Deerhaven 2016 Seventh Night Talk

This talk, during the last night of the retreat, focuses on how to continue to cultivate the process of awakening at home.  The results of a one week retreat endure, but the ongoing influence of persistent mindfulness practice is subtle.  Factors that contribute to retaining the benefits include regular sitting practice, reading about concepts relevant to the process of awakening, and associating with others who practice mindfulness.  Peter checked off a list of what to consider to integrate mindfulness into daily life routine.

Here are the notes prepared for this talk:  PRACTICING AWAKENING AT HOME

Deerhaven 2016 Sixth Night Talk

As the process of vipassana matures, the Seven Awakening Factors are developed to their fullest potential: Mindfulness, Investigation of Mental Phenomena, Energy/Effort, Joy/Enthusiastic Interest, Tranquility, Concentration and Equanimity/Internal Balance.  This talk describes the progressive, liberating insights that emerge from optimal functioning of these factors.

Here are the notes prepared for this talk:  STAGES OF AWAKENING

 

Deerhaven 2016 Fifth Night Talk

This talk fosters understanding a key concept of the Buddhist process of awakening, paticca samuppadha, typically translated as dependent origination.  Peter develops a different understanding of this concept, contingent provisional emergence.  This view is intended to emphasize the non-linear aspects of what conditions each moment of awareness, in the hope this will clarify the concept and make it more applicable to intensive retreat practices.  The ability to be aware in a non attached way to the direct experience of feelings as just internal impulses either toward or away from emerging self-state organizations is essential for vipassana practice to provide liberation from distress and confusion.

Here are the notes prepared for this talk:  Contingent Provisional Emergence

Deerhaven 2016 Fourth Night Talk

The core mental conditions to foster liberation through the practice of vipassana are called the “Seven Factors For Awakening”: mindfulness, investigation of mental phenomena, energy/effort, joy/enthusiastic interest, tranquility, concentration and equanimity.  This talk describes their functions in the process of awakening and how to cultivate them.

Here are the notes prepared for this talk:  BOJJHANGA-7 AWAKENING FACTORS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deerhaven 2016 Third Night Talk

This talk focuses on cultivating samadhi/passadhi more consistently, with the intention of manifesting access concentration, the flow of internal experience that is unburdened by the Five Hindrances.  Access concentration is an optimal self-state organization for developing vipassana, that is, insight into the conditioned nature of subjective experience.

Here are the notes prepared for this talk:  CULTIVATING SAMADHI-PASSADHI