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Dharma Talks
2006-07-23 Beautiful In The Beginning, Middle, & End 21:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Beautiful in the beginning, beautiful in the middle, beautiful in the end. This is one of the expressions of the Dhamma. Puja is one skillful means for expressing this beauty – uprightness of posture, steadiness of presence, chanting, praising, beautiful intention.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-23 Co-Creative Talk: The World, Anatta and Self Respect 49:07
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2006-07-23 02 ostacoli 53:59
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi :  Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana luglio 2006

2006-07-23 01 q_ and a_ 58:03
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi :  Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana luglio 2006

2006-07-23 Sylvia's 70Th Birthday Celebration, Family Dharma 50:44
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-07-21 Purifying Intent 48:28
Ajahn Sucitto
This teaching encompasses all forms of experience, and the liberation from it all. Held with right intention, forms can be used for their benefits without clinging to them. Use forms – the body, the monastery – as props, to purify intention.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-21 The Four Vows 51:57
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Study Retreat

2006-07-21 A Democracy of the Imagination 58:25
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Study Retreat

2006-07-20 Absolute Honesty - Grasping, Self, & Personhood 55:33
Ajahn Sucitto
There is some kind of personhood that is enriched, that realizes. This is different from self, which is imagined, generated out of grasping. Come out of the story line of self, and into basic presence. A purification of this personhood – resilience, strength, clarity, heartfulness – comes about naturally as we meditate.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-20 Anatta And Our Personality 56:36
Sharda Rogell
Understanding Anatta. Our personality doesn't have to dissolve in order to understand the not-self nature of who we are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-07-20 Discourse on the Form of Thought 49:37
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Study Retreat

2006-07-20 Buddhanature 56:58
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Study Retreat

2006-07-19 Guided Meditation - Lifting The Heart 42:36
Ajahn Sucitto
The process of samādhi is as important as anything else, wherever the process lands. Give priority to 3 fundamental roots: inclination towards kindness/well-being; protection/warding off what’s harmful; letting go of sense contact.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-19 Understanding Right Effort #3 56:41
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2006-07-19 Happiness - part 4: Letting Go 58:25
James Baraz
The joy of letting go includes restraint expressed as sitting with integrity as well as letting go of stories, expectation & experiences. This letting go is not a sacrifice but rather releasing the burden of holding onto the things that cause us suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-07-19 Entering the Stream 56:57
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Study Retreat

2006-07-18 The Precious Flaw 42:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation is not about getting any particular state or feeling. It’s about knowing what’s happening without getting bonded to it. Only by handling experience is there freedom. What we handle is our precious, necessary flaw – our suffering. Meet it and know it as Mara.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-18 Listening, Part 2 36:43
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-07-18 Refinement of the Mind 52:25
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Study Retreat

2006-07-18 Contingency and Emptiness 57:36
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Study Retreat

2006-07-17 The Person And The Undefinable 60:58
Ajahn Sucitto
A reflection on the theme of being a person without a self. Only working with what can be defined – knowing what is skillful and unskillful, what causes suffering and what causes non-suffering. Far more than the benefit of calm, you’re then working with the roots of this personhood, learning how to handle aspects of the person without constructing a self.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-17 Relaxed Attention 60:10
Ajahn Sumedho
Amaravati Monastery Vassa Retreat

2006-07-17 Buddhist Psychology - Delusion 61:15
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-07-17 Creative Engagement with Contact 51:55
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Study Retreat

2006-07-17 Going Against the Stream 56:37
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Study Retreat

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