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Dharma Talks
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2014-09-10
Transforming Unhealthy Habits through Mindfulness
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Hugh Byrne
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When harmful or unhealthy habits form, they can cause us much suffering and they can be hard to change because they are carried out automatically and without conscious awareness. Mindfulness is a key to changing harmful or unwanted habits as it provides skillful methods and practices to bring them into the light of awareness. Three elements of mindfulness are particularly important in changing unhealthy or unwanted habits - Intention, Attention, and Attitude. The talk explores these three elements with a focus on Intention.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2014-08-31
11 Aimless Wandering
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Aimless wandering unplugs compulsion. So move around a moment at a time, aimlessly, following the gentle zig zag of the movement and inclination. Pause when feeling compulsive or hurried. Keep coming back into exploring this amazing here and now.
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Sunyata Buddhist Centre
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Unseating the Inner Tyrant
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2014-08-31
09 An Exercise in Awareness
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Ajahn Sucitto
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On attention and awareness. Attention locates an object, and what we give attention to gets energized. Awareness, when exercised brings opening and cooling. Unhook from attention and let awareness widen and soften. Take in the feel and energy of the subtler qualities of what arises. Not excluding anything, just not hooking onto anything.
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Sunyata Buddhist Centre
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Unseating the Inner Tyrant
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2014-08-31
08 Guided Meditation: Internal Happiness
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Meditation offers the opportunity to encourage the body to open into a more steady state of pleasure than is normally attainable through sense contact. This internal happiness has to do with the body’s subtle energy. Guidance is given to sense the subtle body and experience this internal happiness.
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Sunyata Buddhist Centre
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Unseating the Inner Tyrant
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2014-08-30
07 Steep Yourself in the Good
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Ajahn Sucitto
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When we experience hostility and ill will, rather than simply acknowledging it, we stick it into ourselves, and begin to assume we’re unwelcome or unworthy. We can use meditation to change the flavor of the heart, steeping it in the qualities of the brahmavihara (goodwill, compassion, gladness, equanimity).
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Sunyata Buddhist Centre
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Unseating the Inner Tyrant
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