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2026-06-11
Fireside Chat on Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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Phillip Moffitt
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In this talk, you are invited into a relaxed, fireside chat exploring awareness as the mind-heart’s capacity to know without grasping, fixing, or becoming entangled in what is known. Through reflections on aspects of the Naturally Arising Practice Method (dharmaground.org/teachings) including: inward-staying (from Upasika Kee Nanayon's pointer), knowing experience from within experience, and letting go of the mind’s habitual leaning toward objects, the talk points toward the fruits of stillness, coming home, wellbeing, equanimity, and joy. This exploration of awareness supports a more spacious and wise relatedness to daily life, where even difficulty can be met with greater presence, choice, and a quiet freedom.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Exploring Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioners
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2026-06-10
Buddhist Practice and Transforming Social Conditioning 2
62:17
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Donald Rothberg
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We begin by reviewing briefly last week's session, including how contemporary practice can expand the traditional focus on ignorance to include contemporary psychological and social perspectives on further dimensions of ignorance, including our initially unconscious social conditioning. We look again briefly at how the Buddha related both to caste and to women's roles in the sangha, and the basic of social conditioning, including how this is related to "in-groups," "out-groups," and "implicit bias." Most of the talk is devoted to suggesting the basic ways that we can explore and transform social conditioning. We focus on the main supports for such practice, including working with groups and guidelines, knowing the history of a particular form of conditoning (we give the examples of gender and race), using different forms of inquiry, mindfulness in meditation and daily life (including being mindful of the judgmental mind, anger, sadness, shame, etc.), the heart practices (including the importance of self-love, compassion, forgiveness, and joy), and other practices, such as involving ritual. The talk is followed by discussion.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2026-06-07
The Joy of Goodness
42:01
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Ayya Santussika
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Finding joy in everything good: generosity, kindness, letting go, virtuous behavior. Seeing how the qualities of generosity lay the groundwork for awakening and show up in that process as well. Cultivating mudita, appreciative joy, for the good in ourselves, in others, and goodness wherever we find it.
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Cloud Mountain Retreat Center
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Nine Days of Joy
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2026-06-07
The Six Recollection
36:26
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Ayya Santussika
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These recollections from the Buddha help to lift up the heart, remind us of our goodness and give us encouragement on the path. The recollections are of the qualities of the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha. And then, recollections on one's own moral conduct (sila), generosity, and the qualities of the devas that caused them to become devas that we ourselves also possess.
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Cloud Mountain Retreat Center
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Nine Days of Joy
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2026-06-07
Thoughts of Sanctuary and Seclusion
25:40
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Ayya Santussika
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In Itivuttaka 38, the Buddha talks about how the Tathāgata frequently has two thoughts: one about sanctuary and the other about seclusion. The thought about sanctuary, the safety and security for living beings, comes from his love of and delight in kindness. The thought comes from the Buddha's love of seclusion and his delight in it, so this thought often occurs to him: ‘What is unskillful has been given up.’
The Buddha encouraged his disciples to love kindness and delight in it, then this thought will often occur to them: ‘Through this behavior, I shall not hurt any creature firm or frail.’ He also encouraged them to love seclusion and delight in it, then this thought will often occur to them: ‘What is unskillful? What is not given up? What should I give up?’”
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Cloud Mountain Retreat Center
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Nine Days of Joy
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2026-06-05
The Joy of Entering the Sanctuary
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Ayya Santussika,
Ayya Cittananda
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The introduction to the retreat with introductions, descriptions, taking refuges and precepts, and calling the devas. The Dhamma talk starts at 34 minutes.
Tonight we are entering the sanctuary of this amazing forest and beautiful buildings where so many people have come to practice over these many years. We are also entering the sanctuary of physical safety and security to be here together with everyone keeping precepts and holding the intention to practice well. We can feel the presence of the devas. And, we are entering the internal sanctuary of the heart.
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Cloud Mountain Retreat Center
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Nine Days of Joy
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2026-06-04
Q&A
42:17
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Questions are précised. Q1 I'm old and I am sad about it and I keep falling asleep. What's your advice? 09:38 Q2 Regarding QiGong and the statement that loosening contraction needs width. Can you elaborate please? 20:12 Q3 How do you know when to be with the difficult and when to turn to something that is comfortable? 27:08 Q4 What are the different kinds of conceit? 31:10 Q5 My intention is for the breath to flow gently through the entire body. It really cooperates! Any suggestions? 35:04 Q6 Who's the boss? The body or the mind? Or neither of them? 37:30 Q7 What is it that continues from life to life in the Buddhist view? What is the deathless?
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Meditationszentrum Beatenberg
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Exploring Animate Reality
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2026-06-04
Quiet Strength: Exploring Equanimity with James and Margaret Cullen
49:41
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James Baraz
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Margaret is the author of the just released book, Quiet Strength: Find Peace, Feel Alive, and Love Boundlessly through the Power of Equanimity. In this she leads in an exploration on this key quality that is so needed in these times.
As a therapist, Margaret facilitated psycho-social support groups for cancer patients and their loved ones for over 30 years. She has led research studies on the impact of contemplative programs, co-developed the Compassion Cultivation Training with Thupten Jinpa at Stanford University. Margaret is the founder of Compassion Corps, a program which brings compassion programs to underserved populations around the world. She has been a meditation practitioner for over 40 years.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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