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2017-07-29 10: Standing Meditation 2: You Can’t Let Go Without Support 8:22
Ajahn Sucitto
Establish support through feet and legs. Process of letting go can seep upwards through the body. Breathing acts as stabilizing quality.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2017-07-29 09: Q&A: Am I Wasting My Opportunity Staying As a Lay Person? 45:09
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn Sucitto responds to this question by first reframing it – rather than thinking: here’s the real world, how can I fit my practice into that? Consider: here’s the real practice, what kind of world can I operate in from that place? The reality that’s available to us all, regardless of place or position as monastic or lay person, is refuge. And the real refuge is in your presence. Be a refuge unto yourself.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2017-07-29 15: The Root Perception of Change 35:31
Ajahn Sucitto
There are many things one can cultivate in meditation. There is craft, what can be learned. And there is art, what can’t be taught. Follow your nose, where’s your interest? Notice the difference between awareness and consciousness. Place an object in space, experience the object with dispassion.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2017-07-29 08: Return, Return, Return 8:35
Ajahn Sucitto
The energy body is a particular fullness of being – this is citta. As it’s more completed, it becomes less obstructed. Take time to gather and center in the completed citta, even if it’s just for a few minutes. Meditation means to return time and time again.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2017-07-29 14: It’s Just a Movement 7:22
Ajahn Sucitto
Puja is a time for offering, for being received into a quality of blessedness and welcome, just as you are. The mind searches for directions – all reasonable, but don’t follow it. Notice the energy of the movement that’s occurring now – no future, no past.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2017-07-29 The Eightfold Path: Integrity, Mind Cultivation, Wisdom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:12
Bonnie Duran
A discussion of Sila, Samadhi and Panna in daily life. Magga Rocks!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation as a Path to Freedom

2017-07-29 Morning Instructions 57:07
JoAnna Hardy
Settling into sensations.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2017-07-28 The Five Aggregates 3 -- Creating the Self 1:49:54
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-07-28 Mindfulness as psychic self defense. 42:27
Bart van Melik
How mindfulness helps us to protect ourselves and by protecting ourselves - we protect others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2017-07-28 07: Standing Meditation 1: Balance – the Place of Least Stress & Most Harmony 6:30
Ajahn Sucitto
The single most important quality of standing meditation is balance. This is the place of least stress, of most harmony. Guidance is provided to sense into this balance where it’s just the muscular alignment that’s holding you up. Locking places can then relax and release.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

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