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Dharma Talks
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2020-12-23
Heart, Liver, Diaphragm, Spleen, Lungs/Lungs, Spleen, Diaphragm, Liver, Heart
25:05
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Bob Stahl
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We are happy to announce a special opportunity to practice the 32 Parts of the Body meditation, which is rarely taught in the West. This practice deepens insight into impermanence and non-self by penetrating into the true nature and wonders of the body. We will also explore how the body interrelates with the four primary elements of earth (solidity), air (motion), fire (temperature), and water (liquidity).
This methodical practice of the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation can build immense levels of concentration, potentialities for healing, and experience the taste of deep freedom and peace.
This is the 15th year of offering this class at Insight Santa Cruz and it has been truly wonderful. People have frequently reported developing a whole new relationship to their bodies with greater wisdom and compassion. We will also be hopefully doing a tour of the Cabrillo Anatomy lab to get a deeper experience of the body.
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Insight Santa Cruz
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2020-12-20
Open to Wise Attention
48:39
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Ajahn Sucitto
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We bounce off dukkha rather than digesting it, bound to experience the same characteristic of dukkha in another form. The guiding capacity of citta is wise attention. We must learn to widen and lengthen our attention span. In this space we can contemplate dukkha rather than react to it. Dispassion and goodwill, the natural actions of heart, can then arise.
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Cittaviveka
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Living, Dying and Liberation
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2020-12-19
Practicing at the Winter Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light
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Donald Rothberg
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After setting the context of the Winter Solstice, in terms of the earth and the history of many varied cultures which have had rituals and ceremonies at this time, we explore, through teachings, stories, and poems, five ways that we open to the dark:
(1) We stop and become still, like the earth.
(2) We learn to be more able to be skillfully with difficulties and challenges..
(3) We become more comfortable and skillful in conditions of not knowing, as we open to the unknown, the mystery, and shadow areas, both individual and collective.
(4) We come to experience darkness as generative and fertile, creative and dynamic.
(5) We come to experience darkness as luminous, as generating light, as opening us to the light.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Winter Solstice Insight Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting
the Light
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Attached Files:
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Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light
by Donald Rothberg
(PDF)
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2020-12-19
Walk Like a Boat
3:57
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Ajahn Sucitto
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A suggestion for walking meditation, to move like a boat down a river, citta open like a sail spread on the mast. Move through the water of thoughts, impressions, memories. Walk with difficult moods that arise, holding lightly, listening and receiving.
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Cittaviveka
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Living, Dying and Liberation
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2020-12-19
Stillness Flowing
46:11
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Meet the constant flow of life with the stillness and poise of citta. Relate to it all with respect and mutuality, learning to adapt, flow and listen to life. Practice with cultivation of subtle energies of body and heart and with samādhi.
Sutta Reference: SN1:1
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Cittaviveka
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Living, Dying and Liberation
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2020-12-18
No Going Back
29:27
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Ayya Medhanandi
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On a wilderness trail, at times the path is clear, at times not. We get lost, confused, and disheartened. Tested again and again, we gain strength, skill, and clarity, and we learn to see what we could not see at first. The spiritual way is not a trail under our feet but a daunting passage of the heart. Once our view is purified, we know there is no going back. Persevering with humility and trust, we navigate across the depths of our pain and brokenness. We break free.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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2020-12-18
Easeful Ceasing
48:56
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Citta needs to be trained to rest back from engagement. By not going into the stories, spreading awareness over the entire body, and letting emotions rise and pass. As citta releases from contact, it accesses a finer more lasting and agreeable sense of security and well-being.
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Cittaviveka
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Living, Dying and Liberation
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2020-12-16
Den vergleichenden Geist loslassen
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Yuka Nakamura
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Wie entsteht unser Ich-Gefühl? Ein wichtiger Mechanismus ist unsere Tendenz, uns ständig mit anderen zu vergleichen und zu messen. Der Dünkel (mana), der dabei entsteht, also das Gefühl besser, schlechter als oder gleich wie andere zu sein, ist die Quelle von viel Leiden. Der Vortrag behandelt verschiedene Formen von Dünkel aufgrund von Geburt, Wissen, Schönheit u.a. und zeigt Wege auf, wie wir damit praktizieren können.
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Zentrum für Buddhismus - Bern
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2020-12-16
Receiving Oneself
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Ajahn Sucitto
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How do we heal the wounds and bruises of self? Recognize what is met: perception, contact, a cascade of memories. Don’t go into the stories, don’t try to fix or change anything. Let the feelings surge and move through your embodiment. Soften, widen, let citta do its work – keep the personality to one side.
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Cittaviveka
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Living, Dying and Liberation
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2020-12-16
Empathy and non-clinging
40:27
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The clinging reflex constricts citta, causing the loss of intelligence and sensitivity. Allowing things to shift and change lets us live more harmoniously and respectfully. In meditation, practice bringing attention back to the entire body, not fixating on any one point. Where citta and body come together, the all-encompassing world can be reviewed with goodwill and compassion.
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Cittaviveka
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Living, Dying and Liberation
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2020-12-15
Centring Meditation
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Tune into the capacity to open and be sensitive. Listen in a feeling way to the pulses, tinglings, warmth of the body. Everything that resonates in your heart is felt directly in the body. Stay with awareness and allow feelings and emotions to shift, move, be ventilated and pass.
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Cittaviveka
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Living, Dying and Liberation
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2020-12-15
Sīla Practice
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Precepts are what most skillfully link citta to the world of sense contact. Without this ethical sense, citta runs out and gets into damaging circumstances. Precepts are the way you communicate the Dhamma through your actions into the world.
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Cittaviveka
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Living, Dying and Liberation
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2020-12-14
Rekindle and Renew | Monday Night talk
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Jack Kornfield
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Many of us discover we live partially in a dreamworld, cut off from our body and whole pieces of our life. Though we may sense our disconnection, we do not know exactly what is wrong.
James Joyce captured this dilemma when he wrote of one character, “Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.” Enlightenment must be lived here and now through this very body. In this body and mind we can discover the cause of suffering and the end of suffering. For awakening to be an opening into freedom in this very life, the body must be its ground.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2020-12-14
Cleaning Citta - New Moon Lunar Observance
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Purification of mind is not just spiritual jargon but necessary for happiness. No matter how gross or subtle, our speech, mental intentions and bodily actions affect us. Training and cleaning citta involves bringing uplifting qualities to mind and refraining from contracting to the unpleasant. This is how our kamma can begin to change.
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Cittaviveka
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2020-12-14
Meditation: Breath Love In Breath Love Out | Monday Night Talk
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Jack Kornfield
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Meditation is an invitation in this moment’s practice to turn our attention to our body, heart and mind. Begin to pay attention to this mysterious human incarnation. Feel how your body is breathing itself… you don’t have to do anything. Add metta or lovingkindness to each breath. With each breath in, fill your body and being with lovingkindness for yourself. With each breath out, sense you are sending love out to the world.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2020-12-13
Untangle the Entangled
48:05
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Nathan Glyde
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Exploring meeting the hindrances in skilful ways. Firstly seeing them as wonderful opportunities for growth and development of heart. Secondly not taking them personally, not fully believing what they say (shape) about the world. And thirdly finding skilful means through mettā, insight, and samādhi practices to find well-being in the midst of the entanglement of dukkha.
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Gaia House
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Mettā and Insight
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2020-12-13
The Art and Practice of Forgiveness
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Phillip Moffitt,
Noliwe Alexander
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The art of forgiveness begins with connecting to the heart. The practice involves learning skills such as metta, mindful acknowledgement, and compassion. Practicing these skills enables you to free yourself from painful identification with past events.
This is a day to bring remorse or grief about past actions and move beyond feelings of guilt and shame. Likewise, if someone has wronged you, you will be guided toward holding them in accountability without closing your heart. Additionally, forgiveness practice will move you toward clarity and acceptance for the ways you have let yourself down.
Practicing forgiveness allows you to move from a heavy, remorseful heart and a reactive mind to a heart that’s light but still feels regret, and a mind that is calm and clear. The day will be held with periods of guided silent sitting and walking meditation practice, instruction in the art and practice of forgiveness, and a forgiveness ceremony, with opportunities to ask questions to the instructors.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2020-12-13
Q&A
37:42
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Can you comment on the other 3 foundations of mindfulness aside from body; is ‘heart-mind’ the translation for citta; is kamma self-perpetuating; please say more about tendency of untrained mind to outflow and how to reverse them; differentiate interdependency and toxic co-dependency in relationships; please explain mindful internally, externally, and both; please speak about how we can manage fear in this time of Corona virus; what is meant by ‘citta is released’; how do we work with aversion, like chemical sensitivity; what is the difference between citta as direct knowing and citta as learning; can you speak more about cleaning out the citta?
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Dharma College
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2020-12-13
Love Everyone Or Die
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Ayya Medhanandi
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We may speak of or feel that we know about death but until we truly contemplate, approach and move into death, what do we know? This is a tale about looking into the eye of a tortoise shell butterfly while it lay dying on the shrine. Straining as it reached up towards us waving its frail antennae when it heard our chanting, we felt at one even with this tiniest of creatures - who also wanted only to be loved.
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Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)
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2020-12-13
Embodied Presence
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Ajahn Sucitto
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With mindfulness of body, we have a place where we can withdraw from the constructed world and come into direct experience. The body acts as a giant sense organ – feeling, sensing, open to it all. The body can clean encumbrances we would otherwise carry around with us.
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Dharma College
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2020-12-12
Guided Mettā to Easy Relationship
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Nathan Glyde
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Guided well-wishing and kindness practice as part of the heart training of mettā practice. Particularly emphasising getting to know the particular qualities we are radiating in this intentional practice. Includes sending mettā to oneself, and to all beings in the world.
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Gaia House
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Mettā and Insight
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2020-12-11
Q&A
15:10
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Is citta/mindfulness always present; who is attending to the citta; where does citta’s luminosity land; eyes opened or closed in meditation; thinking during discernment; use of cooling and warming in relation to what’s arising.
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Bodhi College
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Citta: Mind, Heart, Spirit
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2020-12-11
Unwrapping Citta from the Khandha
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Citta is the still point in all the movement, tangle and impact. It’s hard to recognize, but body offers a reference point – the sense of presence. Yoniso manasikara, careful attention, trims the flood of experience to a summary message of what’s contacting you. Body can then be used to discharge the push of the aggregates.
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Bodhi College
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Citta: Mind, Heart, Spirit
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2020-12-10
Q&A 2
52:56
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Relationship between citta, mano and viññāna; why doesn’t citta appear in the chain of dependent co-arising; what is samudayo; the nature of contact and perception conditioning feeling; how can one prepare for death; skills and developments of the mano function and how that mixes in with citta; helping other people; bubbling energy in meditation; limiting external impingements on citta in householder life.
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Bodhi College
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Citta: Mind, Heart, Spirit
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2020-12-10
Q&A 1
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Equanimity as a brahmavihara and equanimity as a factor of awakening; latent tendencies (anusaya); uprooting hindrances; role of the formless realms in developing insight and freedom;; when is the mind is ready to go to the formless realm; where does vedanā fit in with manas/ mano; quality of self-respect in removing the need to prove oneself.
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Bodhi College
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Citta: Mind, Heart, Spirit
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2020-12-10
Boundariless Citta
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The boundless nature of citta can make us feel too vulnerable, so we put up boundaries that end up constricting us. Cultivation of the brahmaviharā, the measureless states, is a removal of those boundaries. An abiding place results that can act as a foundation for complete liberation.
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Bodhi College
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Citta: Mind, Heart, Spirit
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