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Dharma Talks
2023-10-09 Indigenous Peoples' Day Practice 1:43:11
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-10-08 Qualities of goodwill 25:02
Ajahn Sucitto
The Brahmaviharas are all full-hearted intentions towards good will; heart energies that carry the same code / language. They are not about liking.
Bodhi College Unpicking the Tangled Skein

2023-10-08 Q&A 27:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Questions are précised and read into the file: 00:25 Q1 I’m wondering if you have thought about animal sankara formations and what they might be like? 04:27 Q2 Can the environment change your citta? 07:23 Q3 Can you talk more about calming the formations? It seems such a huge subject. 08:44 Q4 You say we have to turn towards our regrets and not suppress them. But these have to do with the past and we have to turn to them. I think I am confused. 25:07 Q5 Can you say more about existence and non-existence?
Bodhi College Unpicking the Tangled Skein

2023-10-08 Cultivating Present Moment Practice in this Human Body with Whatever Is Happening 55:44
Tuere Sala
Evening Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight 2023

2023-10-08 Citta und bhavana 54:40
Yuka Nakamura
Unser Geist ist die Quelle von Leiden und Glück, deshalb kommt seiner Kultivierung eine grosse Bedeutung zu. Indem wir bewusst heilsame Geistesqualitäten kultivieren, gehen wir in die Richtung von mehr innerem Glück und Frieden. Bhavana - die Kultivierung des Geistes - hat drei Formen: Die Entwicklung ethischen Verhaltens, die Entwicklung heilsamer Geistesqualitäten und die Entwicklung von Weisheit.
Karunahaus

2023-10-08 Awakening and Aligning with the Way Things Are - Meditation 33:16
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-10-08 Awakening and Aligning with the Way Things Are - Talk 56:23
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-10-08 Metta Practice 38:31
Matthew Brensilver
Afternoon Sit with Instructions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight 2023

2023-10-08 Q&A 53:05
Ajahn Sucitto
Questions are précised and read into the file: 00:38 Q1 Buddhist cosmology I find terribly overwhelming. If I just focus on what is helping me, will I be missing out on much? 02:07 Q2 I really value your teaching that it all comes back to clinging. 02:55 Q3 Yesterday you mentioned a shift that can be sensed before the tone of pleasant or unpleasant actually arises. Can you say anything more about this shift before the vedana quality actually appears? 04:23 Q4 This seems so interwoven. I guess it's a tangled skein. 12:17 Q5 You mentioned that it was helpful to point the citta towards kaya sankara rather than the vaci sankara. Is that what allows the development of equanimity? 16:52 Q6 I am confused. Are the heart and the citta two different things? 19:44 Q7 About the taints/ asava, is this a linear sequence? 28:15 Q8 Isn't part of the beauty of what you've done with samadhi as well is that to enter samadhi you've experienced non-fabrication of the 5 hindrances. 30:13 Q9 When I practice the jhanas I find I get to a certain point where I can't get further into calmness. Is that where I should start to investigate? 35:13 Q10 I have a resistance to being grounded. It seems I prefer the fizzy state. 42:37 Q11 In relating to signs and to being able to set signs aside, what role does beauty play in the dhamma? 44:58 Q12 Could it mean that it reduces the energy in unhelpful sankaras? Q13 There might be a time when I'm experiencing an upset and I would just put myself in front of a tree and the experience of viewing, considering the tree gives time for the capacity to identify with something wholesome and helpful.
Bodhi College Unpicking the Tangled Skein

2023-10-08 Compassion Stills Hostility 1:24:12
Zohar Lavie
Compassion is how we walk this path of peace. "Hostilities aren’t stilled through hostility, regardless. Hostilities are stilled through non-hostility: this, an unending truth." DHP 5 — Trans: Thānisarro Bhikku
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - October 2023

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