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Dharma Talks
2016-03-16 Healing the Crack Between the Experiencer and Experience 36:36
Ajahn Sucitto
The Sankhara of Being Socialized Chasing the image - the "it" How can "I' watch "my" mind? Am I the watcher or the watched? Coming out of relationship to self as "it" Contact, feeling, perception, papanca Abandoning the struggle Pragmatic love
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-15 Developing Perception that Frees 48:40
Anushka Fernandopulle
3 Characteristics (anicca, anatta, dukkha). 5 aggregates, perception as impermanent, unsubstantial and unreliable. Seeing through illusions of time and space.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-15 Book Launch and Interconnectedness 36:51
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2016-03-15 Les enseignements retirer de ma retraite de yoga 62:53
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-03-15 The Inner and Outer Practice of Dharma - Meeting Experiences Generously 36:33
Martin Aylward
Dana is the practice of generosity as a foundation for happiness or the art of living freely and openly. This talk explores how we can transform the heart in generously meeting ourselves, others and the world around us. We see how qualities of Dana - Generosity, offering, supporting, nourishing, sustaining - are qualities with which to meet and respond skilfully to both outer' situations and inner experience.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2016-03-15 Untangling the Afflicted Mind 39:58
Ajahn Sucitto
The Brahma Viharas Intentionality Refreshing mind and body Not being fixated on suffering Attention amplifies Energetic shift out of patterning Opening to pain is already goodwill Harmlessness
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-15 Spheres of Awareness 55:42
Ajahn Sucitto
Softening boundaries Unskillful and skillful abstraction Objectification Friendship with the lovely Supports for entering the stream Buddha, & archetypal mother and father Recollection of death Not being good enough
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-15 To Others As to Myself 33:32
Ajahn Sucitto
Calm (samatha) & View (vipassana) Healing of body, heart, mind fields (kaya, citta, vaci) Cracks between self and other Moving out of abstraction To not be broken by unpleasant feeling To others as to myself
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-15 Morning Reflections on Awareness and the Tone of Experience 17:47
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2016-03-14 The Mindfulness Factor of Awakening 52:24
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-14 Life is Your Teacher 47:32
Martin Aylward
Martin asks us first to consider what we really mean by my life, and points beneath the roles, beliefs and activities by which we usually define our lives, to the basic elements of our experience - sensory input, feelings, perceptions, concepts and consciousness. The talk opens up these elements, seeing how our attention to them can teach us, and exploring how we can track, explore and understand our experience as it presents itself, allowing us to respond more fully and freely to the mysterious unfolding display of what we call my life.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2016-03-14 Breath Meditation 27:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Calming body and mind formations Buoyancy, ease, uplift, steadiness Spacious knowing Insight, dispassion Contemplation of conditionality Latent tendencies
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-14 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities - Week 10 - The Five Aggregates and the Six Sense Spheres 60:39
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities

2016-03-14 A Heart as Wide as the World: Cultivating the Heart of Love 5:26:14
Mark Coleman
Audio recording of the daylong program
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-03-14 Healing the Cracks 56:46
Ajahn Sucitto
The defended mind A broken world Gestures of empathy Karmic field of intentionality Trapping people in divisive abstractions Mental conception: A dart, wound & plague The seen, seer, and seeing Mano Vinnana Honey Ball Sutta Generating & stopping the world
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-14 Practice and Talk on Metta 1:32:06
Mark Coleman
Guided Meditation and Dharma Talk on Metta from our Monday Night Meditation Class with Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-03-14 Accepting Impermanence 22:53
Ajahn Sucitto
Healing splits Citta and conceived world Breath meditation Dispassion Relinquishment Natural empathetic quality of the citta Freedom from the known, imagined, and conceived
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-14 Morning Reflections on Sustaining & Returning to Presence 52:24
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2016-03-13 Inclining Towards Freedom - Clarity, Skilfulness and Love 52:25
Martin Aylward
Martin looks at qualities of mind that open up our Freedom of Being.He explores how Clarity dissolves our wrong views, how Skilfulness transforms our habits of mind, and how Love can hold all types of experience gently and wisely. The talk keeps references our common experiences, offering practical ways to integrate the teachings.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2016-03-13 Functions of Mind in Service of Liberation 49:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Vitakka - Vicara - Viveka - Jhana nexus Bring the mind here - explore, ponder, contemplate - absorbtion
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-13 Brief Tips on Working with Thought 12:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Vaci sankhara Tracking a train of thought to underlying mood and feeling Vipalasa - distorted and delusional seeing Expecting the impermanent to be permanent, etc
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-13 Mula Sutta - Liberation from Separation 45:15
Ajahn Sucitto
"All dhammas converge on feeling" Dhammas: moments of direct experience Origin of thought Being hit by a thought can shatter Abstraction and Ideologue's The seduction of clarity Abstracted mind can't be liberated vitakka, vicara, viveka
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-13 Morning Reflections on Awareness of Body Breathing 26:37
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2016-03-12 Contact and Feeling 17:34
Amma Thanasanti
Class 2
Shakti Vihara

2016-03-12 Dharma Talk - Exhortation 21:14
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Teachings from the Wilderness

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