(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)

Jill Shepherd: 13 meditation: Standing, tuning in to feeling-tones and cetanā

Nathan Glyde: Dāna Talk: Generosity, Participation, and Contribution as a Liberating View

(Gaia House) Meditation Instruction and Practice

Nathan Glyde: Anattā: The Liberating View of Non-identification

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Thoughts on the cultivation of practice and also the naturalness of our own goodness. Includes a reading of St. Francis and the Sow at the end.

Devon Hase: Effortless Effort

(Gaia House) Exploring anatta, the not-self strategy, from the foundation of our experience of the liberating insight lenses of anicca and dukkha ways of conceiving, perceiving, and relating.

Nathan Glyde: Truly Useful View of Neither Self Nor Not-Self

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

Carol Wilson: Power of steady awareness to change our relationship to life

Nathan Glyde: Anicca: The Liberating View of Inconstancy

Ayya Santussika: Staying Balanced With the Help of Our Friends

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Starting retreat with honoring ancestors of land, lineage, and family of origin. Grounding and embodied sense of taking refuge.

Devon Hase: Three Honorings

Nathan Glyde: Three More Liberating Views - An Introduction to Our Retreat Theme

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reflections on metta and the power of ordinariness in cultivating this friendliness and goodwill in the heart-mind.

Devon Hase: Ordinary Love

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The eight conditions or worldly winds (gain, loss, status, disrepute, praise, censure, pleasure, pain) that blow on everyone and how to find an unshakeability in their midst.

Jaya Rudgard: What Makes the World Spin? (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

JD Doyle: Cultivating the Refuge of Sangha

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin by reviewing some and expanding last week's introduction to practicing to transform the  judgmental mind, including clarifying our language and the way that in English "judgment" can ambiguously mean either an expression of the judgmental mind or a non-judgmental discernment. We identify examples of the judgmental mind, and point to how it can be understood in terms of the sequence of contact to grasping (and pushing away) in the Buddha's teaching on Dependent Origination, how negative judgments (in the sense of the judgmental mind) typically come out of unacknowledged or unprocessed pain. We also point to how our practice with the judgmental mind, as it goes deeper, begins to identify "limiting beliefs," often from childhood, that generate our most chronic judgments. We end the talk with naming a number of ways to practice with the judgmental mind. The talk is followed with discussion.

Donald Rothberg: Transforming the Judgmental Mind 2

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After a period of settling and general mindfulness practice, we invite noticing and being with any expressions of the judgmental mind (here called "judgments") if they occur. In the second part of the guided meditation, there is also a more direct investigation of a selected judgment, exploring it at the levels of body, emotions, and thought, and seeing whether any underlying painful or difficult experience can be noticed. We close with a brief three-part self-compassion practice (from Kristin Neff).

Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation Exploring the Judgmental Mind

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

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