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Dharma Talks
2020-10-18
Kathina as the Occasion for Social Harmony
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Ajahn Sucitto
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This event of Kathina encapsulates the skillful qualities associated with social harmony and cohesion – qualities of generosity and sharing, precepts and virtue, gentle speech and service. Recollecting the goodness of such actions, the heart grows and is strengthened.
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Cittaviveka
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2020-10-17
Contemplation: A Special Friend of Mindfulness
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Practice deepens when we are present here and now, able to intuitively understand and contemplate our experience rather than knowing it through concepts. We refine mindfulness with wisdom, receive the moment humbly and offer our full attention and devotion to know what is before us. When Truth rushes in, we forgive more and we grieve less.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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Day of Mindfulness
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2020-10-17
Mind Like A Satellite - Respect, Extraordinary Mindfulness and Wisdom
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Ayya Medhanandi
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A mind weeded of impurities is a field of stillness and wisdom where our suffering melts away. How does this happen? We study the mind and apply four facets of an extraordinary proactive mindfulness: exerted effort, penetrating focus on the object of awareness, heroic diligence, and contemplative devotion. In the silence of the undistracted mind, wisdom and a true and sustainable happiness arise.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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2020-10-17
In Our Own LIfeboat
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Intuitive knowing is the lens that connects us to the heart through our meditation. Leave the world behind and tap into that energy to enter the realm of pure receptivity, not known through the senses but fully known in complete Awareness that is a safe and liberating refuge. It leads us inward, beyond all wanting, to the ending of suffering, to an emptiness that surpasses all experience, all knowledge.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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Day of Mindfulness
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2020-10-16
This Is Where the Mind is Liberated
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Human beings have that special ability to deeply see and fathom things as they truly are. But we are so impatient. We resist letting go. Clinging, we harm unknowingly and stray from truth, gaining no peace. How can we recover and free ourselves from fear, anger, and mental distress? Purify the mind and directly know the larger truth of impermanence. See blessings where there was darkness. And in the heart’s core, touch the Unconditioned.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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Day of Mindfulness
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