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Orientation for the retreat
Orientation   Joshua Tree 6   5-Mar-11      Day 1  Orientation for the retreat, Loving-Kindness meditation instructions.

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MN 20 The Removal of Distracting Thoughts - Vitakkasaṇṭhāna Sutta  
Five methods of removing distracting thoughts are presented, but the last four may have been added by Brahmins some time after the time of the Buddha.
MN 20    Joshua Tree 6    6-Mar-11      Day 2 

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MN 19 Two Kinds of Thought - Dvedhāvitakka Sutta
The Buddha divides thought into two classes: thoughts of sensual desire, ill will and cruelty; and thoughts of renunciation, non-ill will (mettā) and noncruelty (karuṇā). This discourse states simply that unwholesome thought bring about unhappiness, and wholesome thoughts bring about happiness. Unwholesome thoughts can be replaced by wholesome thoughts (and, even better, a quiet, collected mind). Knowing this, we can bring about happiness and freedom from pain.
MN  19  Joshua Tree 6    7-Mar-11      Day 3

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MN 59 The Many Kinds of Feeling - Bahuvedanīya Sutta
 The Buddha clears up the question of why someone may be confused as to how many kinds of feeling there are, for he has presented many different lists. This discourse also describes the progressive pleasure one attains from the eight meditative attainments, and from the attainment of cessation.
MN 59   Joshua Tree 6   8-Mar-11      Day 4

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MN 38 The Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving - Mahātaṇhāsankhaya Sutta
This is an important discourse on dependent origination and the destruction of craving. After reprimanding the bhikkhu Sāti about the view he was proclaiming—that the same consciousness runs through the round of rebirths—the Buddha explains from every angle the correct way to view dependent origination, showing how all phenomena of existence arise and cease through conditions.  
MN 38   Joshua Tree 6   9-Mar-11      Day 5

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SN 12:10 Gotama the Great Sakyan Sage
SN 12:2 Analysis of Dependent Origination
Discourses on dependent origination
SN 12:10, SN 12:2    Joshua Tree 6   10-Mar-11      Day 6

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MN 128  Imperfections - Upakkilesa Sutta
This discourse has two parts. In the first, there is more information about living in concord, arising from the dispute at Kosambī (as in MN48). It includes a famous series of stanzas about living with non-hatred. In the second, the Buddha discusses the various impediments to meditative progress.
MN 128   Joshua Tree 6   11-Mar-11      Day 7 

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No  Talk  Available   12-Mar-11     Day 8
MN 53 The Disciple in Higher Training - Sekha Sutta
Ven. Ānanda gives a discourse at the Buddha’s request on the fifteen factors involved in higher training for a disciple who has entered upon the way.
MN 53  Joshua Tree 6   13-Mar-11     Day 9     
       
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MN 43 The Greater Series of Questions and Answers - Mahāvedalla Sutta
Ven. Mahā Koṭṭhita meets with Ven. Sāriputta and asks questions about the Dharma in order to refine his understanding. This discourse is excellent in it's way of expounding various subtle points of Dharma.
MN 43  Joshua Tree 6    14-Mar-11  Day 10  

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MN 18 The Honeyball - Madhupiṇḍika Suta
This is an important discourse on papañca. Papañca is the proliferation and projection of mind that emerges from the process of cognition, and gives rise to perceptions and notions that overwhelm and victimize a person. After the Buddha has finished speaking, Ven. Mahā Kaccāna gives the detailed meaning.
MN 18  Joshua Tree 6   15-Mar-11    Day 11          

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MN 148 The Six Sets of Six - Chachakka Sutta
A profound and penetrating discourse on the contemplation of all the factors of sense experience as not self.

MN 148    Joshua Tree 6    16-Mar-11    Day 12   

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MN 77  The Greater Discourse to Sakuludāyin - Mahāsakuludāyi Sutta
This is a long discourse given to a group of well known wanderers. It reviews the Buddha’s whole progression of teachings, providing information that is repeated throughout the discourses. The Buddha gives five reasons for why he is venerated and honored.
MN 77  Joshua Tree 6     17-Mar-11    Day 13           

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MN 106 The Way to the Imperturbable - Āneñjasappāya Sutta
The Buddha explains the approaches to various levels of higher meditative states culminating in Nibbāna. He points out how one can get caught in clinging at any of these levels. The imperturbable refers to the 4th jhāna and the 1st two immaterial states.
MN 106  Joshua Tree 6    18-Mar-11    Day 14            

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