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Dharma Talks
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2019-12-23
Duties towards Dhamma in Lay Life
66:36
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Ajahn Sucitto
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As we return to the duties of lay life, we are encouraged to incorporate duties towards the Dhamma. Structure in reference points that remind you to be mindful and skillful – daily meditation, association with kalyāṇamitta, and cultivation of pāramī are recommended. Be vigilant, stay awake, don’t go into automatic. If you don’t shape your own life, the world will shape it for you.
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Uttama Bodhi Vihara
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2019-12-21
Q&A 3
69:00
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Body scanning; stuck areas; mental proliferation; ‘commander’ and ‘do-er’ aspects of mind; appropriate objects of meditation; thoughts that arise during ānāpānasati; dealing with hinderances; restlessness
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Uttama Bodhi Vihara
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2019-12-19
Guided Meditation – Body Sweeping
49:55
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Guided meditations can help in terms of timing, to demonstrate just how slow a process meditation is. Generally, the object of meditation is simple, it’s the handling of it that’s the skill. Body sweeping develops receptivity of the body. One cultivates tonal qualities of receptivity and care.
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Uttama Bodhi Vihara
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2019-12-19
Progressive Dispassion
24:15
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Ajahn Sucitto
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In meditation we repeatedly return to qualities that calm the citta. When we relate to phenomena in a reassuring, steadying way, citta experiences dispassion. There’s a progressive withdrawal from phenomena because citta begins to sense itself as stable, satisfying and valuable. It has no more purpose in going out. This is the maturation process.
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Uttama Bodhi Vihara
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2019-12-18
Pick Up the Thread
30:41
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Ajahn Sucitto
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In meditation we practice to find the balance of both focused and open awareness. We place the mind on a concept, and linger there letting the meaning run through the heart. Mind finds it difficult, but body does it naturally. The body can teach us the right kind of attention that lifts the mind and makes it happy.
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Uttama Bodhi Vihara
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2019-12-17
Ways to Awaken: Five Ways to Become An Arahant
47:22
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Shaila Catherine
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In this talk, Shaila Catherine explores five ways that one may become fully awakened—an arahant. The teaching is based on a discourse found in the Anguttara Nikaya (AN 5:26). These ways include awakening 1) by listening to someone teach the dhamma, 2) while teaching the dhamma, 3) by reciting the teachings in detail as one has learned them, 4) while pondering, examining and investigating the dhamma, and 5) through penetrative wisdom with an object of concentration. Study, reflection, and deep meditation create conducive conditions for awakening. Study informs and inspires our meditation practice; meditation produces depth and clarity in understanding. We can balance our engagement with both study and meditation to optimize the cultivation of this liberating path.
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Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
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December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge
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2019-12-11
Q&A
58:59
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Ajahn Sucitto
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1) What is citta? 2) Regrets, how to forgive oneself 3) How to practice appamano states in everyday life (mudita, equanimity) 4) How to work with obstructive mind-states (judgmental, not good enough, lonely, regretful, hopelessness) 5) How to practice reclining meditation 6) Headaches in certain mind-states
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Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand
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6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2019-12-10
Power Of Balance
35:19
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Shaila Catherine
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In this talk, Shaila Catherine suggests that everyone is responsible for their own state of balance. She explores several practical areas for cultivating a balanced approach to practice including: aligning the body posture with the force of gravity, recognizing how mindfulness brings a balanced relationship to sensory experiences, and cultivating a non-reactive attitude toward both pleasant and unpleasant feelings. We learn to quickly restore our emotional balance whenever we find ourselves entangled in stories or personal dramas. We refine our ability to apply balanced effort in the way that we engage with meditation. And we continuously refine the powerful balance in the meditating mind by perceiving how the five spiritual faculties and the seven awakening factors are affecting our attention and understanding.
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Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
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December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge
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2019-11-30
Mettapraxis im Alltag
54:43
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Yuka Nakamura
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Unser Alltagsleben ist nicht nur Ausdruck von Metta, welches wir in der Meditation kultiviert haben, sondern auch ein grosses Praxisfeld. Metta kann im Alltag kultiviert werden in Form von Grosszügigkeit, ethischem Verhalten, freundlicher Kommunikation, aber auch durch die Art, wie wir uns selbst und die Welt betrachten - nämlich mit einem Blick für das, was gut ist und mit der Einsicht in unsere Verbundenheit mit allen Wesen.
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Meditationszentrum Beatenberg
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2019-11-23
The Skillful and Unskillful Use of Identities - A Workshop
2:09:54
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Mark Nunberg
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Led by Mark Nunberg, Shelly Graf, Wynn Fricke, and Gabe Keller Flores
The Buddha says that any position one takes including being attached to not having any fixed views is “a thicket of views, a wilderness of views, a contortion of views, a writhing of views, a fetter of views. It is accompanied by suffering... and does not lead to disenchantment, dispassion, cessation; to calm, direct knowledge, full Awakening…”
In this daylong workshop we will reflect together how necessary and unavoidable it is to use identity to illuminate the social dynamics of our lives, and at the same time how easy it is to become attached and confused by identity, taking it to be more than what it is. The same is true in terms of how the mind relates to any views. There is no way to function in the world without views about this and that. The relevant question is how one can use views without the suffering that comes with attachment.
This recording contains the following parts - in order they are:
1 - Guided Meditation with emphasis on recognizing mind states and perceptions of oneself led by Shelly
2 - Introductions by teachers and participants: Name 1-5 identities that arise in our minds conscious or not, useful or not, led by Shelly
3 - Introduction to the workshop and the Buddha’s teachings on Views by Mark followed by Q&A
4 - Panel Presentation: Each teacher discusses skillful use of identity in their lives, 5-10 minutes each, followed by large group discussion facilitated by Gab
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Common Ground Meditation Center
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2019-11-09
Achtfache Pfad
40:38
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Renate Seifarth
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Der achtfache Pfad ist zweierlei: eine Anleitung wie wir uns weiter entwickeln inmitten unseres alltäglichen Lebens und eine Illustration wie wir uns neu ausrichten in Einklang mit unseren Erkenntnissen in der Meditation.
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Seminarhaus Engl
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10 Tage Vipassana und Metta
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2019-11-05
Denken als Objekt der Achtsamkeit
41:47
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Renate Seifarth
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In Vipassana Meditation schließen wir das Denken ein in unser Erforschen. Wir ergründen das Wesen des Denkens und erkennen das Entstehen und Vergehen der Gedanken. Gedanken sind nötig für unser Sein in dieser Welt. Problematisch ist die Identifikation mit unseren Gedanken, die zudem eine ganz zentrale Rolle in unserem Selbstverständnis spielen. Ein Resultat hierbei ist das Entstehen von Hochmut wie Minderwertigkeit. In der Praxis wollen wir uns aus der Identifikation mit den Gedanken befreien.
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Seminarhaus Engl
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10 Tage Vipassana und Metta
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