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Orlando Insight Meditation Group

Peter Carlson

A Contemporary Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation Community For Central Florida

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Three-Day Meditation Retreat-January 30, 2025

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2024/11/26

Joyful Living: Finding Our Home in Our Body Overview: We would love to have you share in meditation teachings and the beauty of the Warren Willis Camp and Conference Center near Fruitland Park, Florida. Centered on a peninsula of Lake Griffin in Lake County, this setting is ideal for calming our mind, reducing our suffering, […]

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November 2024 Dharma Questions

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2024/11/21

During this meeting, Peter answers questions about Buddhist concepts and provides suggestions regarding meditation practices.

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Lezlie Laws’ Five Hindrances Review

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2024/06/06

Reviewing and setting aside the five aggregates is described as the first of the contemplations found within the Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness. Lezlie provides quotes and comments that explain the characteristics of these obstacles to a mind that is alert and serene enough to support insights that liberate the mind from craving and clinging. Here […]

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Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness Overview

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2024/05/30

Considering the Third Foundation of Mindfulness as if it were a sheet of paper, and the First as a pen, then the Second as ink; the Fourth Foundation, mindfulness of mental phenomena, is what is written on the paper, creating our experience of being an enduring/autonomous self. During this talk, Peter reviews the categories of […]

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Reviewing Mindfulness of the Mind

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2024/05/23

The Third Foundation of Mindfulness focuses attention on investigating the characteristics of a person’s consciousness–alert or dull, filled with desire or free from desire, among other categories. During this talk, Peter reviews the various categories, supplemented by current neurological research that supports the views developed by Buddhist practitioners and scholars over a thousand years ago. […]

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Skillfully Managing Feelings

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2024/05/16

Mindfulness of Feelings is the Second Foundation of Mindfulness, and during this talk, Peter provides a review of the various categories of feelings, which are not emotions, but rather the impulsive reactivity we all experience that precedes craving and clinging. Managing feelings skillfully is key for developing the process of Awakening. Some of the current […]

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Guided Contemplating Feelings Meditation

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2024/05/16

This recording provides supportive suggestions for recognizing the various manifestations of feelings–pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral, both worldly and unworldly. The goal of this meditation is to learn how to let go of unwholesome feeling tones–impulsive reactivity in the mind–to skillfully develop insight into the transitory and impersonal nature of subjective experience. This meditation is intended […]

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How to Change your Heart-A One-Day Lovingkindness...

Orlando Insight Meditation Group ·

2024/05/15

The cultivation of lovingkindness plays a significant role in the process of Awakening. Clear insight must be integrated with benevolent intention. This retreat is intended to increase a person’s insight into the value of lovingkindness, but also provide direct training in the cultivation of kindness as a way to steady the mind and heart. The […]

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