Ayya Santacittā's Dharma Talks
Ayya Santacittā
Ayya Santacittā has practiced meditation since 1988. Her first teacher was Ajahn Buddhadasa, who sparked her interest in Buddhist monastic life. She has trained as a nun in both the East and West since 1993, primarily in the lineage of Ajahn Chah. Since 2002, she also integrates Dzogchen teachings into her practice.
Ayya Santacitta is co-founder of Aloka Vihara, a training monastery for women near Placerville, CA, and received bhikkhuni ordination in 2011.
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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
2009-03-11
Arising and Passing Away
2013-08-11
Arriving and Settling: A guided meditation
2011-06-01
Befriending Uncertainty
2012-11-24
Being Benevolence, Intro and Guided Meditation
2012-12-28
Being With What Is
2009-12-31
Breaking Through
2013-01-02
Compost and Fertile Ground
2011-01-02
Contemplation of Mind
2012-08-01
Creative Despair - Learning from Everything
2014-05-14
Distraction = Destruction
2012-04-14
Eight Worldly Winds
2012-04-06
Equanimity
2010-06-25
Faith
2010-12-29
Gateway to Reality
2012-11-09
Gratitude
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
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
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
2011-12-01
Meeting Life with Lovingkindness
2014-05-11
Mother of Wisdom
2011-06-01
On Intention or What We Bring to a Situation
2014-07-20
On Meditation
2013-07-14
Planet Earth as Divine Messenger
2013-09-14
Practicing in Times of Big Changes
2012-04-07
Preparation For Insight
2012-03-01
Reflections on the Outstanding Women in Buddhism Award Ceremony
2010-05-09
Renunciation & Courage
2011-07-08
Renunciation as an Opportunity
2011-01-01
Resting in Awareness
2011-07-03
Resting in Awareness - Guided Meditation
2013-12-30
Seeing in a Bigger Context - Guided Meditation
2014-05-13
Self-Secret
2014-01-03
Seven Treasures
2011-09-25
Start Where You Are
2012-12-29
Staying Open
2013-08-11
Stop Running
2014-01-04
Strive on with Diligence - Guided Meditation
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
2014-05-09
The Five Indriya
2013-04-07
The Four Noble Truths
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
2013-05-24
The Three Refuges
2014-05-12
The Transforming Power of The Factors of Awakening
2012-04-08
Three Characteristics Of Life
2012-07-13
Three Levels of Renunciation
2014-07-19
Transformation of Regret
2013-08-23
Turn Towards It
2012-07-08
What Is Inner Strength?
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
2012-04-11
World Map Of The Practice
