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Dharma Talks in English
2017-05-21 Don't Own the Second Arrow 36:33
Ayya Medhanandi
How do we deal with life when it bites us? Without trusting the Path, there is no way we can fulfill it. Practise seeing what works and what doesn’t, what binds us and what frees us. Seeing pain as our teacher, we can face whatever we are feeling and not lament. Not owning our suffering is letting go the second arrow of mental pain. This will be for our safety, and when wise insight into suffering reveals the truth in us, there arises incalculable joy and peace.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  When Truth Speaks Out

2017-05-21 The Gift of Walking 10:47
Ayya Medhanandi
Walking as a meditation posture is dynamic and complementary to breath meditation. With more to distract us from being attentive to our own experience, walking requires sharper effort, mindfulness, focus, and present moment awareness. This provides an invaluable template for practice in the many walking times of our daily lives.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  When Truth Speaks Out

2017-05-21 Go To The Roots of Trees 15:48
Ayya Medhanandi
Whether we live as laity or in a monastery, there is a sacred path open for all to explore. Yet few would brave its fierce tests. How we train and incline the mind will naturally determine our spiritual growth. So the Buddha encouraged us to go to the forest, to seek seclusion from devices, worldly concerns and attachments. These cannot rescue us from mental sufferings; nor from ageing, disease or dying. . . because it’s about pure love – an unearthly love that never dies – and the gift of true safety, peace, and transcendent awareness of our true nature. As this knowing dawns in the heart, we are freed from every kind of suffering. No riches, no power, nothing in this wide universe can offer such blessings.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2017-05-21 Noble Virtues, Reflections & Chant of the Ten Pāramῑ 7:07
Ayya Medhanandi
We are gardeners putting in the right ingredients to develop ten perfections. These noble qualities are essential to enhance tDhamma he practice of growing in wholeness, unconditional love and balance. Reflecting on how they support each other and work together, we fill the beautiful chant of these Ten Pārami with our voices.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  When Truth Speaks Out

2017-05-20 Three Tenets for a Happy Life 23:26
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-05-20 When the Sun Rises; Waking Up 46:37
Mary Grace Orr
Waking up and what we see.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Living Awareness Through Embodiment and Heart

2017-05-20 Noticing Feeling Tones 53:37
Jaya Rudgard
How mindfulness of the changing nature of feeling tone (vedana) can help to reverse the escalation of stress and suffering
Gaia House Awakening Here and Now

2017-05-20 Running the River, Handling Hinderances. 58:17
Oren Jay Sofer
Handling the currents of the mind with kindness and mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-05-20 Gratitude - Opening The Heart 51:58
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House (Bala Brook) Living Fearlessly with Change

2017-05-19 Mindfulness-Wisdom 50:36
Heather Sundberg
An introduction to A Map of Awareness from the Thai Forest Tradition: Sati-Mindfulness-Mahi Sati (Great Mindfulness), Sati Panna (Mindfulness Wisdom), Panna-Vimutti (Wisdom which leads to release). Includes teachings on how to approach teachings and practices of awareness, how to use the Three Characteristics, (impermanence, unsatisfactotoriness, not self) to decrease and release activity of the Defilements (greed, hatred and delusion) and a fun experiential exercise based on a teaching from Ajahn Chah about letting go. For more information about these teachings, visit Heather's website and look up Talks, Retreat Schedule and ongoing trainings on MahaSati.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) Living Awareness Through Embodiment and Heart

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