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2020-12-17 meditation: breathing, then contemplating the benefits of sangha 27:02
Jill Shepherd
A guided meditation for the end of year, beginning with settling into the body breathing, then after some silence, reflecting on the year as it ends, attuning to and acknowledging any benefits that have come from practising together in community
Auckland Insight Meditation

2020-12-17 Dissolving the Boundary between Retreat and Daily Life 39:58
Nathan Glyde
Transition talk for the closing of the retreat. Questioning what is the Dharma teaching (for) us, what is our goal, our path, our understanding of ethics, sangha…and expressing the idea of an ever-expanding Dharma.
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-17 IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 17 2020 21:31
Chas DiCapua
Stillness within the Storm, Part 1
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2020

2020-12-17 Bojjhanga and Q&A on Citta 43:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-17 Exploration and Patience 9:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma is a direct experience. You can directly touch it and open up to it. Handle it more with curiosity than trying to figure out what to do about it. Patient, receptive, as the meditator becomes more open stuck mental states can fall away.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-17 Touch What You Don't Know 57:19
Ajahn Sucitto
The tool of wisdom cross references thinking, emotion and body. Body helps reveal the heart. Use it to sense and handle emotion. This is using embodied wisdom for the purposes of calming and revealing. It’s how you get to know the bits you don’t know.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-16 Guided Mettā to All Phenomena 43:55
Nathan Glyde
Expanding our mettā practice to offer kindness and care to anything at all that appears in consciousness.
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-16 Den vergleichenden Geist loslassen 58:02
Yuka Nakamura
Wie entsteht unser Ich-Gefühl? Ein wichtiger Mechanismus ist unsere Tendenz, uns ständig mit anderen zu vergleichen und zu messen. Der Dünkel (mana), der dabei entsteht, also das Gefühl besser, schlechter als oder gleich wie andere zu sein, ist die Quelle von viel Leiden. Der Vortrag behandelt verschiedene Formen von Dünkel aufgrund von Geburt, Wissen, Schönheit u.a. und zeigt Wege auf, wie wir damit praktizieren können.
Zentrum für Buddhismus - Bern

2020-12-16 Tune in and Open 53:19
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-16 Spreading Mist of Metta 49:55
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-16 Why Chant? 4:31
Ajahn Sucitto
Chanting is a resounding of the potentials of realization. Be part of the celebration, it’s very good for the heart. Put your voice in that and be part of the flow.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-16 Receiving Oneself 7:40
Ajahn Sucitto
How do we heal the wounds and bruises of self? Recognize what is met: perception, contact, a cascade of memories. Don’t go into the stories, don’t try to fix or change anything. Let the feelings surge and move through your embodiment. Soften, widen, let citta do its work – keep the personality to one side.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-16 Day 5 Instructions - Anattā 61:58
Nathan Glyde
Bringing a not self view as a way to open more mettā and well being into life here and now
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-16 IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 16 2020 21:07
Caroline Jones
Gladdening the Heart-mind, Part 2
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2020

2020-12-16 Empathy and non-clinging 40:27
Ajahn Sucitto
The clinging reflex constricts citta, causing the loss of intelligence and sensitivity. Allowing things to shift and change lets us live more harmoniously and respectfully. In meditation, practice bringing attention back to the entire body, not fixating on any one point. Where citta and body come together, the all-encompassing world can be reviewed with goodwill and compassion.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-16 Q&A -body postures, vipassana, jhana 43:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-15 Guided Mettā to Sounds and Sensations 44:58
Zohar Lavie
Bringing the relational field of mettā to sense contact rather than specific beings.
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-15 Anattā and Mettā 45:31
Nathan Glyde
The not-self strategy (anattā) is indicated, invited, and supported by kindness (mettā).
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-15 Recollection - Skilful Thought 11:19
Ajahn Sucitto
It’s important to learn to feel our thoughts. When thoughts are felt, there’s an instinctive filtering for true, uncluttered, undistracted thoughts. Chanting gives us a way to practice with this.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-15 Centring Meditation 15:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Tune into the capacity to open and be sensitive. Listen in a feeling way to the pulses, tinglings, warmth of the body. Everything that resonates in your heart is felt directly in the body. Stay with awareness and allow feelings and emotions to shift, move, be ventilated and pass.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-15 Day 4 Instructions - Dukkha Insightful Way of Relating 60:36
Zohar Lavie
Opening and relaxing contraction as a way of expressing an understanding of tanha roots in the dukkha field
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-15 Strengthen Heart within the Mind 22:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta requires strength to meet the afflictive perceptions and meanings that compress it. Shutting down and distracting ourselves is understandable, but inadequate. Cultivation of spiritual faculties gives citta tools and capacity to meet phenomena with compassion and skillful action.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-15 IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 15 2020 23:41
Chas DiCapua
Discovering the Dharma in Nature
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2020

2020-12-15 Samādhi Practice 33:14
Ajahn Sucitto
With the sīla practice in place, we give attention to samādhi practice – finding our center within the world of sense contact. From this steady place we are present, witnessing, attuning to how citta is touched by it all.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-15 Sīla Practice 15:36
Ajahn Sucitto
Precepts are what most skillfully link citta to the world of sense contact. Without this ethical sense, citta runs out and gets into damaging circumstances. Precepts are the way you communicate the Dhamma through your actions into the world.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

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