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Dharma Talks
2020-12-20
Open to Wise Attention
48:39
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Ajahn Sucitto
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We bounce off dukkha rather than digesting it, bound to experience the same characteristic of dukkha in another form. The guiding capacity of citta is wise attention. We must learn to widen and lengthen our attention span. In this space we can contemplate dukkha rather than react to it. Dispassion and goodwill, the natural actions of heart, can then arise.
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Cittaviveka
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Living, Dying and Liberation
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2020-12-19
Practicing at the Winter Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light
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Donald Rothberg
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After setting the context of the Winter Solstice, in terms of the earth and the history of many varied cultures which have had rituals and ceremonies at this time, we explore, through teachings, stories, and poems, five ways that we open to the dark:
(1) We stop and become still, like the earth.
(2) We learn to be more able to be skillfully with difficulties and challenges..
(3) We become more comfortable and skillful in conditions of not knowing, as we open to the unknown, the mystery, and shadow areas, both individual and collective.
(4) We come to experience darkness as generative and fertile, creative and dynamic.
(5) We come to experience darkness as luminous, as generating light, as opening us to the light.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Winter Solstice Insight Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting
the Light
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Attached Files:
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Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light
by Donald Rothberg
(PDF)
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2020-12-19
Walk Like a Boat
3:57
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Ajahn Sucitto
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A suggestion for walking meditation, to move like a boat down a river, citta open like a sail spread on the mast. Move through the water of thoughts, impressions, memories. Walk with difficult moods that arise, holding lightly, listening and receiving.
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Cittaviveka
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Living, Dying and Liberation
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2020-12-19
Stillness Flowing
46:11
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Meet the constant flow of life with the stillness and poise of citta. Relate to it all with respect and mutuality, learning to adapt, flow and listen to life. Practice with cultivation of subtle energies of body and heart and with samādhi.
Sutta Reference: SN1:1
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Cittaviveka
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Living, Dying and Liberation
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