| Opening talk of retreat |
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| St. Johnsbury, VT, June 1, 2005 |
Duration: 00h 58m |
Karma as instruction vs. karma as belief, meditation as building a capacity of attention, resting in the experience of breathing, Q&A
| Karma As The Evolution Of Action |
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| St. Johnsbury, VT, June 2, 2005 |
Duration: 1h 08m |
Living life without a belief system, the four conditions that generate karma and their four results, Q&A
| Question and Answer Session |
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| St. Johnsbury, VT, June 3, 2005 |
Duration: 1h 05m |
Q&A session on teaching, making the practice your own, and working with the breath and body in meditation, collective (or national) karma, what is life, ultimate and relative truth
| Practice questions from meditation instruction in AFB 2 |
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| St. Johnsbury, VT, June 4, 2005 |
Duration: 00h 49m |
Q&A based on students’ meditation on karma and how patterns shape experience.
| Overview of different schools of Buddhism |
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| St. Johnsbury, VT, June 5, 2005 |
Duration: 00h 15m |
Overview of Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana traditions, problems of factionalism and sectarianism, and a short Q&A
| Patterns As Personality |
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| St. Johnsbury, VT, June 5, 2005 |
Duration: 00h 58m |
The characteristics of patterns (mechanicality, resonance, crystallization, habituation, layering, webbing), patterns, personality, presence. Meditation instruction on physical reactions when a reactive pattern begins to run.
| Q&A session |
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| St. Johnsbury, VT, June 6, 2005 |
Duration: 00h 33m |
Q&A on individual responsibility in political and social issues, relationship between compassion and insight, and instruction on the ‘one breath’ meditation
| Experiencing the emotional reactions of reactive patterns |
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| St. Johnsbury, VT, June 6, 2005 |
Duration: 00h 41m |
Paired exercise on experiencing reactive patterns; additional instruction on working with reactive patterns
| The Pattern Imperative |
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| St. Johnsbury, VT, June 7, 2005 |
Duration: 00h 41m |
Recognizing reactive patterns, beliefs as fully crystallized patterns, recognizing choice points within patterns, how a pattern impacts all areas of life
| Using full awareness of breathing to release undischarged feelings |
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| St. Johnsbury, VT, June 8, 2005 |
Duration: 00h 56m |
Q&A on dealing with reactive patterns, instruction on working with the undischarged feelings within patterns
| Practice questions; How reaction in others triggers reaction in one’s self |
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| St. Johnsbury, VT, June 9, 2005 |
Duration: 00h 52m |
Q&A on working with what arises in the body. Paired exercise on how reactions in others triggers one’s own reactivity (based on the six realms)
| How reaction in others triggers reaction in one’s self (continued) |
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| St. Johnsbury, VT, June 9, 2005 |
Duration: 00h 41m |
Reaction to, and continuation of, exercise in AFB 9a. Q&A on speaking in attention, anger and non-violence
| Attention in life |
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| St. Johnsbury, VT, June 10, 2005 |
Duration: 00h 29m |
Using form as a mode of training attention, importance of resting in attention
| The Pattern Process |
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| St. Johnsbury, VT, June 10, 2005 |
Duration: 00h 44m |
The eight components of a pattern and their relationship to the five elements and six realms, suggested reading material
| You can’t wake up by being a nice person |
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| St. Johnsbury, VT, June 11, 2005 |
Duration: 00h 45m |
The need for ruthlessness with patterns; using mortality as motivation; attention, intention, and will; the four steps to undoing reactive patterns; ways of working with patterns
| You can’t wake up by being a nice person (continued) |
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| St. Johnsbury, VT, June 11, 2009 |
Duration: 00h 42m |
Releasing physical and emotional sensations behind reactive patterns; not protecting any area of one’s life from practice; keeping things in balance; closing meditation instruction
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