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Retreat Dharma Talks at Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life

With Victoria Cary and Eugene Cash

2025-06-28 (8 days) Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

  
2025-06-29 Normalcy of Life and Death 47:41
Eugene Cash
How we understand death dharmically and in our personal lives holds the potential for mindfulness of death in ways that enrich and bring the fruits of the dharma into our lives.
2025-07-01 Anathapindika and the Presence of Mindfulness 54:32
Eugene Cash
How Satipatthana directs us to the development of not just being present but presence of Mind. Presence of mind support letting go. Anathapindika faces death directly and is given instructions of not clinging to anything. This Sutta changes the teachings of Buddhism for non-monsastics.
2025-07-03 Paradox of Life and Death 59:07
Eugene Cash
Exploring how the Buddha gave up the intoxication with youth, health and life. How mindfulness of death supports opening to our Buddha nature. Includes personal story about the experience of discontinuity in my near death experience.
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