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Seeing Things as They Are (30min)

Clear Seeing Day Retreat, North Narrabeen, NSW 29th March 2026

In this talk, Renata explores clear seeing (vipassanā) as an embodied path of insight. Through teachings on dependent origination, impermanence, suffering and not-self, this talk points to how wisdom develops through direct contact with experience and the softening of habitual patterns of clinging and identification. Learn more…

Softening the Grip of the “I” (36min)

Sky Sangha, Online, 17th March 2026

Renata offers a Dharma talk and inquiry space exploring the subtle ways we hold onto a sense of self through thoughts, emotions, and experience. Drawing from Buddhist teachings and somatic awareness, she gently guides the exploration of how identification creates tension, and how softening this grip can open into a more spacious, authentic way of being. This session includes reflection, meditation, and relational inquiry. Learn more…

Restoring Wholeness through Direct Knowing (35min)

In this talk, Renata explores how reconnecting with direct experience can restore a natural sense of wholeness. Through mindfulness of the body and present-moment awareness, we rediscover a deeper form of knowing that emerges when we learn to trust the intelligence of our own lived experience. Learn more…

Bluegum Sangha, 9th March 2026

Awakening from Delusion: Dependent Arising and the Nature of Suffering (41min)

In this Dharma talk, Renata Malinauskas explores the Buddha’s profound teaching on Dependent Arising, a central insight into the dynamic, interwoven nature of existence. Highlighting how identity and suffering arise from misperceiving reality as fixed and separate, she explains how clinging to the five aggregates—form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness—creates a false sense of self and solidity. Learn more…

The Inner Rhythm Being Retreat July 2025

Investigation: The Direct Way Back Home (53min)

In this talk, Renata explores investigation—one of the Seven Factors of Awakening—as a powerful and direct pathway into presence, insight, and freedom. Unlike detached observation, investigation invites us into intimate contact with our lived experience, gently turning toward whatever arises with curiosity and clarity. Rooted in the body, this process allows us to move beyond conceptual knowing and drop beneath the stories we tell ourselves, into the felt sense where truth lives. Learn more…

The Inner Rhythm Being Retreat July 2025

Coming Home to Equanimity (45min)

Equanimity is a quality of the mind that is foundational on the spiritual path. It’s considered one of the ‘Factors of Awakening’ and also one of the ‘Four Boundless Heart’ qualities. Equanimity is known for its capacity to bring balance, discernment and a capacity in our life. It enables us to be with any aspects of experience without losing our centre, as well as developing compassion with composure, without getting overwhelmed. Learn more…

10th July 2024

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