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2025-01-05
Refuge
28:45
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Ayyā Nimmalā
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True refuge is a call to stop, even for a moment, to see and know the breath that brings the world into and out of consciousness. We witness the liberating silence of that present moment awareness. In the still space between thoughts from which all that appears in the mind arises and disappears without end, we let go. Trust this. See the instability and insecurity of all else. Be an island, be a refuge unto yourself in the pure awareness of truth beyond concepts – the truth in this moment of freedom. Disentangled from the world, we can let go. Our refuge is the awakened heart.
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Sati Saraniya Hermitage
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2025-01-05
Not Afraid To Love
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Do we know the truth of what we are? If not, how can we love unconditionally? When the heart abides in loving-kindness, the misery of fear, anger and despair is vanquished. If we look for unconditional love outside of us, we will never find it. Nor can we know it by thinking. The mind must grow in silence and stillness, in unsullied conscious awareness. Then we can see what we truly are – intuitively, beyond thought, in the quality of this very breath, this moment. We pierce through the dust of lifetimes to know the core of our being, to wake up – here and now. Just to live in that kindness is the truest life of all.
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Sati Saraniya Hermitage
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2025-01-04
Metaphors of realisation: Sudden and Gradual
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Akincano Marc Weber
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How do we understand growth and realisation? Tracing the historical and psychological roots of two metaphors by which we understand the process of maturation.
Two sources of valid forms of knowlege:
– Paccakkha "before the eye," i.e. 'perceptible to the senses'
'direct experience'.
– Anvaya – 'inference'
The history of sudden & gradual. Besides the historical background, these terms have taken on a metaphorical meaning: the talk looks at how these metaphors chart the path of practice, their respective analogies and their images, their framing of the problem and their respective values and drawbacks. – May these metaphors ultimately have their bases in the differeing mind functions of samādhi (gradual) and sati (sudden)? The speaker, despite little canonical evidence, thinks so.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
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2025-01-04
From A Single Flame To Vast Light
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Guided by the Dhamma, our life path is courageous. See how the world burns from cruel and chaotic forces. So we cultivate a heart of compassionate awareness and peace, knowing that freedom from suffering is within reach. Our spiritual footprints emulate those of the Buddha himself. We persevere and endure, powered by the noble fire of the Dhamma to illuminate our way and to bless us and all generations to come. Small as the flame appears, its light is as vast as this universe.
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Portland Friends of the Dhamma
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2024-12-28
What's the point of meditating?
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Having achieved some calm, where do we go from there? Seeking experience is a matter for the measuring mind. This mind doesn’t experience fulfilment. Attuning to the heart, there is access to the richness of a generosity and a virtue that doesn’t need a point. It is innately enjoyable and frees us from measurement.
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Cittaviveka
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2024-12-28
Passions of Buddha, Pt.3 : Letting Go Into Dispassion
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Nathan Glyde
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An Online Dharma Hall session includes a Guided Meditation, a Dharma Talk, and responses to unrecorded questions. A three-part series examining the role of passion, compassion, and dispassion on the Buddha's path to peace. This week, the disentangling release that comes from renunciation of paths that promise a happiness but don't deliver. What we can learn from compassionate engagement or the refined happiness of an unhindered heart-mind. And how they open the heart and mind to support us to let go of narrow (fiery, lustful) passions for a grander freedom (of meaningful purpose).
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Gaia House
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Online Dharma Hall - December 2024
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2024-12-26
Are Ghosts, Angels and Devas real?
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Ajahn Achalo
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03:01 Q1) Do you believe in Devas, and other subtle bodied beings in higher, lower and parallel realms?
03:12 Q2) When did you first start to believe in these things and why?
22:32 the next three questions flow together:
Q3) Do you believe that belief in such things is central to the Buddhist world view and to Buddhist practice?
Q4) What are the benefits if one can take this aspect of cosmology on board?
Q5) What are the possible drawbacks if one does not?
41:03 Q6) Are there potential dangers in believing in such things?
44:28 Q7) Can you tell us some stories from personal experience, or things that you have heard first hand from your own teachers and friends, which might help us to be more open to the possibilities?
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Online
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2024-12-25
Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk)
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Tara Brach
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When we are suffering, we are believing something untrue – usually a limiting story about who we are. This talk explores the roots of our self-doubts, and the teachings and practices that remind us of our basic goodness – the loving awareness that is our source (given at the Fall 2019 IMCW 7-Day Silent Retreat).
I really invite you to experiment and find the way of remembering love that warms your heart because it’ll help you trust your heart and we deep down really want to trust the goodness of our hearts. May we trust who we are. ~ Tara
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2024-12-23
Befriending Eternity: 49 Days in Darkness by Adam Baraz
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James Baraz
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Talk originally given on December 12, 2024
I’m happy to share the evening with my son, Adam Baraz, who will reflect on the recent completion of his fifth Darkness Retreat, a 49-day “Bardo Retreat” in Tuscany, Italy.
Adam will discuss the psychological, physical, emotional, and spiritual journey of “being alone in the dark” for 7 weeks. He will describe the practical aspects of preparation, meditation practice, challenges, and benefits of extended darkness retreat practice.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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2024-12-21
Dismantling time
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Life is generally measured in terms of clock-and-calendar time. However, to attempt to live accordingly is stressful, binding us to impatience, regret, and expectation. The familiarity of these patterns makes them ‘myself’. In Dhamma practice, we attune to an embodied stability that yet moves us into fresh presence. Our practice then is free from seeking certainty.
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Cittaviveka
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CBM 2024 Talks
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