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2023-06-23 Q&A 47:55
Ajahn Sucitto
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Questions précised – 00:06 Q1 What’s the importance of the lotus posture for practice? As a beginner I can’t sit like that but also I don’t feel good using a chair 05:34 Q2 Is awakening possible for a lay practitioner of mindfulness meditation such as I practice, or is this just a lost cause? 19:57 Q3 I have been doing sitting meditation almost daily for almost 30 years. There are good days when my attention is stable and I feel unified. But more frequently my experience becomes stagnant and I don’t know where to turn my attention and I feel bored, inadequate. 27:47 Q4 It’s so limiting to identify with a self. Why, when we have perfection in us is it so difficulty to see the truth? 38:42 Q5 Sometimes I see light around people or objects and sometimes things seem transparent with light. Can you say something about this? 39:38 Q6 I’m concerned about my daughter with obsessive compulsive disorder. What can you recommend? 42:15 Q7 Is it possible to overdue investigation? Sometimes it feels that investigating frozen states seems more like prodding rather than compassion. 43:18 Q8 How can I feel connected to people who don’t share the same values and vision of life? I feel lonely and angry when I’m with them.
Moulin de Chaves :  Regaining the Centre

2023-06-23 Contemplating citta 51:02
Ajahn Sucitto
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We're always at the centre of our lives. It is there that we can contemplate sense experience and emotional energy that underlies it.
Moulin de Chaves :  Regaining the Centre

2023-06-23 Morning Instructions with Sitting (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:37
Diana Winston
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness For Everyone

2023-06-22 Teachings 59:07
Leigh Brasington
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Gaia House :  Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2023-06-22 Guided Loving Kindness & Other Practices Sitting (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:47
Gullu Singh
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness For Everyone

2023-06-22 Equanimity in the midst of things 44:19
Jeanne Corrigal
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Guided closing meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  By Any Means Necessary: A Journey to Liberation & Freedom Through Wisdom & the Heart

2023-06-22 Wisdom, Its Arousing and Development 1:11:51
Sayadaw Vivekananda
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This talk discusses the knowledge of viewing formations with balance, Sankharupekkha Nana.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  June 2023

2023-06-22 GM - Sitting Standing 45:29
Ajahn Sucitto
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Moulin de Chaves :  Regaining the Centre

2023-06-22 Mindfulness Tool Kit for Working with Difficult Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:43
Diana Winston
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In this talk we explore the core tools that we can use when we are struggling with difficult emotions, whether on retreat or in daily life. These tools are Mindfulness (of course): we learn how to be present with our emotions, practice RAIN, and meet our difficult thoughts and emotions with a fearless heart. The second tool is Wisdom: how can we "enlist the wisdom mind" to help us when we are lost in a challenging emotion.The third is Love: how we bring self-compassion and kindness to ourselves and our difficulties when we most need it. Lastly, Awareness Itself: Recognize the part of us that is stable, free, and luminous even in the midst of difficult emotions. Includes real-life examples.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness For Everyone

2023-06-22 Q&A 41:36
Ajahn Sucitto
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Questions précised - 00:16 Q1 Is it possible to start waking up and still have a mind that is clinging or fixating at times? What are the characteristics of awakening? 14:27 Q2 Sometimes there are moments where everything is gone or stops, with no thoughts or awareness f an outside world. Time seems to be gone as well. Can you say something about this?16:21 Q3 It seems the heart needs to be allowed to know itself. When with family and partner there seems to be no possibility for this. This is desperately uncomfortable which doesn’t resolve and is filled with fear. Can you offer some guidance. 22:54 Q4(a) I feel parts of the body frozen in anxiety. Spacious awareness and reclining help. What else would help? Patience? (b) I get feelings of joy, gratitude then contentment. When contentment arises I feel the desire to move on rather than stay with it. What can I do about this? (c) What can I do if the energy flow gets overwhelming say with sickness? 34:46 Q5 What would you say to a teenager who seems to have ill will in the family? 36:44 Q6 No matter how good meditation is in the previous evening, there will come sleep and with it the end of awareness. Next morning we have to start again.
Moulin de Chaves :  Regaining the Centre

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