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Dharma Talks
2022-03-27 Radiant Heart Meditation 26:46
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2022-03-27 Disarming the Self 56:15
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2022-03-27 Refuge in the Teachings of the Buddha, Part 2 – Meditation 35:07
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-03-27 Refuge in the Teachings of the Buddha, Part 2 – Talk 38:11
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-03-27 The Dog Knows Its True Master 46:56
Ajahn Sucitto
A lot of our practice is to recognize the ‘I am’ cannot do it – it has to be understood carefully as energies, habits, stories. Find another vehicle, the 5 indriya, the spiritual allies. The beauty of the practice is it works beyond the ‘I am’. The ‘I ‘can’t do it, but the indriya can. Give them a chance to keep working, and nature of citta is it does recognize these transpersonal qualities, like when a dog knows where its true master is.
Cittaviveka 2022 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice

2022-03-26 Notice What You Don't See - The Causes of Things 38:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Practice with directly experienced meanings, dhammas, qualities that touch the heart. Looking into causes and conditions, we begin to sense, this is causing certain phenomena to cease or arise. See where it goes; dhammas lead on by themselves. If you stay in touch with them they lead on to further clearance, or to further stress and suffering.
Cittaviveka 2022 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice

2022-03-25 Meditation and Dhamma talk on the five aggregates (khandā) 1:26:10
Bhante Sujato
From Harris Park. Meditation on the five "aggregates" (khandā), guided by Bhante Sujato. Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato on the five aggregates. Subtle (sukhuma) rūpa perceived by the mind. The aggregates as inseparable aspects of experience. Perception recognizes and puts details together to meaningful wholes. Sankhārā in this context: volition. Meaning of "upadāna khandā"; metaphor of the hand. Q+A: Contemplation of khandas in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta. Why such brief introduction of the concept of khandas in the Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta (reference: MN 26).
Lokanta Vihara

2022-03-25 Everyone Likes Letting Go 39:33
Ajahn Sucitto
Investigate feeling as an energy rather than as content. Refer to that which is affected, the heart itself. It’s up to us to apply energy, investigate, turn the mind around, turn the heart, get it to see clearly. Use body to stabilize and simplify content, and the concoction of thought dissipates. This is release; the heart becomes unrestricted.
Cittaviveka 2022 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice

2022-03-24 Understanding the Whirlpools of This Heart 65:57
Mark Nunberg
The Buddha taught that we are all spinning due to our habits of greed, hatred, and delusion, long enough to have become wise and dispassionate about how we keep getting hooked into these stressful cycles. What is it that we are not seeing clearly enough that keeps this spin spinning? The Buddha’s teachings encourage us to stabilize present-moment awareness so that we can begin to see how impersonal and lawful all this inner and outer activity actually is. Understanding the river of experience in this way leads to a natural letting go and a releasing of attachment.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2022-03-24 Bringing the Practice to Life – Thursdays 27:48
JD Doyle
A weekly drop-in group that focuses on bringing our Buddhist practice fully into our lives. We will meditate together, listen to Dharma teaching, and share the lived experience of our practice. We aim to create a radically inclusive space where all are welcome (especially those who might have experienced marginalization such as LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, disabled, and economically impacted people). All levels of experience are invited to attend. All are welcome.
Insight Santa Cruz

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