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Retreat Dharma Talks

Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

During this retreat, we will use these seven powerful awakening factors as the framework for our practice.

2025-06-06 (14 days) Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

  
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2025-06-10 Energy without Striving 21:33
Ayya Santussika
How can we develop the awakening factor of energy without trying to accomplish something, without coming from the personality view and our long conditioning to achieve?
2025-06-10 Building up the Awakening Factors 38:29
Ayya Santussika
The Buddha's instructions on how to develop the 7 awakening factors all the way to realization of Nibbāna.
2025-06-11 You Can Do It 16:20
Ayya Santussika
There comes a point when we don't need more information, we just need to practice and to come to the practice with a willingness to work our way through whatever challenges arise. This includes the doubt that we can awaken, that we can do it. In the story of Culapanthaka, a monk who seemed unlikely to absorb the Buddha's teachings, awakens. It is a reminder that we can, too.
2025-06-11 Body Meditation and Chi Gong 44:41
Ayya Santussika
Chi Gong to "shake off" tension in the body and ground the body with a mindful body scan that ends in sitting meditation.
2025-06-11 Freedom from the First Two Fetters 40:34
Ayya Santussika
How can we stop our habit of reinforcing the first two fetters: personality view and cultural and social conditioning that bring us suffering and keep us in ignorance?
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