2021-07-12 Day 3 Q&A 58:30
Ajahn Sucitto, Willa Thaniya Reid	Download Listen
How to respond to the energy of craving (taṇhā); how to navigate states of calm; advice for approaching cancer without fighting/setting up a war; how to work with thinking, between suppressing in meditation and reacting while living in the world; encountering doubt after 20 years of practice; how to work with unhappiness/sadness.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-12 Guided Meditation – Breathing into Empathic Life 19:53
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Guidance to sense experience at the cellular level, not as a person. Establish the firm welcome of ground and safe benevolent space around. Sensing, with every inhalation is a birth, with every exhalation a complete emptying back into ground. Tuning into the subtle bodily and mental feelings, may this be well.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-12 Right View of the Domain of Practice 54:47
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
How we live on the surface – our lifestyle, speech, actions – generates signs and messages received in the depth. Make an effort to establish right view in your daily life. Mindfulness is then established from that message, not in self-view but in the right territory of lovingkindness, compassion, renunciation.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-12 Refuge Place 15:01
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
From the depth of the heart is a place of refuge. A place you can go with failures, pains, mistakes – and be accepted. A place to put it all down, finish it. Let go of the tangles and snagging that happen at the surface.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-12 The Treasure of Right Speech 15:25
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Speech today tends to be surface babble, it doesn’t go to the depths. One who knows the depths speaks things that are valuable, useful, conducive to harmony. Therefore one looks at speech as a potential treasure, something that can demonstrate love, show that other people matter to me.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-12 Day 3 Q&A 54:51
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Other people’s suffering; what is meant by ‘non-self’; remaining with love when one feels constricted and out of control; cause of excessive burping; please talk about the perception-feeling saṇkhāra processes; the purpose of sensing space around; body scanning to train the mind.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-11 Paramis: The Joy of Renunciation, Week 3 (Sunday evening) - Meditation 29:29
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2021-07-11 Paramis: The Joy of Renunciation, Week 3 (Sunday evening) - Talk 58:12
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2021-07-11 Sensitivity to Energy Over Time 57:50
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
An exploration of energy, effort, and sustaining our intentions through the hindrances and obstacles on the path. This talk has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next sentence.
SanghaSeva :  Bright Mind, Open Heart (With Long Silences Where Translation was)

2021-07-11 Sensitivity to Energy Over Time (Silence Trimmed) 23:28
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
An exploration of energy, effort, and sustaining our intentions through the hindrances and obstacles on the path.
SanghaSeva :  Bright Mind, Open Heart (Silences Edited Off)

2021-07-11 Sensitivity to Energy Over Time 58:36
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
An exploration of energy, effort, and sustaining our intentions through the hindrances and obstacles on the path. This talk has a live translation into Czech.
SanghaSeva :  Bright Mind, Open Heart (With Czech Translation)

2021-07-11 Sunday Night Sit with guest teacher Frank Ostaseski 1:31:05
Frank Ostaseski	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community :  SFI Sunday Nights

2021-07-11 Past, Future, Staying Present 68:35
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Shared with Khenmo Drolma Bhiksuni | Vajra Dakini Nunnery
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-07-11 Metta and Equanimity: A Balanced, Spacious and Responsive Heart 56:02
John Martin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP

2021-07-11 Love, Intrinsic to the 4 Noble Truths 28:07
Willa Thaniya Reid	Download Listen
We may wonder where love sits in the whole of the Buddha’s teachings. It’s not always directly pointed at in the suttas, but heart cultivations enable citta to know dukkha and wake up to the way things are. Citta is strengthened in its capacity to be present with skillfulness and love, support for which are provided by body and breath.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-11 Establishing Path Factors 43:47
Willa Thaniya Reid	Download Listen
Returning to sitting, supporting citta to settle and open, we give it skillful things it can be in touch with – breathing, the heart medicines. Understanding the power of perception and feeling, we place attention carefully, bringing qualities of welcome, availability, friendliness – guarding against what is harmful and afflicting. Just knowing, body feels like this, citta feels like this.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-11 Mudita practice 46:19
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
The practice of Mudita or Appreciative Joy cultivates an open and joyful heart that naturally inclines towards connecting with what is uplifting and beautiful in others and in our own lives. It works to counteract the subtle or not-so-subtle tendency towards envy, which tells us that we are deficient in some way.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP

2021-07-11 Standing Meditation - Keeping this Embodied Reference 20:21
Willa Thaniya Reid	Download Listen
Guidance for transitioning to standing, staying present, letting uprightness establish itself. Keeping the quality of opening, meeting what is here with love and friendliness, letting breath wash any strain away.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-11 Paramis: The Joy of Renunciation, Week 3 - Meditation 27:50
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2021-07-11 Paramis: The Joy of Renunciation, Week 3 - Talk 38:08
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2021-07-11 Taking care of the citta, putting down what is unhelpful, attuning to what is helpful 43:02
Willa Thaniya Reid	Download Listen
In this cultivation we’re deepening our understanding of the heart that is at home. The soothing and relaxing quality of breathing supports citta to meet whatever arises. With qualities of love, friendliness and compassion, attune to cause and effect, putting down what brings agitation and contraction, and aligning to what brings well-being.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-11 Day 1 Instructions: A Calm, Deep, Spacious Attention 65:17
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
This instruction has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next sentence.
SanghaSeva :  Bright Mind, Open Heart (With Long Silences Where Translation was)

2021-07-11 Day 1 Instructions: A Calm, Deep, Spacious Attention (Silence Trimmed) 27:30
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
SanghaSeva :  Bright Mind, Open Heart (Silences Edited Off)

2021-07-11 Day 1 Instructions: A Calm, Deep, Spacious Attention 1:33:15
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
This instruction has a live translation into Czech.
SanghaSeva :  Bright Mind, Open Heart (With Czech Translation)

2021-07-11 Loving-kindness for Difficult Relationships 46:36
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Our hearts' defenses might be most reinforced where there has been emotional pain. Using the previous practice of loving-kindness for easier relationships we can visit the places in our own hearts where we hold fear, hatred, resentment, and judgment. Relaxing these hard and painful places within us, by small, steady degrees, frees us from squandering our inner resources. Healing these places of pain can transform our understanding of how we can be in the world with a more open heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP

2021-07-11 Day 2 Q&A 52:04
Ajahn Sucitto, Willa Thaniya Reid	Download Listen
Questions have been grouped by theme: Breathing; how do we work with the regret; questions around citta; how does piti (rapture) manifest in the body; heart feels like a lump of black coal.
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2021-07-11 Returning to Surface 15:11
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Whatever arises from the depth, it’s not yourself. It’s citta territory – nothing to fight with, claim or stir yourself up with. Stay with the center, the quality of uprightness and the ground from which it arises.
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2021-07-11 Wholeness and Fragmentation 59:39
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Upright is both a physical and psychological feature. We can feel the balance, and if attention is sustained there, afflictive energies pass through –confusion transmutes into sanity. Because of ignorance we lose touch with wholeness, energy scatters and spills out through the khandas. Return to the wholeness, extend love and gentleness. Linger in skillful perceptions and the heart will reform itself in line with those meanings.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-11 Puja – Coming into Uprightness 46:45
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The upright is both an anatomical and psychological reference. It’s from the upright that we deepen, moving through difficult territories without getting hooked, arriving at places of authenticity and clarity. Puja offers an occasion for opening and deepening.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-10 Opening Meditation - Bright Mind, Open Heart 50:05
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
This simple guided meditation for presence and intimacy with life, has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next guidance.
SanghaSeva :  Bright Mind, Open Heart (With Long Silences Where Translation was)

2021-07-10 Opening Meditation - Bright Mind, Open Heart 43:31
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
This simple guided meditation for presence and intimacy with life, has a live translation into Czech.
SanghaSeva :  Bright Mind, Open Heart (With Czech Translation)

2021-07-10 Opening Talk - Bright Mind, Open Heart 39:29
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Introducing the theme of the retreat: insight, samatha (calm-aliveness) and metta. This talk has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next sentence.
SanghaSeva :  Bright Mind, Open Heart (With Long Silences Where Translation was)

2021-07-10 Opening Talk - Bright Mind, Open Heart (Silence Trimmed) 14:47
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Introducing the theme of the retreat: insight, samatha (calm-aliveness) and metta.
SanghaSeva :  Bright Mind, Open Heart (Silences Edited Off)

2021-07-10 Opening Talk - Bright Mind, Open Heart 45:28
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Introducing the theme of the retreat: insight, samatha (calm-aliveness) and metta. This talk has a live translation into Czech.
SanghaSeva :  Bright Mind, Open Heart (With Czech Translation)

2021-07-10 Dharma Talk - Living in Rental Accommodation 53:30
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
The reality of impermanence.
Gaia House :  The Heart of Wisdom and Kindness

2021-07-10 Guided Anapanasati Meditation 30:07
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-07-10 Right View and Sunita, feat. Rev. Heng Sure 25:02
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-07-10 Metta Samadhi in Daily Life 65:49
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
The developed momentum of loving-kindness can become a stable flow of both happy contentedness and stability of attention. This is the unification and immersion (samadhi) cultivated through dedicated metta practice. Like a river unblocked by fallen trees and debris, the flow of the heart can reopen into a smoothly pouring stream called loving-kindness concentration or metta samadhi.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP

2021-07-10 Inflections of Love 53:02
Willa Thaniya Reid	Download Listen
We practice coming into full presence with the unshakable qualities of heart the Buddha pointed to. Noticing what is here, our relationship with it and the different inflections of the heart. If there’s hostility or unkindness, these are not true, they are defilements that obscure the truth. They need meeting and understanding, but not believing in. What is needed now is the quality of mettā, that deep well-wishing with the absence of any kind of hostility.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-10 Forgiveness: Reflections and Guided Meditation 52:07
Kristina Bare	Download Listen
Releasing the heart from resentment and anger while honoring accountability and emotional boundaries.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP

2021-07-10 Guided Meditation - Trusting the Process 10:06
Willa Thaniya Reid	Download Listen
Establishing uprightness of mind, heart and body - ground and feel ourselves here. With friendliness and non-contention, opening and attuning to what’s here, establishing presence with the way things are.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-10 Relaxing into the Flow of Breath 64:35
Willa Thaniya Reid	Download Listen
As we establish this time of practice, we approach it with faith in the possibility of awakening. Upright in the energetic sense of heart and body, open to what is here. Let the beautiful energy of breathing stroke through the whole of experience of body. Soothing, calming, bringing well-being.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-10 Guided Anapanasati Meditation 30:07
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
This guided meditation of the first 3 tetrads of anapanasati was offered on July 10, 2021 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-07-10 Pervading Love - Guided Meditation 40:21
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
This is a guided meditation starting with Metta for ourselves, then easy people, and ending with neutral people.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP

2021-07-10 Day 1 Q&A – Common Problems 53:19
Ajahn Sucitto, Willa Thaniya Reid	Download Listen
How to deal with bodily pain; what to do when mind is obsessively thinking; mind goes dull and I keep falling asleep; what to do with weird energies that can happen; I can’t seem to do breath meditation.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-10 Guided Meditation - Deepen and Breathe 34:23
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Begins with standing posture, aligning the posture so muscles can relax deeply. Flows into sitting posture without breaking the deepening process. Energies from the depth rise up and concoct scenarios that carry the flavor of what’s unresolved – passion, despair, worry. Breathe through it, cooling and steadying the energy in your body.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-10 Love, Breathing and Life – an Outline 49:10
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
An introduction to the theme of the retreat that redefines traditional meanings of love, breathing and life. Breathing provides the foundation from which we can open to circumstance without fighting, without grabbing. And isn’t this what love is? Just staying with the restrictions, not asking for anything, just flowing through. This is what it means to live a meaningful life – to meet and show up for this experience.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-10 How to Use the Body 54:02
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Instructions for establishing an upright, open posture where you can relax and let breathing happen. The body recognizes that. When the body is relaxed and peaceful, mind sees things clearly. Introduction to chanting as a means for expressing our faith and aspirations. This is how to set up a meditation temple in your own body.
Cittaviveka :  Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-09 Dharma Talk - Embracing Our Aliveness 54:24
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  The Heart of Wisdom and Kindness

2021-07-09 Mettā meditation, "fireside chat" 1:26:03
Bhante Sujato, Bhante Akāliko	Download Listen
Mettā meditation led by Bhante Sujato, "fireside chat" in celebration of Bhante Akāliko's 6th anniversary of going forth! Book link: wiswo.org/#featuredbook
Lokanta Vihara