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The Hidden Lamp: Awakened Zen Women
Heart of Winter 2021
Four Talks by Tim BurnettDeep Winter Online Retreat 2021: The Hidden Lamp In January 2021, Mindfulness Northwest Executive Director and Guiding Teacher Tim Burnett co-led a 5-day online retreat which featured stories of powerful women teachers and practitioners from the Zen Buddhist tradition. The recording was misplaced from some years – we’re delighted to bring these materials to the […]
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Reflections on Mindfulness
An article by Maggie Weisberg (Guest Author)
November 2023Mindfulness practice helps us “make everything the path.”
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Effort and Ease
Fall Weekend Retreat 2023
A talk by Tim Burnettby Tim Burnett, October 2023 In October 2023, Mindfulness Northwest Executive Director and Guiding Teacher Tim Burnett led a weekend retreat at the Samish Island Retreat Center focussed on the ways that the exploration of mindfulness, and thus the exploration of a life, can be seen as a deep immersion in balancing effort and […]
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Taproot: The Mindfulness Sutra (Satipatthana Sutta)
Roots of Mindfulness 2023
Six Talks by Tim BurnettTHE BUDDHIST ROOTS OF MINDFULNESS 2023 In October 2023, Mindfulness Northwest Executive Director and Guiding Teacher Tim Burnett co-led a 7-day retreat on the Buddhist teachings on mindfulness. Tim deeply explored the traditional Buddhist text that is the central inspiration for Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipatthana Sutta) You can read or […]
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Mindful Movement
Carolyn McCarthy – 10 minute audioThink of Mindful Movement as a “body scan in motion” where we practice deeply feeling the sensations in the body as we move it and as we hold different postures. We offer a few suggestions for getting started as well as diagrams of our standard full mindful movement sequence which is supported by this recording. Mindful Movement […]
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Take Mindfulness Outside
An article by Beth Glosten, M.D.
October 2023Whether our body is moving and working out in nature or taking it all in from our apartment window, our senses can draw us inward toward the mindful details of our experience.
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Open Awareness Meditation
Carolyn McCarthy – 22 minute audioOpen Awareness is the practice of stabilizing attention with a broad, wide-open focus that allows mental objects, sensations, and sensory experiences to come and go. All mindfulness-based practices are oriented towards stabilizing attention. Sometimes a stable attention has a narrower focus, such as when doing a focussed task or practicing breath awareness (or see also […]
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On Becoming a Whole Person: Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva
Roots of Compassion 2023Four Talks by Tim BurnettTHE BUDDHIST ROOTS OF COMPASSION 2023 In August 2023, Mindfulness Northwest Executive Director and Guiding Teacher Tim Burnett co-led a 5-day retreat on the Buddhist teachings on being in deep and harmonious service with others. A teaching poem by the 13th century Tibetan teacher Tokmé Zongpo serves as a guidebook to deeply mindful, ethical, and […]
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The Mystery of Letting Go
Summer Weekend Retreat 2023
A talk by Tim Burnettby Tim Burnett, September 2023 In September 2023, Mindfulness Northwest Executive Director and Guiding Teacher Tim Burnett led a weekend retreat at the Samish Island Retreat Center focussed on the ways that mindfulness supports surprising personal changes in a way that often seems quite mysterious. We offer three weekend residential retreats each year. See […]
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Warming Up to Loving Kindness…with Science!
An article by Tim Burnett
September 2023Loving kindness meditation helps us tune into our feelings more which helps relieve depression.
