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Dharma Talks
2014-12-15 Some points to notice about the Mind 57:29
Ajahn Sucitto
Review thoroughly how your mind works; the world is created by the mind in this very body; seeing uncertainty; using the body to receive and allow the citta to calm; see how the citta sits on its worry and flies on its desire and is carried along by its fear; the citta sankhara never stops creating reasons why it has to keep going just a little bit further; watch how craving paints the world with beautiful but very thin paint. You can do it, you can see it. Pause, check, be aware.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-15 Closing Talk 19:33
Ajahn Sucitto
Listening to the unique but common struggles of others; Ajahn Sucitto on a 40 year retreat; some personal history of how Ajahn came to meditation and his early struggles; thank you to all participants; coming from a place of gratitude; being firm with all the reasons that we throw up not to practice; take a little time every day to sit and breathe; it's as important as eating or bathing every day; the citta goes one way - it does not go down, it goes up. “Thank you for your determination and your company and your honesty in the practice. May you all progress and develop and may your cittas rise to happiness and peace.”
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-15 The Jewel of Community 59:18
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2014-12-16 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry, December 2014 39:17
Gina Sharpe
New York Insight Meditation Center Buddha & Bill W. Sangha

2014-12-16 Perception: Naming, Associating and Relating 47:20
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
This talk examines how the mind names or assigns qualities or characteristics to the things we contact. How it relates and draws associations to similar things we have known...and what it is like to attach to that.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-12-16 Turning the Wheel of the Dharma 48:12
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2014-12-17 Recollections of Small Acts of Kindness 53:19
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-12-17 Protecting Oneself and Others 64:08
Matthew Daniell
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2014-12-17 Intimacy with Life: Part 2 58:50
Tara Brach
This season is one of celebrating the light and love that is our unifying source. And yet at these times our society is being forced to face its deep patterning of racial oppression, amongst other expressions of violence. These two talks investigate the process of turning against ourselves and others, and how intentional and deep presence can heal the suffering of separation.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-12-17 Bodyness 40:33
John Travis
Knowing the body without stories.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

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