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2026-06-07
The Joy of Goodness
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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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2026-06-03
Q&A
58:48
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Questions are précised. 00:36 Q1 In your way of speaking awareness is not vinyana. What are the other Pali terms would you use for it? Is it related to citta or nibbana? 20:32 Q2 How to know the heart in the heart? 37:35 Q3 You've explained how the mind creates forms and that we need to see through these delusions. Is it the same mind that first creates and sees through these delusions? 45:10 Q4 What are your recommendations on reflecting on the value of sila? How to avoid getting lost in concepts? 48:06 Q5 What's the difference between rights and rituals one should give up and those that seem to be part of monastic life.
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Meditationszentrum Beatenberg
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Exploring Animate Reality
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2026-06-03
Dharma As Nature
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Chas DiCapua
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Learning to understand that the Dharma path unfolds in an organic, natural way helps to lessen the tendency to make Dharma practice another self-help project. Seeing the conditioned nature of suffering and the conditioned nature of happiness allows the self to get out of the way and let wisdom and discernment guide us along the path.
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Cambridge Insight Meditation Center
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2026-06-03
Letting the Tree Grow, One Ring at a Time
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Oren Jay Sofer
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The deepest transformation unfolds over years, too gradually to see — yet the only unit we ever actually work with is a single moment, met with kindness and a willingness to let go. Like a tree growing ring by ring, a whole life takes shape one moment at a time, with far less to manage than we think.
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Online
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Online Insight Retreat
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2026-06-03
Buddhist Practice and Transforming Social Conditioning 1
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Donald Rothberg
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We begin by focusing on a fundamental perspective for our practice: How our practice moves from underlying ignorance to wisdom. We look at both the traditional understanding of such ignorance and how contemporary psychological and social perspectives help us to identify further dimensions of ignorance, including our initially unconscious social conditioning. We start by considering how the Buddha related both to caste and to women's roles in the sangha. We then look at the nature of social conditioning, including how this is related to "in-groups" and "out-groups," along with "implicit bias," and ways that our practice can help us see more clearly and ultimately transform our social conditioning.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2026-06-02
Q&A
39:52
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Questions are précised. Q1 I heard you say energy is there before effort. Can you expand on this? Q2 08:14 Can you elaborate on citta and consciousness? Q3 26:49 Teachers have taught us about the slow effacement of the self. You’re teaching us to fully embody us. I am confused.
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Meditationszentrum Beatenberg
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Exploring Animate Reality
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2026-06-02
The Spectrum of Desire
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Kim Allen
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The human tendency to want can range from highly unskillful or harmful forms of grasping and compulsion, through ordinary desires of life, into beautiful forms of aspiration and care. Buddhist teachings show how we can develop the more skillful forms of desire, such as wanting to be ethical, to practice meditation, or to awaken. Interestingly, moving into skillful wanting is an act of letting go.
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Insight Meditation Community of Richmond
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2026-05-31
Humility and Conceit
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Ajahn Viradhammo
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This talk was given on the occasion of Vesak 2026. Ajahn Viradhammo reflects on the quality of "Humility" as opposed to "conceit". Which is descried as the sense of "My making" and "I making".
"The mind not engaging in the conceits through stories"
Coming back to the theme of the foreground and the background, a sense of listening, through awareness.
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Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
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