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VHS videotapes are $15 per talk. Please note that all VHS tapes are in the NTSC format.

April 2002 Retreat

Day 1
  • Constant rushing to do something, get someplace.
  • Movement towards or away from.
  • Motion, which we can't help, because there is no we - only motion.
  • How absurd to think, "I shouldn't have" - it's just happened.
  • See how expectations limit and focus the mind.
  • Hui Neng's first vow - to free beings in my own mind.

Sunday Progam Talk March 31, 2002

Mar. 31
  • Watching movement in the space of stillness.
  • Is there an entity within that needs to be conquered?
  • Can we watch without holding an idea of how we ought to be?
  • Where is the borderline between inside and outside?
  • Listening to the sounds of the wall, its numbness.

September 1993 Retreat (Two talks per VHS tape: 1&2; 3&4; 5&6)

Day 1
  • Listening and authority (43 mins)
Day 2
  • Pain in sitting. Is any practice recommended here? (45 mins)
Day 3
  • Judgmental labels. Wondering if we are making progress. (43 mins)
Day 4
  • How can one not judge what goes on in the world?
  • Right and wrong. Prejudice.
  • Seeing that the "I" is just thought and image, not reality. (49 mins)
Day 5
  • What is this "I"?Absorption in self-concerned thoughts and feelings. (51 mins)
Day 6
  • The fight for survival. One's life story. Being everything and nothing. (57 mins)

Retreat Talks on VHS in German

A videotape of six talks given in German by Toni in May 1996, at Haus der Stille, Roseburg, Germany, is available. Contact Prof. Daniela Butsch for more information:

Phone: +49-30-3247924
Email: ariadnefilme@t-online.de