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Ayya Santacitta
Santacitta Bhikkhuni hails from Austria and trained as a nun in England & Asia from 1993 until 2009, primarily in the lineage of Ajahn Chah and has also received teachings in the Shechen lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. She is committed to our planet as a living being and resides at 'Aloka Earth Room', currently located in San Rafael, California. Santacitta Bhikkhuni stammt aus Österreich and begann ihre Nonnenausbildung 1993 in England & Asien, vor allem in der Traditionslinie von Ajahn Chah und hat auch Unterweisungen in der Shechen Traditionslinie des Tibetischen Buddhisms erhalten. Sie ist unserem Planeten als lebendes Wesen verpflichtet und lebt im 'Aloka Earth Room', derzeit in San Rafael, Kalifornien.
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2020-06-28
'Bitter Medicine'
2024-12-04
'I Don't Know' Is a Powerful Point of Departure
2021-05-04
'The Five Elements are Empty of a Self
2011-05-26
'The Four Heavenly Messengers"
2019-08-31
"The Brahmavihara and Anatta" - A practice for our times of transition
2020-11-06
37 Qualitäten die das Erwachen beflügeln
2022-05-10
A bumpy ride or nothing whatsoever should be clung to as 'me and mine' (Retreat…
2023-03-05
A Crisis of Humility
2022-01-01
A Different Perception of Disturbances ~ Face It Full On!
2023-11-14
A Different Way of Knowing ~ Let the Boundless Qualities Shine Forth
2021-06-11
A Gift of Blessings from the Arahant Bhikkhunis
2026-04-04
A Grounded Knowing
2025-01-08
A Launching Board for Growth
2024-07-25
A Road Map Through a Web of Assumptions
2011-01-03
A Summary of the Path
2014-05-13
A Template for Experience
2022-05-06
Abschluss der Reise in die 37 Qualitäten, die das Erwachen beflügeln
2021-02-19
Achtsamkeit ist der Direkte Weg
2024-05-15
Admiring the Earth, Feeling the Stretch and Being OK With That
2014-05-31
Aligning Ourselves
2025-04-30
All of Us: Past, Present & Future
2021-08-14
Alle Phenomäne haben Befreiung als Essenz
2023-07-19
Allow Your State of Wonder to Stay Open, Without Always Trapping It into Meaning
2025-06-02
Allowing Endings to Be What They Are (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-06-09
Allowing Life to Speak for Itself
2023-11-29
Allowing Ourselves to be Surprised How We Can Show Up
2016-09-03
Almsgiving 2016 at Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery
2023-09-27
An Awesome Service We Can Render
2025-07-23
Ancient Evolutionary Structures Rumbling
2026-03-12
Ancient Technologies ~ Reconsidering Our Ways of Looking
2021-09-04
Anhaften & Verwirrung enstehen simultan
2020-10-24
Ankommen
2009-03-11
Arising and Passing Away
2013-08-11
Arriving and Settling: A guided meditation
2023-05-05
Arriving and Welcoming the 3 Refuges
2025-09-24
Art & Symbols Are Portals Into New Realities
2024-08-07
As Old Barriers Are Melting Away ~ Precision as an Expression of Love
2022-12-30
Asubha ~ Permeates our assumptions & opens them up
2024-07-10
Attunement ~ Becoming Like an Antenna
2021-09-22
Auseinanderfallen & Neubeginn
2023-12-27
Baby Jesus in the Rubble or Our Collective Reluctance to Feel
2026-04-04
Balancing Panna & Saddha
2024-09-11
Beauty of Maturation ~ a Sensitizing to the Subtlety of That Truth
2023-07-12
Becoming Alive Again ~ Stepping out of the hamster wheel of repetition
2024-12-12
Becoming the One You Have Been Waiting For
2021-09-29
Bedingungen die zum Entstehen von Dukkha führen & die drei Arten von Kurzschlus…
2022-05-11
Before it is too late ~ a gentleness which comes from clarity (Retreat at Spiri…
2011-06-01
Befriending Uncertainty
2021-11-05
Begehren erkennen
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
2023-11-13
Being Cooked or a Journey of Revelation
2021-06-12
Being Here & Supported by the Three Refuges
2025-01-02
Being Rooted Here
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
2020-12-18
Besinnung auf die vortrefflichsten Arahant-Bhikkhunis
2022-01-26
Bewusste Verletzlichkeit und Wachstum ~ Alles ist nur von der Natur geborgt
2021-08-18
Bewusste Vulnerabilität macht uns zunehmend unverletzlich
2026-04-05
Beyond What We Already Know OR Think We Know
2024-03-10
Birth, Death & the Web of Life.
2017-06-14
Body-Feeling-Mind States (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-12-28
Bodycontemplation - Guided Meditation
2009-12-31
Breaking Through
2023-06-24
Buddhanusati & the Four Protective Meditations
2021-06-20
Buddhanussati | Recollection of the Buddha
2021-05-07
Buddhanussati ~ A Springboard for the Heart & Mind
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
2023-11-15
Centering in Four Directions
2024-12-08
Centering Practice and Sensing the Body
2025-04-09
Challenging Habits of Modernity or a Different Kind of Generosity
2024-12-20
Chanting
2024-12-21
Chanting + A Reflection on Joy
2022-04-28
Chanting and questions and response
2023-06-24
Chanting the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta
2023-06-26
Chanting the Fire Sermon
2023-07-26
Choose Collective Healing Over Collective Self-Destruction
2025-10-29
Choosing to Listen to Aliveness
2025-04-13
Closing Comments
2025-06-04
Closing Guided Meditation and Dhamma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-02-07
Closing Session
2019-01-04
Closing Talk with Ven Dhammadipa and Ayya Anandabodhi
2024-03-13
Coming Down to Earth & Re-Membering
2023-11-11
Coming Home, Slowing Down, Not Turning Away from the Trouble
2019-11-17
Complete Balance ~ Complete Contact
2013-01-02
Compost and Fertile Ground
2025-03-27
Composting the Old Paradigm & Composting Yourself
2024-12-09
Connected, yet spacious & balanced
2023-05-10
Connecting with Our Human and More-Than-Human Ancestors
2023-05-14
Connecting with Our True Mother the Planet | Guided Meditation on the Four Elem…
2024-06-12
Connecting With Your Calling ~ How the Biosphere Wants to Heal Itself Through Y…
2021-12-04
Connection, Compassion & Blessings
2023-04-26
Consciously Turning Towards the Evolutionary Challenge
2023-06-26
Contemplation of Death & Metta
2011-01-02
Contemplation of Mind
2024-03-10
Contemplation on the Qualities of the Buddha & Awareness
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
2023-08-02
Cultivate Sense-fulness rather than Meaning-fulness
2023-05-03
Cute & Pathetic ~ Homo Sapiens in Transition
2022-02-18
Das Dharma antwortet uns durch Lebensumstände ~ Rechte Bemühung & Rechte Achtsa…
2021-09-05
Das Geschenk & Bojjhanga Chant
2024-12-19
Dawning of a New Perception: Reflection on 4 Satipatthana and Bramhavihara foll…
2017-06-15
Death is Inevitable (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-11-16
Developing Our Capacity to the Fullest
2026-04-01
Developing the Five Indriya or Spiritual Faculties
2021-09-17
Dharma = Medizin
2023-01-23
Dharma the Supreme Medicine
2022-04-01
Die 10 Fesseln oder Geistestrübungen stufenweise entfernen
2022-02-26
Die Dinge existieren nicht aus sich selbst heraus, sie sind bedingt entstanden
2020-12-04
Die erwachten Nonnen und die Therigatha
2022-05-06
Die fünf Fähigkeiten (indriya) & Leerheit
2021-09-05
Die fünf Gewissheiten
2020-11-06
Die Fünf Indriya
2021-07-02
Die Fünf Indriya & Bala ~ Fünf Stränge eines Seils
2021-07-02
Die Fünf Indriya & Bewusstes Gewahrsein
2020-11-20
Die Fünf Indriya & die Weite des Geistes
2022-04-01
Die fünf Indriya & Karuna
2020-12-04
Die Fünf Indriya, Gewahrsein erkennen und Ermächtigung durch die erwachten Nonn…
2021-11-07
Die grundlegende Tendenz des Geistes zu konstruieren
2021-10-13
Die Klimakatastrophe & der Edle achtfach Pfad = Win/Win Praxis
2021-08-06
Die Sieben Bojjhanga ~ Erwachungsfaktoren ermöglichen Loslassen
2022-06-03
Die Sieben Erwachungsfaktoren
2022-02-18
Die sieben Erwachungsfaktoren ~ Vertiefen & Erweitern von Erfahrung
2022-02-23
Die vier Brahmavihara oder himmlischen Verweilszustände bringen den Geist zu Ru…
2021-06-18
Die vier Iddhipada ~ Wege zum Erfolg
2021-05-21
Die Vier Rechten Anstrengungen & Loslassen
2021-05-21
Die Vier Rechten Anstrengungen münden in Anstrengungsloser Anstrengung
2021-01-16
Die Vier Übungsfelder der Achtsamkeit ~ ein Überblick
2021-04-03
Die Vier Übungsfelder zur Entwicklung von Achtsamkeit
2021-04-17
Die Vier Übungsfelder zur Entwicklung von Achtsamkeit & Bewusstes Gewahrsein
2021-09-08
Die Vier Vipallasa oder Verdrehtheiten
2021-11-07
Die vier Vipallasa oder Verzerrungen
2021-09-05
Die zehn Fesseln ~ Samyojana
2021-10-15
Direkte Erfahrung von Vergänglichkeit befreit
2021-06-06
Disenchantment & Reaching Out a Gentle Hand to My Own Mind
2023-11-08
Dispelling Hyper-individualism ~ Decenter Yourself!
2014-05-14
Distraction = Destruction
2023-06-27
DN 26 | Discourse on the World Ruler
2021-12-30
Do i Want to Grasp or Do i Want to Understand?
2021-11-10
Doppelte Praxis ~ Einsicht verkörpern
2025-03-05
Drawing Capacity from the Depth of Our Being
2013-10-05
Earth Care Dhamma
2020-06-27
Earth Element - Internally and Externally
2024-12-31
Earthbody Meditation
2023-02-25
Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene
2023-04-30
Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene
2024-11-25
Earthworm Practice in the Middle of It All
2025-05-31
Ecoliteracy: Learning a New Language (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-04-14
Eight Worldly Winds
2022-02-27
Ein Geschenk
2022-01-21
Eine Einladung unser Leben zu untersuchen ~ Rechtes Handeln & Rechter Lebenserw…
2021-09-05
Einsichtsfortschritt und die fünf Betrachtungen
2015-04-26
Elements and Feelings
2023-10-25
Emergence ~ Are We Going to Go with It?
2024-07-24
Emergence Happens as We Enter Sensorial Presence
2023-05-07
Empty of a Self - Meditation on the 6 Elements
2017-01-06
End of Retreat Reflection
2017-05-07
End of Retreat Reflection
2024-03-20
Engaging with a Plant Ally & Exploring a Question from Within the Web of Life
2012-04-06
Equanimity
2015-09-26
Equanimity
2021-09-01
Erkennen von Zusammenhängen ist befreiend
2020-12-18
Ermächtigung ~ Wie funktioniert das?
2021-03-06
Erstes & Zweites Übungsfeld der Achtsamkeit ~ Erd- & Windelement, Sterblichkeit…
2021-03-20
Erstes bis Drittes Übungsfeld der Achtsamkeit ~ Körper, Gefühlstöne, Geisteszus…
2021-01-16
Erstes Übungsfeld der Achtsamkeit ~ Anatomische Teile, Elemente
2021-02-19
Erstes Übungsfeld der Achtsamkeit ~ Anatomische Teile, Elemente, Sterblichkeit
2015-04-26
Escaping Into Reality
2017-06-17
Escaping into Reality (Spirit Rock Retreat)
2023-04-08
Even Civilizations are Impermanent
2023-01-01
Even the most sublime state of mind comes to an end
2024-12-10
Expanding Perception through Contemplation of the Four Elements
2024-01-31
Expansion of Consciousness or A Path into Healing & Wholeness
2010-06-25
Faith
2025-07-05
Faith & Wisdom or Living the Question
2021-06-20
Faith in the Buddha & Our Own Capacity to Awaken
2024-06-05
Fake It Until You Make It ~ Being the Change We Want to See
2016-07-16
Familiarizing Oneself with the Way Things Are
2019-09-20
Feminine Perspectives in Buddhism
2022-04-21
Fill yourself with the Dharma
2025-10-01
Finding a Different Way to Move With All of It
2023-04-08
Fine Tuning our Instrument
2022-04-23
Fine-tuning and strengthening the mind
2025-03-20
Fine-tuning the Mind & 4 Tasks in an Age of Endings
2017-05-04
First Foundation of Mindfulness ~ Body
2016-12-28
First Foundation of Mindfulness ~ Bodyparts
2022-02-05
First Vipallasa
2020-06-28
Five Elements & Awareness
2017-06-14
Five Opportunities for Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2026-03-31
Five Supports for Letting Go
2021-05-01
Four Elements & Seven Factors of Awakening ~ A Blessing for Ekuthuleni
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)
2024-12-11
Freeing Up the Beauty
2010-12-29
Gateway to Reality
2023-06-21
Gathering Our Re-Sources
2023-12-17
Gathering Our Resources
2022-02-25
Genauer hinschauen & hinterfragen
2024-10-21
Getting a Handle on Delusion: The Four Distortions of Perception
2023-04-09
Getting Ready to Take It On
2021-06-20
Getting to Know How the Mind Works
2025-09-17
Giving In Rather Than Giving Up
2024-11-27
Giving Thanks to Our Elder the Earth
2023-08-17
Global Witnessing: Take in the Planet's Feedback ~ It's a Practice for Our Times
2025-11-12
Going Beyond What We Know in Service of What We Love
2021-06-10
Good Or Bad Does Not Apply on the Path
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
2024-12-21
Grounded and Open to the New: Reflections on Winter Solstice and the Four Brahm…
2021-06-05
Grounding & Impermanence
2013-12-07
Growing Up & Waking Up
2021-09-04
Grundlegende Muster erkennen
2009-02-17
Guided Meditation
2025-04-11
Guided Meditation - Arriving, Settling, Getting Started.
2012-04-11
Guided Meditation - How We Create Our World
2024-03-09
Guided Meditation on Body Parts & Elements
2024-03-08
Guided Meditation on the Three Refuges and the Path.
2012-06-22
Habits of Mind
2019-08-16
Harnessing Our Energy to Meet the Moment
2015-06-20
Heart Opening
2025-05-28
Help Nature to Do Its Thing!
2022-04-22
Hidden in plain sight.
2022-02-02
Hindernisse werden in Gelegenheiten verwandelt ~ Besinnung auf den Buddha (Budd…
2024-07-25
Honing the 7 Factors of Awakening on the Threshold
2023-11-01
Honoring Our Ancestors & Being of Service
2024-07-26
How Can We Tap into the Liberating Potential of the Way Things Are?
2019-08-19
How Does Liberation Come About?
2016-05-14
How to Cultivate Wisdom
2017-12-30
How to Develop Wisdom?
2024-04-10
How to Ground Ourselves in Crisis?
2020-12-06
How to Let Go?
2025-01-15
How to Meet These Times?
2013-01-01
How We Meet Experience
2014-04-13
How Words Create Our Future
2025-08-06
I am the World & I Eat the World
2021-09-15
Identifikation oder Gewahrsein?
2024-03-27
If I Say 'Yes' to What Is, I Can Drop Deeper
2013-10-11
If it's in the way, it's the Way
2024-12-08
If you can't get out of it, you need to get into it
2025-04-16
Imagining Worlds Worth Working For
2019-06-12
Impermanence & the Five Subjects of Frequent Recollection
2022-05-09
Impermanence & Wonder of Belonging
2025-07-02
Impermanence ~ a Key for Opening the Door to Liberation
2021-11-28
Impermanence ~ Allowing Ourselves to be Changed by that Truth
2024-05-01
Impermanence or Becoming the Medicine We are Looking For
2026-01-01
Impermanence, Mortality and Other Enriching Contemplations
2023-12-13
In a Sacred Shitstorm We Can Still Walk the Noble Eightfold Path
2021-11-03
Individuelle & kollektive Mangel-Projekte
2026-04-03
Indriya & Bala or the Buoyancy Needed to Continue
2019-08-16
Informed by Experience
2023-10-18
Inner Activism & Response-Ability
2013-12-28
Inner and Outer Renunciation - Guided Meditation
2023-06-23
Intro & Simile of the Mountain
2023-05-27
Investigate into the Cracks (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-05-29
Inviting Archaic Memories of Confidence & Wellbeing to Emerge Organically
2016-12-30
It Is Possible
2023-05-06
Jumping into the River of Impermanence
2020-11-15
Just Because It Is
2021-10-06
Karuna ~ Mitgefühl untergräbt unheilvolle Geisteszustände
2011-07-03
Keep Going, a talk from a daylong called "Why Do I Meditate"
2013-12-29
Knowing Phenomena, Being Awareness - Guided Meditation
2024-10-24
Knowing What is Good for Oneself and What is Good for Others
2019-08-29
Knowledge & Vision
2024-12-31
Landing & Letting Go of the Addiction to Complexity
2025-07-01
Landing in the Body & the Land
2025-05-14
Lean Into What Really Matters
2013-07-12
Learning from Climate Change
2023-05-27
Leaving it all Behind as you are stepping into the next moment. (Retreat at Spi…
2024-11-10
Let my Gift to Myself be Patience
2025-07-05
Let my Gift to the World be My Constancy
2023-11-15
Let Us Do the Job: Attune, Grow Up & Respond
2025-12-31
Letting Go & Letting Come ~ Our Aspiration(s) for the New Year
2023-09-20
Letting Go & Letting Come ~ Working in Dialogue with the Living Planet
2026-04-02
Letting Go into Metta
2024-01-03
Life Can Speak for Itself ~ We Are Not Left to Our Own Devices
2023-08-30
Listen to More-Than-Human Authorities and Awaken to a Larger Context
2025-08-20
Listening to What We Belong to
2017-07-22
Loosing Fear of Formations
2021-08-08
Loslassen ist das Resultat von Klarsicht/Einsicht
2021-12-03
Loslassen von falscher Rede
2021-08-14
Loslassen, sein lassen und gehen lassen
2023-01-02
Make the dark night shine
2023-02-19
Make the Dark Night Shine
2025-06-01
Making the Spaciousness of the Mind Accessible (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-12-09
Map of the Practice and Q&A
2015-04-27
Maranasati - Mindfulness Of Death
2021-06-18
Maranasati ~ Achtsamkeit der Sterblichkeit / des Todes
2016-12-31
Maranasati ~ Contemplation of Death
2021-06-19
Maranasati ~ Recollection of Death
2021-05-05
Maranasati: Returning to the Mystery We Came From
2024-10-30
Mature Love or There In the Middleness
2022-09-18
Medicine for Letting Go Individually and Collectively
2024-10-09
Medicine for Overcoming Human Supremacy
2025-12-29
Medicine for the Heart
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
2021-08-08
Medizin gegen Anhaften
2011-12-01
Meeting Life with Lovingkindness
2025-01-02
Meeting the New Year With All Its Challenges and Blessings
2014-10-04
Meeting What Is
2022-02-09
Metta & Agape sind das Resultat eines alchemischen Prozesses
2020-12-26
Metta & Agape Spring Forth from Going Through the Fire
2023-05-14
Metta & Embodiment | Guided sitting & standing meditation
2021-09-05
Metta & grenzenloses Gewahrsein
2023-05-14
Metta = Result of Craving Raised to the Power of Awareness
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
2021-06-20
Metta is the Result of Going Through the Fire of Craving
2021-01-02
Metta, Karuna, Mudita ~ Expressions of Awakening
2020-12-30
Metta, Space, Awareness
2019-08-24
Mindfulness & Clear Comprehension ~ Sati & Sampajanna
2014-11-02
Mindfulness and Climate Action : 5
2020-11-15
Mindfulness and Putting Down Wrong Ideas
2018-04-04
Mindfulness Of Body
2021-10-27
Mit Ungewissheit sein
2014-05-11
Mother of Wisdom
2015-06-20
Motivation
2023-10-04
My Humanity Is Not in the Way ~ It's the Way!
2014-08-31
Never Turn Away
2020-10-25
Nibbida = 'Not Finding'
2021-09-17
Nicht anhaften ist das Gegenteil von Dukkha
2022-02-25
Nicht in Kontrolle & trotzdem bereichert
2021-11-17
Nicht-Wissen erlauben ~ Wo anfangen?
2016-12-29
No Mud No Lotus
2025-07-03
No Mud No Lotus
2024-07-17
Not Going Back But Coming Full Circle
2022-05-08
Not Wasting this Opportunity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-04-25
Not willfully changing anything, but seeing with increasing clarity.
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
2024-07-03
On the Threshold ~ The Sacred Is Not a Destination But an Approach!
2011-06-07
One Earth Sangha
2023-09-06
Open the Mind to Your Experience and the Path Appears!
2018-01-01
Open To The Vastness
2017-12-28
Opening Reflection on Simplicity and Letting Go
2022-02-04
Opening Session
2024-04-24
Opening to Darkness Is Bringing in the Light
2025-04-23
Opening to the Plain Potential of What Comes Next
2024-05-10
Opening Up Our Potential (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-12-18
Our Belonging to this Planet
2024-11-20
Our Bodies are Our Connection to Life
2022-12-30
Our bodies are sacred land ~ Elements & Mortality
2024-05-23
Our Bodies, the Elements & Integration of Deep Time
2024-06-19
Our Calling Fuels Our Evolution
2023-09-13
Overcoming Hyper-Individualism - Let the Discomfort Open You Up to the Flow
2020-06-27
Overview of 'The Work'
2021-07-11
Past, Future, Staying Present
2022-05-09
Perception of Impermanence Washes Away Craving (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-07-14
Planet Earth as Divine Messenger
2024-04-03
Polishing the Gems We Already Have
2024-11-13
Power as Process ~ a Devotion to Openness
2024-05-08
Practice for a Young Species (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-09-14
Practicing in Times of Big Changes
2024-07-25
Precision & Opening to What We Need to Know
2012-04-07
Preparation For Insight
2023-04-09
Progression of Insight ~ The Safest Investment Ever
2023-05-08
Progression of Insight Reveals our Vulnerability & Strength
2020-01-03
Put the Fearful Mind in the Cradle of Loving Kindness
2017-06-15
Question & Answer Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-07-05
Rapprochement ~ Reorienting Ourselves to Planet Earth
2023-12-30
Re-membering a New Way of Reponse-ability
2023-12-20
Re-Rooting In the Web of Life Is the Way to Go
2020-12-06
Reach Out a Gentle Hand to Your Mind
2020-01-01
Ready to Give Up for Real?
2024-07-31
Realignment ~ Let the Alchemy Take Place
2022-08-28
Realization & Actualization = Resilienz or the Capacity to Stay in Relationshi…
2023-05-14
Realization & Actualization Are Intertwined | Reflection & Guided Meditation
2022-04-27
Realization and actualization equals wisdom and confidence
2021-12-28
Really Being Here for this Collective Rite of Passage
2020-07-25
Receiving Blessings
2021-11-05
Rechte Absicht ~ Intention integriert Rechte Ansicht in unser Leben
2021-10-15
Rechte Ansicht bedeuted in die richtige Richtung zu gehen
2018-01-04
Reclaiming Our Life
2022-04-24
Recognition and probing
2023-10-26
Recognizing and Cultivating Our Natural Potential for Awakening (Retreat at Spi…
2026-01-02
Recognizing In Ourselves the Very Buddha In Whom We Take Refuge
2023-06-04
Recollection of the Buddha
2021-12-03
Rede ist ein machtvoller Spiegel unseres Geistes
2022-08-28
Reflection on Death as a Protection from Ignorance
2021-11-28
Reflection on Dukkha & the Elements
2022-02-06
Reflections on Second and Third Vipallasa
2012-03-01
Reflections on the Outstanding Women in Buddhism Award Ceremony
2025-11-19
Reframing Ourselves ~ Reframing Our Lives
2025-12-03
Reframing Perception I
2025-12-10
Reframing Perception II and The Unforgotten Wisdom at the Core of the Psyche
2025-12-24
Reframing Perception III ~ Our Life Seen From Afar
2026-01-07
Reframing Perception IV ~ Linear & Cyclical Time
2026-01-15
Reframing Perception V ~ What Is Real?
2026-01-28
Reframing Perception VI ~ Refinement in the Service of Life
2014-12-28
Refuge
2022-07-04
Rejoicing in Community
2020-11-16
Removing Distortions - That's Why We Practice
2010-05-09
Renunciation & Courage
2011-07-08
Renunciation as an Opportunity
2020-07-25
Resiliency Through Opening to What Is
2023-08-23
Resonance ~ Engaging with Creativity Beyond the Intellect
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
2025-07-02
Restoring Ancestral Relationships
2024-05-08
Restoring Ourselves to Community With the More-Than-Human World
2021-04-24
Return to Earth
2017-01-04
Returning to Simplicity
2021-05-30
Returning to the Web of Life
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
2022-03-04
Samadhi als Erwachungsfaktor & Metta/Karuna
2022-03-04
Samadhi eröffnet Einsicht ~ Rechte Sammlung
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
2024-10-16
Seamless ~ Earth 'Speaking' to Earth Directly
2022-02-06
Second Vipallasa
2013-12-30
Seeing in a Bigger Context - Guided Meditation
2019-06-20
Self Compassion
2014-05-13
Self-Secret
2024-07-28
Sense Making = When Cognition & Sensing Happen Together
2018-04-10
Sense Of Urgency
2024-05-22
Sense Yourself as a Fully Networked Organism!
2023-06-28
Sensing into Our Roots and Opening the Mind to Metta
2024-03-06
Separation is Getting More & More Difficult to Sustain as a Cultural Myth
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
2022-04-28
Seven factors of awakening in emptiness (announcements initially)
2014-01-03
Seven Treasures
2016-07-16
Sharing the Blessings of our Practice
2025-10-15
Shifting Our Sense of Being
2019-08-11
Sincerity of the Heart
2023-12-29
Sink, So As to Rise
2023-06-25
Six Elements Meditation
2023-12-06
Stability & Spaciousness ~ Our 2 Supports in this Perfect Storm
2025-10-08
Standing Firm With Earth
2011-09-25
Start Where You Are
2019-06-21
Starving the Hindrances & Feeding the Factors of Awakening
2025-06-11
Stay Engaged So That the Path Can Become Discernable
2024-01-10
Stay With the Intensity ~ Do the Connective Work!
2024-08-28
Staying As the Knowing ~ Stretch But Not Tear
2025-10-22
Staying Engaged Takes Us Beyond Boundaries
2012-12-29
Staying Open
2024-09-25
Steadiness ~ Walking the Question & Becoming the Answer
2014-11-15
Steady In Transition
2025-01-01
Stepping Out of the Silo of Human Supremacy in 2025
2024-07-28
Stepping Outside the Box of the Current Cultural Paradigm
2013-08-11
Stop Running
2014-01-04
Strive on with Diligence - Guided Meditation
2021-08-11
Stufenweise aus Konstrukten aussteigen
2023-05-07
Suffering and the End of Suffering
2024-10-24
Suffering and the End of Suffering: The Buddha’s Teaching on Anatta
2024-05-07
Taking an Interest in the Struggle—That's the Way We Learn
2017-08-13
Taking Refuge in Open Awareness, Taking Refuge in Buddha
2023-11-22
Taking Refuge In the Midst of It All ~ the Foundation of All Buddhist Practice
2016-05-11
Taking Refuge in the Way Things Are.
2025-05-07
Taking the Long Term View & Serving Life
2022-12-29
Taking your seat, relaxing & allowing
2025-04-13
Talk - Let my Gift to Myself be Patience (Closing Reflections, including Poem b…
2025-04-11
Talk - Not Too Much, Not Too Little - Practicing the Middle Path.
2025-04-12
Talk & Guided Meditation - Bringing Wisdom & Faith into Centre Stage.
2017-08-13
Tapping Into the Power of Refuge
2017-07-23
Taste of Nibbana
2021-07-16
Tathata = Soheit ~ Es Ist Wie Es Ist
2023-12-30
Tear Down the Walls
2021-06-09
Tear Down the Walls of the Mind
2022-01-21
Temporäre Befreiung des Geistes durch Mitgefühl
2017-06-16
Temporary Liberation of Mind Through the Four Brhamaviharas (Retreat at Spirit …
2019-08-28
Temporary Liberation of the Mind
2021-06-10
Temporary Liberation of the Mind
2025-06-03
Tending What Is Dense & Dark (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-03-18
That's How Evolution Works ~ it's messy
2016-05-11
The 3 Refuges as Support for Practice
2010-07-18
The Bigger Picture
2024-10-25
The Biosphere Knows How to Stay Alive
2024-07-26
The Body - a Field of Blessings & Challenges
2024-12-11
The Body as an Organ of Listening & Sensing
2024-03-09
The Body is a Gateway into the Dharma
2022-04-25
The body is fragile. Give it back to nature
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
2021-06-08
The Elements & Being the Knowing
2021-06-12
The Elements are Empty of a Self
2022-04-22
The elements are empty of a self.
2023-11-13
The Emptiness Which Is a Fullness or Loosening Our Grip
2013-12-31
The Fire of Transformation
2020-12-12
The First Foundation of Mindfulness ~ 3 Contemplations of the Body
2015-01-03
The Five Aggregates of Clinging
2018-01-01
The Five Aggregates of Clinging
2021-06-13
The Five Elements & Metta
2025-03-17
The Five Elements Revisited ~ as earthworms do
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
2020-12-06
The Fork Story & Other Meal Reflections
2022-12-30
The Four Brahmavihara & Anicca
2021-05-06
The Four Brahmaviharas are Craving Transformed
2015-04-25
The Four Elements
2021-12-04
The Four Elements & Non Separation
2015-12-31
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness - Guided Meditation
2020-12-12
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness ~ A Template for Training the Mind
2020-12-12
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness ~ An Introduction
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
2021-06-19
The Four Protective Meditations
2015-08-22
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness and the Four Iddhipada
2022-04-26
The heart of Buddhism
2015-04-29
The Heart-wish and the Four Iddhipada
2023-06-28
The Highest Blessings Chant
2022-12-31
The important work of cultivating the mind
2012-01-03
The Mind of Non-Grasping
2024-12-19
The Mind Which Does Not Cling: Reflection on 7 Factors of Awakening followed by…
2024-07-28
The More-Than-Human World Has Our Back Every Moment
2024-05-06
The Noble Eightfold Path ~ Metabolizing the Past & Opening Up Our Potential (Re…
2018-12-28
The Noble Eightfold Path Isn't a Straight Line
2021-06-19
The Non-Beautiful, the Elements and the Knowing
2023-06-28
The old narrative is simply too small
2020-07-11
The Path Is Made by Walking
2023-06-14
The Possibility of Serving as Part of the Planet's Immune System
2011-07-01
The Power of Restraint
2025-07-30
The Pressure Which Urges Us to Evolve
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
2022-08-28
The Six Elements & Emergent Response
2021-04-24
The Six Elements ~ Where We Belong
2015-11-28
The Skill of Gratitude
2024-01-17
The Subtle Joy which Accompanies that Intimacy
2017-12-29
The Three Characteristics ~ Structure of Experience
2013-05-24
The Three Refuges
2026-04-01
The Three Refuges & the Mind Wide Open
2014-05-12
The Transforming Power of The Factors of Awakening
2025-03-19
The Way of Love Is Not a Subtle Argument
2024-09-18
The Wisdom of No Escape & Our Innermost Request
2018-04-11
There In The Middleness
2021-06-12
There in the Middleness ~ Cultivating Equanimity & Perserverance
2024-06-26
There Is a Way to Mature Into ~ a Plug In Practice Ritual
2022-02-06
Third Vipallasa
2021-06-19
This Body Belongs to Nature
2019-06-24
This Could Be my Last Breath
2025-08-13
This Is a Journey of Discovery
2023-10-25
This Is Just What the Mind Does (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-06-18
This Is Truly a Collective Practice
2012-04-08
Three Characteristics Of Life
2012-07-13
Three Levels of Renunciation
2017-05-20
Three Tenets for a Happy Life
2022-12-04
Times are Urgent, Let Us Slow Down
2023-11-15
Toss It All Back to Nature ~ It Knows What to Do
2021-01-02
Train Yourself to Train Just a Little More Gently
2014-07-19
Transformation of Regret
2017-01-01
Transforming Conventional Tendencies into Supports for Awakening
2025-04-13
Trusting the Flow - Guided Meditation on the 5 Spiritual Faculties.
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
2021-06-06
Turning Upright What Had Been Turned Upside Down
2022-12-30
Turning upright what had been turned upside down
2017-06-13
Two Kinds of Truth (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-04-17
Untangle the Tangle & Ask Earth How to Serve
2019-06-08
Untangling the Web of Assumptions
2023-01-03
Upekkha ~ a blessing
2024-12-14
Upekkha and Allowing Things to End
2021-03-06
Vedana (Gefühlstöne) ~ Interface zwischen Körper & Geist
2017-05-10
Vesak Reflection
2025-05-31
Vistas We Have Never Seen Before (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-08-25
Vor-stellungen verstellen die Realität
2020-11-20
Vorwärtstasten
2021-08-14
Vulnerabilität & Unverletzbarkeit
2019-06-24
Vulnerability & the Liberating Power of the Seven Factors of Awakening
2019-12-08
Vulnerability & Transmission
2024-10-22
Waking up to Being Participants of the Planet: Guided Meditation on the 5 Eleme…
2021-08-13
Warum geht es in unserer Praxis?
2021-08-04
Was ich von meinen Lehrern gelernt habe
2021-03-20
Was ist der Geist?
2024-01-24
We All Need a Place to Land
2021-12-04
We are Not Separate
2025-01-22
We Are Not Without Medicine!
2025-12-29
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
2024-08-14
We Are Worked Upon & Need to Allow It to Happen
2025-01-29
We Belong to a Rich & Robust Lineage
2023-05-17
We Can Be a Vessel for that Emergence
2023-10-11
We Can Learn to Learn from What Is Happening in Our World
2022-08-28
We can train our minds to go deeper
2017-06-18
We Have a Choice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-08-09
We Have to Accelerate Our Own Transformation Now!
2026-01-01
We Live in All Things, All Things Live in Us
2023-04-17
What can I do in these times of complexity?
2019-06-24
What Do You Live For?
2019-08-30
What Does Master Gotama Live For?
2022-07-04
What I Learned from Community
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"
2026-03-26
What Most Needs to be Re-Membered in Service of Life?
2013-12-28
What We Bring to Experience
2022-05-11
When the student is ready, the teacher appears (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-05-05
Where Does It Come From ~ Where Does It All Go?
2010-01-10
Who Am I? Guided Meditation
2025-06-25
Widening the Arc of the Crash of Modernity
2021-08-08
Wie beziehe ich mich zu meiner Erfahrung?
2022-02-27
Wie beziehe ich mich zu meiner Erfahrung?
2021-08-08
Wie können wir das befreiende Potential der Erwachungsfaktoren erschliessen?
2022-02-26
Wir können Samsara nicht endgültig reparieren, aber wir können etwas tun
2025-09-01
Wisdom & Faith: Adjusting to Reality
2021-01-02
Wisdom & the Brahmavihara
2014-01-01
Wisdom and the Four Hallucinations
2021-06-19
Wisdom is Experience Understood
2023-11-16
Wisdom Is Experience Understood
2013-09-08
Wisdom or Knowledge?
2022-04-27
Working ourselves out of Dukkha.
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
2020-12-31
Worldly & Unworldly Feelings
2021-04-17
Zum Gewahrsein erwachen
2021-04-03
Zusammenhänge sehen befreit!
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1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
2001-01-01
SFI Sunday Nights
2009-03-06
The Heart of Wisdom: Monastic Retreat
2010-12-26
New Year's Retreat
2011-05-21
'The Marriage of Being and Doing': Monastic Retreat with the Saranaloka Nuns
2011-12-26
New Year's Retreat
2012-04-06
Wisdom and Compassion Are the Gifts of Mindfulness: Monastic Retreat
2012-12-25
New Year's Retreat
2013-12-26
New Year Retreat
2014-05-10
Monastic Retreat - Listening to Natural Law
2015-04-24
Listening to Natural Law: Monastic Retreat
2015-08-20
Monastic Retreat
2016-05-09
Taking Refuge In What Is True
2017-06-13
The Middle Way Monastic Retreat
2018-04-03
The Middle Way ~ Finding Our Natural Resting Place: Monastic Retreat
2019-05-05
Seven Treasures
2020-12-29
New Year Retreat 2020/21
2021-05-03
The Four Protective Meditations: Developing Courage to Meet the Way Things Trul…
2021-12-27
New Year Retreat 2021 - 2022
2022-02-04
Penetrating the Veils ~ Exploring the Four Distortions of Perception (Vipallasa)
2022-04-20
Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat
2022-05-07
Seeing the Path Clearly
2022-12-28
New Year Retreat 2022 - 2023
2023-04-08
Embracing Change, Mastering Letting Go
2023-05-05
Penetrating the Veils (online retreat)
2023-05-24
Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet - A Retreat with Buddhist Nuns (252R23) - On L…
2023-06-23
Skillful Living in a World on Fire: Grounded in the Noble Eightfold Path
2023-10-23
The Alchemy of Presence
2024-03-08
The Dharma Was Made For These Times - The Four Protective Meditations (online)
2024-05-05
With the World on Fire, Embody the Eightfold Path
2024-07-23
Saranaloka Online Summer Retreat
Creating a Supportive Container in Times of G…
2024-10-20
Weaving Ourselves Back into the Fabric of Life
2024-12-06
Where Wisdom & Compassion Meet - Monastic Retreat
2024-12-18
Chanting, Joy, and the Seven Factors of Awakening
2024-12-28
Saranaloka New Year Retreat 2024 - 2025
2025-04-11
Allies for Freeing the Heart (online)
2025-05-30
Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Other…
2025-06-30
Disentangling the Tangle
2025-12-28
New Year's Retreat: Weaving Ancient and New Ways of Being
2026-03-30
Acceptance and Agency: Cultivating a Well-Lived Life Through Balancing the Five…
2023-12-29
Sink, So As to Rise
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