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Dharma Talks
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

2021-06-21 Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: Fear and the Five Aggregates 30:09
Dhammadīpā
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-06-20 Buddhanussati | Recollection of the Buddha 26:21
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation | Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-06-20 Faith in the Buddha & Our Own Capacity to Awaken 22:17
Ayya Santacitta
Buddhanussati ~ Recollection on the Meaning of Nine Qualities of the Buddha | Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-06-20 Resting at the sense gates: Diversity and Simplicity 1:28:37
Dawn Neal
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2021-06-20 Getting to Know How the Mind Works 41:06
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation on the Seven Factors of Awakening & Metta | Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-06-20 Metta is the Result of Going Through the Fire of Craving 25:18
Ayya Santacitta
Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-06-20 Kindness to all Kind 66:35
Zohar Lavie
A guided practice and talk offered in the Online Dharma Hall of Gaia House.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Jun 2021

2021-06-20 Empowerment of Aspirational Intentionality 1:22:31
Nathan Glyde
Continuing the theme of Bases of Success. An Online Dharma Hall session with a guided meditation and dharma talk, and some responses to questions in the hall (the questions are not recorded for privacy reasons, but are explained if not explicit in the response).
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Jun 2021

2021-06-20 Paramis: Moral Integrity and Sensitivity - Meditation 32:51
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-06-20 Paramis: Moral Integrity and Sensitivity - Talk 40:24
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

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