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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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- Five Elements / Five Dakinis (Retreat, 10 files) July, 2007, Vancouver, BC
- 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
- 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
CAC 01: Chaos and Clarity (retreat)
Opening talk of retreat, Mt. Baldy Zen Center, California, May 2003
Intention and working the edge of practice, the three difficult points as described in The Great Path of Awakening, being specific in one’s effort, faith as the willingness to open to whatever arises, finding clarity through relaxing and resting in what arises, clarity as the nature of mind, meditation instruction on complete experiencing
Duration 00:48:48
CAC 02: Chaos and Clarity (retreat)
Body/Form, pt 1
Not getting caught up in distractions, overview of retreat content, form as all sensory experience (the difference between observing and experiencing): posture and sitting, walking, and interacting with objects, four reactions at the level of sensory experience
Duration 00:58:41
CAC 03: Chaos and Clarity (retreat)
Body/Form, pt 2
The relationship between what is experienced and experiencing; is form an illusion?, the worlds of personal and shared experience, objective reality as an abstraction of individual experiences, meditation instruction on working with sensory experience
Duration 01:09:09
CAC 04: Chaos and Clarity (retreat)
Speech/Emotion, pt 1
Knowing things completely, the four factors of emotional chaos: prejudice, shutting down, contraction, and envy; the purpose of life in the world of shared experience v. the purpose of life in the world of personal experience, meditation instruction on working with the four factors of chaos at the level of emotional experience
Duration 01:06:57
CAC 05: Chaos and Clarity (retreat)
Speech/Emotion, pt 2
Follow-up on life’s purpose in the world of personal or total experience, practice questions from meditation instruction in CAC 4 and from life experiences, how to transform prejudice, shutting down, contraction, and envy
Duration 01:09:31
CAC 06: Chaos and Clarity (retreat)
Mind/Awareness, pt 1
The four factors of chaos in awareness: disturbance, fixation, control, and dependence; meditation instruction on experiencing these factors
Duration 00:55:48
CAC 07: Chaos and Clarity (retreat)
Mind/Awareness, pt 2
Explanation of purposes behind a paired exercise held earlier in day, reading from the Diamond Sutra’s passage on being ruled or not ruled by objects, expansion on various commentaries regarding above passage, Q&A regarding material covered during the retreat
Duration 00:59:43