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Dharma Talks
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2007-03-11
The Threads of Your Life: Guided Death Meditation
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Ayya Medhanandi
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When you move towards what is fearful step by step with courage, it is possible to overcome the darkest moments breath by breath. Draw together all the threads of your life, and let each one go strand by strand. A guided meditation on death at a 10 day retreat, Galilee Centre, Arnprior, Ontario Canada.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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2006-10-05
From Grasping to Gently Holding
41:25
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Thanissara
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This talk explores how entering the Third Noble Truth opens the mind beyond its habitual addiction to interpret life from a sense of being a personality, needing to 'sort things out'. Opening the mind implies an ability to tolerate the reality of uncertainty. This talk also explores compassion and loving kindness as fearlessness and includes a simple guided meditation on well-being.
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Gaia House
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The Union of Wisdom and Compassion
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2006-06-12
It Will Never Happen To Me
40:26
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Shrouded in the cloud of ignorance, we believe that suffering will never happen to us. But when we emerge from that fog into a radical simplicity of heart, suffering becomes our teacher. Our eyes are opened thanks to Right View and direct experience of the Four Noble Truths. At last we transcend the tyranny of fear.
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Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand
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2005-09-14
Even As A Mother
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Can we fearlessly accept all that life gives with a wise and compassionate heart? We see how the sun shines unilaterally on all beings giving life and nourishment. But we must use sharp wisdom to discern what is harmful and abandon that; and to know what is wholesome and cultivate that. Even as a mother, may we emulate the Buddha's compassion that flows without bias in all directions across millenia.
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Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand
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