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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2006-05-06
Rewiring the Energetic System
59:16
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Our energy systems can often feel burnt-out, depleting our vitality and potential. Attempts to re-energize can end up continually infecting us. Rewire the energetic lines through brahmavihara and samadhi cultivation. These culminate in awakening factors, and ultimately in awakening.
A video version is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdKPd19b_Is
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Cittaviveka
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2006-04-29
Appropriate Attention
69:12
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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According to the Buddha, appropriate attention is the most important mental factor for attaining Awakening. So what does he mean by attention, and what kind of attention is appropriate? How do the factors of appropriate attention apply to our meditation practice, how do they apply to our lives?
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Metta Forest Monastery
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2006-04-23
Dhamma Wings
7:47
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Practice means we keep trying to purify the mind and strengthen our commitment to the precepts. There is no failure – we just begin again and again until we find our Dhamma wings. A short talk given during a Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC) retreat in Toronto.
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Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)
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2006-04-22
Opening, Suffusing, Releasing
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Ajahn Sucitto
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A lot of suffering is related to a particular mode of doing, an involuntary overwhelming doing. Through mediation we cultivate a different way. By shifting the mind to presence, mind opens to a subtler aspect of doing on the feeling, subjective level – suffusing. We come out of the grip of how we usually attend. This is release.
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Cittaviveka
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2006-03-26
Going Where Frames Of Reference Can't Go
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Jose Reissig
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The most serious drawback of our frames of reference is that we end up imagining that they offer a comprehensive description of reality, and this keeps us from going beyond them. This talk is an invitation to go beyond.
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Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties
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2006-03-25
The Lure Of The Frames Of Reference
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Jose Reissig
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Most of what comes our way (time, history, ideas, etc.) tends to be used as raw material for building mental frames of reference. While these mental structures bring a simulacrum of stability to our lives, in the end they are most unhelpful because we tend to cling to them. We'd do well to hold them loosely.
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Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties
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2006-03-24
Choice And Its Fallacy
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Jose Reissig
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Choice has been acclaimed by our culture as the key to happiness. However, our picking and choosing frenzy does little to allay our dissatisfaction. Rather, this frenzy becomes a tool for the ego. The talk examines alternative ways of finding happiness.
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Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties
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