Dharma talks and guided meditation offered by Arinna Weisman and co-teachers.
Recordings were made during Vipassana insight meditation retreats, and have been graciously provided by Lotus Insight Sangha of Seattle, Dhamma Dena of Joshua Tree, Dharma Seed, and others.
About Arinna Weisman
Arinna has been studying insight mediation since 1979 and teaching since 1989. Her root teacher is Ruth Denison, who was empowered to teach by meditation master U Bha Khin.
Arinna founded the Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley in Massachusetts and, with Eric Kolvig, was the first to lead insight meditation retreats for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, gender-queer community.
She is co-author of the book A Beginners Guide to Insight Meditation and a contributor to Women Practicing Buddhism: American Experiences, edited by Peter Gregory and Susanne Mrozik.
Her practice and teachings are infused with her political and environmental activism. She leads "Uncovering the Heart" retreats which integrate the awareness of the social dynamics of inequity with the dharma practice of liberation.
Arinna's website and schedule
www.arinnaweisman.org
To give Dana to Arinna
www.arinnaweisman.org/donate/
Affiliated Sanghas
Dhamma Dena (Joshua Tree, CA): www.dhammadena.org
Lotus Insight Sangha (Seattle, WA): www.lotusinsightsangha.org
Insight Community of the Desert (Palm Springs, CA): www.desertinsight.org
Blessings and gratitude to all of those who have recorded Arinna's teachings over the years. Particular gratitude to Lotus Insight Sangha and Dharma Seed, who have provided many of the recordings compiled here.
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Dharma talks and guided meditation offered by Arinna Weisman and co-teachers.
Recordings were made during Vipassana insight meditation retreats, and have been graciously provided by Lotus Insight Sangha of Seattle, Dhamma Dena of Joshua Tree, Dharma Seed, and others.
About Arinna Weisman
Arinna has been studying insight mediation since 1979 and teaching since 1989. Her root teacher is Ruth Denison, who was empowered to teach by meditation master U Bha Khin.
Arinna founded the Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley in Massachusetts and, with Eric Kolvig, was the first to lead insight meditation retreats for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, gender-queer community.
She is co-author of the book A Beginners Guide to Insight Meditation and a contributor to Women Practicing Buddhism: American Experiences, edited by Peter Gregory and Susanne Mrozik.
Her practice and teachings are infused with her political and environmental activism. She leads "Uncovering the Heart" retreats which integrate the awareness of the social dynamics of inequity with the dharma practice of liberation.
Arinna's website and schedule
www.arinnaweisman.org
To give Dana to Arinna
www.arinnaweisman.org/donate/
Affiliated Sanghas
Dhamma Dena (Joshua Tree, CA): www.dhammadena.org
Lotus Insight Sangha (Seattle, WA): www.lotusinsightsangha.org
Insight Community of the Desert (Palm Springs, CA): www.desertinsight.org
Blessings and gratitude to all of those who have recorded Arinna's teachings over the years. Particular gratitude to Lotus Insight Sangha and Dharma Seed, who have provided many of the recordings compiled here.
Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Venerable Fred, Nov 2022 (Week 3)
As the third week of the queer retreat comes to a close, Arinna offers morning instructions on transition and gratitude, followed by a guided meditation in appreciation for our bodies.
Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Venerable Fred, Nov 2022 (Week 3)
Arinna offers a dharma talk on gratitude: "Gratitude actually is the movement to appreciate that knows the particular characteristics and qualities of what we're moved to appreciate — and so we're coming to know the experience more accurately just as it is. So, it's a practice that actually brings us into right relationship with whatever we're being grateful for."
Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Venerable Fred, Nov 2022 (Week 3)
Morning instructions from Arinna on transforming the dynamics of ignorance through our moment-to-moment practice.
Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Venerable Fred, Nov 2022 (Week 3)
How do we know when greed and aversion are operating in our minds? Arinna gives a dharma talk on the transformative power of love.
Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Venerable Fred, Nov 2022 (Week 3)
Morning instructions from Arinna on mindfulness and beginning again: "So this combination of standing by — bearing witness — knowing — being present — being mindful — includes this wish not to abandon. Not to turn away from — but to be there for. To be there for ourselves. To be there for our lives, in a non-preferential way."
Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2)
Morning instructions from Arinna on self-determination: "We talk about this practice as so precious because it's giving us the tools to find a different way than reacting — and that different way is based on the capacity to respond differently."
Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2)
Morning instructions from Arinna: "What is living in my mind-heart right now? [...] The check-in comes from the intention to love: 'I love you honey, I care about you, and so I want to check in how things are'"
Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2)
Arinna offers a dharma talk on patience and the path of the Bodhisattva.
Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2)
Guided afternoon meditation by Arinna Weisman, with a body scan technique passed down from Ruth's teacher U Ba Khin.
Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2)
Morning instructions by Arinna Weisman, continuing on her previous dharma talk on impermanence: "When we meditate, we turn to whatever the experience is, and then we forget. And then: who remembers? and who forgets? And what happens when we have a pleasant experience and suddently it can change into unpleasant? Who is that happening to?"
Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2)
Arinna offers a dharma talk on impermanence: "Clinging, attachment, and ownership obscure reality and create a sense of solidity and continuity."
Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Oct & Nov 2022 (Week 2)
Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis offer the refuges and precepts as an opening to week two of the '22 Queer Retreat.
Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Oct & Nov 2022 (Week 1)
Morning instructions by Arinna Weisman on right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration: “There is a context in which we’re practicing of building these energies to free our mind - so that we become the vehicles in an unobstructed flow of support and healing and creating the conditions for freedom, for ourselves and everyone else.”
Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Oct & Nov 2022 (Week 1)
Dharma talk given by Arinna Weisman: "I am alive to heal what I've been given."
Dharma talks and guided meditation offered by Arinna Weisman and co-teachers.
Recordings were made during Vipassana insight meditation retreats, and have been graciously provided by Lotus Insight Sangha of Seattle, Dhamma Dena of Joshua Tree, Dharma Seed, and others.
About Arinna Weisman
Arinna has been studying insight mediation since 1979 and teaching since 1989. Her root teacher is Ruth Denison, who was empowered to teach by meditation master U Bha Khin.
Arinna founded the Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley in Massachusetts and, with Eric Kolvig, was the first to lead insight meditation retreats for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, gender-queer community.
She is co-author of the book A Beginners Guide to Insight Meditation and a contributor to Women Practicing Buddhism: American Experiences, edited by Peter Gregory and Susanne Mrozik.
Her practice and teachings are infused with her political and environmental activism. She leads "Uncovering the Heart" retreats which integrate the awareness of the social dynamics of inequity with the dharma practice of liberation.
Arinna's website and schedule
www.arinnaweisman.org
To give Dana to Arinna
www.arinnaweisman.org/donate/
Affiliated Sanghas
Dhamma Dena (Joshua Tree, CA): www.dhammadena.org
Lotus Insight Sangha (Seattle, WA): www.lotusinsightsangha.org
Insight Community of the Desert (Palm Springs, CA): www.desertinsight.org
Blessings and gratitude to all of those who have recorded Arinna's teachings over the years. Particular gratitude to Lotus Insight Sangha and Dharma Seed, who have provided many of the recordings compiled here.
