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IMS’s Forest Refuge has hosted experienced meditators since 2003. Its program is specifically designed to encourage sustained, longer-term retreat practice – a key component in the transmission of Buddhism from Asia to the West. Within a harmonious and secluded environment, meditators can nurture the highest aspiration for liberation. In consultation with visiting insight meditation teachers, a program of training in one or more Early Buddhist practices is created for each participant, allowing the continuing unfolding of deeper levels of wisdom and compassion. A personal retreat here strengthens practice, faith, confidence and self-reliance.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Learning to use mindful attention to unskillful and skillful state of mind is crucial for continuity of our practice in daily life
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Practicing the Noble 8 fold path can lead to experiencing a lot of joy in our practice and daily life. Joy serves as a basis & support for awakening; as a signpost to our progress, and an anti-dote to suffering
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Mindfulness of 6 senses can lead to equanimity where we are no longer attached to pleasant experience or aversive to unpleasant experiences.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The practice of equanimity towards beings and various states of minds, such as the eight worldly winds, can lead to peace and freedom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) When we bring awareness to major intentions, we can make wise/wholesome choices & the practice of continuity of mindfulness, concurrence and concentration.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Pain is a given and suffering is optional. Mindfulness of unpleasant feelings, such as pain, can transform pain into fertile soil for wisdom and for freedom from suffering to arise.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Mindfulness of feelings plays a crucial role in our daily life and practice. The arising of feelings is beyond our control but mindfulness of them can make a difference between being in bondage and being free from suffering.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Practicing the 4 protective meditation namely- Reflection on the qualities of the Buddha or Dhamma or Sangha; Reflection on metta, reflection of body parts (visible ones); reflection on death causes and protect us from: Doubt, Attachment, Aversion, Laziness, respectively.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Metta is the quality of the heart/mind that wishes for the welfare, happiness and benefit of all sentient beings. Daily practice of Metta can reduce anger, aversion and lead to joy, happiness and concentration.
All of which is very critical to the path of liberation.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Mindful reflection along with one's virtues such as observing the 5 precepts can lead to joy, happiness and fuel the path to freedom.
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