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2023-08-30 Listen to More-Than-Human Authorities and Awaken to a Larger Context 47:43
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
2023-08-30 Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly 18:08
Tara Brach
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath – or some other sensory anchor – and allowing the mind to settle. Then we open to whatever is predominant or calling our attention – sensations, emotions, sounds – meeting each arising experience with a clear, kind attention. The gift of this process is discovering balance in the midst of the changing flow, and gaining deep insight into the nature of reality.
2023-08-30 The Honesty Challenge – Getting More Truthful with Ourselves and Our World 50:24
Tara Brach
Most of us value honesty yet are not aware of how regularly we avoid facing what’s difficult inside us, and how we are less than truthful with others. This talk explores the practice of radical self-honesty as the grounds of being more honest with others, and bringing more love and freedom to our lives. We close with a quote by Danna Faulds from her book:
2023-08-31 Craving the end of craving 46:13
Walt Opie
The Buddha often pointed to craving as the cause of our suffering. Walt explores how craving arises and how we might come to the end of craving. Ajahn Sucitto said, "In fact, our craving is about something we don’t have... The source is the ‘not having.’" When we start to see this with mindfulness and clear comprehension, we have more freedom to choose healthy habits over unhealthy habits, and we can begin to value the wholesome over the unwholesome. This can eventually become the condition for great happiness.
2023-08-31 Wisdom and Compassion Working Together Part 2 - Guided Meditation 31:42
Mark Nunberg
Wisdom and Compassion Working Together Part 2 - Guided Meditation
2023-09-01 Wisdom and Compassion Working Together Part 3 29:13
Mark Nunberg
Wisdom and Compassion Working Together Part 3 - Guided Meditation
2023-09-01 Wisdom and Compassion Working Together Part 3 34:27
Mark Nunberg
Wisdom and Compassion Working Together Part 3 - Talk
2023-09-01 The Sound of Silence 22:20
Ayya Medhanandi
Can we quieten the mind enough to hear that divine frequency of the heart’s innermost chamber? Into that stillness, we come, softly, humbly – to try – and we persevere, secluded from the noise of the world. As the fevers of wanting are purified, we devote our attention to the serene sound of silence, sublime and joyous. We are bathed as if by a holy baptism, eager to receive the gifts of the true Dhamma. So we practise, patient with our own work and patient with all the world.
2023-09-03 Guided Meditation - A living animated experience 15:42
Ajahn Sucitto
2023-09-03 Paticca-samuppada - Dependent Co-Arising Part 1 37:36
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn investigates the steps of dependent co-arising. First part of a two-part talk.
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