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Dharma Talks
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2011-04-17
Coming to Terms with Birth and Death
49:09
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Stephen Batchelor
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Reflections on the nature of 'religion'; the Buddha's awakening as a resolution of the questions posed by life itself; Zen as a 'direct pointing to the heart, independent of scripture'; the aim of Buddhist practice is the achievement of autonomy; towards the possibility of a 'secular religion'.
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Gaia House
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The Zen Retreat
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2010-09-19
Navigating the Inner Sea
18:59
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Ayya Medhanandi
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We are on a miraculous voyage in the fragile vessel of a body that ultimately dies. This is the Noble Truth of our suffering. To unravel its mystery and rescue ourselves, we must navigate the inner sea of the heart. We explore how in the world of objects, devices, ideas and experiences – whether exotic or excruciating, we are bound up with joy, fear or any point between. But there is a freedom from this cycle and it comes when we brave the great quiet of that vast interior universe. Blessed is the silence that opens our eyes to the Deathless, the Truth of what we are.
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Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)
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2009-10-05
Impermanence
61:16
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Guy Armstrong
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A lot of understanding can come from reflecting on the way impermanence shows itself in our lives both outwardly and inwardly, including our vulnerability to aging and death. But even more penetrating insight comes to the mind that has become still through meditation. Through this way of seeing, the truth of impermanence sinks into our bones and the wisdom of non-clinging becomes very obvious.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Two-Month Retreat
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2009-07-13
Five Faculties - Indriya
22:07
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The indriya (faith, energy, mindfulness, collectedness, discernment), sometimes called the governing faculties, are capacities we already have and operate through in some rudimentary form. This teaching gives a description each, and how they can be developed to become supportive faculties. When they come together, they merge in the deathless.
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Cittaviveka
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Vassa Retreat
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2009-03-16
Barefoot and Empty-handed
40:41
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Developing awakened wisdom is an organic process, the unbinding of all problems that leads to indestructible peace and harmlessness. We undertake and persevere through training the mind so that we can renounce our attachments and stop the interior whirling of the world. No longer caught in its duality, we rest in knowing the liberating truth of this moment, cessation of suffering and a transcendent healing that takes us to the Deathless.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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2009-02-15
The Unfabricated, The Deathless...
67:13
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Rob Burbea
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Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series
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Gaia House
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Meditation on Emptiness (2009)
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2009-02-03
Pure Consciousness
35:34
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Kittisaro
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The Shurangama Sutra, Matangi’s daughter & Ananda’s enlightement
Sky Like Mind
Those who delight in mental proliferation (papanca) never know Nibbana
The end of birth and death
Apartheid of the mind
Nisagardatta’s method
What Remains - What doesn’t move
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Dharmagiri
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Original Brightness Retreat
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2009-01-31
Change of Lineage
44:43
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Kittisaro
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Direct knowing of emptiness
Between existence and nihilism
Emptiness isn’t empty, wonderful existence doesn’t exist
Grasping & papanca is the root of birth and death
Surface & depth of ocean is all water
Change of lineage from reliance on papanca to pure knowing
Angulimala and original hua t’ou – STOP
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Dharmagiri
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Original Brightness Retreat
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2009-01-29
The Shurangama Samadhi
45:01
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Kittisaro
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The Dharma door of Chan / Zen
The King of Samadhi’s – the Shurangama – Durable – Samadhi
The context of the Shurangama Sutra – Ananda, Matangi’s daughter, Manjushri, the Buddha & Avalokitesvara
Kuan Yin’s favoured meathod – ‘returning the hearing’
The pure, bright and primordial essence of consciousness
Anuruddha seeks out advice from Sariputta – ‘Turn your mind to the Deathless’
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Dharmagiri
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Original Brightness Retreat
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2009-01-27
All Beings are of One Substance
34:57
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Kittisaro
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Avalokitesvara – the Lord of Ease
Ekayana – All streams lead to the ocean - all Dharma doors lead to the One Heart
All Dharma doors are connected to Mindfulness
Crossing over beings of the self nature – being kind is being Kuan Yin
All Beings have been our mother, father, relative and are potential Buddha’s
Kittisaro’s mother’s death and his tribute to her
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Dharmagiri
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Original Brightness Retreat
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2009-01-06
Themes of meditation
30:49
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Through referencing the parable of the cook (S.47:8), we are encouraged to get to know the mind in order to choose the meditation theme that suits it best. There are a range of themes you can use to counteract hindrances: such as death contemplation, unattractiveness of the body, lovingkindness, Buddha and breathing. Through trial and error, find out what is needed.
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Cittaviveka
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Winter Retreat
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2008-07-12
The Great Passing
60:33
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Stephen Batchelor
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This is the seventh of a series of seven talks from the Study Retreat that interweaves reflections on Siddhattha Gotama's life, with critical interpretations of his teachings as recorded in the Pali Canon. In this seventh talk we conclude with his last years and death.
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Gaia House
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Meditation And Study Retreat
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