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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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MTSF01: Mind Training Santa Fe '03 (retreat)
What is Ultimately True
Review of lineage; 5 practices on awakening to what is ultimately true: regard everything you experience as a dream, examine the nature of unborn awareness, the remedy itself releases naturally, the essence of the path: rest in the basis of all experience, in daily life, be a child of illusion. The audio for this series of podcasts was originally recorded on audio cassette. As such you may find the sound to be of a lower quality.
Duration 00:46:51

MTSF02: Mind Training Santa Fe '03 (retreat)
What is Apparently True
Practice on awakening to what is apparently true: taking and sending. The audio for this series of podcasts was originally recorded on audio cassette. As such you may find the sound to be of a lower quality.
Duration 00:47:24

MTSF03: Mind Training Santa Fe '03 (retreat)
Transformation in Taking and Sending
Transformation; make adversity the path of awakening; attention, intention, will; drive all blame into one. The audio for this series of podcasts was originally recorded on audio cassette. As such you may find the sound to be of a lower quality.
Duration 00:47:06

MTSF04: Mind Training Santa Fe '03 (retreat)
The Four Aspects of Being
The 4 kayas: dharmakaya, nirmanakaya, sambhogakaya, svabhavikakaya; the four practices: accumulate merit, confess evil actions, fill obsessions with awareness, nourish wakefulness in your life. The audio for this series of podcasts was originally recorded on audio cassette. As such you may find the sound to be of a lower quality.
Duration 00:47:55

MTSF05: Mind Training Santa Fe '03 (retreat)
Four Practices, Five Forces
Listening while talking; walking meditation; last two of the four practices: filling obsessions with awareness, and nourishing wakefulness in your life; five forces: setting intention, train deeply, sowing virtuous seeds through acts of goodness and kindness, feeling regret about reactive states of mind or destructive actions, and aspiring; five forces in death. The audio for this series of podcasts was originally recorded on audio cassette. As such you may find the sound to be of a lower quality.
Duration 00:47:14

MTSF06: Mind Training Santa Fe '03 (retreat)
Commitments
Always train in the three basic principles: respect your intention, act in ways that support your practice and include all experience; the six realms as a structure for exploring all experience; change your attitude and stay natural; don’t talk about others’ shortcomings; don’t dwell on others’ problems. The audio for this series of podcasts was originally recorded on audio cassette. As such you may find the sound to be of a lower quality.
Duration 00:47:28

MTSF07: Mind Training Santa Fe '03 (retreat)
Guidelines
Guidelines as support for mind training; use one practice to do everything; use one remedy for everything; two things to do: one at the beginning, one at the end; whatever happens, good or bad, be patient; keep these two, even at the risk of your life; train in the three problems; work with the three primary factors; don’t allow three things to weaken; keep the three essentials; train on every object without preference, training must be broad and deep. The audio for this series of podcasts was originally recorded on audio cassette. As such you may find the sound to be of a lower quality.
Duration 00:47:20

MTSF08: Mind Training Santa Fe '03 (retreat)
Taking and Sending & Mind Nature
Dissolving sense of other; progression of mind training practice; stopping the mind; groundwork as motivation to explore life as more than the world of shared experience. The audio for this series of podcasts was originally recorded on audio cassette. As such you may find the sound to be of a lower quality.
Duration 00:47:34

MTSF09: Mind Training Santa Fe '03 (retreat)
Four Steps to Direct Awareness
The primary practice as a method to awakening to what is ultimately true. The audio for this series of podcasts was originally recorded on audio cassette. As such you may find the sound to be of a lower quality.
Duration 00:46:39

MTSF10: Mind Training Santa Fe '03 (retreat)
Direct Awareness Taking and Sending
Vajrayana approach to taking and sending; exploring imbalances in experience; moving right into experience.
Duration 00:46:59

MTSF11: Mind Training Santa Fe '03 (retreat)
Application
Participant’s experience and questions; resting attention in experience; letting patterns open to you; resting in the experience of adversity. The audio for this series of podcasts was originally recorded on audio cassette. As such you may find the sound to be of a lower quality.
Duration 00:41:40

MTSF12: Mind Training Santa Fe '03 (retreat)
Five Forces
Five forces in life Intention: being clear about your intention in every aspect of your life; familiarization: clearing away obstacles to presence; seeds of virtue: taking care of the interior environment; repudiation: dying to the past; aspiration: using faith to reinforce intention. Five forces in death: generating virtue, aspiration, repudiation, intention and familiarization.The audio for this series of podcasts was originally recorded on audio cassette. As such you may find the sound to be of a lower quality.
Duration 00:48:15

MTSF13: Mind Training Santa Fe '03 (retreat)
Proficiency and Commitments
Proficiency: knowing what you want from your practice, achieve a sense of balance, joy as a consequence of no separation; commitments: be clear about your intentions, appropriate action, relate to the totality of your experience; behave naturally; don’t talk about others’ shortcomings; don’t dwell on others’ problems. The audio for this series of podcasts was originally recorded on audio cassette. As such you may find the sound to be of a lower quality.
Duration 00:47:52

MTSF14: Mind Training Santa Fe '03 (retreat)
Guidelines
Bring attention to all activities; learn to use a few tools very deeply; whatever happens, it is not necessarily about you; use intention to die to life of conditioned existence; be in what you are experiencing right now; how to interact completely with your teacher/experience; engage the three faculties: body, speech and mind. The audio for this series of podcasts was originally recorded on audio cassette. As such you may find the sound to be of a lower quality.
Duration 00:45:33

MTSF15: Mind Training Santa Fe '03 (retreat)
Questions and Answers
Participant’s questions and Ken’s responses: individual and shared experience, attention penetrating patterns, expressive and receptive poles of a pattern, taking and sending. The audio for this series of podcasts was originally recorded on audio cassette. As such you may find the sound to be of a lower quality.
Duration 00:48:38

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