by Peter Carlson | Mar 27, 2025 | News
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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by Peter Carlson | Mar 26, 2025 | News
This recording was made during the retreat to enhance vipassana meditation practice.
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by Peter Carlson | Mar 26, 2025 | News
This final Dharma talk of the retreat provides suggestions for developing the themes and practices presented during the retreat at home, including cultivating a lifestyle that counters any cultural conditioning that reinforces unnecessary distress and confusion.
Here are the notes prepared for this talk: NURTURING AWAKENING AT HOME
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by Peter Carlson | Mar 26, 2025 | News
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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by Peter Carlson | Mar 26, 2025 | News
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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