Podcasts from the Summer Retreat
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Podcast Description
Teachings and meditations on cultivating tranquillity, freedom and a genuinely happy life excerpted from the annual "Summer Retreat" at the Governor's Academy, Byfield Massachusetts.
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A Few Questions | Lama Marut closes the retreat by answering a few questions. | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Seeing the Traces | Lama Marut explains the second image in the set of Ox herder teachings. | 8/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Freedom | Lama Marut explains how the goal of a spiritual path is perfect freedom. Perfect freedom means freedom from mental afflictions and suffering, the freedom to trust your instincts, to live spontaneously and free, like life was play. | 7/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Finding a Path | Cindy Lee introduces "Searching for the Ox," the first in a series of drawings, from the Zen tradition, which illustrates a spiritual path. | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Get used to Paradox | On the way to silence is paradox. A spiritual path requires that we learn to work hard... and relax. | 6/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Goddess Code | Lindsay and Rick share with us from a rare and secret text called the Goddess Code about the echo effect and principles to live by in order to have extraordinary relationships. | 6/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shhh... | There are many methods to reaching the goal of a permanent state of happiness. Lama Marut tells us how the path of devotion is the most secret, the most powerful, and possibly the easiest path. | 5/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Yoga of Devotion | Cindy Lee gives us a great introduction to the fastest and most powerful path to enlightenment. | 5/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Taking Refuge at Work | Lindsay and Rick look at the first four of the ten non-virtues and how we relate to them at the workplace. | 4/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Which came first, the sprout or the seed? | Lama Marut skillfully takes us into the deep end for a closer look at how we think things exist and shows us that it can't be happening "out there" the way we think. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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That's Interdependence! | Lama Marut explains how things are empty of existing independently of our perception of them. | 3/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Couch Potato Contemplation | You can't reach a goal until you have visualized it. Cindy Lee tells us about two more of the components of a daily practice, including one of the highest practices we could do throughout the day. | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Good Bonfire | Lama Marut and Cindy Lee talk about two of the components of a daily practice, including how to put some fun into your day by helping others and uncovering a real sense of freedom. | 2/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Nuts and Bolts of Meditation | Meditation is not optional for a spiritual life. Lama Marut gives us the nuts and bolts of meditation and explains how the purpose of meditation is to make our negative thoughts dwindle away. | 2/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Getting up on the right side of the bed | We have all the conditions needed to reach the goal of perfect happiness. The one thing we can't be sure of is how much time we have left. How do we start our day in a way that make the most of the gift that we have? Rick and Lindsay review some ideas about how to get your day off to a good start. | 1/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Making Friends with the Darkness | Lindsay draws examples from her time on the stage to illustrate how we are the head of our own production company and are the author, casting agent, and director of our own lives. She explores how words are empty of meaning from their own side, not just for actors on the stage, but in our everyday lives as well. She suggests that as you write the script for your next day to be sure to include some fun. | 1/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Will you be discontent with contentment? | Lama Marut challenges us to consider the idea that enlightenment is nothing more than being content and asks, "Would you be discontent with that enlightenment?" He then considers some of the reasons why we are not content. | 12/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nirvana is the Ultimate Chillaxation | Lama Marut explains from several vantage points that emptiness is the absence of something and that living a spiritual life isn't so much about doing something but more about stopping doing stuff. | 12/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Beautiful Mantra — "I don't know" | Cindy Lee subtly and insightfully explores the idea that "wise naivete" --saying "I don't know"-- helps us see how fear of change keeps us from being able to experience the true nature of reality. | 11/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Turn your world into your practice | Rick Blue talks about beginning to integrate your daily life into your meditation practice so that all of the people you encounter and all of the places you go can be tools get realizations about the things that you meditated on. | 11/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Recovering Silence | Lama Marut opens the retreat by talking about silence and how we can find the divine when we are quiet and leads the group in a blessing of the hermitage. | 10/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 21 Episodes |
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