2025 Deerhaven Retreat Recordings

2025 Deerhaven Retreat Review

It has been the policy of the Orlando Insight Meditation Group to dedicate a meeting following a significant retreat experience to allow those who attended a retreat to “think out loud” about their experience in front of a supportive audience.  This provides an opportunity for those talking to “connect the dots” about the experience, as well as informing and inspiring others to consider attending a retreat.  This talk is exceptional, as several participants reviewed the Deerhaven retreat, while another person, Ashley, who attended a retreat organized through the Goenka tradition of body scanning practices, shared her experience.

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2025 Deerhaven Retreat 6th Night–Integration and Liberation

During this talk, Peter describes how applying the principles and practices associated with being “diligent, mindful, clearly knowing” presented earlier in the retreat supports a beneficial progression from self-state conflict through self-state integration towards self-state liberation.  Self-state conflict represents the inescapable difference between how the selfing process idealizes oneself, others and the world and what actually happens, creating ongoing distress and confusion.  Self-state integration represents the way that the diligent cultivation of vipassana supports a more realistic and adaptable way of living.  This creates the basis for the cultivation of elf-state liberation, which develops the capacity for full Awakening.

Here are the notes prepared for this talk:  INTEGRATING AND LIBERATING THE SELF

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2025 Deerhaven Retreat 5th Night–Dependent Origination

This Buddhist concept describes how our subjective experience of self hood is created multiple times per second.  Contemplating this provides a way to “deconstruct” the belief that there is an enduring/autonomous self, and this understanding supports the process of Awakening.  Peter uses a different term than Dependent Origination–he calls it “Contingent Provisional Emergence” which provides a more contemporary psychological understanding regarding how the process operates.

Here are the notes prepared for this talk:  Deerhaven 2025 Seven Awakening Factors

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2025 Deerhaven 3rd Night–Cultivating a Concentrated and Tranquil Mind

During this talk, Peter describes the development of Access Concentration, the quality of consciousness that is not affected by the Hindrances.  This is cultivated through developing the procedure of aiming/sustaining attention intentionally to develop stability and tranquility in the mind, preparing for the practicing vipassana, insight into the conditioned nature of the mind.

Here are the notes prepared for this talk:  Unifying A Dull And Distracted Mind

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2025 Deerhaven 2nd Night Dharma Talk–Overcoming the Hindrances

During this talk, Peter reviews the 5 Hindrances, which he describes as “energy dumps”–setting them aside frees up energy for further development of the 7 Awakening Factors, creating more opportunities to liberate the mind from dukkha, the distress and confusion resulting from the action of the Hindrances.

Here are the notes prepared for this talk:  The Five Hindrances

The next evening’s discussion recording focuses on how the cultivation of concentration and tranquility overcomes distractedness, agitation and dullness in the mind, preparing for the cultivation of the Awakening Factors

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