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2021-06-08 Mindfulness of the Body 39:00
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Awakening Joy: Opening to Your Natural State of Well-Being

2021-06-05 Day 1 - Instructions: Attending to Present Experience 65:11
Nathan Glyde
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Establishing a mindful presence: relaxing and noticing; sustaining through interest; bringing in kindness and welcoming; enjoying unification.
Gaia House :  Meeting Uncertainty with Wisdom and Courage: Perennial Teachings for a Changing World

2021-06-04 Guided Relaxing And Opening Meditation 42:38
Zohar Lavie
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Opening the retreat with a guided session of calming mindful presence
Gaia House :  Meeting Uncertainty with Wisdom and Courage: Perennial Teachings for a Changing World

2021-06-04 A Moment of Presence and Possibility 20:04
Nathan Glyde
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Establishing simple mindful presence as a foundation for more
Gaia House :  Meeting Uncertainty with Wisdom and Courage: Perennial Teachings for a Changing World

2021-06-04 Day 6 Q&A2 – The Sacred, Body, Self and Other 47:37
Ajahn Sucitto
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Trying to find triggers and safe space in the midst of health issues that affect nervous system, heart rate and breathing; stiff neck and shoulder muscles keep re-contracting; how to respond to getting so tired; what is the wise and caring response to body; navigating touch and contact skillfully; how can we be heirs to our kamma if there is no self to inherit it; through investigation of qualities of citta clarity and falling away has occurred – how to sustain; the more I see things clearly the more I feel the weight of delusion causing sadness and disgust and feeling of pointlessness for practice; how to approach in and out breath to calm mental activity (citta)/please speak to mindfulness of feeling from the Ānāpānasati Sutta.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-06-04 Day 6 Q&A1 34:29
Ajahn Sucitto
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Is citta able to verbalize/understand words; citta’s role in nightmares; differences between hindrances and fetters; is cultivating bhavana or khanti better for burning off defilements; a lot of pain in the body caused movement in meditation disrupting energy; cultivating mētta; alternative healing methods; startled out of the body when bell rings; locating ancestral exclusions in the body; understanding workings of mind from Abhidhamma perspective vs. contemplation of 4 foundations of mindfulness for realizing non-self; accessing solar plexus during meditation; finding firmness when touching into open spaciousness; musician is torn between music and meditation.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-06-03 Day 5 Q&A2 54:25
Ajahn Sucitto
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Working at our levels but there’s nothing to attain/is citta is inherently pure; how to think about kamma after death; how does being enveloped in compassion feel; after moving energy down into belly deciding to move from samatha to vipassanā; the knower merges with the known and there’s no object left; when beginning to become concentrated I get hijacked into numbness/feeling lost in brahmaviharā; relationship between awareness, citta, mindfulness and the mind.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-06-03 Day 5 Q&A1 51:17
Ajahn Sucitto
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Bright pure light which comes up in meditation; dealing with trauma from a kammic standpoint; how to practice with back pain and lack of sleep; if there’s no self who puts forth effort into the 4 right efforts; offering of invitation was not received leaving sourness; when feeling arises from words do I just stay with the feeling or inquire about it; a lot of pain in body and sudden urge to cry; mind first allows phenomena to subside and investigates later; transitioning back into kammic realm from a place of presence is challenging too easily losing mindfulness; difference between citta and manas; compulsive tendency around cleanliness; struggle with breath meditation feeling like I’m controlling it.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 1:30:52
Pamela Weiss
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San Francisco Insight Meditation Community :  SFI Sunday Nights

2021-05-30 Guided Meditation – Open Stability 23:17
Ajahn Sucitto
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In meditation we’re resetting the dynamic movement of mental and physical energies with open energy. Using body as a guide, resonate the sense of balance and stability throughout. Let mindfulness deepen and maintain a wide-open energy that is receptive.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

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