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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

2021-05-24 The Compassionate Heart | Monday Night Dharma Talk 54:38
Jack Kornfield
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With mindfulness we can open to the mystery of our human incarnation—to gaze with an open heart at the unbearable beauty and the ocean of tears that make up life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-05-18 2021-05-18 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation Week One of Six 1:24:51
Mark Nunberg
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Common Ground Meditation Center :  Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation 6 week course

2021-05-13 Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of Thought 21:00
Kim Allen
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Insight Santa Cruz

2021-05-12 Remembering: The Practice of Sati 47:02
Kate Munding
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Mindfulness (Sati): Part 7 of a series on the Eightfold Path, this talk discusses Sati, or mindfulness, as a state of mind and a way of being. The complexity of mindfulness is explored (vedanas, wholesome desire) as well as the ultimate simplicity of remembering our truest self through practice of paying attention, alertness and contact with experience. Q & A at the end is included.
Assaya Sangha :  Assaya Sangha Dharma Talks

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