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Dharma Talks
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2016-09-18
Bigger Perspective Meditation
12:45
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Amita Schmidt
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Are you stuck in worry, a thought, or a problem? This guided meditation can help give you a new perspective on your thoughts and your life. It is calming, spacious and insightful.
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Dharma Zephyr Insight Meditation Community
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2016-09-15
The Wellspring of Citta
1:32:14
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Ajahn Sucitto
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(Begins with 30 min guided meditation)
With self view there is a tendency to meet experience with pre-formed responses of who I am, why they are, and what's needed. Orienting around citta allows a more natural and spontaneous response, one where empathy and preciousness are infused in intentions and actions.
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The Karuna Institute
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Creative Formations - Sankhara
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2016-09-13
The Stilling of Sankhara
63:20
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Sankhara can be thought of as programs, the root program resulting in the fundamental subject-object division. In meditation there can be a re-programming, a still g of sankhara, making way for a more peaceful and pure state of being.
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The Karuna Institute
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Creative Formations - Sankhara
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2016-09-11
Inner Family of Lovingkindness Meditation
8:12
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Amita Schmidt
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Develop lovingkindness from the inside out using eye contact with loved ones to rewire your nervous system. This meditation is designed to create a greater sense of connection, lovingkindness and inner family.
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Insight Meditation of Cleveland
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2016-09-10
Ground, Balance and Wholeness
33:10
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Guided Sitting Meditation: (Guidance begins at 10 min, and then again at 25 min) Ask the body to align and find balance, then allow it to happen through vitality versus will power. Look for wholeness with regards to physical pain: rather than splitting into a 'me' who has a stiff shoulder – can it be included?
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London Insight Meditation
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Guided by Nature
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2016-08-17
Fall Apart, Fall Apart, Rise Anew
24:57
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Intuitive wisdom develops gradually as we learn more and more to drop the story and view the flood of impermanence in the silence of the mind. Eventually we will be able to answer the question: what remains after the work of purification? A talk given during a Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto retreat in 2016.
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Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)
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2016-08-16
Who’s Sitting Under the Bodhi Tree
33:52
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Ayya Medhanandi
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The mind is so easily duped by its own delusion. By holding perceptions, views and opinions - our own, as well as others - as "uncertain", and being circumspect, we can bear witness to experience as the Knowing Mind, unburdened by its conditioning. When the five faculties are strengthened through practice, this knowing mind can arise in its utmost purity. We can overcome delusion by stripping our experience of any packaging; only when we know things authentically for what they truly are, can we let them go. We practice fearlessness, harmlessness, selflessness, until there is nothing to fear, except delusion itself. If we are awake to that Truth, then we can be sitting under the Bodhi Tree in the truest way. A talk given during a 7 day Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto retreat at Chapin Mill Retreat Centre, Batavia, Rochester, NY.
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Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)
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2016-08-15
Reading: Ajahn Chah – In the Dead of Night
15:27
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Ajahn Chah describes his process of overcoming fear while staying in a charnel ground in Thailand and urges us to try it out! What he means is not in the charnel ground, but right here wherever we are and with the ghosts of our own minds. A reading given during a Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto retreat in 2016.
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Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)
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2016-08-15
Be Like Bamboo
35:58
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Ayya Medhanandi
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The jhana factors serve as antidotes to the five hindrances as well as supports in developing the Noble Eightfold Path. But they are not enough in and of themselves to establish wisdom. Studying the body and mind through samatha and vipassana, we come to understand the Four Noble Truths. As we transform consciousness, we transcend the world. A talk given at a 7 day Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto retreat in the Chapin Mill Zen Retreat Centre, Batavia, NY.
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Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto
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