Dhamma Talks

Mindfulness of the Body Adaptations

This talk completes the review of the First Foundation of Mindfulness, Mindfulness of the Body.  These remaining categories of the discourse are reviewed: Foulness: The Body Parts, The Four Elements and The Nine Charnel Ground Contemplations.  Each contemplation is...

Guided Four Elements Contemplation

This Guided meditation is intended to be associated with the Dharma talk presented on the same evening entitled "Mindfulness of the Body Adaptations", with focused attention on the Four Elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water.  These contemplations are included in the...

Clearly Knowing The Body

This talk continues a review of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness Discourse, focusing on parts of the First Foundation, known as the Four Postures and the Contemplation of Daily Activities with Full Awareness.  There is further reference to what are called the Four...

Breath Awareness For Quieting The Mind

This talk continues an extensive review of the Satipatthana Sutta, the Four Foundations of Mindfulness Discourse.  The focus for this review is on how anapanasati, mindfulness of breathing meditation, can be developed in two ways to foster insight into the conditioned...

Review of Four Foundations

This talk begins an in-depth review of the Satipatthana Sutta, the Four Foundations of Mindfulness Discourse.  Analayo's book "Satipatthana--The Direct Path To Realization" will be a primary resource for the series, supplemented by observations drawn from contemporary...

Review Of Anatta

Anatta is typically translated as Non-Self; during this talk, Peter provides an alternative meaning: The absence of an enduring and autonomous self.  Another of the basic concepts of Buddhism, Anicca, the ever-changing nature of subjective experience, counters the...

Guided Anatta Meditation

This meditation offers suggestions to realize that our subjective experience of "selfing" is an ever-changing process that emerges from the interaction of our sensory system with memories that go back over a lifetime and which fabricate a view of an enduring and...

Retreat Review By Will Lindemann

It has become a tradition for the Orlando Insight Meditation Group Sangha to provide an opportunity for a member to "think out loud" about their recent retreat experience.  It is hoped that the review will provide the retreatant an opportunity to "connect the dots"...