652 Berghof 2024 Retreat - Session 4 of 8

The Practice of Meditation. This Retreat will focus on The Mahamudra Instructions of Tipun Pema Chogyal. This short text shows us how to identify and respond to the many kinds of obstacles that can occur in practice. The aim of the retreat is to enable us to maintain calm, clear awareness whatever occurs.

Dates: 7-14 July 2024

Martin Breuger and Robert are organising. Waldemar did the audio recordings. Reiner Steiner did the video recordings.

Index

"(00:00:00) Dis-integration"

"(00:04:57) Dependent origination"

"(00:23:29) Questioning the qualities of the mind once again"

"(00:27:55) Sharing experience of how the mind is"

"(00:47:34) Questioning - starting from a view influences result"

"(00:58:38) Text - cutting involvement with the thought"

"(01:00:53) Practice without involvement"

"(01:03:42) Our felt-sense of individuality - continuity"

"(01:08:38) Text - arising and ended thoughts revealed"

"(01:12:05) Question - an agent doing the relaxation"

"(01:20:03) Question - causes of certain thoughts to arise"

"(01:27:14) Question - persistent recurring thoughts"

"(01:34:44) Question - examining the mind with thinking"

"(01:40:24) Question - container of thoughts - ocean"

"(01:48:51) Text - discursive thoughts arising and ceasing"

"(01:57:15) Question - without support - present with the flow"

"(01:58:05) Practice - calm abiding"

"(01:59:42) Text - abiding like the flow of a large river"

"(02:24:04) Brahmins thread - tightness and looseness"

"(02:32:28) Reflections on tightening"

"(02:35:48) Question - difficulty meditating with open eyes"

"(02:37:45) Question - agitation in daily life - meditation - integration"

"(02:38:58) Question - allowance to feel tension"

"(02:40:48) Text - resting as when the rope tying the straw is cut"

"(02:45:02) Reflection on the practice"

"(03:00:36) One-pointedness as basis"

"(03:06:08) Resting as a child gazing at a temple"

"(03:14:39) Resting like an elephant pricked by a thorn"

"(03:20:41) Question - watching a thought arise"

"(03:33:44) Text - like an ocean free of waves - lack - excess"

"(03:41:33) Collapsing the distinction between abiding and movement"

"(03:50:23) Question - ocean without wave"

"(03:53:03) Question - emotions"

"(03:57:32) Question - breathing thoughts in and out"

"(03:58:36) Question - stillness - sounds - not in time"

"(04:02:46) Text - how one-pointedness is in itself"

The Mahamudra Instructions of Tipun Pema Chogyal

Text in English at https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mahamudra-Instructions-Tipun-Pema-Chogyal-BT-31-01-2024.pdf

Text in German by Robert Jaroslawski at https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mahamudra_Tipun_Deutsch_V.1.5_Final-1-06-02-2024.pdf

Notes on Mahamudra by Padma Karpo

in English at https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Notes-on-Mahamudra-Padma-Karpo-JLow-27-02-2024.pdf

in German at https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Notes_on_Mahamudra_Padma-Karpo_German_RJ_V.1.11_Final.pdf

Again, Jonathan (Jon) Lever has usefully prepared the topics on each day of the retreat in separate recording snippets.

For a better understanding of the retreat, each day is separate so that you can follow the flow of the teaching in the correct chronological order.

Content also available at https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-records/the-practice-of-meditation-audio-berghof-july-2024/