Ayya Santacitta's Dharma Talks
Ayya Santacitta
After being inspired by the presence & teachings of Ajahn Buddhadasa, i ordained 1993 at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, UK. In 2009 i co-founded Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery in the Sierra Foothills of California, where i enjoy creating sanctuary close to nature, practicing in community and bringing wisdom traditions to the environmental movement.
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2019-08-31
"The Brahmavihara and Anatta" - A practice for our times of transition
2020-06-28
'Bitter Medicine'
2011-05-26
'The Four Heavenly Messengers"
2020-06-08
A Bigger Context (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-01-03
A Summary of the Path
2014-05-13
A Template for Experience
2014-05-31
Aligning Ourselves
2016-09-03
Almsgiving 2016 at Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery
2009-03-11
Arising and Passing Away
2013-08-11
Arriving and Settling: A guided meditation
2020-06-06
Becoming Teachable (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-06-01
Befriending Uncertainty
2019-05-07
Beginning at the Beginning (Retreat at Spirit rock)
2016-01-02
Being Awareness - Guided Meditation
2012-11-24
Being Benevolence, Intro and Guided Meditation
2018-04-09
Being The Knowing
2020-08-17
Being with Discomfort is a Core-Competency on the Path
2012-12-28
Being With What Is
2017-06-14
Body-Feeling-Mind States (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-12-28
Bodycontemplation - Guided Meditation
2009-12-31
Breaking Through
2018-05-05
Building the Raft - Day 1 - (Reflection/Talk) "A Foundation for Insight"
2018-05-05
Building the Raft - Day 1 - Question and Answer period
2019-01-04
Closing Talk with Ven Dhammadipa and Ayya Anandabodhi
2019-11-17
Complete Balance ~ Complete Contact
2013-01-02
Compost and Fertile Ground
2011-01-02
Contemplation of Mind
2019-06-09
Correcting Distortions of Mind
2015-12-28
Counting Our Blessings - Guided Meditation
2019-06-24
Creating a Sense of Urgency through Contemplation of Mortality
2012-08-01
Creative Despair - Learning from Everything
2017-06-15
Death is Inevitable (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-05-14
Distraction = Destruction
2020-06-27
Earth Element - Internally and Externally
2012-04-14
Eight Worldly Winds
2015-04-26
Elements and Feelings
2017-01-06
End of Retreat Reflection
2017-05-07
End of Retreat Reflection
2012-04-06
Equanimity
2015-09-26
Equanimity
2015-04-26
Escaping Into Reality
2017-06-17
Escaping into Reality (Spirit Rock Retreat)
2010-06-25
Faith
2016-07-16
Familiarizing Oneself with the Way Things Are
2019-09-20
Feminine Perspectives in Buddhism
2017-05-04
First Foundation of Mindfulness ~ Body
2016-12-28
First Foundation of Mindfulness ~ Bodyparts
2020-06-28
Five Elements & Awareness
2017-06-14
Five Opportunities for Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-04-04
Four Postures For Meditation
2019-09-16
Four Supports for Letting Go
2018-09-22
Four Universal Tones of Empathy (The Four Bhramavihara)
2010-12-29
Gateway to Reality
2020-06-07
Getting a Handle on Complexity (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-11-09
Gratitude
2015-11-28
Gratitude for the Web of Life - a guided sitting meditation
2019-11-23
Gratitude is not Politeness
2016-12-31
Greetings to the Natural World ~ Words Before All Else
2013-12-07
Growing Up & Waking Up
2009-02-17
Guided Meditation
2012-04-11
Guided Meditation - How We Create Our World
2012-06-22
Habits of Mind
2019-08-16
Harnessing Our Energy to Meet the Moment
2020-06-09
Harvesting the Fruits of Our Practice (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-06-20
Heart Opening
2019-08-19
How Does Liberation Come About?
2016-05-14
How to Cultivate Wisdom
2017-12-30
How to Develop Wisdom?
2013-01-01
How We Meet Experience
2014-04-13
How Words Create Our Future
2013-10-11
If it's in the way, it's the Way
2019-06-12
Impermanence & the Five Subjects of Frequent Recollection
2019-08-16
Informed by Experience
2013-12-28
Inner and Outer Renunciation - Guided Meditation
2016-12-30
It Is Possible
2011-07-03
Keep Going, a talk from a daylong called "Why Do I Meditate"
2013-12-29
Knowing Phenomena, Being Awareness - Guided Meditation
2019-08-29
Knowledge & Vision
2013-07-12
Learning from Climate Change
2017-07-22
Loosing Fear of Formations
2017-12-09
Map of the Practice and Q&A
2015-04-27
Maranasati - Mindfulness Of Death
2016-12-31
Maranasati ~ Contemplation of Death
2019-05-09
Meditating on the Seven Factors and Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-06-22
Meditation of the Elements & Temporary Liberation of the Mind
2019-12-30
Meditation on the Five Indriya
2014-08-16
Meditation on the Four Elements
2011-12-01
Meeting Life with Lovingkindness
2014-10-04
Meeting What Is
2019-11-10
Metta for Our Times ~ Hopefree & Engaged
2019-11-11
Metta for Our Times ~ Hopefree & Engaged
2019-11-13
Metta for Our Times ~ Hopefree & Engaged
2018-12-29
Metta Immeasurable
2019-08-24
Mindfulness & Clear Comprehension ~ Sati & Sampajanna
2018-04-04
Mindfulness Of Body
2014-05-11
Mother of Wisdom
2015-06-20
Motivation
2014-08-31
Never Turn Away
2016-12-29
No Mud No Lotus
2018-08-25
OKness & the Four Noble Truths
2011-06-01
On Intention or What We Bring to a Situation
2014-07-20
On Meditation
2018-01-01
Open To The Vastness
2017-12-28
Opening Reflection on Simplicity and Letting Go
2020-06-27
Overview of 'The Work'
2013-07-14
Planet Earth as Divine Messenger
2013-09-14
Practicing in Times of Big Changes
2012-04-07
Preparation For Insight
2020-01-03
Put the Fearful Mind in the Cradle of Loving Kindness
2017-06-15
Question & Answer Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-01-01
Ready to Give Up for Real?
2020-06-06
Real Beauty of the Nonjudgemental Heart (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-07-25
Receiving Blessings
2018-01-04
Reclaiming Our Life
2012-03-01
Reflections on the Outstanding Women in Buddhism Award Ceremony
2014-12-28
Refuge
2010-05-09
Renunciation & Courage
2011-07-08
Renunciation as an Opportunity
2020-07-25
Resiliency Through Opening to What Is
2017-05-27
Responding Versus Reacting
2017-01-03
Resting as Awareness
2011-01-01
Resting in Awareness
2011-07-03
Resting in Awareness - Guided Meditation
2017-01-05
Resting the Monkeymind
2017-01-04
Returning to Simplicity
2018-04-07
Right Action
2018-04-10
Right Concentration/Stability/Collectedness
2019-01-01
Right Effort - Regardless of How Things Work Out or Don't
2018-04-06
Right Speech
2018-12-29
Right Speech as a Mindtraining
2014-12-30
Right Thought
2016-05-13
Samadhi-A Pleasant Abiding Here and Now
2019-01-03
Samma Samadhi - Preparation for Insight
2020-05-17
Samma Sankappa ~ Right Intention
2019-07-27
Sanity and How to Let Go of Distortions
2013-12-30
Seeing in a Bigger Context - Guided Meditation
2019-06-20
Self Compassion
2014-05-13
Self-Secret
2018-04-10
Sense Of Urgency
2019-05-06
Setting the Tone--Getting Started (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-05-05
Seven Facets for Cultivating the Mind
2019-06-09
Seven Factors of Awakening & Cultivation of Refuge
2019-06-18
Seven Factors of Awakening ~ an Overview
2014-01-03
Seven Treasures
2016-07-16
Sharing the Blessings of our Practice
2019-08-11
Sincerity of the Heart
2011-09-25
Start Where You Are
2019-06-21
Starving the Hindrances & Feeding the Factors of Awakening
2012-12-29
Staying Open
2014-11-15
Steady In Transition
2013-08-11
Stop Running
2014-01-04
Strive on with Diligence - Guided Meditation
2017-08-13
Taking Refuge in Open Awareness, Taking Refuge in Buddha
2016-05-11
Taking Refuge in the Way Things Are.
2017-08-13
Tapping Into the Power of Refuge
2017-07-23
Taste of Nibbana
2017-06-16
Temporary Liberation of Mind Through the Four Brhamaviharas (Retreat at Spirit …
2019-08-28
Temporary Liberation of the Mind
2016-05-11
The 3 Refuges as Support for Practice
2010-07-18
The Bigger Picture
2019-06-23
The Brahmavihara & Temporary Liberation of the Mind
2013-11-29
The Capacity to Feel
2013-10-13
The Eight Worldly Winds
2019-09-16
The Elements & Being OK with Uncertainty
2013-12-31
The Fire of Transformation
2015-01-03
The Five Aggregates of Clinging
2018-01-01
The Five Aggregates of Clinging
2017-05-05
The Five Hindrances ~ a Template for Waking Up
2014-05-09
The Five Indriya
2019-12-29
The Five Indriya ~ A Simple Roadmap to Liberation
2015-04-25
The Four Elements
2015-12-31
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness - Guided Meditation
2015-08-21
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: An Overview
2020-05-05
The Four Heavenly Messengers & Covid
2013-04-07
The Four Noble Truths
2015-08-22
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness and the Four Iddhipada
2015-04-29
The Heart-wish and the Four Iddhipada
2012-01-03
The Mind of Non-Grasping
2018-12-28
The Noble Eightfold Path Isn't a Straight Line
2020-07-11
The Path Is Made by Walking
2011-07-01
The Power of Restraint
2012-01-01
The Seven Awakening Factors and Renunciation
2019-06-24
The Seven Factors of Awakening & Temporary Liberation of the Mind
2010-12-31
The Seven Factors of Enlightenment
2020-01-05
The Simile of the Mountain or Good Compost for Evolution
2015-08-22
The Simplicity of the First Three Foundations of Mindfulness
2015-11-28
The Skill of Gratitude
2017-12-29
The Three Characteristics ~ Structure of Experience
2013-05-24
The Three Refuges
2014-05-12
The Transforming Power of The Factors of Awakening
2018-04-11
There In The Middleness
2019-06-24
This Could Be my Last Breath
2012-04-08
Three Characteristics Of Life
2012-07-13
Three Levels of Renunciation
2017-05-20
Three Tenets for a Happy Life
2014-07-19
Transformation of Regret
2017-01-01
Transforming Conventional Tendencies into Supports for Awakening
2016-05-10
Tuning the Instrument of the Body
2013-08-23
Turn Towards It
2019-06-22
Turned Upside Down
2019-09-14
Turning Upright What Had Been Turned Upside Down
2017-06-13
Two Kinds of Truth (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-06-08
Untangling the Web of Assumptions
2017-05-10
Vesak Reflection
2019-06-24
Vulnerability & the Liberating Power of the Seven Factors of Awakening
2019-12-08
Vulnerability & Transmission
2017-06-18
We Have a Choice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-06-24
What Do You Live For?
2019-08-30
What Does Master Gotama Live For?
2015-12-29
What Is Dukkha?
2012-07-08
What Is Inner Strength?
2020-01-04
What is Panna (Wisdom)?
2018-04-05
What Is Right Thought/Intention?
2013-07-07
What Meditation Can Do For "You"
2013-12-28
What We Bring to Experience
2010-01-10
Who Am I? Guided Meditation
2014-01-01
Wisdom and the Four Hallucinations
2013-09-08
Wisdom or Knowledge?
2011-06-08
Working with Doubt
2012-04-09
Working With Feelings
2018-01-03
Working with the Five Aggregates
2019-08-25
Working with the Hindrances
2012-04-11
World Map Of The Practice
