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2014-08-29 02 Standing Meditation: Springing Rhythmic Nature of the Body 15:07
Ajahn Sucitto
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Use standing posture to acknowledge the springing rhythmic nature of the body. When the body relaxes, the mind relaxes – the two synchronize. What the body does, the mind picks up.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-30 03 Activation, Action and Empathy 27:29
Ajahn Sucitto
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Activation is followed by feeling and action (kamma). The general advice is to give attention to “how I’m feeling” rather than “what I’m going to do about it”. This is a relational approach: not to try to feel a certain kind of feeling, but just know how I’m feeling, how I’m being affected. Empathy is being with the feeling without being triggered, and reactive. This is the practice of kindness, compassion and equanimity – at the most long-term level.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-30 Reflection. Technique-Skill-Attitude. The Myth of the Present Moment - Sati as Relationship. Bhaddekaratta Gāthā - Verses on a single excellent night. 23:25
Akincano Marc Weber
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On having a relationship with one’s mind: About the necessity and the limitations of technique, the role of skill and attitude in the meditative process. The (false) myth of "now“ and the difference between 'the present moment' and a 'presently arisen state‘. (Verses of M 131-134)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  August 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-08-30 Opening Meditation Instructions and Guided Meditation 67:00
Pascal Auclair
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2014-08-30 04 Freeing Ourselves Up to Feel 46:54
Ajahn Sucitto
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We fall for the tyranny of institutionalized systems and fixed structures because they promise stability and certainty. But there is no empathy in such tyranny. Embodied presence enables empathy. Our own bodies provide the stability we need to be with our mental stuff without reacting. Thus our capacity to be human increases.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-30 05 Walking Meditation: Coming Out of Stuck States 38:53
Ajahn Sucitto
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In walking meditation, mental patterns are bound to well up. If you don’t go into decisive action around them, they will fade. Give attention instead to the fluidity of the body while walking. Let things work themselves out; it’s not up to us to claim or reject. Come back to the here of breathing and body; realizations occur in that process.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-30 06 Empathy Unseats the Tyrant Programs 42:56
Ajahn Sucitto
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Seeking comfort, both physical and psychological, we’ve developed programs to avoid and deflect the experience of irritation. But these are tyrant programs. They can be cleared through the willingness to open and feel without compulsive actions and reactions.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-30 Three Characteristics and Keeping Your Seat 48:24
Anushka Fernandopulle
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Orientation to the mind and sense doors
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2014-08-30 Labor Day Retreat - Day 1 56:42
Mark Nunberg
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Common Ground Meditation Center :  2014 Labor Day Retreat

2014-08-30 07 Steep Yourself in the Good 49:12
Ajahn Sucitto
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When we experience hostility and ill will, rather than simply acknowledging it, we stick it into ourselves, and begin to assume we’re unwelcome or unworthy. We can use meditation to change the flavor of the heart, steeping it in the qualities of the brahmavihara (goodwill, compassion, gladness, equanimity).
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

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