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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life with Eugene Cash, Victoria Cary, Alisa Dennis, PhD and Hakim Tafari
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| The Buddha encouraged Maranasati practice to live an awakened life. This practice supports our appreciation of the preciousness of human birth and the development of equanimity with the difficulties of human existence. It helps us gain freedom from rigidity and clinging through a more expansive perspective of the inevitable and natural letting go. Maranasati matures our insight into impermanence and change, nourishing a skillful orientation to both life and death. In the retreat we will utilize the skills of loving awareness, compassion and investigation in our sitting practice, with some guided visualization and a period of contemplative inquiry each day. |
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2021-03-18 (5 days)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2021-03-19
Natural Awareness of the Sense Doors
35:26
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Alisa Dennis
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This is a meditation to support arriving and settling in the body, mindfulness of breath, and opening to more of a natural awareness of the sense doors including sight and sound.
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2021-03-20
The Truth of Impermanence and Death as Transformation
49:08
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Alisa Dennis
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Impermanence can be found all around us in Nature. Our bodies exist in Nature and so we are impermanent too. This is an exploration of mindfulness of death and dying as an opportunity to practice letting go while we are living, as preparation for focusing our attention with ease and alertness as we take our last breath in these bodies. Maranasati supports present moment awareness and the deepening of appreciation for life. The deathbed can provide an extraordinary opportunity to cultivate embodied awareness and compassion for self and others. An exploration of death not as the end of life, but as transportation into another realm of consciousness.
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2021-03-21
Metta to Self
27:53
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Alisa Dennis
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An exploration of Metta to ourselves as we are currently, or as younger or older versions of ourselves. Through this practice, we naturally come to understand how our bodies change across time, a reflection of the truth of impermanence.
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