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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2017-08-15
Metta Without Borders
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Just as a gardener cultivates seedlings by watering them well, metta is praised as a foundational quality for watering the full liberation of the heart. As a spiritual gardener, work to deeply understand and integrate metta in all aspects of life and practice. It is present in every skillful mind-state and ripens in the awakened mind as unconditional and universal spiritual love.
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Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)
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Metta Without Borders Retreat
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2017-08-15
Body-Wise Guided Meditation
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Ayya Medhanandi
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As we establish awareness on the breath, notice where the mind is, polishing it until it shines like a bright moon. Use the sublime abidings to spread calming energy throughout the breath and the body. The hindrances fall away. Relieved of our attachments, we become like a lotus, a violin, able to hear our true voice in the silence. We tune the instrument of the mind to full understanding. A guided meditation given during a 7 day Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto retreat at Chapin Mill Retreat Centre, Batavia, Rochester, NY.
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Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)
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2017-08-13
In the Seen There Is Only the Seen: How Bahiya Overcame Pride to Awaken
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Ayya Medhanandi
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The heart is a moral tapestry of clear coordinates for liberation. Caught between duality and proliferation, we vanquish the ‘self’ using the Buddha’s pithy instruction to Bahiya of the Bark Cloth. “In the seen, there is only the seen. In the heard. . . only the heard. In the sensed. . . only the sensed. In the known. . . only the known. When for you there will be only the seen . . . there is no you there.” We too shall come out of the jungle of our attachments.
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Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)
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Metta Without Borders Retreat
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2017-08-11
Turning to Dust: Death Contemplations
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Ayya Medhanandi
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The nine-cemetary contemplations presented in the Satipatthana Sutta work with elemental perspectives on the parts of the body by simulating their condition after death. The clarity of mind realized in these special practices sheds light on how valuable death contemplations are for a wholesome and happy life. Not only does the mind gain immense lucidity and peace, but we are able to access and develop special qualities of mental composure, joy and discernment.
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Sati Saraniya Hermitage
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2017-08-09
Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 3: A Mirror
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Tara Brach
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This 3- part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our world. Drawing on an ancient teaching story from India, we explore together the power of a forgiving heart, the inner fire that expresses as courage and dedication, and the inquiry of “who am I” that reveals our deepest nature.
From the talk: “These are three qualities often described as the essence of awareness: wakeful, open, tender.”
And a blessing:
“May all beings everywhere remember and trust the loving awareness that is our source.
May all beings everywhere live in natural and great peace.
May we touch true joy in living.
May all beings everywhere awaken and be free.”
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2017-08-04
Truth and Reconciliation
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Can we face what we most fear and touch the well-spring of goodness, kindness and compassion within us? The first step towards Truth is taking responsibility for our own actions, intentions, and their consequences. Denial and distraction only numb us to what is painful to remember let alone face up to. But the Truth will always emerge. There is no running away from it. So we acknowledge our unskillful acts and open the door to forgiveness and reconciliation. One glimpse into the true marrow of our being reveals the urgency of repairing harm and the healing power of forgiveness.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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2017-07-30
16: An Embodied Truth
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Bodily feeling is an accurate read out of mental formations. It helps us detect kammic effects that arise and move us to action. Embodiment gives a way of discharging. The mind jumps over things that the body doesn’t.
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Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2017-07-29
11: Walking Meditation
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Ajahn Sucitto
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First establish bodily presence. Notice how the leg lifts and moves. Keep the eyes soft. Experience the wave-like motion - it feels good! Allow what’s been difficult or closed to arise and walk it out.
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Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2017-07-29
09: Q&A: Am I Wasting My Opportunity Staying As a Lay Person?
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Ajahn Sucitto responds to this question by first reframing it – rather than thinking: here’s the real world, how can I fit my practice into that? Consider: here’s the real practice, what kind of world can I operate in from that place? The reality that’s available to us all, regardless of place or position as monastic or lay person, is refuge. And the real refuge is in your presence. Be a refuge unto yourself.
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Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2017-07-29
15: The Root Perception of Change
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Ajahn Sucitto
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There are many things one can cultivate in meditation. There is craft, what can be learned. And there is art, what can’t be taught. Follow your nose, where’s your interest? Notice the difference between awareness and consciousness. Place an object in space, experience the object with dispassion.
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Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2017-07-29
08: Return, Return, Return
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The energy body is a particular fullness of being – this is citta. As it’s more completed, it becomes less obstructed. Take time to gather and center in the completed citta, even if it’s just for a few minutes. Meditation means to return time and time again.
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Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2017-07-29
14: It’s Just a Movement
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Puja is a time for offering, for being received into a quality of blessedness and welcome, just as you are. The mind searches for directions – all reasonable, but don’t follow it. Notice the energy of the movement that’s occurring now – no future, no past.
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Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2017-07-28
06: A Quality of Deep Attention
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The key to the Buddha’s awakening was his use of appropriate attention. Attention is either grounded in the right place or the wrong place, it’s one or the other. The lens of attention and the attitudes we bring to it are extremely significant. It matters how we are seeing things. Our attention is very potent. Whatever you attend to – doubt or confidence, aversion or goodwill – you’ll get more of it. Attention is an amplifier.
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Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2017-07-28
05: Put Aside What’s Unnecessary
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The contemplative process is one where you bring to mind simple things and put aside what’s unnecessary, obstructive and irrelevant. Not with aversion, but just noticing that in most of our life we’re moving forward into qualities of pressure, important business, people – but they’re only there because your mind put them there. There doesn’t have to be the drive forward, doesn’t have to be a next. Take time to stop and notice what’s not needed, notice what’s already here.
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Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2017-07-28
04: Walking without Headism
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Ajahn Sucitto addresses a form of bodily discrimiation called “headism.” It says, “I’m on top, everything is secondary to me,” and it drags everything underneath it around. Headism can be overcome by operating through the body rather than through the head. It can be practiced in walking meditation.
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Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2017-07-28
01: A Harmony of Body and Mind
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Meditation is where the body and mind interact. Physical form creates the boundary within which to dwell. No third party is needed, no abstractor, no one to do anything. Just allow body and mind to come into harmony autonomously.
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Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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