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2026-02-21
How Do I Apply Dhamma to Disease and Death MN 143 Advice to Anāthapiṇḍika | Ayya Santussikā
1:30:26
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Ayya Santussika
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This dhamma talk, guided meditation, comments, questions and responses was offered on February 21, 2026 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
00:00 - DHAMMA TALK
: - COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES
From January 4th to April 2nd 2026 the regularly scheduled Saturday morning program taught by Ayya Santussika, will take many of the suttas referenced in "Mindfully Facing Disease and Death" by Bhikkhu Anālayo as their basis.
For those who want to dive deeply into this material, you may want to read the book as we discuss the suttas, listed below.
Jan 10 SN 22.1 Nakula’s Father Chapter 2
Jan 17 SN 36.6 An Arrow Chapter 3
Jan 24 SN 22.88 With Assaji Chapter 10
Jan 31 SN 22.89 With Khemaka Chapter 11
Feb 7 AN 10.60 With Girimānanda Chapter 12
Feb 14 SN 3.22 Grandmother and SN 47.13 With Cunda Chapters 13 & 14
Feb 21 MN 143 Advice to Anāthapiṇḍika Chapter 16
Feb 28 SN 55.3 With Dīghāvu and SN 55.54 Sick Chapters 17 & 18
Mar 7 SN 36.7 The Infirmary (1st) Chapter 19
Mar 14 AN 6.56 With Phagguna Chapter 20
Mar 21 SN 35.74 Sick (1st) and SN 41.10 Seeing the Sick Chapters 21 & 22
Mar 28 DN 16.31, 34-36 The Buddha’s Last Words Chapter 23
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Karuna Buddhist Vihara
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2026-02-14
How Do I Apply the Dhamma to Disease and Death SN 3.22 Grandmother and 47.13 With Cunda l Ayya Santussikā
1:42:20
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Ayya Santussika
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From January 4th to April 2nd 2026 the regularly scheduled Saturday morning program taught by Ayya Santussikā, will take many of the suttas referenced in "Mindfully Facing Disease and Death" by Bhikkhu Anālayo as their basis.
For those who want to dive deeply into this material, you may want to read the book as we discuss the suttas, listed below.
Jan 10 SN 22.1 Nakula’s Father Chapter 2
Jan 17 SN 36.6 An Arrow Chapter 3
Jan 24 SN 22.88 With Assaji Chapter 10
Jan 31 SN 22.89 With Khemaka Chapter 11
Feb 7 AN 10.60 With Girimānanda Chapter 12
Feb 14 SN 3.22 Grandmother and SN 47.13 With Cunda Chapters 13 & 14
Feb 21 MN 143 Advice to Anāthapiṇḍika Chapter 16
Feb 28 SN 55.3 With Dīghāvu and SN 55.54 Sick Chapters 17 & 18
Mar 7 SN 36.7 The Infirmary (1st) Chapter 19
Mar 14 AN 6.56 With Phagguna Chapter 20
Mar 21 SN 35.74 Sick (1st) and SN 41.10 Seeing the Sick Chapters 21 & 22
Mar 28 DN 16.31, 34-36 The Buddha’s Last Words Chapter 23
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Karuna Buddhist Vihara
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2026-02-12
Q&A
30:27
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Q1 Can you further describe the meanings of some of the English / Pali terms you use: clear comprehension / sampajañña; investigation / dhamma vijaya; wise attention / yoniso manasakara / knowing / annya, nyana, panya ; etc. Q2 17:02 Does citta refer to mind or heart or both? Q3 21:16 I'm struggling to identify the end of the in breath. Can you advise? Q4 25:39 I realized to my shock and surprise the damaging energy I've lived with and suffered from is envy - not of material things but of other people's achievements and lifestyle. Please advise.
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Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa
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Using your body to steady your mind
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2026-02-12
Practicing SHINE
51:05
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Amma Thanasanti
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Amma Thanasanti began meditating in 1979 under the guidance of Jack Engler, Ajahn Chah, and Dipa Ma. She spent 28 years as a Buddhist nun, including 20 years in Ajahn Chah monasteries, and has taught internationally since 1996.
She is the founder of Awakening Truth (awakeningtruth.org) and developed the Integrated Meditation Program (IMP), an attachment-repair pathway for meditators. Her work integrates classical Buddhist training with contemporary psychology and trauma-informed practice, helping practitioners discern where meditation supports awakening—and where relational wounds and trauma require direct healing. This integration allows the stillness, clarity, and goodness from meditation to become more natural and sustainable.
SHINE is a practice Amma developed as a counterpart to the RAIN method by Michelle McDonald and Tara Brach. While RAIN helps us meet difficulty, SHINE supports cultivating positive states—training the nervous system to recognize, sustain, and deepen what's good.The acronym stands for Sense, Hold, Inquire, Nourish, and Enhance. Integrated into the broader Integrated Meditation Program (IMP), SHINE addresses a gap many practitioners experience: we become skilled at observing suffering but less adept at stabilizing ease, joy, and goodness when they arise.
In this session, we'll practice SHINE together and explore how cultivating these states helps stillness, clarity, and goodness become more natural and sustainable in daily life.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2026-02-10
Cultivating direct animate experience with Q&A
45:47
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The recording starts with Ajahn describing the word cultivation and his suggestions as to how one can cultivate the most direct animate experience we have? Q1 06:53 Why do you make the distinction between the heart and the body? Can you elucidate the qualities of the heart please? Q2 13:06 I've read that the refuge is an awakening to reality because the unconditioned is reality. How do we awaken to the unconditioned? Is it not unformed and unoriginated? 24:38 Q3 how to answer the angel question what is the meaning of life? What do you believe our purpose is as human beings? 27:48 Q4 I detach when confronted by emotions avoid, suppress, don't discuss. What do you recommend to facilitate reconnection and healing. A related question: There's been a lot of mention of dissociated or dispassionate reactions. Is not a big risk of becoming detached and disassociated from life? 34:53 Q5 How can I manage equanimity when in the midst of raw grief, pain etc I'm left rudderless at sea. 40:52 Q6 You mentioned parami satta. Can you review them please?
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Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa
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Using your body to steady your mind
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2026-02-09
talk: ?Joy?
36:10
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Jill Shepherd
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Joy is an important aspect of the Buddha’s path to freedom, appearing as both an awakening factor and one of the four heart qualities known as the brahmavihāra. However, for many people it can feel elusive - or even irrelevant – in the midst of so much global, societal and individual suffering.
For this reason, the word Joy in the title of this talk is accompanied by question marks, as an invitation for us to explore together some common questions and/or doubts that often come up in relation to joy in the context of insight practice.
Together we’ll discover some of the ways that cultivating joy can help nourish the heart and deepen wisdom, even amid the challenging everyday realities that most of us face.
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London Insight Meditation
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