|
Dharma Talks
2021-06-03
Divisiveness in the Buddha's Community: The Quarrel at Kosambi
52:18
|
James Baraz
|
|
One of the greatest challenges today in the US is divisiveness within the country. However, the Buddha faced the same problem right within his community! The Quarrel at Kosambi tells the story of his sangha dealing with a bitter argument that almost created a schism in the sangha. And the Buddha had a very difficult time trying to bring peace between the two factions. We will discuss this story and the lessons we can learn that can be applied in today's time.
|
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
|
|
2021-06-03
Day 5 Q&A2
54:25
|
Ajahn Sucitto
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
2021-06-02
Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness
24:13
|
Tara Brach
|
|
Awakening awareness in the body is the portal to resting in boundless and dynamic presence. This guided practice scans the body from feet up, and helps us inhabit all parts of our body. As we open to the aliveness and space inside the body, we discover a permeability that allows us to inhabit the universe of aliveness and space, form and formlessness. With this homecoming to whole beingness is an intrinsic experience of freedom.
|
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
|
|
|
|