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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WS01: Warrior's Solution (retreat) (revised) Introduction Introduction; how to live in power without being controlled by it; the three illusions -- survival, control, being somebody; how they inhibit the exercise of power; five mysteries: power, balance presence, truth & freedom; primary practice; attention, intention and will. Duration 01:04:31
WS02: Warrior's Solution (retreat) (revised) Intention Intention: the ability to direct attention; process of awakening; guided meditation practice for working with intention. Duration 01:09:10
WS03: Warrior's Solution (retreat) (revised) Warrior Ethics Ethics as comprised of a set of five principles: presence, balance, boundary, obligation, and courage; what these are and what they mean. Duration 01:11:25
WS04: Warrior's Solution (retreat) (revised) Sacrifice Sacrificing our conditional personality; the appropriate opponent; the function of reactive patterns, emotional core of patterned mode of experience; passive and reactive poles of a pattern; guided meditation: cutting the opponent. Duration 01:07:54
WS05: Warrior's Solution (retreat) (revised) Relationships Imbalance and relationships; entering vs observing emotions; experiencing a broken heart; patterns as addiction; various forms of obsessions and remedies. Duration 01:02:02
WS06: Warrior's Solution (retreat) (revised) Dying Power comes at the moment of dying; death as your friend; guided meditation : dying to expectation; participants questions. Duration 01:17:18
WS07: Warrior's Solution (retreat) (revised) Mind Killing Definition of mind killing and examples; six methods of mind killing; dying as remedy to mind killing. Duration 01:01:40
WS08: Warrior's Solution (retreat) (revised) Conclusion Antidotes to mind killing; middle way vs compromise; summary of warrior’s solution: perceive imbalance, intention, sacrifice, dying, rest; participant’s questions. Duration 01:32:05