2024-12-27 to 2025-1-23

Overcoming Physical and Mental Stress through Meditation

RETREAT

Description

11 MP3s from winter retreat session 1 Overcoming stress in 2024-25 was recorded at Lotus Lake Buddhist Center in Neillsville, WI on December 27, 2024 – January 3, 2025 .

Green Light Series of empowerments

12-27-2024 Day 1 Stand up straight inside

Rinpoche begins with a discussion of how our modern society has trained us incorrectly into worker bees and an success model that causes us stress. Stress is a distortion of our natural state. She discusses how we were trained in selfishness, instead of altruism. She then discusses our energetic body and how not standing up straight inside causes us stress. She checks each person in the Temple and blesses them.  

12-29-2024 Day 3

Overcoming Obstacles 

Rinpoche begins with a discussion about physical stress and how exercise can help heal that so we can sit for meditation and be happy. Rinpoche then discusses mental obstacles and strategies to overcome them. She answers questions about various kinds of obstacles and how to overcome them. 

 

Good and Bad Stress

Rinpoche discusses good stress on physical and mental or mind-body. She then leads a discussion about bad stress on physical or mental levels.

12-30-2024 day 4

Stress Hormones

Rinpoche discusses the Hormones in the body that are produced to respond to stressful situations. Unwarranted Fear is a physiological response to epinephrine in the body via mind, and not a thing to be afraid of, so ride it out.  Need to live a quieter daily life to retrain body to normal levels. 

 

12-31-2024 day 5 

Issues we think cause stress

Rinpoche begins with a discussion about issues that we think cause stress. Rinpoche’s key issues were overworked, lack of money, lack of time, lack of support, lack of respect, and lack of cooperation from others. 

Issue that actually cause stress

Rinpoche discusses the actual things that cause stress including procrastination (afraid to examine it), Unrealistic expectations (pushing), Hindsight (unprepared for emergencies), lack of daily care, poor self image, and not enough meditation or uncorrect meditation. Rinpoche then teaches cat claw technique. 

1-1-2025 day 6 

Personality 

Rinpoche discussed Tibet and India experiences. She then offers the Technique of the Three Energies Moving to the heart. We break into discussion groups to discuss personality types and how they react to events. Rinpoche discusses personality and how to cultivate a personality.  She then discusses the downside of personal technology devices. 

1-7-2025 day 7

Reification

Rinpoche discusses the reasons why she developed the sharing process. Rinpoche discusses reification as how we live – we make things real. She discusses over reification in daily life, and correct reification and resolution in meditation. She discusses pushing as incorrect reification – push on body, mind, & others – when can be more effective without pushing. She then does the reification of others on us that are good, nasty or neutral. 

Projections of Me and Others

Rinpoche discusses the mixture of projections that occur between me and others and how they can be good, nasty or neutral. She discusses how to get along with others, and on retreat how we should hold a neutral stance towards others. She then discusses the double split experience and how waves and particles behave, and how it is science discovering that the world is illusory. We then discuss the ramification of the wave/particle reversibility  for human consciousness behavior.

1-3-2025 day 8 

Energetic Beliefs

Rinpoche begins with a structure of the dilemma of teaching dharma over billions of years. She discusses Atisha and his teachings on refuge. She discusses how our seed is altruism and we grow from there.  She discusses destress self with simplification, and competition. Be good enough. Celebrate my differences ad be happy with who I am, and not try to be someone I am not. Rinpoche then begins a discussion about our preceptions, and how to use curiosity to change our perceptions. She discusses how to increase or decrease the strength of our perceptions. She discusses the habitual use of perceptions by education, by influences (status, parents), and craving. She then discusses intellectual and energetic beliefs.  We have to use our positive perceptions to change our negative ones. 

Emotions are stupid

Rinpoche discusses energetic beliefs and negative emotions, and how the justify why I feel that way (self validating). She discusses negative and positive overwhelmed states of mind.