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Orlando Insight Meditation Group

Peter Carlson

A Contemporary Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation Community For Central Florida

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2025 Deerhaven Retreat 7th Night Nurturing Awakening...

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2025/03/26

This final Dharma talk of the retreat provides suggestions for developing the themes and practices presented during the retreat at home, including cultivating a lifestyle that counters any cultural conditioning that reinforces unnecessary distress and confusion. Here are the notes prepared for this talk: NURTURING AWAKENING AT HOME

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1:15:41

2025 Deerhaven Retreat 6th Night–Integration and...

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2025/03/26

During this talk, Peter describes how applying the principles and practices associated with being “diligent, mindful, clearly knowing” presented earlier in the retreat supports a beneficial progression from self-state conflict through self-state integration towards self-state liberation. Self-state conflict represents the inescapable difference between how the selfing process idealizes oneself, others and the world and what […]

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1:20:40

2025 Deerhaven Retreat 5th Night–Dependent Origination

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2025/03/26

This Buddhist concept describes how our subjective experience of self hood is created multiple times per second. Contemplating this provides a way to “deconstruct” the belief that there is an enduring/autonomous self, and this understanding supports the process of Awakening. Peter uses a different term than Dependent Origination–he calls it “Contingent Provisional Emergence” which provides […]

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1:38:51

2025 Deerhaven Retreat 4th Night-The Awakening Factors

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2025/03/26

The 7 Awakening Factors represent those wholesome qualities of mind developed for cultivating the process of Awakening. During this talk, Peter explains how they operate and various ways to nurture their maturation. Here are the notes prepared for this talk: Deerhaven 2025 Seven Awakening Factors

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1:01:49

2025 Deerhaven 3rd Night–Cultivating a Concentrated...

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2025/03/26

During this talk, Peter describes the development of Access Concentration, the quality of consciousness that is not affected by the Hindrances. This is cultivated through developing the procedure of aiming/sustaining attention intentionally to develop stability and tranquility in the mind, preparing for the practicing vipassana, insight into the conditioned nature of the mind. Here are […]

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1:13:08

2025 Deerhaven 2nd Night Dharma Talk–Overcoming the...

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2025/03/26

During this talk, Peter reviews the 5 Hindrances, which he describes as “energy dumps”–setting them aside frees up energy for further development of the 7 Awakening Factors, creating more opportunities to liberate the mind from dukkha, the distress and confusion resulting from the action of the Hindrances. Here are the notes prepared for this talk: […]

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2025 Deerhaven Retreat 1st Night Dharma Talk

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2025/03/26

During this talk, Peter refers to the main themes of the retreat a a refuge from the stress of these times and the importance of developing “diligence, mindfulness and the intention to clearly know how to awaken the mind from greed, hatred and delusion. He emphasizes that Awakening rather than Enlightenment is a better term […]

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The Psychology of Awakening: An In-Person Class...

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2025/03/11

The Psychology of Awakening Buddhist Mindfulness of Breathing Meditation Taught by Peter Carlson Presented by The Orlando Insight Meditation Group at the University Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 11648 McCulloch Rd, Orlando, FL 32817, near the UCF campus Saturdays, 9:30-11 AM, April 12-May 3 These are stressful times, and years of careful research regarding mindfulness of breathing […]

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1:02:34

February 2025 Dharma Questions

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2025/03/06

During this talk, Peter describes his favorite etymology of the word dukkha. He then talks at length about the concepts of duality and non-duality, described as a progression from the simple action of intending to monitor the sensations that occur while breathing to a realization that there is no enduring/autonomous self, and the direct realization […]

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56:22

Dukkha And These Days

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2025/02/13

During this talk, Allie Vaknin reviewed the three elements of Dukkha–embodied suffering, the suffering the mind creates, and the suffering due to the unpredictability of change. Her description is accompanied by various comments regarding current sociopolitical stresses described by those participating in the meeting.

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59:05

Habits and the Dharma

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2025/01/23

During this talk, Lili reviews contemporary psychological and neurological understandings about habit formation and how Buddhist concepts and practices support the ability to be mindful of, investigate, and alter unwholesome thoughts and actions that are habitual while reinforcing more wholesome habits. Her comments were followed by questions posed by those participating in the meeting. Here […]

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53:55

January 2025 Dharma Questions

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2025/01/16

Each month Peter provides an opportunity for participants in the meeting to ask questions about Buddhist doctrine and meditation practice. During this talk, Peter and others provided suggestions in response to an inquiry that focused on how to cultivate and maintain a regular daily meditation practice. Another question focused on how to discern the difference […]

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1:07:15

Consumerism and the Dharma

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2025/01/09

At the core of consumerism we find the “three poisons” that causes suffering–greed, hatred and delusion. During this talk, Peter provides some background information about the history and adverse sociocultural and ecological effects of contemporary consumerism, emphasizing that, although we have all benefited from modern production and distribution technologies, we are persistently conditioned to want […]

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Intensive Study Groups Starting Soon

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2024/12/14

TOPIC for the January 2025 Intensive Study Groups Led by Peter Carlson: I have often commented on the historically unprecedented changes that are occurring these days, all over the world. Regardless for our political views, cultural norms, or economic circumstances, we will be confronted with significant challenges in an ongoing way, for an unforeseeable period […]

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December 2024 Dharma Questions

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2024/12/12

During this talk, Peter responds to questions, for example, the difference between concentration and insight, and the relationship between breath awareness and body awareness while practicing mindfulness of breathing meditaiton.

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1:00:10

Anapanasati 16 Steps Review

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2024/12/05

This talk provides a review of the Mindfulness of Breathing Discourse, the focus of a recently-completed course Peter participated in that used Analayo’s “Mindfulness of Breathing”. The Anapanasati Sutta is one of the core teachings of Theravada Buddhism and the meetings of the course helped validate some meditative insights emerging from his practice. The 16 […]

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45:05

Guided 16 Step Anapanasati Contemplation

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2024/12/05

This Mindfulness of Breathing meditation is intended to support a Dharma talk entitled “Anapanasati 16 Step Review”. It provides a progression of practices beginning with persistent attention to mindfulness of breathing sensations through to the practice of “letting go”.

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A One Week Buddhist Meditation Retreat at Deerhaven...

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2024/12/04

Riding the Waves of Change Led by Peter Carlson This retreat is suitable for beginning and more advanced meditators. The practice will progress from cultivating mental tranquility with mindfulness of breathing meditation to developing vipassana, the Buddhist term for ongoing awareness of the changing nature of mind states, with the goal of reducing distress and […]

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49:34

Thanks-Giving As A Contemplation

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2024/11/30

During this talk, which occurred on Thanksgiving Eve, Peter revises the holiday term Thanksgiving to emphasize the relationship between gratitude (thanks) and generosity (giving). During a guided contemplation entitled “Contemplating Thanks-Giving”, recorded prior to this talk and posted on the website, the characteristic physical and emotional elements of these two wholesome states of mind are […]

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Contemplating Thanks-Giving

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2024/11/30

This guided meditation revises the holiday of Thanksgiving through focusing on the interaction between gratitude (thanks) and generosity (giving), with emphasis on recognizing the physical and emotional components of gratitude. Participants are invited to reflect on times when they experienced gratitude as a result of another person’s generosity, or through recalling an event when witnessing […]

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