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2021-06-27 By Love Alone 29:37
Ayya Medhanandi
Patience, humility, and compassion serve as the mind’s compass to enlightened wisdom and unconditional love. Breath by breath, we triumph over hateful feelings until the pain of others becomes unbearable to us. It’s an exalted work of heroic proportions, accomplished through undaunted perseverance, forgiveness, and trust, revealing the jewel within our own heart.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC) :  By Love Alone

2021-06-27 Purest Gold 31:38
Ayya Medhanandi
The sublime attitudes of loving kindness, compassion, joyous empathy and serene composure create for us a path, a moral training to guide us not to ransom our goodness or our intrinsic values for the fleeting joys of worldly gratification. As we purify the heart, we hasten our escape from the cyclic rounds of rebirth. So let us be heroic in the good. What we never thought was possible is truly within reach – purest gold, that higher knowledge, the jewel of the Dhamma within you.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC) :  By Love Alone

2021-06-27 3 - Attune to the breath - guided meditation 47:01
Zohar Lavie
London Insight Meditation Present, steady and awake – Practicing in the midst of life

2021-06-27 2 - Guided meditation practice 44:23
Zohar Lavie
London Insight Meditation Present, steady and awake – Practicing in the midst of life

2021-06-27 Paramis: The Joy of Renunciation - Meditation 41:53
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-06-27 Paramis: The Joy of Renunciation - Talk 27:55
Mark Nunberg
Paramis: The Joy of Renunciation - Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-06-27 1 - Welcome, meditation, and walking practice introduction 65:27
Zohar Lavie
London Insight Meditation Present, steady and awake – Practicing in the midst of life

2021-06-26 Forsake Harm 38:54
Ayya Medhanandi
How clarity and compassion will help us to live the teachings and engender blessings for ourselves and others.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)

2021-06-26 Kamma and Why It's Hard for Westerners to Understand 28:25
Ayya Santussika
NOTE: Unfortunately, the first sentence was cut off, which began: "So today I want to talk about kamma, and maybe get at a little about why it's so hard for Westerners to see kamma in the way that the Buddha talked about it…"
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-26 Guided Meditation With Loving-Kindness 31:17
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-26 Doing & Non-Doing 1:12:19
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Jun 2021

2021-06-26 Q&A 43:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Cultivating mental/emotional equilibrium – drowsiness, other people. Energies – how to sense subtle body, body sways in meditation, standing meditation, qigong, kundalini. Do we need goals in life; fear and anxiety; physical pain devoid of mental pain; advice about becoming a nun.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-06-26 Guided Meditation – Acknowledging Dukkha 14:41
Ajahn Sucitto
When we try to settle, what we might notice is unsettledness. Rather than go into the topic, recognize the energy. Give attention to places in the body that are non-agitated. Use body and breathing to change the speed of the mind, steady it. Once settled, then dilemmas and unfinished business can be related to with dispassion, compassion, detachment.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-06-25 Reflections on Sharing Blessings in English (Chant Along) 2:15
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
Also known as the Verses of Sharing and Aspiration.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-25 The Four Boundless Qualities in Pali (Chant Along) 3:21
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
Pali name: Caturappamanna-Obhasanam
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-25 Dhp 46 How to view the Body 18:59
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Body plays a crucial role in undemining our false view of self.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Dhammapada

2021-06-24 Innate Nobility 55:15
Ajahn Sucitto
The world that consciousness presents us as existing within is divided into self and other; this is a source of suffering. Authentic relatedness is needed to realize that there is no fundamental self or other. So we need to establish a relationship with the uncertainty of this that’s harmonious. Stop the topic, experience the energy. If we meet suffering not in terms of me and you, but with awareness of agitated energies, then lovingkindness, compassion and patience naturally arise. The tangle of fear and insecurity that imprisons us dissolves. The citta returns to its innate nobility.
Cittaviveka

2021-06-24 Self and Non-Self (Week 1) at BCBS 1:34:03
Ayya Santussika
This session was offered on June 22, 2021 for the BCBS class "Self and Non-Self: Practices for Developing Virtue, Meditation, and Wisdom".
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-23 Shifting from Limbic to Liberating Intention 48:32
Tara Brach
Becoming conscious of our intentions is the first step to truly aligning our life with our heart. This talk explores identifying when we are being driven by grasping and fear, and ways we can bring compassion to unmet needs and discover the deeper longing – the liberating intention – that guides us to freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-06-23 Guided Meditation – Staying Present with Experience 52:30
Ajahn Sucitto
There are 2 qualities of citta: it is affected and it is knowing, aware. With cultivation, awareness can become much more apparent and encompassing while the affective sense can steady, calm and subside into something still. The process is to go through the body. As the body eases, citta settles and collects into itself – samādhi. Happy, easeful, refreshed.
Cittaviveka

2021-06-23 Buddhist Practice and Transforming Racism: Nine Reflections from the Last Year 69:33
Donald Rothberg
A year after the massive demonstrations in the US following the killing of George Floyd, we reflect on different aspects of the integration of Buddhist practice and transforming racism, identifying nine key themes.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-06-22 The Four Boundless Qualities in English (Chant Along) 3:07
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-21 Opening Awareness 45:10
Zohar Lavie
A session for the Online Sitting Group at Gaia House, opening to wider field of sound, expanding awareness for deeper well-being.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Jun 2021

2021-06-21 Monday Night Dharma Talk - Practicing in Nature 46:22
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-06-21 Week 2: Beginning to Work with the Hindrances 1:17:42
Juha Penttilä
Teachings and Guided Meditation
Gaia House Foundations of Meditation

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