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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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- A Trackless Path II (Retreat, 1 file) August 2010, Des Moines, New Mexico
- 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
GDP 01a: Guru, Deity, Protector (retreat)
Opening talk of retreat, Mount Baldy Zen Center, October 2004
Retreat structure and intention, comments on the Vajrayana path – how it is different and the same, how it is based on compassion and emptiness, which naturally evolve into mindfulness and presence
Duration 00:39:54
GDP 01b: Guru, Deity, Protector (retreat)
Opening talk continued
Are you suitable for Vajrayana? two dangers, review of prayers used in the retreat, questions regarding the retreat structure
Duration 00:39:37
GDP 02a: Guru, Deity, Protector (retreat)
Guru, part 1a
Comments on the teacher-student relationship, the responsibilities of the teacher and student, methods that teachers use to reveal presence, provide instruction, and point out student’s internal material
Duration 00:36:58
GDP 02b: Guru, Deity, Protector (retreat)
Guru, part 1b
Devotion reveals student’s internal material, difference between faith and belief, three types of faith and how they transform the three poisons, commentary on guru yoga and related prayer (text available on the website), questions from participants
Duration 00:43:43
GDP 03: Guru, Deity, Protector (retreat)
Guru, part 2
Questions regarding faith and compassion, balance in a guru-student relationship, the three types of faith and the three doors of freedom, questions from participants regarding this practice
Duration 00:50:34
GDP 04: Guru, Deity, Protector (retreat)
Deity, part 1
Comments on the Buddhist concept of ‘no self’. Yidams or deities as expressions of awakened mind, deity meditation instruction, questions about this how to do this practice
Duration 00:56:05
GDP 05: Guru, Deity, Protector (retreat)
Deity, part 2
Practice questions regarding pride and compassion, the three classes of deities: peaceful, semi-wrathful, wrathful, review of Tsulak Trengwa’s poem How I Live The Practice (text available on website) which describes the flavor of deity practice, questions regarding deity practice
Duration 00:59:48
GDP 06: Guru, Deity, Protector (retreat)
Protector, part 1
Discussion on enchantment with dakini and protector practices and how that connects with the origin of these practices, protector meditation instruction and questions
Duration 01:04:05
GDP 07: Guru, Deity, Protector (retreat)
Protector, part 2
Description of protectors and commentary on related text, importance of moderation in protector practices, connection between the three roots (guru, deity, and protector) and the three marks of existence (suffering, non-self, impermanence), questions on above
Duration 00:58:15
GDP 08: Guru, Deity, Protector (retreat)
Conclusion, part 1
Questions and comments on prayer text, magnetization, taking refuge in mind itself, the continual process of meeting what arises in experience, reactive emotions like desire, the eight concerns, working with the type of practice that best engages your internal material
Duration 01:09:28
GDP 09: Guru, Deity, Protector (retreat)
Conclusion, part 2
Questions regarding sky gazing and protectors, a story about yidams, a story about protectors, review of various lines of transmissions and lineages
Duration 01:03:12