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Dharma Talks
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2025-03-28
Equanimity Meditation
45:04
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Kaira Jewel Lingo
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This meditation explores upekkhā, or equanimity—the deep steadiness of heart that meets life’s joys and sorrows with wisdom and care. Through reflections, guided phrases, and a progression of categories (from self, to loved one, neutral person, difficult person and finally all beings), we cultivate balance and spaciousness in the face of life’s ever-changing conditions. Rooted in the Brahmavihārā tradition, this practice invites us to rest in the truth that all beings are moving through causes and conditions beyond our control.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW
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2025-03-24
The Power and Freedom of Equanimity in Polarized Times
60:11
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Kaira Jewel Lingo
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In this talk we explore the power of equanimity to help us remain steady and spacious in the face of life's ups and downs. Trusting, relaxing and letting go all help us to see we don't have to hold the challenges of life alone, we can open to the larger mystery holding us all. We also look at how to engage with the suffering and injustice of our world, to practice sacred criticism, and depolarizing ourselves and our communities. We take inspiration from the Civil Rights Movement and their practices of self-emptying and how we can give our whole hearts to the task and then let go of attachment to the outcome. Kaira Jewel ends by singing the poem Recommendation by Thich Nhat Hanh.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW
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2025-03-24
Light on desire
52:54
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Ajahn Sucitto
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This is a desire realm - we have desire. We’re not trying to eliminate it, but train it. Where it goes wrong is where desire becomes craving, when it’s shrouded by ignorance. I don’t create craving, craving creates me. Take the me out of it, and there’s the possibility to view things differently. Moments, thoughts, objects, so intensely configured, begin to lose their hard edges. There is a stilling, a chance to clear one’s residues.
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Cittaviveka
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End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat
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2025-03-23
Light on effort, an oar in the stream
40:37
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Ajahn Sucitto
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With effort, citta is the main thing. It’s both the heart quality from where intention streams and that which harvests the results. Then one knows where to best apply energy and how that’s done. Practise the application of effort to mindfulness of breathing, acknowledging and moderating the tools being used and the material they’re being applied to. When you practise rightly, there will be fortunate results.
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Cittaviveka
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End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat
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2025-03-22
Three kinds of Nibbana in our western Insight traditions
52:57
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Tempel Smith
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Within our blessed lineages of Venerables Ajahn Cha and Mahasi Sayadaw, and the teachings within the Pali Canon, we have found three kinds of nibbana. Nibbana is closely related to the full liberation from dukkha (suffering). To even talk about one kind of nibbana can be difficult as it is beyond language, yet there is another confusion within western Insight meditation. By practicing in Mahasi's Burmese meditaitons, in Cha's Thai Forest meditations, and here in North America, there are roughly three kinds of nibbana: a) an unperturbed background field of awareness, b) a perfect zero of cessation, and c) a stream of transient mind-body moments without greed, hatred or craving.
Knowing of these three kinds of nibbana can clarify what our vipassana practices are aimed at.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
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2025-03-22
Light on balance
35:57
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Ajahn Sucitto
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March 2025 retreat - talk 1 - This teaching uses the metaphor of a keel of a boat, that which gives balance in open ocean waters, to point to how to handle conditionality. Finding that balance between what we restrain from (varita) and what we do (charita); between internal and external. The heart already knows this balance, if we can just shine a light on it.
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Cittaviveka
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End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat
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2025-03-22
Feel truth, avoid plastic
42:57
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Whether one’s context is of a meditative community, or a natural world, or of mainstream society, one’s world is based on perceptions. To get perspective on this, bodily presence is basic. It opens an awareness before the mind gets going, and before the world of circumstance. Learn to filter the shocking ‘world’ of the media.. Sustain perceptions of the bright and worthy- and live in accord. Don’t go automatic!
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Cittaviveka
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End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat
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