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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2025-06-21
Arahants Have No Barnacles
17:46
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Anger and fear are perilous, flammable states of mind – like barnacles attached to a ship's hull that undermine its power to sail. So we call on wise discernment and forgiveness to rescue us. We take stock: is there any anger within me? Or fear? The Dhamma purifies and frees us from these stains of the heart. So seek refuge. Guard the mind from the fires of anger or unwholesome states by directing full attention to present moment awareness. This is the blessing of our work, and the promise of awakening.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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2025-06-20
Equanimity-The Peace of a Spacious Mind
56:23
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Yuka Nakamura
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Equanimity is a balance of mind even in the face of change and turmoil. A spaciousness of the heart that is vast enough to hold the joys and sorrows of life. A stillness that lies beneath the waves of an agitated mind. The talk discusses different ways in which equanimity manifests in our relationships to other beings and life experiences.
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Meditationszentrum Beatenberg
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2025-06-20
Silent Homage
23:26
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Ayya Medhanandi
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The heart’s splendor is known in pure awareness – not tainted by any harmful thought or feeling. It is integrity itself – present now. Traverse from the self, the narrow sense of me and mine, to surrender – knowing that we are nothing of this realm. But this emptiness is a fullness, measureless and complete – so vast that it dwarfs everything. It is universal love, compassion, supremely gentle, kind. Once known, it can never not be known. We are not separate from awareness. Like the sky. It is always there – a silent homage, our true home.
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Sati Saraniya Hermitage
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2025-06-18
Q and A
57:31
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Q1 00:52 When you're walking around and brushing your teeth what's your experience of the sense world and nibbana? I'd like to experience more beauty and sacredness in the sense world and cultivate a relationship with the transcendent, but it feels so out of reach; Q2 17:43 Recently I listened to a talk by Ajahn Tanissaro and he said he didn't know any practitioner in the West who was a stream enterer. I was disheartened. Can you say something about this? Q3 28:09 can you give some advice on cell phones and technology please? They drain my energy quickly. Q4 35:34 (several questions) In mindfulness of breathing, does one proceed sequentially through the 16 phrases, or pick up the steps that seem to fit with whatever seems to be arising. Why is it presented as a graduated training? Also, can you speak about releasing the heart? Q5 44:18 What are the differences between attention and awareness? What are their Pali terms? Q6 49:42 "One reviews the extent to which one's mind is liberated..." In the Book of the 5s. If one's mind is non-liberated how do you go about it? Q7 52:59 How to relate when resistance arises in practice from feeling blocked, to discouraged or lost etc etc etc.
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Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
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One Month Retreat at the Forest Refuge
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2025-06-18
The Big Picture 1
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Donald Rothberg
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The talk begins to give the "big picture" about the nature of our practice, and how we come, in a way suitable to our times and places, to manifest wisdom, love and compassion, and skillful responses in our lives, increasingly more of the time. We reflect first on some of the challenges of our times, and how Buddhism, as it has moved to different cultures, has always taken new forms.
A main part of the big picture, which is our main focus today, is a model of how meditation develops. We articulate a model involving three main forms of practice (that we can find in multiple Buddhist traditions): Developing samadhi (concentration), opening to liberating insight, and opening to awakened awareness. We explore each of the three and their relationship to each other. The talk is followed by discussion.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2025-06-14
No Exaggeration
1:23:43
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Nathan Glyde
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A meditation, reflection, and (just the) responses to questions on the theme of wise perception: knowing this is a dependently originating appearance. And expanding wise and skilful (right) speech to include not exaggerating or simplifying! Perhaps these alongside other ideas, will support our practice to deepen, and widen to help liberate peace into the world.
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Gaia House
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Online Dharma Hall - June 2025
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