of returning to bodily sensations and the breath. Sitting and walking practice support steadiness of attention and a growing capacity to be present with our experience without judgment.

Ayya Santussika: Obsessing or Processing? Oct 03, 2026

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(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk, comments, questions and responses, and guided meditation was offered on October 3, 2026 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - DHAMMA TALK 25:48 - COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES PT.1 47:26 - GUIDED MEDITATION 1:03:38 - COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES PT.2

James Baraz: Variations on Five Hindrances Oct 02, 2026

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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The five common difficulties for meditators and the courage and trust needed to transform our relationship to them

Chas DiCapua: Morning Instructions on Body Oct 02, 2026

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(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploring the tactile and fine energy aspects of the body. Being mindful of the body sitting and body breathing with a narrow and wide attentions.

Andrea Fella: Morning Instrtuctions: Intimacy with Experience Oct 02, 2026

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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

Jill Shepherd: talk: Right Livelihood and retreat life Oct 01, 2026

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(Auckland Insight Meditation)

Chas DiCapua: Body Oct 01, 2026

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(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Mindfulness of the body, and the role it plays in various aspects of the practice.