• Morning Talks:
  1. Detailed instructions for the 1st Jhana
  2. 5 Daily Recollections (AN 5.57)
  3. Start the 4 Foundations of Mindfulness - Mindfulness of Breathing (DN 22.1&2)
  4. 4 Postures, Mindfulness of everything one does [often 3 & 4 are combined] (DN 22.3&4)
  5. Mindfulness of the Body - Guided Sweeping Meditation (loosely based on DN 22.5)
  6. Mindfulness of the 4 Elements - Guided Meditation (DN 22.6)
  7. Talk about charnel ground contemplations; 2nd Foundation (DN 22.7-10;11)
  8. 3rd Foundation; begin 4th Foundation - 5 Hindrances and 5 Aggregates (DN 22.12;13;14)
  9. 6 Senses; 7 Factors of Enlightenment; 4 Noble Truths reprise; Conclusion of the sutta (DN22.15;16;17-21;22)

• Evening Talks:
  1. Opening night talk is a bit about me, about Ayya Khema, about the retreat, and the 5 precepts
  2. 4 Noble Truths and the 8 Fold Path (DN22.17-21)
  3. 5 Hindrances (DN 2.68-74)
  4. Jhanas 1-4 (DN 2.75-83)
  5. The Fruits of the Spiritual Life (DN2)
  6. Jhanas 5-8 + 9 (DN 33.1.11.7)

     These are the "every time" evening talks. I fill out the rest of the retreat with whatever I think fits the group best from the following:

  7. Not Self + 4 Stages of Enlightenment
  8. Progress of Insight
  9. Dependent Origination - perhaps multipe talks
  10. Emptiness (from SN 12.15 and from Nargarjuna - Verses from the Center)
  11. Impermanence
  12. 4 Divine Abodes - Jataka tale: "The Buddha was once born as a deer king..."
  13. Angulimala (MN 86)
  14. The Dancer and the King

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