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Ayya Khema's Dharma Talks
Ayya Khema
1994-05-14 Spiritual Practice in Everyday Life; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Seed of Enlightenment) 1:22:28
Khema Archive (Land of the Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA) Retreat @ Medicine Buddha
1994-05-13 Questions & Answers; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Flowers in the Heart) 1:25:22
Khema Archive (Land of the Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA) Retreat @ Medicine Buddha
1994-05-12 Insights Arising out of the Meditation Absorptions, Impermanence, Unsatisfactoriness, Corelessness 61:15
Khema Archive (Land of the Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA) Retreat @ Medicine Buddha
1994-05-11 Questions & Answers; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Most Beloved Person) 1:30:48
Khema Archive (Land of the Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA) Retreat @ Medicine Buddha
1994-05-10 Right Concentration: First Jhana 46:48
Khema Archive (Land of the Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA) Retreat @ Medicine Buddha
1994-05-09 Questions & Answers; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Sun in the Heart) 1:31:06
Khema Archive (Land of the Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA) Retreat @ Medicine Buddha
1994-05-08 Making Use of the Technique; Contemplation of the Elements 1:25:45
Khema Archive (Land of the Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA) Retreat @ Medicine Buddha
1994-05-07 Loving-Kindness Meditation (Forgiveness); Sweeping: A Technique of Meditation 1:16:20
Khema Archive (Land of the Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA) Retreat @ Medicine Buddha
1994-05-06 Questions & Answers 1:32:56
Khema Archive (Land of the Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA) Retreat @ Medicine Buddha
1994-05-05 Recapitulation of Mindfulness and Effort; The First and Second Noble Truths; Dukka and our Reactions 56:50
Khema Archive (Land of the Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA) Retreat @ Medicine Buddha
1994-05-04 Questions & Answers; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Gratitude) 1:12:29
Khema Archive (Land of the Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA) Retreat @ Medicine Buddha
1994-05-03 Loving-Kindness Contemplation; 5 Daily Recollections 58:17
Khema Archive (Land of the Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA) Retreat @ Medicine Buddha
1994-05-03 Contemplation on Loving Kindness 20:34
In collection: Contemplations and Guided Meditations
1994-05-02 Purification of Emotions (Impersonal Love), Food Verse: "Reflecting Carefully" 51:24
Khema Archive (Land of the Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA) Retreat @ Medicine Buddha
1994-05-01 Mindfulness of Body and the Contents of Thoughts; Meditation Instructions; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Best Friend) 1:16:14
Khema Archive (Land of the Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA) Retreat @ Medicine Buddha
1994-03-16 The Jhanas and their Role in the Theravadin Buddhism 1:15:31
Bodhinyana Monastery, Australia
1992-07-26 Review and Overview 1:27:49
1992-SF-26
1992-07-05 The Four Supreme Emotions 1:17:13
1992-SF-05
1992-02-02 Where Do We Go From Here? + Loving-Kindness Meditation, Sharing of Merits 69:01
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-02-01 Precepts & Refuge; Loving-Kindness Meditation 1:10:04
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-31 Discussion, Questions about the Dhamma; Loving-Kindness Meditation 1:32:40
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-30 Generosity, Patience, Peace on 3 Levels of Practice; Loving-Kindness Meditation 1:21:10
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-29 Truth as Virtue, Concentration & Wisdom; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Gift of Love) 1:21:07
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-28 Virtue: It's Obstacles and Benefits; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Breath, Peace & Love) 1:23:32
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-27 The 4 Noble Truths & the Noble 8-Fold Path, Equanimity not Indifference as Mode of Conduct; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Fountain of Love) 1:11:25
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-26 Review of Practice Steps to See Self-Delusion; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Joy with Others) 1:28:35
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-25 The Morning Chanting (Pali & English); The 8 Emancipations; Renunciation of Sense Desires; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Non-Ownership) 1:32:51
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-24 The Seven Stations for Consciousness and 2 Bases (continued); Liberation Through Wisdom; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Jewel in the Heart) 1:18:37
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-23 The Seven Stations for Consciousness and 2 bases, Fine Material and Immaterial Absorptions; Loving-Kindness Meditation (4 Supreme Emotions) 1:26:54
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-22 Consciousness, The Pathway for Designation, Language & Description; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Vessel of Love) 1:20:45
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-21 Contact Conditions Feeling, Mentality-Materiality Conditions Contact, Consciousness Conditions Mentality-Materiality, Mentality-Materiality Conditions Consciousness, Consciousness as the "Knower"; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Compassion) 1:20:51
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-20 Considerations & Descriptions of Self; The Feeling Aggregate as Self; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Peacefulness) 1:28:06
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-19 Feeling Conditions Craving, 8 Ways of Contact and Feeling; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Gratitude) 1:31:25
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-18 Craving Conditions Clinging, 9 Conditions for Social & Personal Disorder; Loving-Kindness Meditation 1:27:23
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-17 Clinging Conditions Existence (5 Aggregates, 4 Elements, 6 Sense Bases, 4 Nutriments); Loving-Kindness Meditation (Forgiveness) 1:31:07
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-17 Dhamma in Daily Life 1:28:19
Khema Archive (Wat Buddha Dhamma - Australia) Retreat @ Wat Buddha Dhamma
1992-01-16 Existence (Becoming) Conditions Birth, Karma as Decisive Support; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Remembering Goodness) 1:18:50
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-16 Precepts and Refuge Loving-Kindness Meditation 1:27:37
Khema Archive (Wat Buddha Dhamma - Australia) Retreat @ Wat Buddha Dhamma
1992-01-15 Birth Conditions, Death; Investigation into Impermanence & Dukka; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Seed of Enlightenment) 1:28:33
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-15 10 Fetters and 4 Steps to Nibbana; Reviewing Knowledge 1:21:25
Khema Archive (Wat Buddha Dhamma - Australia) Retreat @ Wat Buddha Dhamma
1992-01-14 The Great Discourse on Causation- Dependent Arising (The Maha Nidana Sutta, D.N. 15); Introduction 1:15:28
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-14 Liberation; Stream Entry; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Remembering Goodness) 1:16:39
Khema Archive (Wat Buddha Dhamma - Australia) Retreat @ Wat Buddha Dhamma
1992-01-13 Dhamma in Daily Life; Loving-Kindness Meditation, Sharing of Merits 1:16:10
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-13 Dispassion (step 19 of Transcendental Dependent Arising) 1:22:14
Khema Archive (Wat Buddha Dhamma - Australia) Retreat @ Wat Buddha Dhamma
1992-01-12 Our Conduct & Behaviour According to the Buddha, Precepts and Refuge; Loving-Kindness Meditation 1:30:48
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-12 Disenchantment (Step 9 of transcendental Dependent Arising); Loving-Kindness Meditation (Entering The Heart) 1:22:13
Khema Archive (Wat Buddha Dhamma - Australia) Retreat @ Wat Buddha Dhamma
1992-01-11 Who Am I Really?, Impermanence as an Inner Reality 60:13
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-11 7th & 8th Jhanas (Meditative Absorptions); Insights Arising from the 7th Absorption; "Knowledge and Vision of Things as They Really Are" 1:25:59
Khema Archive (Wat Buddha Dhamma - Australia) Retreat @ Wat Buddha Dhamma
1992-01-10 Using Dukka as a Teacher and Guide; Loving-Kindness Meditation 1:12:35
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-10 5th & 6th Jhanas (Meditative Absorptions); Insights Arising from the 5th & 6th Jhanas 1:25:03
Khema Archive (Wat Buddha Dhamma - Australia) Retreat @ Wat Buddha Dhamma
1992-01-09 Meditation as Antidote for our Hindrances 60:46
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-09 Third & Forth step of Insight (a) Cause & Effect, (b) the 3 Characteristics; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Seed of Enlightenment) 1:26:23
Khema Archive (Wat Buddha Dhamma - Australia) Retreat @ Wat Buddha Dhamma
1992-01-08 Calm & Insight; The first Meditation Absorption; Loving-Kindness Meditation 1:26:10
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-08 3rd & 4th Jhanas (meditative absorption); Insights Arising From Meditative Absorptions 1:22:08
Khema Archive (Wat Buddha Dhamma - Australia) Retreat @ Wat Buddha Dhamma
1992-01-07 The Benefits of Sweeping Technique Explained 69:30
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-07 Second Step of Insight: Impermanence/Arising & Ceasing (Beloved Person) 58:06
Khema Archive (Wat Buddha Dhamma - Australia) Retreat @ Wat Buddha Dhamma
1992-01-06 Sweeping Technique of Meditation Part-by-Part 61:23
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-06 One-pointedness & Happiness vs. Sensual Desire and Restlessness and Worry; 2nd Jhana (meditative absorption) : Inner Joy 1:19:22
Khema Archive (Wat Buddha Dhamma - Australia) Retreat @ Wat Buddha Dhamma
1992-01-05 Unconditional Love "Metta"; Loving-Kindness Meditation 1:20:05
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-05 Sustained Application vs. Skeptical Doubt; Delight vs. ill-will; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Gratitude) 63:46
Khema Archive (Wat Buddha Dhamma - Australia) Retreat @ Wat Buddha Dhamma
1992-01-04 2 Meditation Factors vs. 2 Hindrances; Dhamma in Daily Life; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Lotus flower) 1:24:44
Khema Archive (Raymond Island - Victoria - Australia) Retreat @ Raymond
1992-01-04 Loving-Kindness Contemplation, Purification of Mind and Heart 64:52
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-04 Compassion, Sympathetic joy & equanimity; Loving-Kindness Meditation 1:15:24
Khema Archive (Sydney - N.S.W. - Australia) Retreat @ Sydney
1992-01-04 Walking meditation with primary elements; Questions; Transcendental Dependent Arising: Faith & Confidence 1:16:59
Khema Archive (Wat Buddha Dhamma - Australia) Retreat @ Wat Buddha Dhamma
1992-01-03 Insight into the 4 mental aggregates; Unconditional Love; Loving-Kindness Meditation (beloved person) 66:02
Khema Archive (Raymond Island - Victoria - Australia) Retreat @ Raymond
1992-01-03 5 Spiritual Faculties, 2 pairs = Energy & Concentration; Faith & Wisdom; Loving-Kindness Meditation 49:26
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-03 Factors of meditation vs. our hindrances 1:27:53
Khema Archive (Sydney - N.S.W. - Australia) Retreat @ Sydney
1992-01-03 Depending Arising: the 6 senses and their pitfalls; Sense contact, feeling, craving, clinging, becoming, birth, death 1:31:30
Khema Archive (Wat Buddha Dhamma - Australia) Retreat @ Wat Buddha Dhamma
1992-01-02 5 Daily Recollections = Contemplation; 3 Meditation Factors vs. 3 Hindrances 1:26:02
Khema Archive (Raymond Island - Victoria - Australia) Retreat @ Raymond
1992-01-02 5 Daily Recollections (Contemplation), Mindfulness of Body & Feeling, 4 Supreme Efforts 61:19
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-02 Purification of emotions; Unconditional Love; Contemplation on the 5 daily recollections; Loving-Kindness Meditation 1:30:37
Khema Archive (Sydney - N.S.W. - Australia) Retreat @ Sydney
1992-01-02 Dependent Arising: Rebirth Consciousness (every morning); Mind & Body: Purification of mind; Mindfulness of body and mental content 1:31:02
Khema Archive (Wat Buddha Dhamma - Australia) Retreat @ Wat Buddha Dhamma
1992-01-01 The "Why" and "How" of Meditation; Meditation Instructions; Loving-Kindness Meditation; Walking Meditation 62:18
Khema Archive (Raymond Island - Victoria - Australia) Retreat @ Raymond
1992-01-01 Prerequisites for Meditation, Meditation Instructions; Loving-Kindness Meditation 1:25:45
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM) Retreat @ Immaculate Heart
1992-01-01 The 3 dimensions of the human mind; Meditation instructions on the breath and walking 1:30:33
Khema Archive (Sydney - N.S.W. - Australia) Retreat @ Sydney
1992-01-01 Loving-Kindness Meditation (Lotus in the Heart); Walking Meditation; Contemplation: a) Loving-Kindness (b) 5 Daily Recollections; Reflecting Carefully (Food Reflection) 1:30:11
Khema Archive (Wat Buddha Dhamma - Australia) Retreat @ Wat Buddha Dhamma
1992-01-01 Walking Meditation Instructions 4:51
Khema Archive (Raymond Island - Victoria - Australia)
In collection: Contemplations and Guided Meditations
1991-06-04 5 Meditation Factors vs. 5 Hindrances (Oakland, June 91) 1:32:23
Khema Archive (Holy Redeemer - Oakland)
In collection: Lectures By Ven. Ayya Khema
1991-06-03 Meditation Factors vs. Hindrances (Las Vegas, June 91) 1:31:37
Khema Archive (Las Vegas, Nevada)
In collection: Lectures By Ven. Ayya Khema
1991-06-02 Loving-Kindness meditation (Santa Fe, June 91) 22:54
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM)
In collection: Lectures By Ven. Ayya Khema
1991-06-01 The Why and How of Meditation; Purification of thought and emotions (Santa Fe, June 91) 1:32:31
Khema Archive (Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary - Santa Fe, NM)
In collection: Lectures By Ven. Ayya Khema
1991-02-26 The Discourse on Loving Kindness (continued) 1:10:56
Khema Archive (Land of the Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA) SCR Retreat
1991-02-25 The Discourse on Loving Kindness (continued) 58:35
Khema Archive (Land of the Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA) SCR Retreat
1991-02-24 The Discourse on Loving Kindness (Karaniya Metta Sutta) 60:24
Khema Archive (Land of the Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA) SCR Retreat
1991-02-18 Mahavedalla Sutta, Questions and Answers, M.N., 43 Deliverance of Mind: 1) neutral feelings, 2) signless, 3) measureless, 4) nothingness, 5) voidness Loving-Kindness Meditation (Measureless) (New Style) 1:21:39
Khema Archive (Buddha Dhamma Hermitage, Bundanoon, Australia) Retreat @ Bundanoon
1991-02-18 Measureless 12:36
Khema Archive (Buddha Dhamma Hermitage, Bundanoon, Australia)
In collection: Loving Kindness Anthology (New Style)
1991-02-17 Mahavedalla Sutta, Questions and Answers, M.N., 43 1st Jhana vs. Hindrances; Sense Faculties Loving-Kindness Meditation (Seed of Enlightenment) (N.St.) 69:03
Khema Archive (Buddha Dhamma Hermitage, Bundanoon, Australia) Retreat @ Bundanoon
1991-02-16 Mahavedalla Sutta, Questions and Answers, M.N., 43 3 Minds of Beings; Renewed Being Loving-Kindness Meditation (Forgiveness & Peacefulness) 1:20:58
Khema Archive (Buddha Dhamma Hermitage, Bundanoon, Australia) Retreat @ Bundanoon
1991-02-15 Mahavedalla Sutta, Questions and Answers, M.N., 43 Insight Aggregates & Right View for Deliverance 1)Virtue,2)Learning,3)Converse,4)Calm Peace,5)Insight 1:31:40
Khema Archive (Buddha Dhamma Hermitage, Bundanoon, Australia) Retreat @ Bundanoon
1991-02-14 The role of the Teacher in Theravadin Buddhism Generosity - First Virtue of ten. Loving-Kindness Meditation (Be Part of the Whole) 65:42
Khema Archive (Buddha Dhamma Hermitage, Bundanoon, Australia) Retreat @ Bundanoon
1991-02-14 Be Part of the Whole 12:23
Khema Archive (Buddha Dhamma Hermitage, Bundanoon, Australia)
In collection: Loving Kindness Anthology (New Style)
1991-02-13 Kakacupama Sutta, The Simile of the Saw,M.N.,21 Mistress Vedhika & Kali. How to react to unpleasant speech. 47:56
Khema Archive (Buddha Dhamma Hermitage, Bundanoon, Australia) Retreat @ Bundanoon
1991-02-12 St. Teresa de Avila. A Comparison with the Jhanas. (F.C.Happold: Mysticism) 1:32:57
Khema Archive (Buddha Dhamma Hermitage, Bundanoon, Australia) Retreat @ Bundanoon
1991-02-11 Kayagatasati Sutta, Mindfulness of the Body,M.N.85 The rewards of Mindfulness of the Body Loving-Kindness Meditation (Best Friend) 1:14:34
Khema Archive (Buddha Dhamma Hermitage, Bundanoon, Australia) Retreat @ Bundanoon
1991-02-10 Loving Kindness Meditation 1:26:00
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Khema Archive (Land of the Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA) SCR Retreat
1991-02-10 Kayagatasati Sutta, Mindfulness of the Body,M.N.85 The 4 fine material meditative Absorptions Loving-Kindness Meditation(Letting go of unwholesome states) (New Style) 1:20:33
Khema Archive (Buddha Dhamma Hermitage, Bundanoon, Australia) Retreat @ Bundanoon
1991-02-10 Letting go of Unwholesome States 16:26
Khema Archive (Buddha Dhamma Hermitage, Bundanoon, Australia)
In collection: Loving Kindness Anthology (New Style)
1991-02-09 Kayagatasati Sutta, Mindfulness of the Body,M.N.85 Meditation Instructions for Calm and Insight Loving-Kindness Meditation (Golden Light) (New Style) 1:14:32
Khema Archive (Buddha Dhamma Hermitage, Bundanoon, Australia) Retreat @ Bundanoon
1991-02-09 Golden Light 11:31
Khema Archive (Buddha Dhamma Hermitage, Bundanoon, Australia)
In collection: Loving Kindness Anthology (New Style)
1991-02-08 Dvedavitakka Sutta, 2 Kinds of Thinking, M.N.,19 How to direct the Mind towards the Wholesome; 5 Ways of removing distracting Thoughts Loving-Kindness Meditation (Fountain) 1:25:56
Khema Archive (Buddha Dhamma Hermitage, Bundanoon, Australia) Retreat @ Bundanoon

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