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Dharma Talks
2007-06-03 The Direct Path 63:44
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Gaia House Retreat with Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

2007-06-03 Questions and Answers 1:33:13
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Gaia House Retreat with Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

2007-06-03 Factors of Enlightenment 55:42
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Talks with an Accompanying Italian Translation

2007-06-03 Numbness Is Also A Sensation 52:43
Julie Wester
Through our practice we can directly experience our body as a field of energy in constantly changing forms. Sometimes what seems to be a wall is actually a doorway into the direct experience of our true nature.

2007-06-02 Foundations of Mindfulness 63:04
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Gaia House Retreat with Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

2007-06-02 The Hindrances 58:01
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Talks with an Accompanying Italian Translation

2007-06-02 Sila: Virtuous Conduct 58:34
Kamala Masters
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-06-02 Beginner's Mind - The Bio-Suit 59:52
Phillip Moffitt
A guided meditation leading to an exploration of the first foundation of mindfulness. Questions addressed include: why focus on the body and how the body relates to the other foundations.

2007-06-01 June Retreat 1:15:20
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-06-01 Interpersonal desires and fears - the roles of tanha 33:02
Gregory Kramer
What activates the desires and fears we have when we come into contact with another? Meditation is about seeing things as they actually are, the operation of the heartmind intra and interpersonally. The mind will then incline towards what is wise. The heart is moved by contact with another. However there is pressure/tendencies of the mind to move into agitation and confusion on contact with others. What activates the fears and desires of interpersonal interaction? Hunger (tanha) pressurises thoughts and feelings so that the mind doesn't settle. It is like fuel or an electric current for the system (personality) that is in place. All thoughts/actions/speech are conditioned by past habits and occurrences (sankhara conditions namarupa). Hunger/craving fuels/energises the system to generate more constructs along the same lines as previous ones. (These can be wise or unwise habits) There are three hungers: 1) Hunger for sense desires which includes social desires as well e.g. avoidance of loneliness which is like a death of the self. it might be seeking pleasure from others, seeking approval from parents, or in a Buddhist rebirth sense of driving from life to life. 2) Hunger to be seen, to become. 3) Hunger not to be seen e.g. interacting whilst performing a role, wearing a mask so the 'real you' is hidden, limiting contact with people, or having contact defined procedurally so it is blinkered - again a form of 'hiding'.
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