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Andrea Fella: The Mind of Freedom Aug 25, 2026

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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A reflection on the Kalakarama Sutta from the Anguttara Nikaya, in which the Buddha describes the quality of an awakened mind.

Yahel Avigur: Guided Practice: A Figure Who Cares for You Aug 25, 2026

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(Vrážné Zen Center) It is possible to cultivate a sense of being lovingly watched over and cared for. This guided practice offers some suggestions for opening to and deepening that sense of loving care.

Mark Nunberg: Mindfulness of Breathing, week 6: Joy & Ease as a Support for Dispassion & Disenchantment - part 2 - Talk Aug 25, 2026

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(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Mark Nunberg: Mindfulness of Breathing, week 6: Joy & Ease as a Support for Dispassion & Disenchantment - part 2 - Meditation Aug 25, 2026

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(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Yahel Avigur: Talk: The Life of the Heart: Emotions and Mind States in Mettā Practice Aug 25, 2026

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(Vrážné Zen Center) Mettā practice involves and supports our whole being, including the full range of what may be alive in our hearts. In this talk, we explore ways of relating skilfully and wholeheartedly to our emotional life, developing greater sensitivity, understanding, and capacity to work with the movements of the heart. Like the retreat as a whole, this talk draws on suggestions offered by Rob Burbea in his 2011 retreat, “The Lovingkindness Retreat”.

Yahel Avigur: Second Instructions: Skilfully Speaking to Oneself, Working with Mental Difficulties, and Mettā Towards a Friend Aug 25, 2026

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(Vrážné Zen Center) Practising mettā is a skill and an art that involves and develops many aspects of the heart and mind. In these instructions, we explore how to work skilfully with common mental difficulties, such as restlessness and tiredness, and how to gradually nourish and deepen mettā.

Andrea Fella: Release - and not picking up Aug 25, 2026

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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

Yahel Avigur: Reflections on the Karaṇīya Mettā Sutta and Guided Practice: Mettā Towards Oneself and the Easiest Person Aug 24, 2026

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(Vrážné Zen Center) In this evening session, we are reading the Kariniya Metta sutta, and practicing Metta to oneself and to the easiest person

Yahel Avigur: Talk: Samādhi in Mettā Practice Aug 24, 2026

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(Vrážné Zen Center) In this talk, we explore the place of samādhi—the quality of gathering and harmonising the heart and mind—in mettā practice. We learn how to support its development, allowing both the meditative experience and the quality of mettā to deepen and refine.

Yahel Avigur: First Instructions: Definitions and Orientations; Body, Phrases, and Imagination; Mettā Towards Oneself and the Easiest Person Aug 24, 2026

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(Vrážné Zen Center) In these first instructions, we establish the foundations for mettā practice: turning our hearts towards goodwill for ourselves and the easiest person, and working with phrases, bodily sensitivity, and imagination.