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Talk titled: "Orienting to This Jhana Retreat", given during the event "Practising the Jhānas". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2019-12-17.
Topics covered: jhana: developing pliant, non-brittle jhanas, jhana: finding your learning edge playground, jhana: developing a base of happiness, jhana: intention in jhana, hindrances, guided meditation on devotion, malleability of perception, emotions: having the whole range of emotions, intro/overview, emotions, devotion, inertia
Teacher's note on suitability: suitable both for those who wish to refine, consolidate, and further their practice of the jhanas, and also for those who are not yet familiar with jhana practice, this retreat provided an opportunity to establish the meditative bases for the practice of the jhanas and to support their development. exploring the place of the jhanas in a wider life of practice and particularly in the deepening of insight into emptiness and dependent origination.
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To donate to Rob's foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Rob's Dharma Seed bio (dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Rob's founding of it.
Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60865
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/fb987d0304a2d27e648b0d6d6eb71e36/22d73c6b/2019_1217OrientingtoThisJhanaRetreat.pdf
Talk titled: "Orienting to This Jhana Retreat", given during the event "Practising the Jhānas". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2019-12-17.
Topics covered: jhana: developing pliant, non-brittle jhanas, jhana: finding your learning edge playground, jhana: developing a base of happiness, jhana: intention in jhana, hindrances, guided meditation on devotion, malleability of perception, emotions: having the whole range of emotions, intro/overview, emotions, devotion, inertia
Teacher's note on suitability: suitable both for those who wish to refine, consolidate, and further their practice of the jhanas, and also for those who are not yet familiar with jhana practice, this retreat provided an opportunity to establish the meditative bases for the practice of the jhanas and to support their development. exploring the place of the jhanas in a wider life of practice and particularly in the deepening of insight into emptiness and dependent origination.
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To donate to Rob's foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Rob's Dharma Seed bio (dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Rob's founding of it.
Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60865
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/fb987d0304a2d27e648b0d6d6eb71e36/22d73c6b/2019_1217OrientingtoThisJhanaRetreat.pdf
