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Dharma Talks
2019-07-23 Relevant Mindfulness 40:45
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulness is the ability to bear things in mind with a steady intention. Like the sides of the hand, there is a hard side with its ability to bar and repel corrupting influences, and a soft side that lingers and takes in the qualities. Select an object of meditation based on what’s needed, and give attention to the careful holding.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

2019-07-21 Citta and Non-Grasping 38:30
Ajahn Sucitto
When the mind is not steady and has gone into activation, clinging is inevitable. The clung-to experience creates the person. But there’s a choice. Our responsibility is to manage the flood of the aggregates through mindfulness.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

2019-07-20 Mindfulness and Non-Grasping 51:10
Ajahn Sucitto
The trained mind is fluid and flexible – natural. The untrained mind is fixed and grasping – loses its agility. Training comes through mindfulness of the 4 bases and 3 aspects of mind. Body gives mind something to anchor itself on so the habits of grasping that create a fixed self can be released.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

2019-07-19 Developing Mindfulness Of Thoughts and Thinking 54:39
Chris Cullen
Morning instructions on ways of practicing with thoughts so as to develop a more spacious relationship with thinking and understand more fully the shaping power of perception and papañca (projection, proliferation, objectification.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2019-07-16 Taking the Problem out of Pain 47:45
Shaila Catherine
In this talk, Shaila Catherine encourages practitioners to view illness and pain as opportunities to practice equanimity, patience, and mindfulness of the body. When we are sick or in pain, we can still practice being attentive to present conditions, and reflect that all beings are all also subject to illness and death. Illness is not wrong; it is inevitable. The more we resist this fact, the more mental suffering we add to our physical difficulties. When we learn to be present with both pleasant and unpleasant feelings, we will know an experience of profound peace.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Meditation in Hard Times

2019-07-16 Asalha Puja – Middle Path 68:28
Ajahn Sucitto
We can get sidetracked with a focus on mindfulness or stress reduction or meditation techniques. We don’t understand what leads up to them, the Noble 8-Fold Path. This Path begins with right view - knowing the heart and how it’s affected - and right effort - bringing up skillful mindstates.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

2019-07-15 Body: Elemental, Grounding, Groundless 48:59
Chris Cullen
1st day evening talk about practicing mindfulness of body, including reflections on cultivating samadhi, elements practice and emptiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2019-07-09 Compassion - How it is Supported by Mindfulness and Joy? 45:03
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Opening the Heart with Mindfulness and Compassion

2019-07-08 Mindfulness - The Foundation of Wellbeing and Compassion 46:36
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Opening the Heart with Mindfulness and Compassion

2019-07-07 Mindfulness - A Precious Jewel 57:37
Yuka Nakamura
What are the roles of mindfulness - sati - on our path? The talk describes five central functions of mindfulness on the basis of the similes that the Buddha used in the Pali canon. It also touches on the development of sati.
Pauenhof Center :  Intensive Vipassana Meditation Retreat

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