Orlando Insight Meditation Group

A Contemporary Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation Community For Central Florida

Domestic Vipassana Practice

by | Jul 24, 2014 | Listen to Dharma Talks

While Peter’s wife is away for a week, he decided to practice integrating mindfulness more thoroughly into daily life routines.  The primary changes included more meditation periods and more reading about Buddhist practices; otherwise, the routines were the same as before.  During the talk, he reviewed various ways to increase the application of mindfulness during the day: the cultivation of samadhi/passadhi (concentration and tranquility) as a buffer against impulsive reactivity, using body awareness to interrupt intrusive unnecessary thoughts, and simply reflecting “Is _______ really that important or valuable right now?”, focused on distractions and intrusive thoughts.  This was followed by dialogue with sangha members regarding ways to enhance daily practice of mindfulness.  Next week’s talk will focus on understanding what sankhara (mental conditioners) are, related to understanding one of the Five Aggregates of Clinging, sankharakkhanda.

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How Feeling And Perception Become Craving And Clinging

by | Jul 17, 2014 | Listen to Dharma Talks

During this talk, Peter explained how feeling and perception function, transitional between raw sense data and higher cognitive processes.  When the mind isn’t well trained, feeling become craving and perception becomes clinging.  There was a guided meditation to illustrated concretely how to recognize feeling as feeling and perception as perception, that is, phenomena that are not a self, not “I, me or mine”.  This was followed by a lively discussion exploring the presentation.  Next week, Peter will engage a “domestic retreat”, during which he will function in a normal way at home, enhanced by more frequent meditation practice and integration into daily life routines.  This will be the topic for the next Dhamma dialogue.

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Grounding The Five Aggregates

by | Jul 10, 2014 | Listen to Dharma Talks

This dialogue is a continuation of the previous week’s discussion.  During the discussion, Peter led a guided meditation on how to use the four elements contemplations to provide a consistent focus for interrupting the elaboration the mind creates in the “selfing story.”  This exercise was followed by a sharing from the attending Sangha members regarding their experience during the  exercise and discussion of how this practice can benefit the process of awakening.  Next week’s exploration will include the contemplation of vedana (feeling) and sanna (perception), with the hope that this information will further the process of understanding the Five Aggregates of Clinging.

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