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2022-05-25 Sati-sampajañña - Clearing Hindrances 60:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Hindrances can be cleared through ‘mindful direct awareness’ – sati sampajañña. Such working through what blocks the potential of citta, demands humility, since it is not one’s personal self doing the work. Body is a key and potent resource.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-23 Sati - The Third Indriya 56:19
Ajahn Sucitto
Sati-mindfulness, or bearing in mind – is the third indriya. It is a powerful ally for liberation. With this we come out of old habits and find freshness, meaning, potency. You feel where your strength arises.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-22 04 talk: awakening mutuality 16:09
Jill Shepherd
Exploring what Awakening or Nibbāna means, then exploring some words by Thomas Hubl to explore how sangha or community can develop mindfulness, mutuality and mirroring as a support for insight
Auckland Insight Meditation 2022 Vesak celebration for Auckland Insight

2022-05-18 Practicing with Fear 2 68:32
Donald Rothberg
We review briefly some of what we covered in the last session (April 27) on practicing with fear. We then explore the various types of fear reported in the group, what we find bringing mindfulness to hear, particularly what's experienced in the body and in the mind, and the importance of having antidotes to fear, when the level of fear is at a high level and our usual practices are not effective. We also point to the way that as we develop and move into new areas of learning, we also often open up to new fears that are part of the new territory. We close with a period of questions and sharing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-05-17 Resting in the Pauses 24:34
Dhammadīpā
mindfulness of breathing with particular emphasis on becoming aware of pauses and beginnings
Dassanāya Buddhist Community

2022-05-16 The Most Basic Truths: Gateways to Freedom | Monday Night Talk 53:39
Jack Kornfield
When I first entered the monasteries in Thailand and Burma, I was taught everything is anicca (impermanent), dukkha (unsatisfactory), and anatta (no-self). The reason these were repeated over and over again is because if you see these, you see with the eyes of wisdom. Because everything is changing, the more you cling and hold on, the more you suffer. To free ourselves, we need to quiet the mind through some mindfulness in meditation. Then, instead of identifying with the changing conditions, we learn to release them and turn toward consciousness itself, to rest in the knowing. My teacher Ajahn Chah called this pure awareness, "the original mind," or resting in "the one who knows." As the Jiddu Krishnamurti said, “It is the truth that liberates, and not your efforts to be free.” With practice, we discover the selflessness of experience; we shift identity. We can be in the midst of an experience, being upset or angry or caught by some problem, and then step back from it and rest in pure awareness. We let go; we release holding any thought or feeling as "I" or "mine." We release the whole sense of identification, and the conditioned world is just anicca (impermanent), dukkha (unsatisfactory), and anatta (empty of self) -- it has nothing to do with our true nature. We learn to trust pure awareness itself. This is one of the ways Ajahn Chah taught about liberation. Awakening is always here and now. Practicing this way, your life is transformed.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-05-14 Merging the Heart Sutra with the four foundations of mindfulness - part two 38:19
Rodney Smith
How the nothing of feelings becomes the something of objects and further exploration of the third and fourth foundations. Plus a guided meditation on the third foundation
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-14 Merging the Heart Sutra with the four foundations of mindfulness - part one 42:39
Rodney Smith
These two ancient sutras fuse seamlessly together/explore how the body (form) becomes formless when we don't infuse the body with knowledge or remembrance
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-12 Guided meditation on the first foundation of mindfulness 26:19
Rodney Smith
How something becomes nothing with the release of knowledge and remembrance.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-10 4 Foundations for Mindfulness 69:08
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight A Heart That Resonates

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