ON YOUR OWN ONLINE RETREAT

brought to you by the Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center with Bhante Vimalaramsi and Sister Khema

"SPECIAL NOTICE FOR 'SINGLE STUDENT' HOME RETREATS:
Doing the "Online Home Retreat" outside of the normal online group retreats
can only be done when a teacher agrees to do interview support writing
each day. This is only done by a Teacher's request to help an individual student. SK

GUIDELINES

1. You will be asked to agree to keep the BASIC precepts, link posted below, but also please do not listen to music and refrain from other entertainment (TV, RADIO, BOOKS, NEWSPAPERS, etc.) for the duration of the retreat. Please put your attention into the meditation for real. We realize you will probably keep working and going to school and such and that’s fine. We can talk about how to do the practice there as we go along. You will be learning engaged Buddhism for real.

2. Download the instructions as linked in the PRE RETREAT section below.

3. Next, you listen to the instructions and begin doing your meditation. If you have any questions before starting about how to sit or about your "spiritual friend" to choose or anything you can ask in the beginning.

4. You MUST agree to do the meditation for ½ hour minimum in the morning and once at night before bed (longer if you have time and are comfortable to do it).

5. DO it once in the middle of the day too if you can do this, so you have three sessions per day as we go along.

6. We need to hear from you all once a day, how you are doing in your sessions. Keep it short and ask questions as we go along. For retreat correspondence, core members should e-mail: bvretreat@yahoo.com

7. Each night you will be asked to listen to a Dhamma talk online that Bhante has done. This is the same as our retreats. YOU MUST ALL LISTEN TO THE SAME TALK so we can discuss questions as we go along for that talk. If you sit in a chair instead of cross-legged on a cushion, then please sit with your feet flat on the floor, and do not cross your legs or arms.

8. About sitting on a chair - always please note that the most important thing is not to sit back into the back of the chair! Best to put a rolled towel at the base of your back to keep you to the front and not sitting back into the chair. It's important not to cut off the natural energy flow of the back.

9. There is also in the PRE RETREAT section a link to the instructions for walking meditation . Don’t do overly slow walking with this practice. Do natural walking. The article tells you why.

10. When available, talks are posted in several formats. We suggest that you download the highest quality available unless you have a slow connection to the internet. Note, when downloading the "high" quality mp3 files, it may appear that nothing is happening for awhile while the download gets started.

PRE RETREAT

For general information on Dhamma Sukha retreats please read: info

The audio Instructions for Metta as presented by Bhante
Vimalaramsi are located at: metta
The transcript for this is at: Transcript

The Instructions for the Breath Meditation is found at: booklet

(You have to read over these instructions. We do not have this recorded yet. It is scheduled to be done this summer.)

Walking meditation instructions: Walking Meditation En Español

Schedule

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INTRODUCTORY TALK You may like to review this talk about the Five Precepts, and basic instruction for Loving-Kindness Meditation prior to the retreat (Davis, Feb-07 ~ 45 min, audio - video, no transcript)

EVERY MORNING:

PRECEPTS and VERSES:

AUDIO mp3

Transcript (plus verses)

or New Style Transcript

meditate

AROUND NOON:

meditate (if possible)

EVENING:

Around 6PM (your local time- don't worry about time zone differences) each day please listen to a Dhamma Talk. It is very essential that you meditate immediately following listening to the talk. Try not to have any breaks. Go right to the cushion (or chair) and have a session.

SCHEDULE OF EVENING DHAMMA TALKS:

Using Joshua Retreat # I Talks

ON YOUR OWN ONLINE RETREAT

GUIDELINES

PRE RETREAT

Schedule

DAY 1,

DAY 2,

Day 3,

Day 4,

Day 5,

Day 6,

Day 7,

Day 8,

Day 9,