Meditation Retreats with Leigh Brasington - Dharma Talks
- Morning Talks:
- Detailed instructions for the 1st Jhana
- 5 Daily Recollections (AN 5.57)
- Start the 4 Foundations of Mindfulness - Mindfulness of Breathing (DN 22.1&2)
- 4 Postures, Mindfulness of everything one does [often 3 & 4 are combined] (DN 22.3&4)
- Mindfulness of the Body - Guided Sweeping Meditation (loosely based on DN 22.5)
- Mindfulness of the 4 Elements - Guided Meditation (DN 22.6)
- Talk about charnel ground contemplations; 2nd Foundation (DN 22.7-10;11)
- 3rd Foundation; begin 4th Foundation - 5 Hindrances and 5 Aggregates (DN 22.12;13;14)
- 6 Senses; 7 Factors of Enlightenment; 4 Noble Truths reprise; Conclusion of the sutta (DN22.15;16;17-21;22)
- Two Kinds of Thought and The Removal of Distracting Thoughts (MN 19 & MN 20)
- Evening Talks:
- Opening night talk is a bit about me, about Ayya Khema, about the retreat, and the 5 precepts
- 4 Noble Truths and the 8 Fold Path (DN22.17-21 - also includes info from MN 26, MN 36 & SN 56:11)
- 5 Hindrances (DN 2.68-74)
- Jhanas 1-4 (DN 2.75-83)
- The Fruits of the Spiritual Life (DN2)
- Jhanas 5-8 + 9 (DN 33.1.11.7)
Above are the "every time" evening talks. I fill out the rest of the retreat
with whatever I think fits the group best from the following:
- Dependent Origination - perhaps multiple talks (SN 12.65, DN 15, Snp 4.11, SN 12.23)
- The Honeyball Sutta (MN 18)
- The Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving (MN 38)
- Emptiness (from SN 12.15 and from Nargarjuna: Verses from the Center)
- Impermanence
- Not Self (Snp 5.15) + 4 Stages of Enlightenment
- Descriptions of Nibbana (as found in the suttas - Ud 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, Ud 1.10, DN 11)
- Progress of Insight
- 4 Divine Abodes - Jataka tale: "The Buddha was once born as a deer king..."
- Angulimala (MN 86)
- The Dancer and the King
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