Arinna Weisman

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Dharma talks and guided meditation offered by Arinna Weisman and co-teachers. Recordings were made during Vipassana insight meditation retreats, and have been graciously provided by Lotus Insight Sangha of Seattle, Dhamma Dena of Joshua Tree, Dharma Seed, and others. About Arinna WeismanArinna has been studying insight meditation since 1979 and teaching since 1989. Her root teacher is Ruth Denison, who was empowered to teach by meditation master U Ba Khin. Arinna founded the Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley in Massachusetts and, with Eric Kolvig, was the first to lead insight medita...

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Arinna Weisman

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Morning Instruction & Sit: Opening to Life (10-12-20) 12.10.2020 32:36

Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2) Our capacity to hold through and stay with our experience as it is, is the grounds of insight. When the mind feels relatively stable, we are invited to open up and allow whatever’s arising to arise. In this guided practice period, we open to and acknowledge the whole of our experience and our relationship t...

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Three Invitations to Liberation (10-11-20) 11.10.2020 40:53

Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2) By orienting our perception to the three marks of existence — anicca, anatta, and dukkha — our heart and mind begin to open and transform the way we relate to life as it expresses itself. Morning instruction followed by guided meditation.

Morning Instruction & Sit: What is Mindfulness? (10-10-20) 10.10.2020 38:42

Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2) Mindfulness has two aspects. General comprehension understands the purpose and suitability of what we’re doing, while bare attention is the remembering to be present. Talk ends with guided instruction on a mindful movement practice Arinna learned in a Thai monastery.

Cultivating Joy (10-10-20) 10.10.2020 49:59

Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2) "In these times, where there’s a weighty expression of ignorance and a turning towards an intensification of greed, and of hatred, it sometimes feels like that’s so overwhelming that there is no path. And yet there is. Cultivating joy is a beautiful antidote to that place we come to when we feel like there...

Morning Instruction & Sit: The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness (10-09-20) 09.10.2020 36:03

Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2) The first three foundations of mindfulness are about knowing the experience as mental objects. Whether it’s a body sensation, thought, feeling, or feeling tone, we are invited to note both when they arise and when they are absent. In the fourth foundation, we are invited to acknowledge our experience in a l...

The Four Remembrances (10-08-20) 08.10.2020 55:24

Arinna 25:51: “Why contemplate anicca, anicca, and the vicissitudes of life? Because, in the acknowledgment that everything is changing, and that we can’t hold on […] When we allow nature to be be as it is — ourselves included — then that frees up ourselves from the constriction of ownership into a relationship of seeing ourselves and understanding ourselves as precious and sacred.” Quotes from: M...

Refuges & Precepts, Silent Meditation (10-08-20) 08.10.2020 41:58

Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2) When we take the refuges we acknowledge that we’re entering into the sacred path of remembering — that this living body, our hearts and our minds, are structured and geared towards living in the deepest communion, well-being, peace, and the highest happiness.

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Finding a Home Wherever We Are (10-7-20) 07.10.2020 42:19

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) As we come to the end of the first week of our queer retreat, how can we stay sustained in our practice? Morning instructions offered by Arinna, followed by guided meditation by Mel Pak Coats.

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Gathering Our Energies (10-6-20) 06.10.2020 36:52

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Gathering our beautiful engergies to sustain our relationship with our experience. Morning instruction followed by guided meditation.

Self Forgiveness Metta (10-6-20) 06.10.2020 30:55

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Metta through forgiveness of the self.

Loss of Dignity Through Ownership (part 1 of 2): Understanding Ourselves as Part of Nature (10-5-20) 05.10.2020 39:10

Ownership obscures the dignity of life, we can't see dignity when we own

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation (10-04-20) 04.10.2020 37:49

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Finding our channel of love.

Metta (10-4-20) 04.10.2020 29:29

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Metta before bed.

Mel Pak Coats: Guided Sit with Metta (10-03-20) 03.10.2020 39:05

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Guided Afternoon Sit, with Metta led by Mel

Truth Seeking (10-3-20) 03.10.2020 45:02

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Grounding the self in the beautiful qualities of truth

Morning Sit (10-3-20) 03.10.2020 48:22

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Silent morning sit with metta

Mel Coats: Metta (10-02-20) 02.10.2020 29:34

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Mel Coats: Metta

Morning Instruction (10-2-20) 02.10.2020 46:01

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Morning instructions

Leslie Booker: Refuges & Precepts (10-1-20) 01.10.2020 58:23

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Refuges & Precepts

Opening up the Field Within Ourselves (08-08-20) 09.08.2020 46:36

Lotus Insight Sangha: August 8th, 2020. Faith and Acceptance Online Retreat Dharma Talk given by Arinna. "The most fundamental wish we have no matter what our spiritual practice is, is the wish not to hurt ourselves and others - and the opposite of that which is the wish to learn how to honor and listen and respect our life and how to listen and honor and respect the life around us"

Calling Ourselves Home (05-16-20) 16.05.2020 38:58

Lotus Insight Sangha - May 16, 2020 Virtual Day of Mindfulness Dharma Talk This half day of practice is dedicated to listening into this calling by cultivating loving kindness and awareness in our family/sangha. Mary Oliver invites us in her poem Wild Geese: Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination calls to you....announcing your place in the family of thi...

The 7 Factors of Enlightenment (04-29-19) 29.04.2019 49:51

Lotus Insight Sangha 2019 Retreat, Camp Burton, Vashon Island (Apr 26 - 30, 2019) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Ordinanry Nirvana & the 4 Noble Truths (04-28-19) 28.04.2019 53:09

Lotus Insight Sangha 2019 Retreat, Camp Burton, Vashon Island (Apr 26 - 30, 2019) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Lovingkindness (04-27-19) 27.04.2019 49:20

Lotus Insight Sangha 2019 Retreat, Camp Burton, Vashon Island (Apr 26 - 30, 2019) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Equanimity (10-15-18) 15.10.2018 53:05

Dhamma Dena Queer Retreat October 2 to October 16, 2018 (Week 2) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/