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Dharma Talks
2025-10-08 Standing Firm With Earth 55:30
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2025-10-08 Spaciousness & Courage: Our Responsive Heart 52:08
Sumedha
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening Into Wisdom & Love

2025-10-08 What is on the other side of ignorance? 54:13
Sumedha
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening Into Wisdom & Love

2025-10-08 Unbinding 39:59
Ayya Anandabodhi
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening Into Wisdom & Love

2025-10-07 Dukkha in the Wider World: What Contributes to Engagement? 31:57
Victor von der Heyde
Overview of the last 12 months, Conditions that help engagement: 1. contentment and appreciation; Dr Luke Kemp, his study on civilizational collapse and the value of happiness; contentment and burnout; 2. Anger as being pivotal, types of anger; recent world changes related to anger; tempus nullius; risks and care in relation to anger; Aristotle on the value of anger; Mahakala as a helpful image; 3. An inclusive way of looking; Mother Theresa and one’s family circle; Analyo Bhikkhu and the question of what can one do; 4. Equanimity: perspective of John Gray on the myth of progress in the field of ethics and politics - with examples; Philip Blom on a view of homo sapiens and the comedy of homo sapiens seeing itself as the ruler of nature; 5. A sense of duty and the soulful quality that can come with that; 6. Stories and images: Ursula Le Guin and the Ones who Walk Away from Omelas - with an interpretation; James Hillman and Michael Ventura; Kuan Yin as an image and how she is seen by some in a large Buddhist charity.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Insight and Imaginal Practice

2025-10-07 Imaginal Practice 3b 8:32
Victor von der Heyde
Further possible characteristics of images: slightly less fabricated, sense of divinity, an unfathomable quality, soft and elastic edges, timelessness, sense that images can’t be fully captured or reduced, sense of other images being in the field, echoing or resonance between the image and oneself.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Insight and Imaginal Practice

2025-10-07 Cooling the Passionate Heart, Warming the Aversive Mind 25:33
Ayya Anandabodhi
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening Into Wisdom & Love

2025-10-06 Imaginal Practice 3 20:48
Victor von der Heyde
Julie Nelson and the romantic belief in knowledge from a perspective-free viewpoint; the interaction of eros, heart-mind-soul and the conceptual framework; the characteristic of soulfulness; Jack Kornfield on an approach to images in psychedelic experience: how that differs from imaginal practice; working with characteristics that may not be present; other characteristics: the lattice, grace, trust, reverence, humility, values, beauty, duty, fulness of intention, participation; imaginal views of oneself; WH Auden and Henry Corbin; caution on talking about images with others; the six devas on Lantau Island, what they represent, and how they could be related to.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Insight and Imaginal Practice

2025-10-06 A steady plane in a see-saw world 44:09
Ajahn Sucitto
Within the world of praise and blame gain and loss, one’s balance grows. This plane of accomplishment neither binds to, nor rejects social and personal systems and customs, but uses them with kindness and integrity. As the heart sustains this, layers of one’s unconscious grasping are revealed and released.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-10-06 Imaginal Practice 2b 8:39
Victor von der Heyde
Ways of relating to images; using or not using the list of characteristics; characteristics of eros and distinguishing it from clinging, energy body as a guide, theatre-like quality and the risk if this isn’t acknowledged, meaningfulness, two-ness, autonomy.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Insight and Imaginal Practice

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