Doing long retreat
Doing long retreat
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Venerable Tenzin Chogkyi -
Exploring Monastic Life 2006
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Aug 9, 2006
Venerable Tenzin Chogkyi 
Exploring Monastic Life 2006 
Aug 9, 2006 A talk given during Sravasti Abbey’s annual Exploring Monastic Life program in 2006.
Life in retreat
- Significant things that happen
- What the ego does to feed itself
- Handling silence
- Experiencing different levels of the sense of self
- Make friends with yourself
- Using karma and emptiness to deconstruct the view of self
- Value of purification and accumulation of merit
- Trust the process and be patient
- Questions and answers
- Purification practices
- Transformation
- Accommodations
Exploring Monastic Life 2006: Session 5, 1-2 (download)
Questions and answers
- Daily schedule
- Special precepts
- Noticing resistance
- Perception of time
- Relating to others
