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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2025-03-23
Light on effort, an oar in the stream
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Ajahn Sucitto
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With effort, citta is the main thing. It’s both the heart quality from where intention streams and that which harvests the results. Then one knows where to best apply energy and how that’s done. Practise the application of effort to mindfulness of breathing, acknowledging and moderating the tools being used and the material they’re being applied to. When you practise rightly, there will be fortunate results.
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Cittaviveka
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End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat
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2025-03-22
Three kinds of Nibbana in our western Insight traditions
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Tempel Smith
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Within our blessed lineages of Venerables Ajahn Cha and Mahasi Sayadaw, and the teachings within the Pali Canon, we have found three kinds of nibbana. Nibbana is closely related to the full liberation from dukkha (suffering). To even talk about one kind of nibbana can be difficult as it is beyond language, yet there is another confusion within western Insight meditation. By practicing in Mahasi's Burmese meditaitons, in Cha's Thai Forest meditations, and here in North America, there are roughly three kinds of nibbana: a) an unperturbed background field of awareness, b) a perfect zero of cessation, and c) a stream of transient mind-body moments without greed, hatred or craving.
Knowing of these three kinds of nibbana can clarify what our vipassana practices are aimed at.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
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2025-03-22
Light on balance
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Ajahn Sucitto
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March 2025 retreat - talk 1 - This teaching uses the metaphor of a keel of a boat, that which gives balance in open ocean waters, to point to how to handle conditionality. Finding that balance between what we restrain from (varita) and what we do (charita); between internal and external. The heart already knows this balance, if we can just shine a light on it.
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Cittaviveka
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End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat
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2025-03-22
Feel truth, avoid plastic
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Whether one’s context is of a meditative community, or a natural world, or of mainstream society, one’s world is based on perceptions. To get perspective on this, bodily presence is basic. It opens an awareness before the mind gets going, and before the world of circumstance. Learn to filter the shocking ‘world’ of the media.. Sustain perceptions of the bright and worthy- and live in accord. Don’t go automatic!
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Cittaviveka
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End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat
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2025-03-21
Einsicht in Leerheit
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Renate Seifarth
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Ein Vertreter einer anderen spirituellen Gruppierung zweifelt an der Lehre von Anatta und versucht sie zu widerlegen. Im Disput zwischen ihm und dem Buddha wird er überzeugt, da er keine der 5 khandha Kontrolle ausüben kann. Genauso können wir in unserer Praxis vorgehen und das, was wir erleben, in Hinblick darauf untersuchen, ob wir eine Kontrolle darüber ausüben können und falls nicht, wieso wir davon ausgehen können, dass dies Ich oder Mein sein kann.
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Seminarhaus Engl
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Engl 3-Wochenretreat
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2025-03-20
Nur eigene Einsicht befreit
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Renate Seifarth
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Ausgehend von der Lehrrede in der Mittleren Sammlung 22 wird erläutert, dass nicht kognitives Wissen, sondern eigene direkte Einsicht befreit, die wir gewinnen können, wenn wir Buddhas Aussagen selbst überprüfen und durchdringen. Im weiteren geht es um das Wesensmerkmal der Vergänglichkeit und wie wir darüber unser Haften am Glauben eines Ichs durchdringen können.
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Seminarhaus Engl
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Engl 3-Wochenretreat
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2025-03-18
Dukkha durchzieht unser Leben
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Renate Seifarth
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Grundlage ist MN9 Buddha spricht in dieser Lehrrede über dukkha, das auf verschiedenen Ebenen Teil des Lebens ist. Der Ursprung liegt für ihn im Begehren nach Dasein und Nicht-Dasein. Erkennen wir das damit verbundene dukkha werden wir entzaubert und geben die Ansicht und den Dünkel von „Ich bin“ auf.
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Seminarhaus Engl
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Engl 3-Wochenretreat
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2025-03-17
Compassion Instruction and Guidance
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Tempel Smith
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We need to explore how to find and develop true compassion which is a beautiful quality of opening our hearts to the suffering inside and outside ourselves. While there is pain in suffering we can actually grow to have a sweet heart of compassion when we know how to breath open heartedly in contact with pain and suffering. When we find true compassion we don't need to shrink back from what is difficult but rather use the commonalities of difficulties to feel warm and expanded.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
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2025-03-16
Q&A
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Questions are précised. 00:36 Q1. Can you please clarify the difference between awareness and presence; 09:04 Q2 I became a monk but left due to overwhelming negative meditation experiences which are still continuing. Can you suggest something please? 15:24 Q3 In the evening I think I would like to get up early so there’s more time for practice; 19:42 Q4 I’ve been a Buddhist for 35 years but only recently have started to open up the heart. I’ve never been able to cry, only anger and depression. Since my mother died I cry a lot, even through the day. What can I do?22:43 Q5 I’m on two and a half solitary retreat. I use body practices but I am experiencing migraines. What can you suggest; 27:42 Q6 I live by myself after being asked to leave by house mates with no explanation. In my new place the neighbours pick fights with me and yell at my door. My previous housemates said I was psychotic. I am depressed. How do I not loose heart? 42:18 Q7 How can one embrace this human existence and remain unattached to any identity?
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Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
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2025-03-16
Dhammapraxis folgt zwei Strängen
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Renate Seifarth
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Dhammapraxis verfolgt zwei Stränge. Auf der einen Seite wollen wir lernen allen Erfahrungen gleichermaßen ohne Vorurteile, ohne Druck, ohne Reaktivität zu begegnen. Das wirkt erleichternd, wohltuend und löst unseren inneren Kampf auf. Auf der anderen Seite streben wir danach die Triebe, die als Habgier, Übelwollen, Verblendung, die als Fieber umschrieben werden, zu überwinden. Beide Stränge gilt es in unserer Praxis zu vereinen. Darauf weist insbesondere der vierte Bereich der Achtsamkeitsübung hin.
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Seminarhaus Engl
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Engl 3-Wochenretreat
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2025-03-15
The Process and Experience of "Streaming"
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Tempel Smith
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The Buddha wanted us to learn how to wakefully "stream", to realize we are forever and only a stream of mental and physical phenomena. We have no part internally or externally which is permanent, though in daily life we subjectively feel as if there is a lot of dependably permanent parts of life. With the deepening intimacy of mindfulness all there is is a flow and change. With patience we can learn to find liberation within the universal aspect of impermanence.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
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