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Orientation Joshua Tree Retreat 3  Day 0  01-Mar-08
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MN 20 The Removal of Distracting Thoughts - Vitakkasaṇṭhāna Sutta  
Five methods of removing distracting thoughts are presented, but the last four may have been added by Brahmins some time after the time of the Buddha.

MN 20 Joshua Tree Retreat 3  Day 1  02-Mar-08
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MN 95 With Canki - Canki Sutta
The Buddha shows the difference between preserving the truth (out of faith), discovering the truth (out of direct experience through practice), and the arrival at truth.

MN 95 Joshua Tree Retreat 3  Day 2  03-Mar-08
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MN 111 One by One as They Occurred - Anupada Sutta
The Buddha describes Ven. Sāriputta’s attainment to arahatship as it occurred through the jhānas.

MN 111 Joshua Tree Retreat 3  Day 3  04-Mar-08    111 min,  MP4 - 160 MB
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MN 10 The Foundations of Mindfulness - Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta
This is the most important discourse by the Buddha on the training of mindfulness meditation, with particular attention given to developing insight. The Buddha begins by declaring that the four foundations of mindfulness are the direct path leading to the realization of Nibbāna. He then gives detailed instructions on the four foundations: the contemplation of the body, feelings, mind, and mind objects.

MN 10 P1  Joshua Tree Retreat 3  Day 4  05-Mar-08    96 min,  MP4 - 120 MB
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MN 10 P2  Joshua Tree Retreat 3  Day 5  06-Mar-08  142 min,  MP4 - 180 MB
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MN 148 The Six Sets of Six - Chachakka Sutta
A profound and penetrating discourse on the contemplation of all the factors of sense experience as not self.

MN 148 Joshua Tree Retreat 3  Day 6  07-Mar-08    72 min,  MP4 - 110 MB, 
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MN 59 The Many Kinds of Feeling - Bahuvedanīya Sutta
The Buddha clears up the question of why someone may be confused as to how many kinds of feeling there are, for he has presented many different lists. This discourse also describes the progressive pleasure one attains from the eight meditative attainments, and from the attainment of cessation.

MN 59 Joshua Tree Retreat 3  Day 7  08-Mar-08   89 min,  MP4 - 110 MB
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MN 38 The Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving - Mahātaṇhāsankhaya Sutta
This is an important discourse on dependent origination and the destruction of craving. After reprimanding the bhikkhu Sāti about the view he was proclaiming—that the same consciousness runs through the round of rebirths—the Buddha explains from every angle the correct way to view dependent origination, showing how all phenomena of existence arise and cease through conditions.

MN 38 Joshua Tree Retreat 3  Day 8  09-Mar-08    104 min,  MP4 - 140 MB
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SN 46-54 Accompanied by Lovingkindness

SN 46-54 Joshua Tree Retreat 3  Day 9  10-Mar-08   114 min,  MP4 - 200 MB
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MN 44 The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers - Cūḷavedalla Sutta
This discourse is a discussion between bhikkhuni Dhammadinnā and her former husband, the lay follower Visākha. It includes many excellent points on identity, feelings (vedanā), cessation and Nibbāna.

MN 44 Joshua Tree Retreat 3  Day 10  11-Mar-08    96 min,   MP4 - 180 MB
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MN 9 Right View - Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta
This comprehensive discourse is given by Ven. Sāriputta. He begins by defining what is wholesome and the root of the wholesome, and what is unwholesome and the root of the unwholesome. Using the format of the Four Noble Truths (understanding the object, the origin of the object, the cessation of the object, and the way leading to the cessation of the object), he goes through nutriment, the Four Noble Truths, and all twelve factors of dependent origination.
MN 43 The Greater Series of Questions and Answers - Mahāvedalla Sutta
Ven. Mahā Koṭṭhita meets with Ven. Sāriputta and asks questions about the Dharma in order to refine his understanding. This discourse expounds various subtle points of Dhamma.

MN 9, 43  Joshua Tree Retreat 3  Day 11  12-Mar-08   107 min,  MP4 - 135 MB
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MN 70  At Kīṭāgiri - Kīṭāgiri Sutta  
While admonishing two monks, the Buddha asks them if they have ever known him to give teachings that did not make wholesome states increase, and unwholesome state decrease. He also tells them of the seven kinds of noble persons in the world.

MN 70  Joshua Tree Retreat 3  Day 12  13-Mar-08  107 min, MP4: 175 MB
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Metta Meditation in Daily Life
A talk about life after the retreat.

Metta Meditation in Daily Life   Joshua Tree Retreat 3  Day 13  14-Mar-08
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