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Dharma Talks
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2018-10-14
18 Day 5 Guided Meditation Intention – a Softer Effort
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Using intention in practice means there is a wish, a prayer, an aspiration – subtle movements of energy rather than the push of effort. If we use intention too forcefully we block receptivity. It’s up to us to determine what’s skillful at this time. Perhaps it’s the intention to relax, set aside, widen, soften. Wisdom is our guide, and effort is just to use wisdom to arrive at deeper wisdom. [8:15 Begin Standing Meditation Instructions] Translating Anatomical Descriptions into Felt Sense: We all use anatomical descriptions of the body as a sketch, but the encouragement in this meditation is to translate them into energetic or felt experiences. Beginning with physical experience, guidance is provided to sense into subtler energies and felt tones and meanings.
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New York Insight Meditation Center
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Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2018-10-13
Take the One Seat
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Amita Schmidt
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Have the courage, like the Buddha, to take your one seat in the world. Discover what is your truth, your stillness, and your wisdom. Be willing to embody this completely and authentically in the world.
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Insight Meditation of Cleveland
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2018-10-13
Delusion is Not the Way Out
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Ayya Medhanandi
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How can we have compassion for others without falling apart? The Buddha's path of awakening teaches us how to disarm our internal armour, to be harmless. This will be for us a true basis for following precepts and thereby developing enough inner quiet to investigate ill-will. We begin to clearly see and understand our mind-states. This full presence enables compassion that is tireless and unconditional.
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Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto
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2018-10-13
16 Day 4 Evening Puja: Q&A
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Different ways of presenting Dhamma in Theravada Buddhism (single-pointed, ‘dry insight’; Thai forest). Are there certain thought patterns that are related to nervous energy in the body? How do you do discharge? Metta practice as cultivating non-aversive, non-contractive state rather than a doing/sending out. Clarifying the term ‘fields’. Qi Gong questions (is it normal to get so hot while practicing Qi Gong? Is it good to use wu qi for standing meditation?); Responding to sexual awareness in the presence of others. Skillfully handling trauma that are still alive. Distinction between perception and consciousness. How feelings and emotions are experienced in Samadhi. Reclining meditation
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New York Insight Meditation Center
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Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2018-10-12
When the Trees Wither and the Leaves Fall
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Sometimes we feel torn apart by life and unable to cope. Healing may be slow to come but our meditation practice can enhance that process. If we contemplate the fearsome winds of life in such a way that we deeply understand their impermanent nature, we will also understand that they are unsatisfactory and empty of any 'self'. That will be the dawning of the heart's true peace.
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Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto
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