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Unfettered Retreats
Podcasts & Audio Files
Every year, Ken McLeod teaches four or five retreats, some as short as three or four days, some as long as three weeks. Here you will find recordings of all Ken's teachings at these retreats.
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Below are links to the .mp3 files grouped by retreat. Select a grouping from the list below to see all the files from that retreat. When you click on a file title, a new window will open to play the sound file. You can put the window in the background and continue to browse while you listen.
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- A Trackless Path (Retreat, 16 files) August - September, 2009, Des Moines, New Mexico
- There is No Enemy (Retreat, 7 files) October, 2009, Mount Baldy, CA
- Death: Friend or Foe (Retreat, 7 files) May, 2009, Mount Baldy, CA
- Warrior’s Solution (Retreat, 8 files) February 2004, Los Angeles, California
- Chö (Retreat, 7 files) July 2003, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Mind Training Santa Fe (Retreat, 15 files) July 2003, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Presence and Power (Retreat, 10 files) October 2008, Mt. Baldy, CA
- Buddhahood Without Meditation (Retreat, 9 files) August, 2008, Des Moins, NM
- Pointing Out Instructions (Retreat, 9 files) August, 2008, Des Moins, NM
- Monsters Under The Bed (Retreat, 6 files) October 10 -14, 2007, Mt. Baldy, CA
- Mahamudra Retreat 2007 (Retreat, 9 files) September, 2007, Toronto
- Five Elements / Five Dakinis (Retreat, 9 files) July, 2007, Vancouver, BC
- Mahayana Mind Training (Retreat, 9 files) May, 2007, Mt. Baldy Zen Center
- The Unfettered Mind (Retreat, 4 files) October 2006, Mount Baldy CA
- Chaos and Clarity (Retreat, 7 files) January 2006
- Awakening from Belief (Retreat, 16 files) June 2005, St. Johnsbury VT
- Releasing Emotional Reactions (Retreat, 8 files) February 2005, Santa Fe NM
- Guru, Deity, Protector (Retreat, 11 files) October 2004, Mount Baldy CA
BWM01: Buddhahood Without Meditation
Doing nothing
Retreat’s daily schedule and routine; subject matter for retreat (Buddhahood Without Meditation); sitting with questions rather than trying to answer them intellectually; the challenge of doing nothing; the importance of silence; resting & seeing.
Duration 00:45:25
BWM02: Buddhahood Without Meditation
Dzogchen & willingness, know-how, and capacity
Participants’ accounts of what is like to do nothing; overview of Dzogchen from the perspective of outlook/view, practice, and behavior; willingness, know-how, and capacity and related tools for Dzogchen practice.
Duration 01:51:32
BWM03: Buddhahood Without Meditation
The view
Participants’ accounts on using tools described in previous sessions; discussion on guru yoga, negative emotions, and faith; instruction and questions on sky gazing; instruction, discussion, and experiences on using the breath and questions to learn how to rest in the view.
Duration 01:45:09
BWM04: Buddhahood Without Meditation
The tap on the shoulder
The hunter and the three bears; how different sets of instructions point to the same thing (Asanga, mind-training, mahamudra, dzogchen); forms of knowing; letting direct experience soak in to your core; the sense of self and ant colonies; the nature of experience; form and emptiness.
Duration 01:47:03
BWM05: Buddhahood Without Meditation
Why not do what you want?
Question regarding translation of Dogen’s Genjokoan; If objects and experiences are empty and there is no self, why does it matter what I do?; the struggle between patterns and ethical/virtuous behavior; Buddhist ethics as a way to create the conditions for a quiet mind; what would life be like if you could experience fully whatever arises?; intention; meeting what is there; what is buddha nature?
Duration 01:40:05
BWM06: Buddhahood Without Meditation
Recognizing and resting
Seeking ‘the experience’; the illusion of choice; recognizing what is arising and resting; useless and useful planning; resting as a means, not an end; the nature of mind; working with resistance; meditation instruction; emptiness and awareness; what is meant by ‘May I know that mind has no beginning.’
Duration 01:41:34
BWM07: Buddhahood Without Meditation
The futility of effort
The story of tea; commentary and questions on The Wisdom Experience of Ever-Present Good and understanding apparent contradictions in the text.
Duration 01:49:50
BWM08: Buddhahood Without Meditation
Acting in ways that leave you at peace
Conduct and behavior as ways to both set conditions for practice and enhance / deepen practice; the story of Mrs. Foo; applying the principle of the middle way; tightening up your life and keeping your intention clear; two lists of metaphors for conduct and behavior; engaging in a chosen behavior so as to experience in yourself the related reactive emotions.
Duration 01:36:52
BWM09: Buddhahood Without Meditation
Practice as life, life as practice
Historical tendency of practice being both separate from and more important than other daily activities; stabilization of attention (with and without activity) as the only type of practice; why incorporating practice into your life doesn’t work; why incorporating your life into your practice does work; using the primary practice continually; including your whole life in everything you do; the only thing you can know is what you experience; a knowing that is immediate and direct but not conceptual; find appropriate response through the four steps of standing up; open to both poles of a reactive pattern to step out of it.
Duration 01:40:56