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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2020-05-24
The Quail's Tale: A Path to Harmlessness
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Praising Truth for its own sake, we lean in the direction of Truth. We make our intention not to harm by body, speech, or thought. Harmlessness leads to selflessness. Selflessness leads to the Deathless. To boundless compassion. It will save us from the flames of greed, violence, and delusion raging around us. Like the baby quail. What saved it from the forest fire was the purity of its own truth developed over lifetimes. A talk given in a Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC) zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)
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2020-05-24
A Cry of Surprise
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Ayya Medhanandi
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In the inner sea, we know what is truly true. Knowing is the mother, breathing is the child. Going beyond past hurts, beyond thought, being old or young, desolate or delighted, go even beyond Covid, there in the timeless emptiness of present moment awareness of the breath itself, teach your mind its true home. Given at an online meditation during the Covid pandemic.
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Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)
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2020-05-23
Wondrous Feeling
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Dhammadīpā
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Exploring how mindfulness and investigation of feeling tone is woven into many frameworks of practice given by the Buddha - the 5 aggregates, the 4 foundations of mindfulness, the 12 fold chain of causation, the 4 Noble Truths.
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Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery
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2020-05-16
Heart of Possibilities - Talk
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Nathan Glyde
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Awakening the heart from limitation also opens us to a sense of boundlessness. What is it to see the Dharma as an exploration of release through lessening our built up and heavily fabricated experiences? How would it be to see this path as a way to fabricate less and less dukkha–distress and self-centredness, and to liberate all appearances?
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Gaia House
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Online Dharma Hall - May 2020
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