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2020-02-26
Renewal Means Refrain from Going Back
24:24
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Being comes before doing. Openness needs the protection of Refuge, not the defensiveness of ill-will. Renewal is not a case of planning or trying something new, but of stopping the re-creating of the old self. Citta then renews by itself.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-26
Aligning to Direct Experience
11:25
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Ajahn Sucitto
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As phenomena arise, align understanding to direct experience. Clear away inferences such as time and the notion of the body. All phenomena arise within awareness. Extend awareness through breathing. Pervade the body with tonalities of goodwill rather than of ill-will or no will.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-25
The Open Way
42:36
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Ajahn Sucitto
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This Path often leads into unknowns, disorientation, places where things don’t fit our normal ways. Meeting these places with strategies doesn’t work, but good qualities of heart leads into a quiet, joyful openness. This supports faith.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-24
Engaged Receptivity
51:29
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The essence of meditation is engaged receptivity. This is the skill of pausing for a minute and witnessing the flow of dhammas. It becomes fully established by strong mindfulness, so that ‘full knowing’ (sampajañña) gives the view of the causal web: that dhammas arise from causes and are not self.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-24
Aimless wandering’ Meditation
3:36
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Take advantage of being in this natural realm. Move around very slowly and relate to everything from the heart. Notice the felt sense that is evoked, how nature touches and speaks to you. Nature reflects back aspects of your own heart.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-24
The Arising of Heart
55:25
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Clearance and renewal is a heart process. It entails meeting emotional material where it begins, with an energetic resonance. Body receives and moderates the energy, clearing the way for fundamental heart qualities to meet phenomena.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-23
Q&A
55:48
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Ajahn Sucitto
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What is mindfulness; What is investigation; Unusual images arising in meditation; Death and afterlife; How to deal with vulnerability of heart?
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-23
Mindfulness of Breathing
11:37
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Mindfulness of breathing is the gathering of attention around a process that is flowing and fluid. The steady and suffusive quality of breathing eases tensions in the heart and mind. The thinking process quietens down and external sights and sounds don’t impinge allowing the natural qualities of the heart become more apparent.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-23
Removing the Bookmark of Suffering
55:42
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Felt meanings are triggered through contact. They are conditioned, and over time become like bookmarks that we return to. It’s possible to acknowledge agitating ones and discharge them through the body. Positive meanings can be cultivated and embodied, generating new bookmarks.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-23
Puja – Resounding Meaning
19:17
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Puja is the act of praising, honouring, lifting up particular spiritual values. It’s not limited by what one can or can’t do. The heart can be lifted to feel spiritual qualities – awakening, purity, generosity. This shifts one’s centre from the world back to one’s own heart.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-22
Whatever the Content, Establish the Container
35:19
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Mindfulness replaces self as the container and arbiter if experience. Self finds it difficult to be with the disagreeable, the crazy, the chaotic, the out of control. Self searches for success, and dreads failure. Mindfulness can handle real life: no success, no failure.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-22
Clearance of the Energetic (Causal) Basis
48:01
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The basis of body, mind and heart is a field of interconnective energies. Clear the body through breathing and posture; clear the mind by disengaging. The heart naturally opens in this healthier atmosphere. The field is now primed to ventilate difficult emotions allowing renewal to occur.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-22
Puja: Brightening the Heart Tone
4:46
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Based on an upright, open posture, chanting adds vocal tone to breathing. Breath becomes sound through bodily resonators. The release of breathing out, combined with the resonance and the reference to images of purity and compassion is brightening.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-22
Refreshing through Posture
23:01
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Practice with opening the body as an energetic formation. Muscles can relax on an upright posture, the boundaries of the bodies can relax. Opening into the surrounding space ventilates stale energies, supporting clearer attitudes and a brighter heart.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-21
Clearing Is Renewal
39:33
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Ajahn Sucitto
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We come on retreat to clear the negative, the compulsive, the cluttered. Acknowledging the causal potential to adopt behaviours and attitudes and transmit them to others, there is a need to clear and reset. The warm, safe, cooperative retreat environment allows for new growth after the clearing.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-20
Practising with Death and Dying
2:35:07
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Rob Burbea
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CRUCIAL NOTE: It is highly unlikely that this talk will be properly or adequately understood without a prior very good working familiarity and competence – both in actual practice and conceptually – with Soulmaking Dharma teachings and practices, as well as with Insight Meditation. Without this background it may be that the talk will in fact be misunderstood, and it is unlikely that the talk will be helpful. Please note too that much of the material in this series of talks (In Psyche’s Orchard) is based on or continues explorations of material laid out in a particular previous series (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light). In Psyche’s Orchard was recorded by Rob at his home.
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Gaia House
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In Psyche's Orchard
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2020-02-19
Working with Trauma: Tara Interviews Jim Gordon, MD
57:14
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Tara Brach
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Dr. Jim Gordon is author of the new book, The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma. In this interview with Tara, he talks about his work with populations around the globe struggling with trauma, and some of the most powerful practices that can be done on our own in healing trauma. Jim's non-profit organization is the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, DC - CMBM.org.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2020-02-19
The Image of Ethics (Part 6 - An Inconclusive Conclusion, or A Prolegomenon)
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Rob Burbea
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CRUCIAL NOTE: It is highly unlikely that this talk will be properly or adequately understood without a prior very good working familiarity and competence – both in actual practice and conceptually – with Soulmaking Dharma teachings and practices, as well as with Insight Meditation. Without this background it may be that the talk will in fact be misunderstood, and it is unlikely that the talk will be helpful. Please note too that much of the material in this series of talks (In Psyche’s Orchard) is based on or continues explorations of material laid out in a particular previous series (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light). In Psyche’s Orchard was recorded by Rob at his home.
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Gaia House
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In Psyche's Orchard
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2020-02-18
The Image of Ethics (Part 5)
2:11:02
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Rob Burbea
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CRUCIAL NOTE: It is highly unlikely that this talk will be properly or adequately understood without a prior very good working familiarity and competence – both in actual practice and conceptually – with Soulmaking Dharma teachings and practices, as well as with Insight Meditation. Without this background it may be that the talk will in fact be misunderstood, and it is unlikely that the talk will be helpful. Please note too that much of the material in this series of talks (In Psyche’s Orchard) is based on or continues explorations of material laid out in a particular previous series (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light). In Psyche’s Orchard was recorded by Rob at his home.
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Gaia House
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In Psyche's Orchard
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2020-02-18
Metta leben - Mettapraxis im Alltag
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Yuka Nakamura
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Im Alltag bieten sich unzählige Gelegenheiten um Metta, die Qualität der Freundlichkeit und des Wohlwollens, zu üben und zu manifestieren. Dazu gehören Gesten der Grosszügigkeit, ethisches Handeln, Freundlichkeit in unseren Worten etc. Letzlich lässt uns Metta die Nicht-Getrenntheit von allen Wesen erkennen und entsprechend handeln.
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Meditationszentrum Beatenberg
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2020-02-18
Endnotes on Meditation
34:32
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Cultivation of heart and mind extends beyond sitting on the cushion. This core practice of being in your body is a touchstone for sanity and for happiness. Through this we can discharge qualities that can’t be dealt with in daily life. It can be practiced in any posture. Know where the stress is arising, and meet it with a spacious body and accepting heart.
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Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa
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Ajahn Sucitto, Firm Centre Open Heart Retreat
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2020-02-17
The Image of Ethics (Part 4)
1:51:51
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Rob Burbea
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CRUCIAL NOTE: It is highly unlikely that this talk will be properly or adequately understood without a prior very good working familiarity and competence – both in actual practice and conceptually – with Soulmaking Dharma teachings and practices, as well as with Insight Meditation. Without this background it may be that the talk will in fact be misunderstood, and it is unlikely that the talk will be helpful. Please note too that much of the material in this series of talks (In Psyche’s Orchard) is based on or continues explorations of material laid out in a particular previous series (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light). In Psyche’s Orchard was recorded by Rob at his home.
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Gaia House
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In Psyche's Orchard
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2020-02-16
The Image of Ethics (Part 3)
2:22:29
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Rob Burbea
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CRUCIAL NOTE: It is highly unlikely that this talk will be properly or adequately understood without a prior very good working familiarity and competence – both in actual practice and conceptually – with Soulmaking Dharma teachings and practices, as well as with Insight Meditation. Without this background it may be that the talk will in fact be misunderstood, and it is unlikely that the talk will be helpful. Please note too that much of the material in this series of talks (In Psyche’s Orchard) is based on or continues explorations of material laid out in a particular previous series (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light). In Psyche’s Orchard was recorded by Rob at his home.
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Gaia House
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In Psyche's Orchard
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2020-02-16
Awareness Has No Boundaries
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Meditation is based on the fact that mind can open and encompass the whole world of experience. Gathering energy and awareness into the here and now, and unhooking from the contents of consciousness establishes a very firm center that is also open. The result is unbound awareness.
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Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa
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Ajahn Sucitto, Firm Centre Open Heart Retreat
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