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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2025-10-07
Dukkha in the Wider World: What Contributes to Engagement?
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Victor von der Heyde
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Overview of the last 12 months, Conditions that help engagement:
1. contentment and appreciation; Dr Luke Kemp, his study on civilizational collapse and the value of happiness; contentment and burnout;
2. Anger as being pivotal, types of anger; recent world changes related to anger; tempus nullius; risks and care in relation to anger; Aristotle on the value of anger; Mahakala as a helpful image;
3. An inclusive way of looking; Mother Theresa and one’s family circle; Analyo Bhikkhu and the question of what can one do;
4. Equanimity: perspective of John Gray on the myth of progress in the field of ethics and politics - with examples; Philip Blom on a view of homo sapiens and the comedy of homo sapiens seeing itself as the ruler of nature;
5. A sense of duty and the soulful quality that can come with that;
6. Stories and images: Ursula Le Guin and the Ones who Walk Away from Omelas - with an interpretation; James Hillman and Michael Ventura; Kuan Yin as an image and how she is seen by some in a large Buddhist charity.
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Australian Insight Meditation Network
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Insight and Imaginal Practice
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2025-10-06
Imaginal Practice 3
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Victor von der Heyde
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Julie Nelson and the romantic belief in knowledge from a perspective-free viewpoint; the interaction of eros, heart-mind-soul and the conceptual framework; the characteristic of soulfulness; Jack Kornfield on an approach to images in psychedelic experience: how that differs from imaginal practice; working with characteristics that may not be present; other characteristics: the lattice, grace, trust, reverence, humility, values, beauty, duty, fulness of intention, participation; imaginal views of oneself; WH Auden and Henry Corbin; caution on talking about images with others; the six devas on Lantau Island, what they represent, and how they could be related to.
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Australian Insight Meditation Network
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Insight and Imaginal Practice
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2025-10-06
A steady plane in a see-saw world
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Within the world of praise and blame gain and loss, one’s balance grows. This plane of accomplishment neither binds to, nor rejects social and personal systems and customs, but uses them with kindness and integrity. As the heart sustains this, layers of one’s unconscious grasping are revealed and released.
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Cittaviveka
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Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa
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2025-10-05
Imaginal Practice 2
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Victor von der Heyde
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Unlimited possibilities for images with a range of examples, including God and gods, wild images, images based on people, the sense of being called, image with no figure, embodying an image, felt sense and image of spirit of place; putting aside questions about the reality status of images; Eucharistic imagination; fully and partially imaginal images; Iain McGilchrist on left brain right brain, and the world not being given before it’s experienced;
Rob Burbea’s list of elements or characteristics and the characteristics: two-ness, unfathomable quality, participation, loving and being loved; different orientations of imaginal and insight practices.
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Australian Insight Meditation Network
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Insight and Imaginal Practice
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2025-10-05
Goodwill is food for the heart
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Ajahn Sucitto
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When handled contemplatively, the energy of goodwill feeds, repairs and strengthens the heart. It can govern our speech and convert our mental attitudes from those of the competitive world. It can also be taken in to clear the residues that these worldly habits have established; anxiety, performance drive and self-criticism.
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Cittaviveka
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Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa
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2025-10-04
Imaginal Practice 1
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Victor von der Heyde
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Ways of looking as a foundation; terms in imaginal practice; figures and presences; callings; example of very simple image; autonomy; cautions for working with images; types of image; spirits in the Pali Canon; dismissive attitudes; assumptions based on knowing what is measurable; views on the reality status of imaginal and the material world; relationship to an image or a presence; wide spectrum of images; Henry Corbin and a sense of the divine in an image; risks.
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Australian Insight Meditation Network
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Insight and Imaginal Practice
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2025-10-02
Clock Time, Heart Time, Deep Time:
Songs, poems, reflections on navigating our relationship to time
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Betsy Rose
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Singer ,Songwriter, Dharma Teacher, Betsy Rose shares some songs, poems and reflections on navigating our relationship to time. How many of us are experiencing time as a vanishing “commodity?” The speed and amount of digital inputs (email, activist alerts, webinars, headlines and more..) threaten to overwhelm us. Feeling pressured, squeezed, and overloaded can be a familiar experience. This talk explores practices and choices that can help restore a sense of spaciousness and wise view to the mysterious construct we call “time.”
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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OD Course | White & Awakening (CJ1N24)
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2025-10-01
Effort means using energy wisely
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The indriya work together – if one's faith is placed with wisdom and mindfulness sustains the focus on the wholesome, concentration occurs and one's energy is replenished. Effort should be wisely applied to break the pull of negative obsessions, The sense of time is to be uprooted, for example in walking meditation.
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Cittaviveka
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Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa
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2025-09-26
All Conditioned Things Are Impermanent - All Things Are Not Self l KBV & CMM
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Ayya Santussika,
Ayya Cittananda
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00:00 - 10:00 Morning Chanting
10:00 - 35:27 Sutta Reflections
35:27 - 1:09:21 Comments, Questions and Responses
This video is a recording of the regularly presented Sutta Study by Ayya Santussika and Ayya Cittananda that occurs most Friday evenings at Karuna Buddhist Vihara. These meetings start with the Morning Chanting followed by the study of discourse(s) of the Buddha from the Sutta Pitaka. In this video Ayya Santussika and Ayya Cittananda are joined by Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho from the Clear Mountain Monestary. The Suttas discussed include:
Arising AN 3.136 https://suttacentral.net/an3.136/en/sujato
With Channa SN 22.90 https://suttacentral.net/sn22.90/en/sujato
With Ananda SN 44.10 https://suttacentral.net/sn44.10/en/sujato
The Shorter Discourse with Saccaka MN 35 https://suttacentral.net/mn35/en/sujato
You can find more information about Karuna Buddhist Vihara at the website below:
https://www.karunabv.org/
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Karuna Buddhist Vihara
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2025-09-25
You Are Loving Awareness
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James Baraz
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Seeing sacredness, not only around us, but focusing inside the one who is perceiving. This mind/body (YOU) that is interacting with the world around it. I use Ram Dass's practice of seeing beyond this mind/body by abiding in the perspective "I Am Loving Awareness". This is where the devotional and non-dual meet.
To aid in this exploration James shares some powerful cuts from the album Ram Dass, a collaboration of Ram Dass's voice and teachings with background music by East Forest, who will be offering a hybrid concert "Echoes of Ram Dass" at Spirit Rock October 19, 2025.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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