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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2021-08-23
Loving Witness
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Jack Kornfield
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In any moment you can become the loving witness—it’s why we sit in meditation. We learn to sit with both heartbreak and love—with whatever arises. We become the loving witness of it all. What channel do you turn to amidst the joy and sorrows? With mindful loving awareness we can see it all anew. When we see with amazement, with loving awareness, we also see with the heart.
As Mary Oliver writes:
“And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood….
and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular….
and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.
When it’s over, I want to say all my life
I was a bride married to amazement….”
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2021-08-10
Opening the mind door
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Ajahn Sucitto
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We can’t always feel good but we can get enough stability to stop running, and instead meet what’s unpleasant. Meditation is the opportunity to safely become insecure – set aside the defenses and strategies, remain present and stable, and open. When you’ve accepted its presence with mindfulness, fear no longer propels the citta because it’s been integrated.
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Sunyata Buddhist Centre
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Open Stability
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2021-08-09
Guided Meditation – Breathing
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The aim of mindfulness of breathing is to steady, refresh and bless the mind. When the heart becomes clean and happy, it naturally widens and sends out good energies and actions into the world. So when you cultivate through heart, you benefit both your own mind and the lives of others.
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Sunyata Buddhist Centre
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Open Stability
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2021-08-09
No person, no problem
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Citta’s tendency is to grasp onto phenomena, seeking stability in the ever-changing nature of things. Citta can also respond to phenomena with mindfulness — an open attention that allows things to do what they do and move through. When the constant seeking abates, a pleasant abiding place remains. This is where true stability is found.
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Sunyata Buddhist Centre
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Open Stability
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2021-08-08
Balance internal and external
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Use the experience of deepening attention in your practice, to really see what’s around you. You can practice mindfulness when you move around off the cushion. Often we live in the cocoon of an assumed environment that is not really what’s there. Take a fresh look. Pay attention.
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Sunyata Buddhist Centre
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Open Stability
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2021-08-08
Open into the given
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Mindfulness is the heart's awareness. It can help us be embodied,present, and show up for life. The embodied sense is warm, cohesive and is sustained through the rhythmic flow of breathing. The sense of ‘I am’ sits in the center of that embodied sensitivity. This sense is a given and cannot be created; but mostly its ignored because we're too busy ‘doing’ to receive it.
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Sunyata Buddhist Centre
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Open Stability
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2021-08-06
Moving out of meditation
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Ajahn Sucitto
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A practice of lingering and noticing what has passed has an open and steadying effect. This is an aspect of mindfulness: to not rush onto the next thing but notice what’s there. This is where samadhi arises. Give yourself a set period of time while meditating, then make the movement out of meditation free and aimless.
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Sunyata Buddhist Centre
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Open Stability
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