Enlightenment and Awakening: What is Insight Meditation

Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks

English - June 17, 2018 13:39 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
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Awakening is a natural process. The Theravada Buddhist tradition has a very clear model of the process of awakening. It includes four distinct stages of awakening.

Awakening is often described in such extreme ways that meditators think it is something that may happen after decades of retreat practice. In fact, awakening is a natural process that is strengthened and supported by our practice of the Eightfold Path.

Dharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded June 3, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community.

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