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Allen Atkins's Dharma Talks at Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community
Allen Atkins
Allen moved to Flagstaff in 1998 to work at Northern Arizona University (NAU) as a professor of Finance. He has been interested in meditation since first learning Transcendental Meditation (TM) in college. After college, in 1978, he was introduced to Vipassana and it has been his main practice ever since. He sits a retreat of at least a week or so almost every year. He sat the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) three month retreat three times and in 2000-2001 took a leave of absence from work to spend the year practicing at IMS and in Burma, Thailand and India. Allen taught yoga and meditation in Texas from 1979-1983. He has been teaching a six-week beginning Vipassana course each semester at NAU since 1999. The course is currently being taught with Cathy Small. His other main hobbies include music, singing and cycling.
2025-06-23 Mindfulness in Daily Life 30:40
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Those in attendance chose this topic. A free form discussion of why this is useful and how to do it followed. It ended with brief instructions on one technique taught by Tongpulu Sayadaw. His method rotates through 10-30 seconds or so of: Seeing, Hearing, Posture (Sitting, Standing, Walking, or Laying down), and touching. Just nonconceptual noticing. For instance, for Seeing, imagine being a baby in a crib. You have no words to describe what you see but just notice the raw color and form. Same for the other three meditation objects.
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2025-02-24 The Seven Factors of Enlightenment: Why they are important 28:57
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As J. Krishnamurti said: “Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.” The seven factors of enlightenment can be seen as big step in that direction.
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