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Dharma Talks
2024-08-31
Q&A
43:18
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Questions are précised: 01:17 Q1 You mentioned during meditation to start with breathing out. I noticed in my own practice that I don't fully breathe out. In fact breathing out intentionally is more exhausting. How can I be more balanced? 12:27 Q2 I have a mental pattern with deep roots, obsessing over details like the entomology of words that arises when I get panicked or upset. This seems to give me some respite from the panic. Can you offer any advice? 19:02 Q3 I feel both sense of fatigue and desire for connection. I'm confused about how to be with this desire because my mind tells me I should go out and connect with other people. But this isn't the point of meditation is it? How can I understand this tension between internal and external needs in this case? 25:03 Q4 In the last retreat I would wake up not knowing who I am and dream about somebody stabbing my heart. These feelings returned when I went back to domestic duties. In my dreams I am lost. How can I move past this black hole? 30:02 Q5 For me it's very difficult to be mindful every minute every second of my daily life. I do my best. It's easier on retreat or in a monastery. Can you comment? 36:17 Q6 The state of becoming entails grasping and craving then suffering. How can one abide in non becoming?
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Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
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2024-07-31
Living from Our Depths 2
62:08
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Donald Rothberg
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We continue with our exploration of how we contact what is "deep" in our lives and in life, and how we stay connected with our depths in our practice. We initially give a review of some of what we explored last week, recalling some of the many metaphors used for deepening in our lives in spiritual traditions, including awakening, being on a journey, liberation, seeing clearly whereas previously we didn't see clearly, coming to wholeness, among others. We recall the Buddhist emphasis on wisdom (especially the three ways of seeing that liberate--seeing into impermanence, dukkha or reactivity, and not-self; as well as touching nibbana); compassion; and skillful action. We hear also from several people sharing their experiences of their depths.
We then explore a number of ways to stay connected in daily life with our depths, including several not mentioned last week. The talk is followed by discussion, including sharing of some ways that people in the group find helpful in terms of staying connected with their depths, including using phrases like "Begin again" and "Keep coming back."
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2024-07-24
Living from Our Depths 1
62:53
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Donald Rothberg
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How do we live from the depths of our being? We explore this question in a number of different ways. We begin by looking at some of the metaphors for "spiritual practice" (itself involving metaphors), including the sense of touching and living from our depths, becoming a "big person" (a Mahaatta in the Buddha's phrasing), awakening, being on a journey, and seeing through our conditioning, delusions, and the 70,000 veils (as is said in Islamic tradition). In Buddhist tradition, we especially connect, as in the image of the bird with two wings, with wisdom and compassion, and with ways to bring these qualities into our actions and interactions. After inviting several people to share experiences of their depths, we then explore a number of different ways to stay connected in daily life with our depths. The talk is followed by discussion.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2024-04-21
Morning Instructions, Guided Meditation, Daily Life Pratice Instructions.
1:16:28
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Gavin Milne
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Relaxing into practice, taking care of the causes of awakening and freedom. To support this - refreshing wise attitude, keeping Yoniso manasikāra simple, and seeing the eight worldly winds.
Embracing the first three factors of awakening, as the ones we always have some agency in. Linking them to connecting with the vertical.
Relating to the next four factors, more as results of the first three - qualities of our depth.
Guided meditation, exploring experience through the senses, and how things build from the raw sense contact.
The imminence of all experience through the senses, and becoming curious about the feeling tone of all sense contact.
Including feeling the experience of craving and aversion, as the 'suffering that leads to the end of suffering'.
Embracing continuity of practice. Including the ways in which we lose our way - and taking ourselves less personally.
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Gaia House
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Awakening in the World (1) - Establishing the Timeless Refuge of Awareness (online series)
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2024-04-06
Remembering To Recollect
1:23:01
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Nathan Glyde
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A commentary and practice on the Five Daily Recollections or Remembrances. Here phrased by Caroline Jones: Breathing gently, I lovingly remember…
this body is ageing;
this body is vulnerable to illness;
this body will die;
loss is part of life;
to meet this moment with wisdom. This session includes a guided practice, Dharma reflection, and the answers to (unrecorded) questions from participants.
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Gaia House
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Online Dharma Hall - April 2024
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