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Dharma Talks
2021-07-11 Day 1 Instructions: A Calm, Deep, Spacious Attention (Silence Trimmed) 27:30
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Bright Mind, Open Heart (Silences Edited Off)

2021-07-11 Day 1 Instructions: A Calm, Deep, Spacious Attention 1:33:15
Nathan Glyde
This instruction has a live translation into Czech.
SanghaSeva Bright Mind, Open Heart (With Czech Translation)

2021-07-11 Loving-kindness for Difficult Relationships 46:36
Tempel Smith
Our hearts' defenses might be most reinforced where there has been emotional pain. Using the previous practice of loving-kindness for easier relationships we can visit the places in our own hearts where we hold fear, hatred, resentment, and judgment. Relaxing these hard and painful places within us, by small, steady degrees, frees us from squandering our inner resources. Healing these places of pain can transform our understanding of how we can be in the world with a more open heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP

2021-07-11 Day 2 Q&A 52:04
Ajahn Sucitto, Willa Thaniya Reid
Questions have been grouped by theme: Breathing; how do we work with the regret; questions around citta; how does piti (rapture) manifest in the body; heart feels like a lump of black coal.
Cittaviveka Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-11 Returning to Surface 15:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Whatever arises from the depth, it’s not yourself. It’s citta territory – nothing to fight with, claim or stir yourself up with. Stay with the center, the quality of uprightness and the ground from which it arises.
Cittaviveka Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-11 Wholeness and Fragmentation 59:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Upright is both a physical and psychological feature. We can feel the balance, and if attention is sustained there, afflictive energies pass through –confusion transmutes into sanity. Because of ignorance we lose touch with wholeness, energy scatters and spills out through the khandas. Return to the wholeness, extend love and gentleness. Linger in skillful perceptions and the heart will reform itself in line with those meanings.
Cittaviveka Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-11 Puja – Coming into Uprightness 46:45
Ajahn Sucitto
The upright is both an anatomical and psychological reference. It’s from the upright that we deepen, moving through difficult territories without getting hooked, arriving at places of authenticity and clarity. Puja offers an occasion for opening and deepening.
Cittaviveka Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-10 Opening Meditation - Bright Mind, Open Heart 50:05
Nathan Glyde
This simple guided meditation for presence and intimacy with life, has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next guidance.
SanghaSeva Bright Mind, Open Heart (With Long Silences Where Translation was)

2021-07-10 Opening Meditation - Bright Mind, Open Heart 43:31
Nathan Glyde
This simple guided meditation for presence and intimacy with life, has a live translation into Czech.
SanghaSeva Bright Mind, Open Heart (With Czech Translation)

2021-07-10 Opening Talk - Bright Mind, Open Heart 39:29
Nathan Glyde
Introducing the theme of the retreat: insight, samatha (calm-aliveness) and metta. This talk has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next sentence.
SanghaSeva Bright Mind, Open Heart (With Long Silences Where Translation was)

2021-07-10 Opening Talk - Bright Mind, Open Heart (Silence Trimmed) 14:47
Nathan Glyde
Introducing the theme of the retreat: insight, samatha (calm-aliveness) and metta.
SanghaSeva Bright Mind, Open Heart (Silences Edited Off)

2021-07-10 Opening Talk - Bright Mind, Open Heart 45:28
Nathan Glyde
Introducing the theme of the retreat: insight, samatha (calm-aliveness) and metta. This talk has a live translation into Czech.
SanghaSeva Bright Mind, Open Heart (With Czech Translation)

2021-07-10 Dharma Talk - Living in Rental Accommodation 53:30
Yanai Postelnik
The reality of impermanence.
Gaia House The Heart of Wisdom and Kindness

2021-07-10 Guided Anapanasati Meditation 30:07
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-07-10 Right View and Sunita, feat. Rev. Heng Sure 25:02
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-07-10 Metta Samadhi in Daily Life 65:49
Tempel Smith
The developed momentum of loving-kindness can become a stable flow of both happy contentedness and stability of attention. This is the unification and immersion (samadhi) cultivated through dedicated metta practice. Like a river unblocked by fallen trees and debris, the flow of the heart can reopen into a smoothly pouring stream called loving-kindness concentration or metta samadhi.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP

2021-07-10 Inflections of Love 53:02
Willa Thaniya Reid
We practice coming into full presence with the unshakable qualities of heart the Buddha pointed to. Noticing what is here, our relationship with it and the different inflections of the heart. If there’s hostility or unkindness, these are not true, they are defilements that obscure the truth. They need meeting and understanding, but not believing in. What is needed now is the quality of mettā, that deep well-wishing with the absence of any kind of hostility.
Cittaviveka Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-10 Forgiveness: Reflections and Guided Meditation 52:07
Kristina Bare
Releasing the heart from resentment and anger while honoring accountability and emotional boundaries.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP

2021-07-10 Guided Meditation - Trusting the Process 10:06
Willa Thaniya Reid
Establishing uprightness of mind, heart and body - ground and feel ourselves here. With friendliness and non-contention, opening and attuning to what’s here, establishing presence with the way things are.
Cittaviveka Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-10 Relaxing into the Flow of Breath 64:35
Willa Thaniya Reid
As we establish this time of practice, we approach it with faith in the possibility of awakening. Upright in the energetic sense of heart and body, open to what is here. Let the beautiful energy of breathing stroke through the whole of experience of body. Soothing, calming, bringing well-being.
Cittaviveka Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-10 Guided Anapanasati Meditation 30:07
Ayya Santussika
This guided meditation of the first 3 tetrads of anapanasati was offered on July 10, 2021 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-07-10 Pervading Love - Guided Meditation 40:21
Bonnie Duran
This is a guided meditation starting with Metta for ourselves, then easy people, and ending with neutral people.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP

2021-07-10 Day 1 Q&A – Common Problems 53:19
Ajahn Sucitto, Willa Thaniya Reid
How to deal with bodily pain; what to do when mind is obsessively thinking; mind goes dull and I keep falling asleep; what to do with weird energies that can happen; I can’t seem to do breath meditation.
Cittaviveka Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-10 Guided Meditation - Deepen and Breathe 34:23
Ajahn Sucitto
Begins with standing posture, aligning the posture so muscles can relax deeply. Flows into sitting posture without breaking the deepening process. Energies from the depth rise up and concoct scenarios that carry the flavor of what’s unresolved – passion, despair, worry. Breathe through it, cooling and steadying the energy in your body.
Cittaviveka Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

2021-07-10 Love, Breathing and Life – an Outline 49:10
Ajahn Sucitto
An introduction to the theme of the retreat that redefines traditional meanings of love, breathing and life. Breathing provides the foundation from which we can open to circumstance without fighting, without grabbing. And isn’t this what love is? Just staying with the restrictions, not asking for anything, just flowing through. This is what it means to live a meaningful life – to meet and show up for this experience.
Cittaviveka Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid

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