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Dharma Talks
2021-08-13 Warum geht es in unserer Praxis? 23:18
Ayya Santacitta
Fuchshaus, Papoc
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-08-13 Teachings and Meditation - Finding the Balance Between Ease and Effort 30:08
Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Meditation Day: Natural Ease in Practice - Exploring Intention and Effort

2021-08-13 Guided Meditation – Liberating the Body 49:33
Ajahn Sucitto
This body that we can see as an object it’s also a subject – it’s a feeling, intelligent creature. Start with this right attitude, right view, and open the mind from the assumptions about body as an object to treating it as a sensitive creature. As we liberate this creature from clinging and identity, the witnessing heart – awareness – becomes more steady and peaceful.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies The Sacred Cosmos

2021-08-13 Teachings And Meditation - Natural Ease, Kindness, and Right Effort 55:35
Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Meditation Day: Natural Ease in Practice - Exploring Intention and Effort

2021-08-13 The Myth of the Individual 47:01
Ajahn Sucitto
We see ourselves as separate from the rest of the world, but we’re not. We are a meeting point of all kinds of relational qualities, qualities that can be imbued with Dhamma to make our experience a mandala of sharing and communion. Stress comes from developing an ineffectual relationship with what happens. We practice to come out of the worldly dividedness into something more compassionate, deep, less isolated. This is sacred practice.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies The Sacred Cosmos

2021-08-12 The Buddha's Teaching on How Practice Unfolds: The Five Spiritual Faculties 54:11
James Baraz
The Five Spiritual Faculties is a central teaching of the Buddha that explains how the practice develops and unfolds: This classical list of five qualities expresses both the importance of balance as well as a natural progression of development with one quality leading to the next.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2021-08-11 Stufenweise aus Konstrukten aussteigen 57:25
Ayya Santacitta
Vortrag & geführte Meditation
ÖBR Theravada Schule Wien

2021-08-11 Humility 54:16
Tara Brach
In Buddhism and most faiths, humility – feeling that we all share common ground, feeling neither superior or inferior to others – is both a prerequisite to awakening and an expression of mature spirituality. This talk explores how our conditioning and culture reinforce a swing from ego-inflation (self-importance, feeling special, better than others) to ego-deflation (feeling unworthy). We then look at how a wise and kind attention opens us to who we are beyond these confining egoic states, and enables us to live with humility and grace.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-08-11 Finding Wisdom in Anxiety 47:15
Kate Munding
Dharma talk and guided practice. Anxiety is a contraction and therefore a form of suffering. Sometimes anxiety is the appropriate response to a situation, but there are skillful ways to navigate this experience. This talk and practice examines how we can learn to soothe the body and the mind using somatic exercises and our imagination to bring expansiveness to anxiety's contracted state.
Assaya Sangha Assaya Sangha Dharma Talks

2021-08-11 Transforming the Mind from I to We Through Wisdom and Kindness 1:37:35
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-08-11 27 meditation: choiceless attention 29:10
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with mindfulness of breathing to steady the mind, then letting go of the primary object or anchor to connect with whatever experiences are predominant, using mental noting to help stay present with changing experiences
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Finding the Heart of Freedom

2021-08-11 26 instructions: mindfulness of mindfulness 19:36
Jill Shepherd
Exploring some different approaches to mindfulness, and how different mindfulness methods can be used to maintain a balanced practice
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Finding the Heart of Freedom

2021-08-10 To Love and Say Goodbye: A Poetic Approach to the Teaching on Gratification, Drawback, and Escape 30:42
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2021-08-10 Q&A 24:57
Ajahn Sucitto
00:15 I find it difficult to access body and heart intelligence through sitting and breathing; 04:26 Is there a chant or practice we can do before or while eating?; 06:23 Sometimes the citta feels vast and spacious and other times intimate; 09:12 What is paritta chanting; 11:50 I suffer from tinnitus. How can I incorporate this into my meditation?; 14:18 Do you have long retreats, like 3 months?; 15:09 I experience reluctance to doing a daily formal sit even though I know it’s good for me; 17:33 What is right effort when it comes to strong sustained energy that is released during meditation?; 19:45 What is the background to the stained glass windows that Ajahn Sucitto helped design at the Sunyata Center?
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability

2021-08-10 Opening the mind door 41:07
Ajahn Sucitto
We can’t always feel good but we can get enough stability to stop running, and instead meet what’s unpleasant. Meditation is the opportunity to safely become insecure – set aside the defenses and strategies, remain present and stable, and open. When you’ve accepted its presence with mindfulness, fear no longer propels the citta because it’s been integrated.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability

2021-08-10 No obligation 40:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Time boundaries, pressure and obligation, create a frame within which the citta becomes compressed. We become a driven or burdened person. What is lacking is internal stability and openness. Stand back from all that and bring a gesture of goodwill to the constricted places. You then have your stable open presence to offer.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability

2021-08-09 17 meditation: practising with physical discomfort 29:48
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by bringing awareness to physical sensations, practising non-reactivity to discomfort, then exploring how opening to neutral and pleasant feeling-tones can support the mind to stay balanced
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Finding the Heart of Freedom

2021-08-09 16 instructions: working with pain 12:53
Jill Shepherd
Some different approaches to working skilfully with pain in meditation
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Finding the Heart of Freedom

2021-08-09 Guided Meditation – Breathing 52:29
Ajahn Sucitto
The aim of mindfulness of breathing is to steady, refresh and bless the mind. When the heart becomes clean and happy, it naturally widens and sends out good energies and actions into the world. So when you cultivate through heart, you benefit both your own mind and the lives of others.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability

2021-08-09 Q&A 46:38
Ajahn Sucitto
O1:06 Q1 How should one prepare the body and mind for sleep. 07:27 Q2 Could you explain again what is meant by the axis and the heart line. 20:44 Q3 If I go to crowded places, when I get home I feel sad and sometimes even suicidal from all negative energies. How can one protect oneself from this? 24:47 Q4 How can we get beyond the habits of the mind? 27:29 Q5 I think you said that “known” is a feeling. I am confused. 33:08 Q6 Most jobs have to do with the exploitation of the environment in some way and even healing professions are contaminated with the exchange of money. Can you offer some comments? 41:01 Q7 I have a chance to get a new job. I feel excitement but also see I will have less time to meditate and care for my elderly Mum. 43:49 Q8 My son has cut himself and my grandchildren off from me and I feel my heart has turned to stone.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability

2021-08-09 Walking through your identity 8:27
Ajahn Sucitto
In walking meditation, move through the identifiable world. Feel its resonances and triggerings and keep walking, see them as changing flickering phenomena. Maintain a steadiness as you walk through your world – it’s not actually yours, it’s always going its own way.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability
In collection: A Moving Balance

2021-08-09 No person, no problem 33:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta’s tendency is to grasp onto phenomena, seeking stability in the ever-changing nature of things. Citta can also respond to phenomena with mindfulness — an open attention that allows things to do what they do and move through. When the constant seeking abates, a pleasant abiding place remains. This is where true stability is found.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability

2021-08-09 Guided Meditation - Samadhi is harmony 29:47
Ajahn Sucitto
When we establish steadiness of body, citta returns to being embodied because that’s its home base. With steadiness and comfort, pressure is released in both body and heart. Cultivate like this and the self-referencing can disappear; then there’s just witnessing. When body and heart are held together in harmony – this is samādhi.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability

2021-08-09 Well-being is the shape of heart 43:03
Ajahn Sucitto
The heart takes shape based on certain activations. We can train to avoid certain intentions and actions that make for either a shaky insecure heartone or one stuck with pain. A wise person concerned for their welfare cultivates a citta that is open, spacious, not hankering, not resisting. We begin to reset how our world feels and how we feel about ourselves. This is our treasure.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability

2021-08-08 Right Speech & Mindful Speech 1:34:24
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2021-08-08 Sympathetic Joy: Shared Joy Is Twice The Joy 40:33
Dawn Mauricio
True North Insight Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour Retreat

2021-08-08 Loslassen ist das Resultat von Klarsicht/Einsicht 22:29
Ayya Santacitta
Geführte Meditation | Theravada Gruppe Salzburg
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-08-08 Wie können wir das befreiende Potential der Erwachungsfaktoren erschliessen? 17:44
Ayya Santacitta
Theravada Gruppe Salzburg
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-08-08 Medizin gegen Anhaften 39:35
Ayya Santacitta
Geführte Meditation | Theravada Gruppe Salzburg
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-08-08 Wie beziehe ich mich zu meiner Erfahrung? 48:41
Ayya Santacitta
Theravada Gruppe Salzburg
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-08-08 Paramis: Wisdom According with Nature, Week 4 - Meditation 35:11
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-08-08 Paramis: Wisdom According with Nature, Week 4 - Talk 39:11
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-08-08 Cultivating a Quality of the Heart: Compassion 51:12
DaRa Williams
True North Insight Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour Retreat

2021-08-08 Guided Meditation - Awareness spread over the body-mind field 47:45
Ajahn Sucitto
Many things arise in the field of awareness. It’s all energies moving – some bodily, some emotional, some conceptual. Spread awareness over all of it equally, without grasping or repelling. Every detail is to be included into the whole, like a mosaic. There’s no person separate from this, there’s just this and awareness of it. May it be well.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability

2021-08-08 Standing Meditation – Whole Body Vitality 26:56
Ajahn Sucitto
Begin with a bit of movement and loosening so energy can flow freely. Once movement stops, sense into subtler aspects of bodily experience – where is there stability, space, connection. A lightness, even playfulness, is encouraged in meditation. Enjoy.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability

2021-08-08 Q&A 49:41
Ajahn Sucitto
Q1 – A comment about personal experience of alignment – lateral and vertical and Ajahn’s response; Q2 18:32 Can you provide more guidance on the use of space. Q3 21:15 I am dealing with a very volatile situation with severe conflict and stress. How can I deal with it mid-way between expressing my emotions and suppressing them? Q4 28:24 When I feel my body and heart are stable is that a good moment to bring up a problem of concern for me? Q5 28:59 Someone has been asking for my help, rather too much and too often and I find the pressure difficult. How can I handle this?Q6 31:33 You mentioned meditating with eyes open but not seeing. This is challenging for me. How does that happen? Q7 35:02 I feel a band of tightness at the back of the head and behind the ears. What might I do? Q8 38:12 In my family we have a history of Alzheimer’s. Do you think heart wisdom is noble when dementia is present? How might practice be a support in the face of any decline of cognitive functioning? Q9 40:49 They say one in four women and men in Ireland have experienced some form of childhood sexual abuse. How might people practise with this in their background?
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability

2021-08-08 Using embodied intelligence 7:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Practice with sustaining open space for phenomena to arise and move within. Sensitive to what’s going on, but not contracting around it, body remains spacious and open. It’s possible to experience sense contact without intrusion, remaining internally clear, free from congestion.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability

2021-08-08 Embodied intelligence 25:17
Ajahn Sucitto
We are familiar with conceptual intelligence, but body and heart intelligence need to be trained. These do not interpret or think about phenomena, but experience it directly – feeling, sensing, responding. Exploring things as phenomenal rather than as myself, there’s no need to understand them; instead let them pass with dispassionate, open stability.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability

2021-08-08 Balance internal and external 2:56
Ajahn Sucitto
Use the experience of deepening attention in your practice, to really see what’s around you. You can practice mindfulness when you move around off the cushion. Often we live in the cocoon of an assumed environment that is not really what’s there. Take a fresh look. Pay attention.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability

2021-08-08 Open into the given 27:58
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulness is the heart's awareness. It can help us be embodied,present, and show up for life. The embodied sense is warm, cohesive and is sustained through the rhythmic flow of breathing. The sense of ‘I am’ sits in the center of that embodied sensitivity. This sense is a given and cannot be created; but mostly its ignored because we're too busy ‘doing’ to receive it.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability

2021-08-08 Little me and the sabotage 48:21
Ajahn Sucitto
We live at the meeting point of perceptions and impressions with their reactions and cannot stop suffering until we see beyond that domain. Stability and the awareness of the ever-changing nature of experience are both essential. From this perspective we see how the pressure to be harmonious with others captures the heart. This is a form of sabotage; it creates inner conflict, and a person – little me – who is never happy. When there is conflict, it’s important to find common ground with others, prior to negotiating the details.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability

2021-08-07 Dharma Talk: Karma and Finding a Purpose in the Chaos of Life 49:12
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Inside-outside: the mystery of I, me, mine

2021-08-07 Guided Meditation - Letting Go Into Curiosity and Kindness 33:46
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-08-07 Thoughts 23:37
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-08-07 Chanting Together 14:58
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Inside-outside: the mystery of I, me, mine

2021-08-07 Equanimity: The Time is Now 1:42:30
DaRa Williams
True North Insight Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour Retreat

2021-08-07 Metta: Love Is Strong 45:41
Dawn Mauricio
True North Insight Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour Retreat

2021-08-07 Teachings and Guided Meditation 51:44
Gavin Milne
The Nature of Experience and What This Offers Us
Gaia House Inside-outside: the mystery of I, me, mine

2021-08-07 Love is not a reward 49:34
Ajahn Sucitto
When we give the citta our attention, there is a possibility for it to offer its four treasures - kindness, compassion, appreciative gladness, equanimity. These treasures are a virtual immune system, protecting one from the hostilities in the world. They free us from seeking adoration from others as well as comparing ourselves to and competing with others. Whereas a narrow form of love is used as a social training and diminishes healthy acceptance and self view, authentic love is a natural and shared medium for mutuality-based life.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability

2021-08-07 Q&A 47:26
Ajahn Sucitto
Q1- How to deal with strong floods of sankhāra, in dealing with my role and identity as a Mother. Q2 – Are the qualities of the heart conditioned in the same way as intellectual abilities or physical strength. Q3 – I have a 17 year old dying cat. She suffers a lot and rejects the comforting medicine of the vet. Is this cat wisdom? Q4 What would be a sequence for a daily meditation practice? Q5 Are dharma and dhamma the same? Q6 Can we use the 5 indriyas to solve the 5 hindrances? Q7 How to deal with a band of pain around the back. Q8 Healthy attachment is important for example in childhood development. How do we know if it is OK to have an attachment or not.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Open Stability

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