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The greatest gift is the
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Dharma Talks
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2020-12-20
Open to Wise Attention
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Ajahn Sucitto
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We bounce off dukkha rather than digesting it, bound to experience the same characteristic of dukkha in another form. The guiding capacity of citta is wise attention. We must learn to widen and lengthen our attention span. In this space we can contemplate dukkha rather than react to it. Dispassion and goodwill, the natural actions of heart, can then arise.
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Cittaviveka
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Living, Dying and Liberation
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2020-12-19
Practicing at the Winter Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light
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Donald Rothberg
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After setting the context of the Winter Solstice, in terms of the earth and the history of many varied cultures which have had rituals and ceremonies at this time, we explore, through teachings, stories, and poems, five ways that we open to the dark:
(1) We stop and become still, like the earth.
(2) We learn to be more able to be skillfully with difficulties and challenges..
(3) We become more comfortable and skillful in conditions of not knowing, as we open to the unknown, the mystery, and shadow areas, both individual and collective.
(4) We come to experience darkness as generative and fertile, creative and dynamic.
(5) We come to experience darkness as luminous, as generating light, as opening us to the light.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Winter Solstice Insight Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting
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Attached Files:
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Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light
by Donald Rothberg
(PDF)
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2020-12-19
Walk Like a Boat
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Ajahn Sucitto
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A suggestion for walking meditation, to move like a boat down a river, citta open like a sail spread on the mast. Move through the water of thoughts, impressions, memories. Walk with difficult moods that arise, holding lightly, listening and receiving.
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Cittaviveka
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Living, Dying and Liberation
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2020-12-19
Stillness Flowing
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Meet the constant flow of life with the stillness and poise of citta. Relate to it all with respect and mutuality, learning to adapt, flow and listen to life. Practice with cultivation of subtle energies of body and heart and with samādhi.
Sutta Reference: SN1:1
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Cittaviveka
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Living, Dying and Liberation
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2020-12-18
No Going Back
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Ayya Medhanandi
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On a wilderness trail, at times the path is clear, at times not. We get lost, confused, and disheartened. Tested again and again, we gain strength, skill, and clarity, and we learn to see what we could not see at first. The spiritual way is not a trail under our feet but a daunting passage of the heart. Once our view is purified, we know there is no going back. Persevering with humility and trust, we navigate across the depths of our pain and brokenness. We break free.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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2020-12-18
Easeful Ceasing
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Citta needs to be trained to rest back from engagement. By not going into the stories, spreading awareness over the entire body, and letting emotions rise and pass. As citta releases from contact, it accesses a finer more lasting and agreeable sense of security and well-being.
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Cittaviveka
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Living, Dying and Liberation
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2020-12-16
Den vergleichenden Geist loslassen
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Yuka Nakamura
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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.
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Zentrum für Buddhismus - Bern
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2020-12-16
Receiving Oneself
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Ajahn Sucitto
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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.
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Cittaviveka
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Living, Dying and Liberation
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2020-12-16
Empathy and non-clinging
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Ajahn Sucitto
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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.
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Cittaviveka
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Living, Dying and Liberation
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2020-12-15
Centring Meditation
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Ajahn Sucitto
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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.
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Cittaviveka
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Living, Dying and Liberation
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