Ayya Santacitta's Dharma Talks
Ayya Santacitta
After being inspired by the presence & teachings of Ajahn Buddhadasa, i ordained 1993 at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, UK. i co-founded Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery in the Sierra Foothills of California in 2009 and enjoy creating sanctuary close to nature, practicing in community and bringing wisdom traditions to the environmental movement.
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2011-05-26
'The Four Heavenly Messengers"
2011-01-03
A Summary of the Path
2014-05-13
A Template for Experience
2014-05-31
Aligning Ourselves
2016-09-03
Almsgiving 2016 at Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery
2009-03-11
Arising and Passing Away
2013-08-11
Arriving and Settling: A guided meditation
2011-06-01
Befriending Uncertainty
2016-01-02
Being Awareness - Guided Meditation
2012-11-24
Being Benevolence, Intro and Guided Meditation
2018-04-09
Being The Knowing
2012-12-28
Being With What Is
2017-06-14
Body-Feeling-Mind States (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-12-28
Bodycontemplation - Guided Meditation
2009-12-31
Breaking Through
2018-05-05
Building the Raft - Day 1 - (Reflection/Talk) "A Foundation for Insight"
2018-05-05
Building the Raft - Day 1 - Question and Answer period
2013-01-02
Compost and Fertile Ground
2011-01-02
Contemplation of Mind
2015-12-28
Counting Our Blessings - Guided Meditation
2012-08-01
Creative Despair - Learning from Everything
2017-06-15
Death is Inevitable (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-05-14
Distraction = Destruction
2012-04-14
Eight Worldly Winds
2015-04-26
Elements and Feelings
2017-01-06
End of Retreat Reflection
2017-05-07
End of Retreat Reflection
2012-04-06
Equanimity
2015-09-26
Equanimity
2015-04-26
Escaping Into Reality
2017-06-17
Escaping into Reality (Spirit Rock Retreat)
2010-06-25
Faith
2016-07-16
Familiarizing Oneself with the Way Things Are
2017-05-04
First Foundation of Mindfulness ~ Body
2016-12-28
First Foundation of Mindfulness ~ Bodyparts
2017-06-14
Five Opportunities for Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-04-04
Four Postures For Meditation
2010-12-29
Gateway to Reality
2012-11-09
Gratitude
2015-11-28
Gratitude for the Web of Life - a guided sitting meditation
2016-12-31
Greetings to the Natural World ~ Words Before All Else
2013-12-07
Growing Up & Waking Up
2009-02-17
Guided Meditation
2012-04-11
Guided Meditation - How We Create Our World
2012-06-22
Habits of Mind
2015-06-20
Heart Opening
2016-05-14
How to Cultivate Wisdom
2017-12-30
How to Develop Wisdom?
2013-01-01
How We Meet Experience
2014-04-13
How Words Create Our Future
2013-10-11
If it's in the way, it's the Way
2013-12-28
Inner and Outer Renunciation - Guided Meditation
2016-12-30
It Is Possible
2011-07-03
Keep Going, a talk from a daylong called "Why Do I Meditate"
2013-12-29
Knowing Phenomena, Being Awareness - Guided Meditation
2013-07-12
Learning from Climate Change
2017-07-22
Loosing Fear of Formations
2017-12-09
Map of the Practice and Q&A
2015-04-27
Maranasati - Mindfulness Of Death
2016-12-31
Maranasati ~ Contemplation of Death
2014-08-16
Meditation on the Four Elements
2011-12-01
Meeting Life with Lovingkindness
2014-10-04
Meeting What Is
2018-04-04
Mindfulness Of Body
2014-05-11
Mother of Wisdom
2015-06-20
Motivation
2014-08-31
Never Turn Away
2016-12-29
No Mud No Lotus
2011-06-01
On Intention or What We Bring to a Situation
2014-07-20
On Meditation
2018-01-01
Open To The Vastness
2017-12-28
Opening Reflection on Simplicity and Letting Go
2013-07-14
Planet Earth as Divine Messenger
2013-09-14
Practicing in Times of Big Changes
2012-04-07
Preparation For Insight
2017-06-15
Question & Answer Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-04
Reclaiming Our Life
2012-03-01
Reflections on the Outstanding Women in Buddhism Award Ceremony
2014-12-28
Refuge
2010-05-09
Renunciation & Courage
2011-07-08
Renunciation as an Opportunity
2017-05-27
Responding Versus Reacting
2017-01-03
Resting as Awareness
2011-01-01
Resting in Awareness
2011-07-03
Resting in Awareness - Guided Meditation
2017-01-05
Resting the Monkeymind
2017-01-04
Returning to Simplicity
2018-04-07
Right Action
2018-04-10
Right Concentration/Stability/Collectedness
2018-04-06
Right Speech
2014-12-30
Right Thought
2016-05-13
Samadhi-A Pleasant Abiding Here and Now
2013-12-30
Seeing in a Bigger Context - Guided Meditation
2014-05-13
Self-Secret
2018-04-10
Sense Of Urgency
2017-05-05
Seven Facets for Cultivating the Mind
2014-01-03
Seven Treasures
2016-07-16
Sharing the Blessings of our Practice
2011-09-25
Start Where You Are
2012-12-29
Staying Open
2014-11-15
Steady In Transition
2013-08-11
Stop Running
2014-01-04
Strive on with Diligence - Guided Meditation
2017-08-13
Taking Refuge in Open Awareness, Taking Refuge in Buddha
2016-05-11
Taking Refuge in the Way Things Are.
2017-08-13
Tapping Into the Power of Refuge
2017-07-23
Taste of Nibbana
2017-06-16
Temporary Liberation of Mind Through the Four Brhamaviharas (Retreat at Spiri...
2016-05-11
The 3 Refuges as Support for Practice
2010-07-18
The Bigger Picture
2013-11-29
The Capacity to Feel
2013-10-13
The Eight Worldly Winds
2013-12-31
The Fire of Transformation
2015-01-03
The Five Aggregates of Clinging
2018-01-01
The Five Aggregates of Clinging
2017-05-05
The Five Hindrances ~ a Template for Waking Up
2014-05-09
The Five Indriya
2015-04-25
The Four Elements
2015-12-31
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness - Guided Meditation
2015-08-21
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: An Overview
2013-04-07
The Four Noble Truths
2015-08-22
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness and the Four Iddhipada
2015-04-29
The Heart-wish and the Four Iddhipada
2012-01-03
The Mind of Non-Grasping
2011-07-01
The Power of Restraint
2012-01-01
The Seven Awakening Factors and Renunciation
2010-12-31
The Seven Factors of Enlightenment
2015-11-28
The Skill of Gratitude
2017-12-29
The Three Characteristics ~ Structure of Experience
2013-05-24
The Three Refuges
2014-05-12
The Transforming Power of The Factors of Awakening
2018-04-11
There In The Middleness
2012-04-08
Three Characteristics Of Life
2012-07-13
Three Levels of Renunciation
2017-05-20
Three Tenets for a Happy Life
2014-07-19
Transformation of Regret
2017-01-01
Transforming Conventional Tendencies into Supports for Awakening
2016-05-10
Tuning the Instrument of the Body
2013-08-23
Turn Towards It
2017-06-13
Two Kinds of Truth (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-05-10
Vesak Reflection
2017-06-18
We Have a Choice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-12-29
What Is Dukkha?
2012-07-08
What Is Inner Strength?
2018-04-05
What Is Right Thought/Intention?
2013-07-07
What Meditation Can Do For "You"
2013-12-28
What We Bring to Experience
2010-01-10
Who Am I? Guided Meditation
2014-01-01
Wisdom and the Four Hallucinations
2013-09-08
Wisdom or Knowledge?
2011-06-08
Working with Doubt
2012-04-09
Working With Feelings
2018-01-03
Working with the Five Aggregates
2012-04-11
World Map Of The Practice
