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The greatest gift is the
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Dharma Talks
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2020-05-24
The Quail's Tale: A Path to Harmlessness
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Ayya Medhanandi
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| Praising Truth for its own sake, we lean in the direction of Truth. We make our intention not to harm by body, speech, or thought. Harmlessness leads to selflessness. Selflessness leads to the Deathless. To boundless compassion. It will save us from the flames of greed, violence, and delusion raging around us. Like the baby quail. What saved it from the forest fire was the purity of its own truth developed over lifetimes. A talk given in a Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC) zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)
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2020-05-24
A Cry of Surprise
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Ayya Medhanandi
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| In the inner sea, we know what is truly true. Knowing is the mother, breathing is the child. Going beyond past hurts, beyond thought, being old or young, desolate or delighted, go even beyond Covid, there in the timeless emptiness of present moment awareness of the breath itself, teach your mind its true home. Given at an online meditation during the Covid pandemic. |
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2020-04-29
Sheltering In Love (Part 6): Loneliness as a Portal to Sacred Presence (Part 2)
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Tara Brach
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| The root of suffering is the pain of separation, the fears and loneliness that arise when we have forgotten our intrinsic belonging to each other and to all of life. These two talks look at the epidemic of loneliness predating the pandemic, and how loneliness is exacerbated in our current global crisis for those living alone, and for those feeling disconnected to themselves and others. We then explore how a courageous practice of compassionate presence - with our inner life, and in relationships - can turn the energy of loneliness into a current of healing and freedom. |
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2020-04-26
Further Teachings in the Midst of a Pandemic
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Ajahn Jamnian
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| Topics covered: The 3 Modes of Consciousness that we operate under, The 4 Powers of the Dhamma (Iddhipada), Cultivating "Non-Self" (anatta), Cultivating "Sympathetic Joy" (mudita), How to see things the way they are. The main translator is Amdee Vongthongsri. Recorded via video teleconference. |
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Ajahn Jamnian - mini glossary 2
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2020-04-22
Sheltering in Love (Part 5): Loneliness as a Portal to Sacred Presence (Part 1)
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Tara Brach
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| The root of suffering is the pain of separation, the fears and loneliness that arise when we have forgotten our intrinsic belonging to each other and to all of life. These next two talks look at the epidemic of loneliness predating the pandemic, and how loneliness is exacerbated in our current global crisis for those living alone, and for those feeling disconnected to themselves and others. We then explore how a courageous practice of compassionate presence - with our inner life, and in relationships - can turn the energy of loneliness into a current of healing and freedom. |
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