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2026-07-26
What is "Fulfilment"?
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Ajahn Viradhammo
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Ajahn Viradhammo, contemplates, the means we have to attain fulfilment.
He reflects, on Generosity, as means, living an ethical life, via the precepts, and finally on "Humility". Humility here as a that which is free from the sense of me and mine, or Ahankara Mimankara. Acknowledging the uncomfortable/unpleasant, but residing in the sense of the background, the awareness, that is always here, always present and unchanging.
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Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
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2026-07-22
Sense restraint
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Ajahn Viradhammo
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This talk was given on a visit to Cittaviveka Buddhist monastery (UK) in Jul 2026.
Ajahn Viradhammo, reflects on sense restraint. Without sense restraint attention falls on the conditioned, rather than the unconditioned. We see the foreground, as opposed to the "background" of awareness. While it is possible to "notice" phenomenon, without sense restraint, the mind doesn't truly settle into silence without sense restraint, and the falling away of the noise caused by input from the senses. It is in the silence of the mind, that attention on awareness can flourish.
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Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
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2026-07-17
How's the Water, Boys?
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Devon Hase
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In this guided meditation, the breath becomes a frame - a halo around whatever picture we slot into it - as we move through the third tetrad's four ways of looking at the mind. We'll settle into the stillness already underneath the mind's activity, the way silence sits beneath sound; let a basic gladness surface, an inward brightness already present rather than something we have to chase down; gather the mind into a felt sense of wholeness and integration; and finally practice the small, ordinary liberations already available to us - the fist opening, the self growing quieter, a way of looking that's already free.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Deepening into the Dharma: A Meditation Retreat for Experienced Practitioners - 26EBL
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2026-07-13
Monday Night Talk: The Foundations of Our Practice
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Donald Rothberg
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A main way to understand generally our practice is by seeing it as combining (1) avoiding “unskillful” or “unwholesome” actions and states of mind (and knowing how to practice when they arise), and (2) developing skillful or wholesome qualities. We explore different aspects of this way of seeing our practice: Understanding its relationship to the teaching on wise effort; seeing the core unskillful quality as reactivity (dukkha) in its two forms as grasping after the pleasant and pushing away the unpleasant, each in myriad ways; and developing positive qualities like concentration, mindfulness, kindness and compassion, generosity and the other paramis, and the Seven Factors of Awakening. We examine some of the complexities of practicing with reactivity, with a main one being that reactivity is often enmeshed with discernment; I can be judgmental and caught in reactivity, for example, as an activist who sees injustice clearly, with discernment. This calls therefore for transforming the reactivity, so we can make use of the discernment skillfully. We also look into some examples of both forms of practice, both in meditation and in the flow of daily life. 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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