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2020-12-17 IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 17 2020 21:31
Chas DiCapua
Stillness within the Storm, Part 1
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2020

2020-12-17 Bojjhanga and Q&A on Citta 43:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-17 Exploration and Patience 9:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma is a direct experience. You can directly touch it and open up to it. Handle it more with curiosity than trying to figure out what to do about it. Patient, receptive, as the meditator becomes more open stuck mental states can fall away.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-17 Touch What You Don't Know 57:19
Ajahn Sucitto
The tool of wisdom cross references thinking, emotion and body. Body helps reveal the heart. Use it to sense and handle emotion. This is using embodied wisdom for the purposes of calming and revealing. It’s how you get to know the bits you don’t know.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-16 Guided Mettā to All Phenomena 43:55
Nathan Glyde
Expanding our mettā practice to offer kindness and care to anything at all that appears in consciousness.
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-16 Den vergleichenden Geist loslassen 58:02
Yuka Nakamura
Wie entsteht unser Ich-Gefühl? Ein wichtiger Mechanismus ist unsere Tendenz, uns ständig mit anderen zu vergleichen und zu messen. Der Dünkel (mana), der dabei entsteht, also das Gefühl besser, schlechter als oder gleich wie andere zu sein, ist die Quelle von viel Leiden. Der Vortrag behandelt verschiedene Formen von Dünkel aufgrund von Geburt, Wissen, Schönheit u.a. und zeigt Wege auf, wie wir damit praktizieren können.
Zentrum für Buddhismus - Bern

2020-12-16 Tune in and Open 53:19
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-16 Spreading Mist of Metta 49:55
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-16 Why Chant? 4:31
Ajahn Sucitto
Chanting is a resounding of the potentials of realization. Be part of the celebration, it’s very good for the heart. Put your voice in that and be part of the flow.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-16 Receiving Oneself 7:40
Ajahn Sucitto
How do we heal the wounds and bruises of self? Recognize what is met: perception, contact, a cascade of memories. Don’t go into the stories, don’t try to fix or change anything. Let the feelings surge and move through your embodiment. Soften, widen, let citta do its work – keep the personality to one side.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-16 Day 5 Instructions - Anattā 61:58
Nathan Glyde
Bringing a not self view as a way to open more mettā and well being into life here and now
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-16 IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 16 2020 21:07
Caroline Jones
Gladdening the Heart-mind, Part 2
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2020

2020-12-16 Empathy and non-clinging 40:27
Ajahn Sucitto
The clinging reflex constricts citta, causing the loss of intelligence and sensitivity. Allowing things to shift and change lets us live more harmoniously and respectfully. In meditation, practice bringing attention back to the entire body, not fixating on any one point. Where citta and body come together, the all-encompassing world can be reviewed with goodwill and compassion.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-16 Q&A -body postures, vipassana, jhana 43:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-15 Guided Mettā to Sounds and Sensations 44:58
Zohar Lavie
Bringing the relational field of mettā to sense contact rather than specific beings.
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-15 Anattā and Mettā 45:31
Nathan Glyde
The not-self strategy (anattā) is indicated, invited, and supported by kindness (mettā).
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-15 Recollection - Skilful Thought 11:19
Ajahn Sucitto
It’s important to learn to feel our thoughts. When thoughts are felt, there’s an instinctive filtering for true, uncluttered, undistracted thoughts. Chanting gives us a way to practice with this.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-15 Centring Meditation 15:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Tune into the capacity to open and be sensitive. Listen in a feeling way to the pulses, tinglings, warmth of the body. Everything that resonates in your heart is felt directly in the body. Stay with awareness and allow feelings and emotions to shift, move, be ventilated and pass.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-15 Day 4 Instructions - Dukkha Insightful Way of Relating 60:36
Zohar Lavie
Opening and relaxing contraction as a way of expressing an understanding of tanha roots in the dukkha field
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-15 Strengthen Heart within the Mind 22:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta requires strength to meet the afflictive perceptions and meanings that compress it. Shutting down and distracting ourselves is understandable, but inadequate. Cultivation of spiritual faculties gives citta tools and capacity to meet phenomena with compassion and skillful action.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-15 IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 15 2020 23:41
Chas DiCapua
Discovering the Dharma in Nature
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2020

2020-12-15 Samādhi Practice 33:14
Ajahn Sucitto
With the sīla practice in place, we give attention to samādhi practice – finding our center within the world of sense contact. From this steady place we are present, witnessing, attuning to how citta is touched by it all.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-15 Sīla Practice 15:36
Ajahn Sucitto
Precepts are what most skillfully link citta to the world of sense contact. Without this ethical sense, citta runs out and gets into damaging circumstances. Precepts are the way you communicate the Dhamma through your actions into the world.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-15 Introduction to Precepts 8:06
Ajahn Sucitto
The fundamental citta sense is an ethical sense. We try to encourage that with precepts. This is how we align ourselves to citta.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-15 Opening - Ethics and Meditation 21:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Introduction to online format and schedule, encouragements for how to practice and make the most of these circumstances.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-14 Guided Mettā to Challenging Relationship 43:52
Nathan Glyde
Gently wishing well for those we have a more difficult relationship with
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-14 Rekindle and Renew | Monday Night talk 40:44
Jack Kornfield
Many of us discover we live partially in a dreamworld, cut off from our body and whole pieces of our life. Though we may sense our disconnection, we do not know exactly what is wrong. James Joyce captured this dilemma when he wrote of one character, “Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.” Enlightenment must be lived here and now through this very body. In this body and mind we can discover the cause of suffering and the end of suffering. For awakening to be an opening into freedom in this very life, the body must be its ground.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-12-14 Cleaning Citta - New Moon Lunar Observance 51:49
Ajahn Sucitto
Purification of mind is not just spiritual jargon but necessary for happiness. No matter how gross or subtle, our speech, mental intentions and bodily actions affect us. Training and cleaning citta involves bringing uplifting qualities to mind and refraining from contracting to the unpleasant. This is how our kamma can begin to change.
Cittaviveka

2020-12-14 A Wise Relationship to Dukkha 39:11
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-14 Day 3 Instructions - Vedanā Insightful Way of Relating 60:51
Nathan Glyde
Easing reactivity by bringing attention to the hedonic classification of experience.
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-14 IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 14 2020 16:11
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2020

2020-12-14 Meditation: Breath Love In Breath Love Out | Monday Night Talk 24:18
Jack Kornfield
Meditation is an invitation in this moment’s practice to turn our attention to our body, heart and mind. Begin to pay attention to this mysterious human incarnation. Feel how your body is breathing itself… you don’t have to do anything. Add metta or lovingkindness to each breath. With each breath in, fill your body and being with lovingkindness for yourself. With each breath out, sense you are sending love out to the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-12-14 Q and A: Rekindle and Renew | Monday Night talk 26:36
Jack Kornfield
Q and A from 12-14-2020 Monday Night Dharma Talk Rekindle and Renew
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-12-13 Guided Mettā to Neutral Relationship 45:17
Zohar Lavie
Spreading mettā to a being from an easy relationship, to self, being from a more neutral relationship and outward to all beings
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-13 Untangle the Entangled 48:05
Nathan Glyde
Exploring meeting the hindrances in skilful ways. Firstly seeing them as wonderful opportunities for growth and development of heart. Secondly not taking them personally, not fully believing what they say (shape) about the world. And thirdly finding skilful means through mettā, insight, and samādhi practices to find well-being in the midst of the entanglement of dukkha.
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-13 Online Fundraising Event for Gaia House, with Sharon Salzberg. 1:44:45
Sharon Salzberg
Real Change - Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World
Gaia House Gaia House Fundraising Event - with Sharon Salzberg

2020-12-13 The Dharma Life -- session 6 - Awakening and The Dharma Life 1:27:37
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-12-13 The Art and Practice of Forgiveness 4:23:24
Phillip Moffitt, Noliwe Alexander
The art of forgiveness begins with connecting to the heart. The practice involves learning skills such as metta, mindful acknowledgement, and compassion. Practicing these skills enables you to free yourself from painful identification with past events. This is a day to bring remorse or grief about past actions and move beyond feelings of guilt and shame. Likewise, if someone has wronged you, you will be guided toward holding them in accountability without closing your heart. Additionally, forgiveness practice will move you toward clarity and acceptance for the ways you have let yourself down. Practicing forgiveness allows you to move from a heavy, remorseful heart and a reactive mind to a heart that’s light but still feels regret, and a mind that is calm and clear. The day will be held with periods of guided silent sitting and walking meditation practice, instruction in the art and practice of forgiveness, and a forgiveness ceremony, with opportunities to ask questions to the instructors.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-12-13 Q&A 37:42
Ajahn Sucitto
Can you comment on the other 3 foundations of mindfulness aside from body; is ‘heart-mind’ the translation for citta; is kamma self-perpetuating; please say more about tendency of untrained mind to outflow and how to reverse them; differentiate interdependency and toxic co-dependency in relationships; please explain mindful internally, externally, and both; please speak about how we can manage fear in this time of Corona virus; what is meant by ‘citta is released’; how do we work with aversion, like chemical sensitivity; what is the difference between citta as direct knowing and citta as learning; can you speak more about cleaning out the citta?
Dharma College

2020-12-13 Love Everyone Or Die 24:23
Ayya Medhanandi
We may speak of or feel that we know about death but until we truly contemplate, approach and move into death, what do we know? This is a tale about looking into the eye of a tortoise shell butterfly while it lay dying on the shrine. Straining as it reached up towards us waving its frail antennae when it heard our chanting, we felt at one even with this tiniest of creatures - who also wanted only to be loved.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)

2020-12-13 Embodied Presence 48:03
Ajahn Sucitto
With mindfulness of body, we have a place where we can withdraw from the constructed world and come into direct experience. The body acts as a giant sense organ – feeling, sensing, open to it all. The body can clean encumbrances we would otherwise carry around with us.
Dharma College

2020-12-13 Day 2 Instructions - Getting Comfortable with Discomfort 61:41
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-12 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness ~ A Template for Training the Mind 36:06
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-12-12 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness ~ An Introduction 33:35
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-12-12 The First Foundation of Mindfulness ~ 3 Contemplations of the Body 33:51
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-12-12 Guided Mettā to Easy Relationship 44:47
Nathan Glyde
Guided well-wishing and kindness practice as part of the heart training of mettā practice. Particularly emphasising getting to know the particular qualities we are radiating in this intentional practice. Includes sending mettā to oneself, and to all beings in the world.
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-12 Possibilties of Mettā and Insight 43:53
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-12 Returning to Our Ancestral Roots 37:44
Dhammadīpā
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-12-12 Day 1 Instructions - Breath, Body, Sounds within a Bright Full Awareness 60:47
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-11 Meeting Body and Breath with Kindness - Guided Meditation 30:34
Zohar Lavie
A calming and steadying meditation infused with a metta flavour
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

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