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2021-06-21 Monday Night Dharma Talk - Practicing in Nature 46:22
Mark Coleman
2021-06-22 The Four Boundless Qualities in English (Chant Along) 3:07
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
2021-06-23 Guided Meditation – Staying Present with Experience 52:30
Ajahn Sucitto
There are 2 qualities of citta: it is affected and it is knowing, aware. With cultivation, awareness can become much more apparent and encompassing while the affective sense can steady, calm and subside into something still. The process is to go through the body. As the body eases, citta settles and collects into itself – samādhi. Happy, easeful, refreshed.
2021-06-23 Shifting from Limbic to Liberating Intention 48:32
Tara Brach
Becoming conscious of our intentions is the first step to truly aligning our life with our heart. This talk explores identifying when we are being driven by grasping and fear, and ways we can bring compassion to unmet needs and discover the deeper longing – the liberating intention – that guides us to freedom.
2021-06-24 Self and Non-Self (Week 1) at BCBS 1:34:03
Ayya Santussika
This session was offered on June 22, 2021 for the BCBS class "Self and Non-Self: Practices for Developing Virtue, Meditation, and Wisdom".
2021-06-24 Innate Nobility 55:15
Ajahn Sucitto
The world that consciousness presents us as existing within is divided into self and other; this is a source of suffering. Authentic relatedness is needed to realize that there is no fundamental self or other. So we need to establish a relationship with the uncertainty of this that’s harmonious. Stop the topic, experience the energy. If we meet suffering not in terms of me and you, but with awareness of agitated energies, then lovingkindness, compassion and patience naturally arise. The tangle of fear and insecurity that imprisons us dissolves. The citta returns to its innate nobility.
2021-06-25 The Four Boundless Qualities in Pali (Chant Along) 3:21
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
Pali name: Caturappamanna-Obhasanam
2021-06-25 Reflections on Sharing Blessings in English (Chant Along) 2:15
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
Also known as the Verses of Sharing and Aspiration.
2021-06-26 Guided Meditation With Loving-Kindness 31:17
Ayya Santussika
2021-06-26 Kamma and Why It's Hard for Westerners to Understand 28:25
Ayya Santussika
NOTE: Unfortunately, the first sentence was cut off, which began: "So today I want to talk about kamma, and maybe get at a little about why it's so hard for Westerners to see kamma in the way that the Buddha talked about it…"
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