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The greatest gift is the
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2020-02-25
The Open Way
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Ajahn Sucitto
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This Path often leads into unknowns, disorientation, places where things don’t fit our normal ways. Meeting these places with strategies doesn’t work, but good qualities of heart leads into a quiet, joyful openness. This supports faith.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-24
Engaged Receptivity
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The essence of meditation is engaged receptivity. This is the skill of pausing for a minute and witnessing the flow of dhammas. It becomes fully established by strong mindfulness, so that ‘full knowing’ (sampajañña) gives the view of the causal web: that dhammas arise from causes and are not self.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-24
Aimless wandering’ Meditation
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Take advantage of being in this natural realm. Move around very slowly and relate to everything from the heart. Notice the felt sense that is evoked, how nature touches and speaks to you. Nature reflects back aspects of your own heart.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-24
The Arising of Heart
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Clearance and renewal is a heart process. It entails meeting emotional material where it begins, with an energetic resonance. Body receives and moderates the energy, clearing the way for fundamental heart qualities to meet phenomena.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-23
Q&A
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Ajahn Sucitto
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What is mindfulness; What is investigation; Unusual images arising in meditation; Death and afterlife; How to deal with vulnerability of heart?
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-23
Mindfulness of Breathing
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Mindfulness of breathing is the gathering of attention around a process that is flowing and fluid. The steady and suffusive quality of breathing eases tensions in the heart and mind. The thinking process quietens down and external sights and sounds don’t impinge allowing the natural qualities of the heart become more apparent.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-23
Removing the Bookmark of Suffering
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Felt meanings are triggered through contact. They are conditioned, and over time become like bookmarks that we return to. It’s possible to acknowledge agitating ones and discharge them through the body. Positive meanings can be cultivated and embodied, generating new bookmarks.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-23
Puja – Resounding Meaning
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Puja is the act of praising, honouring, lifting up particular spiritual values. It’s not limited by what one can or can’t do. The heart can be lifted to feel spiritual qualities – awakening, purity, generosity. This shifts one’s centre from the world back to one’s own heart.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-22
Whatever the Content, Establish the Container
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Mindfulness replaces self as the container and arbiter if experience. Self finds it difficult to be with the disagreeable, the crazy, the chaotic, the out of control. Self searches for success, and dreads failure. Mindfulness can handle real life: no success, no failure.
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre
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Clearing and Renewal
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2020-02-22
Clearance of the Energetic (Causal) Basis
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The basis of body, mind and heart is a field of interconnective energies. Clear the body through breathing and posture; clear the mind by disengaging. The heart naturally opens in this healthier atmosphere. The field is now primed to ventilate difficult emotions allowing renewal to occur.
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