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2024-02-17
Q&A
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Could you speak more on Buddha mind? Does it involve the heart? Is it with us all the time like an inner guide, below the ego and self-constructed identity?
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Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa
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Regaining the Center
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2024-02-17
Appropriate Perception
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Nathan Glyde
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The Buddha encouraged us to play with perception in ways that reduce dukkha. This is from an Online Dharma Hall session with a meditation, a reflection, and responses to questions. The questions are not recorded for privacy reasons, the responses are shaped to allow for comprehension despite this.
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Gaia House
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Online Dharma Hall - February 2024
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2024-02-16
Q&A
35:35
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Ajahn Sucitto
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00:10 Q1 Please share tips to manage the flurry of emotions that might arise when we're back in our day today busy lives. 20:18 Q2 Sometimes when I think of my own death I don't care. How do we manage acceptance in a way that doesn't become apathetic or dull sense of I don't care. 27:47 Q3 How do you establish presence and find your center when your body is in unbearable pain? 34:16 Q4 Can you speak about the use of pharmaceuticals for perceived mental and physical imbalances?
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Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa
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Regaining the Center
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2024-02-16
Centre and path
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The epitome of the path to an ancient city described by the Buddha exists between the extremes of affirmation and denial, destroying things and holding on to things.
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Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa
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Regaining the Center
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2024-02-15
Q&A
43:24
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Questions are précised: Q1 Do we have to unattach ourselves from intense bonds to our parents and children to attain enlightenment? Also, can you explain what the Buddha meant to “fully understand suffering” as the first noble truth? 26:42 Q2 If we don't purify our mindstream or cleanse our karmic baggage and live virtuous lives, we will not attain our Buddha self and seek a cyclical existence as we would have failed to realize the wisdom of reality. 27.54 Q3 Can you suggest some guidance on waking up in the mornings? 32.18 Q4 Reclining posture somehow feels less than the other postures. Is this so? When is the reclining posture appropriate? 37:29 Q5 can you speak on non-aversion? Is it possible?
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Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa
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Regaining the Center
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2024-02-14
Letting Go of Controlling: The Path of Freedom – Part 2
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Tara Brach
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While it’s natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awareness that is our essence. This series of talks explores how we can let go in four key domains of controlling: clinging to thoughts, resisting feelings, holding tight to beliefs and armoring our heart.
We look at how egoic controlling manifests individually and as a society; the process of awakening from exclusive identification with a separate ego/self; what it means to die into a larger reality and the similarities of psychedelics and meditation in the process of letting go.
The gift of releasing the grip of controlling is true freedom; inhabiting the intrinsic beauty of our beings, and having our lives be an expression of creativity, wisdom and love.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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