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        2021-06-04
            'Just as the Rivers' Blessing Chant 
    
        2025-08-09
            "What do you want?": A Practice for Letting Go | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2015-10-13
            01 Letting Go: Suffering, Impermanence, Not-Self, and the Aggregates 
    
        2016-11-15
            01 Saturday Morning 
    
        2015-10-13
            02 Body Meditation 
    
        2016-11-15
            02 Introduction to Refuges & Precepts 
    
        2015-10-14
            03 Dispelling the Hindrances 
    
        2016-11-15
            03 Saturday Afternoon Dharma Talk 
    
        2016-11-15
            04 Guided Meditation 
    
        2015-10-14
            04 Methods to Understand and Work with Feeling 
    
        2016-11-15
            05 Dhamma talk - The Four Powers 
    
        2015-10-15
            05 First Feeding Your Demons Session 
    
        2016-11-15
            06 Q&A 
    
        2015-10-15
            06 Q&A and Feeding Your Demons Discussion 
    
        2016-11-15
            07 Guided Meditation 
    
        2015-10-16
            07 Second Feeding Your Demons Session 
    
        2016-11-15
            08 Dhamma talk - The Highest Blessings 
    
        2015-10-16
            08 Perception 
    
        2015-10-16
            09 Investigating Perceptions: What am I adding to this experience? 
    
        2016-11-15
            09 Q&A 
    
        2016-11-15
            10 Chant - The Highest Blessings 
    
        2015-10-16
            10 Q&A Night 
    
        2016-11-15
            11 Dhamma talk - Creating Refuge 
    
        2024-01-01
            2024 New Year's Day(long) AM Session 
    
        2024-01-01
            2024 New Year's Day(long) PM session 
    
        2025-04-19
            8 Movements Towards Peace and Happiness | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2023-12-30
            A World at War: The Practitioner's Approach 
    
        2025-10-25
            Acceptance 
    
        2024-12-28
            Actualizing the First Three Noble Truths  | Ayya Santussikā. Daylong 02/03 
    
        2024-12-28
            Actualizing the First Three Noble Truths - Daylong Retreat - 01/03 
    
        2024-12-28
            Actualizing the First Three Noble Truths | Ayya Santussikā. Daylong 03/03 
    
        2023-06-03
            Advice to Rahula 
    
        2024-04-03
            Afternoon Day 2: Impermanence Q&A 
    
        2024-04-04
            Afternoon Day 3: Q&A on Meditation (Jhanas, Precepts, Insight, Meditation, Obje… 
    
        2024-04-05
            Afternoon Day 4: Kamma, 4 Powers vs. 5 Fears 
    
        2024-04-06
            Afternoon Day 5: Transcendent Dependent Arising 
    
        2016-11-12
            Afternoon Dhamma Talk 
    
        2016-11-13
            Afternoon Dhamma Talk 
    
        2016-11-12
            Afternoon Final Dhamma Talk 
    
        2025-03-22
            Afternoon Session: Guided Meditation: Tetrad 1 + Metta 
    
        2025-09-26
            All Conditioned Things Are Impermanent -  All Things Are Not Self l KBV & CMM 
    
        2016-09-03
            Almsgiving 2016 at Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery 
    
        2024-11-16
            Am I Doing Enough in My Practice? 
    
        2021-05-08
            Anapanasati Guided Meditation 
    
        2021-05-08
            Anapanasati Guided Meditation 
    
        2022-06-06
            Anapanasati part 1 
    
        2023-06-06
            Anapanasati Part 1 
    
        2022-06-07
            Anapanasati part 2 
    
        2023-06-07
            Anapanasati Tetrad 3 and 4 -- Guided meditation 
    
        2023-07-01
            Anger: Training the Mind to Have Wholesome Mental States 
    
        2015-11-29
            Applying Dhamma to Climate Change and Keeping a Positive Mind 
    
        2023-06-10
            Appreciative Joy Guided Meditation 
    
        2022-06-04
            Arahants 
    
        2024-07-20
            Asalha Puja - Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta | Part 2 of 3 
    
        2024-07-20
            Asalha Puja - Practice | Part 3 of 3 
    
        2024-07-20
            AsalhaPuja - Adhitthana | Part 1 of 3 
    
        2023-01-14
            Attachments - How to Avoid Entanglement 
    
        2021-05-29
            Attitude, Non-Self, and the Story of Venerable Channa 
    
        2014-04-25
            Ayya Santussika on Fear 
    
        2014-04-25
            Ayya Santussika on Fear - Q&A 
    
        2014-04-24
            Ayya Santussika on Habits 
    
        2014-04-24
            Ayya Santussika on Habits - Q&A 
    
        2025-06-15
            Be the Dhamma, See through the Sense of Self 
    
        2023-03-25
            Being A Good Friend To Ourselves 
    
        2023-02-04
            Being Consistently Kind (Part 1) 
    
        2023-02-04
            Being Consistently Kind (Part 2) 
    
        2023-02-04
            Being Consistently Kind (Part 3) 
    
        2024-02-03
            Birthday Reflection 
    
        2021-04-24
            Blessing 
    
        2025-06-08
            Body Contemplation (33 Parts!?) 
    
        2021-06-09
            Body Deconstruction (Asubha) Guided Meditation 
    
        2025-06-11
            Body Meditation and Chi Gong 
    
        2023-05-21
            Boundaries (Daylong Retreat | Evening Session 
    
        2023-05-21
            Boundaries (Daylong Retreat) - Morning Session 
    
        2017-10-16
            Brahma Viharas (guided meditation) 
    
        2023-05-16
            Brahma-viharas 
    
        2025-07-04
            Brahmavihara Meditation 
    
        2021-04-04
            Brahmaviharas Guided Meditation 
    
        2020-04-04
            Brahmaviharas meditation 
    
        2025-06-08
            Breakthrough Defilement Killers 
    
        2020-07-11
            Breath Energy Guided Meditation 
    
        2020-03-21
            Breath/Divine Abidings meditation 
    
        2023-06-02
            Brief intro 
    
        2020-08-08
            Buddhanusati Dhamma Talk 
    
        2020-08-08
            Buddhanusati Dhamma Talk 
    
        2020-08-08
            Buddhanusati Guided Meditation 
    
        2020-08-08
            Buddhanusati Guided Meditation 
    
        2025-06-10
            Building up the Awakening Factors 
    
        2021-07-26
            Calling the Devas (Chanting) 
    
        2024-07-13
            Calm and Insight 
    
        2024-06-13
            Calming the body, calming the mind 
    
        2024-02-17
            Caring Attention 
    
        2023-06-12
            Changing 
    
        2024-02-25
            Changing - Part One 
    
        2024-02-24
            Changing - Part Two 
    
        2023-06-06
            Changing those Deep Patterns 
    
        2023-06-24
            Chanting the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta 
    
        2023-06-26
            Chanting the Fire Sermon 
    
        2024-06-11
            Choosing Mudita 
    
        2025-08-02
            Click Back and Click Up: Seeing Suffering with Wisdom 
    
        2015-12-12
            Climate Dhamma 
    
        2021-07-17
            Closing and Blessing from Three Ayyas 
    
        2025-06-04
            Closing Guided Meditation and Dhamma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2021-06-10
            Closing Homage in English (Chant Along) 
    
        2021-06-10
            Closing Homage in Pali (Chant Along) 
    
        2025-03-26
            Closing Session: Maintaining Joy in a Chaotic World 
    
        2025-06-16
            Coming Out of Crazyland: Three Characteristics Practice and Beyond 
    
        2021-05-01
            Compassion 
    
        2024-06-11
            Compassion 
    
        2023-05-25
            Compassion and Boundaries  (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2021-05-01
            Compassion Dhamma Talk 
    
        2016-11-15
            Complete Recording of Daylong 
    
        2023-07-29
            Contemplations on Ultimate Peace and Loving-Kindness 
    
        2024-06-08
            Cooling the Mind, Making it Firm 
    
        2023-12-16
            Course Correction to Nibanna 
    
        2020-07-25
            Craving, Indulgence, Suppression & Renunciation 
    
        2017-06-17
            Cultivating Confidence in the Triple Gem 
    
        2025-02-01
            Daylong Part 2: Who's Content in this World? | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2025-02-01
            Daylong Part 3: Too Content to Have Urgency? Try Giving Up a Kidney | Ayya Sant… 
    
        2025-02-01
            Daylong Retreat part 1: Contentment on a Scale from 1 to 10 | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2020-05-16
            Dealing with fear and uncertainty 
    
        2017-06-14
            Death and Dying on the Noble Eightfold Path (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2023-06-09
            Developing Immersion Further 
    
        2024-02-17
            Developing Resilience and Avoiding Despair 
    
        2024-04-20
            Developing The Pāramīs: Generosity | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2024-06-12
            Developing Upekkha 
    
        2023-06-13
            Developing Wisdom 
    
        2023-03-18
            Dhamma and Gender Identity 
    
        2020-03-21
            Dhamma discussion - Using change to develop wisdom 
    
        2020-09-27
            Dhamma talk and Q&A 
    
        2025-09-06
            Diamonds, Lightening and Open Sores: Working with Anger and Resentment | Ayya S… 
    
        2024-06-15
            Disassembling and Reassembling the Body 
    
        2025-07-01
            Disentangling from Self 
    
        2021-05-15
            Disgust 
    
        2023-06-27
            DN 26 | Discourse on the World Ruler 
    
        2025-09-13
            Don't Bend With the Trend: From Politics to Euthanasia 
    
        2024-09-14
            Don't Let the Mind Be Gloomy 
    
        2023-03-04
            Doubt - The Fifth Hindrance 
    
        2025-06-08
            Dropping in for Contemplation 
    
        2024-06-09
            Dropping What Binds Us 
    
        2013-10-05
            Earth Care Dhamma 
    
        2023-06-03
            Earth Meditation 
    
        2024-06-13
            Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space 
    
        2025-02-08
            East Bay Dhamma  - Dhammapada Verses 9 to 20 
    
        2025-05-10
            East Bay Dhamma -- Dhammapada Verses 44-59 
    
        2025-01-12
            East Bay Dhamma DHAMMAPADA 1- 8 
    
        2025-03-08
            East Bay Dhamma--Dhammapada Verses 21-27 | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2025-06-15
            Energizing the Awakening Factors using the Chakras 
    
        2025-06-10
            Energy without Striving 
    
        2019-02-05
            Engaged Brahmaviharas 
    
        2019-02-05
            Engaged Buddhism 
    
        2023-06-12
            Equanimity Meditation 
    
        2016-07-07
            Ethics, Action and the Five Precepts 
    
        2023-06-10
            Evening Chanting 
    
        2024-04-04
            Evening Chanting Day 3: 5 Subjects for Frequent Recollection 
    
        2024-04-05
            Evening Chanting Day 4: May I Abide in Well-being 
    
        2021-06-10
            Evening Chanting in English (Chant Along) 
    
        2024-04-03
            Evening Day 2 Chanting: Homage to the Triple Gem 
    
        2024-04-03
            Evening Day 2: Perception of Suffering as Happiness 
    
        2024-04-04
            Evening Day 3: Seeing Not-Self as Self, Discussion on Rebirth 
    
        2024-04-05
            Evening Day 4: Seeing the Un-beautiful as Beautiful 
    
        2024-04-06
            Evening Day 5: Cankisutta Practice Q&A 
    
        2024-04-02
            Evening Opening: Vipallāsa Sutta 
    
        2025-03-25
            Evening Session: Advice to Rahul (MN62) 
    
        2025-03-22
            Evening Session: Anapanasati Tetrad 2 + Metta 
    
        2025-03-22
            Evening Session: Guided Meditation 
    
        2025-03-23
            Evening Session: Tetrad 3 + Compassion 
    
        2025-03-24
            Evening Session: Tetrad 4 + Equanimity 
    
        2021-05-31
            Every Good Blessing 
    
        2012-09-25
            Facing Our Biggest Fears 
    
        2022-04-16
            Facing Sadness, Grief and Anxiety 
    
        2022-01-15
            Fear 
    
        2022-01-22
            Fearless 
    
        2024-06-16
            Feeling - Morning Reflection 
    
        2024-07-27
            Feeling Our Way Through 
    
        2022-06-25
            Feelings the Second of the Five Khandas 
    
        2024-06-12
            Finding Your Own Inspiration 
    
        2023-06-05
            Fire Meditation 
    
        2023-01-07
            First Steps on the Buddhas Path 
    
        2025-06-14
            Five Elements Meditation: Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space 
    
        2021-07-03
            Five Subjects for Frequent Recollection (Chant Along) 
    
        2023-05-14
            Five Unavoidable Situations 
    
        2014-04-28
            Flowing Grace 
    
        2021-07-03
            Following Our Likes and Dislikes 
    
        2020-07-18
            Forgiveness 
    
        2022-06-18
            Form the First of the Five Khandas 
    
        2023-06-26
            Four Suttas on What Can and What Can Not be Done 
    
        2025-01-04
            Framing Feedback Fearlessly and Other Instructions From the Buddha 
    
        2025-06-11
            Freedom from the First Two Fetters 
    
        2024-11-09
            From Ignorance to Freedom and Safety | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2025-06-09
            Fueling and Starving the Hindrances and Awakening Factors 
    
        2024-06-29
            Giving Up Greed Hatred and Delusion Part 1 of 3 
    
        2024-06-29
            Giving Up Greed Hatred and Delusion Part 2 of 3 
    
        2024-06-29
            Giving Up Greed Hatred and Delusion Part 3 of 3 
    
        2024-01-06
            Gratitude Practice According to the Buddha 
    
        2021-07-10
            Guided Anapanasati Meditation 
    
        2021-07-10
            Guided Anapanasati Meditation 
    
        2021-07-03
            Guided Anapanasati Meditation With Reflection on Likes and Dislikes 
    
        2021-06-07
            Guided Brahmaviharas Meditation 
    
        2023-05-14
            Guided Breathing Meditation 
    
        2021-08-21
            Guided Meditation 
    
        2021-08-14
            Guided Meditation 
    
        2021-07-24
            Guided Meditation - Breath, Pleasure, Loving-Kindness 
    
        2021-08-07
            Guided Meditation - Letting Go Into Curiosity and Kindness 
    
        2024-08-24
            Guided Meditation On Inspiration 
    
        2025-06-18
            Guided Meditation using Mindfulness of Breathing and the 7 Awakening Factors 
    
        2021-07-17
            Guided Meditation with Listening 
    
        2021-06-26
            Guided Meditation With Loving-Kindness 
    
        2021-05-22
            Guided Metta Meditation 
    
        2023-06-08
            Guided Metta Meditation 
    
        2024-06-16
            Guided Mindfulness of Feeling 
    
        2025-06-07
            Guided Tour of the 5 Hindrances and 7 Awakening Factors 
    
        2024-02-10
            Guiding Your Practice 
    
        2013-09-10
            Habits towards Nibbana 
    
        2023-07-22
            Happiness 
    
        2011-02-18
            Happiness No Matter What 
    
        2024-01-27
            Harmless Thinking Part One 
    
        2024-01-27
            Harmless Thinking Part Two 
    
        2023-06-04
            Highest Blessings 
    
        2024-08-17
            How Do We Get the Mind to Settle? 
    
        2025-06-13
            How the Practice Ripens in Letting Go 
    
        2023-04-01
            How to Apply the Dhamma When We Feel We Don't Fit In 
    
        2024-01-13
            How to Put it Down 
    
        2023-11-25
            How to Relate to Multiple Teachers in our Practice 
    
        2014-04-13
            How Words Create Our Future 
    
        2025-05-10
            If You See Something Say Something: Skillful Praise and Criticism | Ayya Santus… 
    
        2024-06-10
            Immersion through Metta 
    
        2023-04-30
            Implementing The Brahmaviharas In Your Practice 
    
        2020-07-18
            In-and-out breathing guided meditation Part I 
    
        2021-02-20
            Inclining Towards Nibbana 
    
        2024-08-24
            Inspiration and Investigation 
    
        2025-04-12
            Inspring Teachers and Inspiring Students | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2023-06-23
            Intro & Simile of the Mountain 
    
        2025-06-12
            Intuiting Your Way into Joy and Tranquility 
    
        2022-02-19
            Investigation of Dhamma 
    
        2022-02-05
            Kamma 
    
        2021-07-24
            Kamma and Confidence 
    
        2016-02-21
            Kamma and the Khandas 
    
        2021-06-26
            Kamma and Why It's Hard for Westerners to Understand 
    
        2024-06-11
            Karuna - compassion - is not about "suffering with" others 
    
        2022-10-07
            Kindfulness of Breathing Guided Meditation 
    
        2022-06-07
            Kindness 
    
        2021-06-08
            Kindness and Discrimination 
    
        2021-06-19
            Kindness Towards the Body Guided Meditation 
    
        2024-08-03
            Kindness, Fearlessness and Stillness 
    
        2017-10-03
            Kisa Gotami: Buddha's Deep Compassion Toward Women 
    
        2020-10-03
            Let Nature Teach You 
    
        2025-06-09
            Letting Go of Resentment - Bringing in Loving-Kindness 
    
        2023-05-14
            Letting Go of the Unwholesome 
    
        2023-04-15
            Liberation of Mind by Loving Kindness - AM session 
    
        2023-04-15
            Liberation of Mind by Loving Kindness Daylong PM session 
    
        2023-06-10
            Life Conditions Supporting Samadhi 
    
        2021-05-29
            Lightly Guided Meditation 
    
        2021-07-17
            Listening 
    
        2020-10-31
            Living Our Values 
    
        2014-04-20
            Loving the Earth: Awareness, Action and Celebration 
    
        2023-06-09
            Loving-Kindness and Compassion Meditation 
    
        2025-08-02
            LovingandLettingGo 
    
        2022-06-06
            Luminous Mind 
    
        2023-06-06
            Making a Wish and With Cunda on Purity 
    
        2024-06-09
            Making Loving Kindness Our Basis and Vehicle 
    
        2021-05-22
            May All Obstacles Be Removed 
    
        2024-04-13
            Medicines for the Mind 
    
        2019-02-05
            Meditating on the Brahmaviharas 
    
        2021-07-31
            Meditation Basics (ATM Cash) 
    
        2025-06-09
            Meditation on Loving-Kindness 
    
        2023-06-04
            Meditation on Water 
    
        2025-03-08
            Meditation Vacation| Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2021-07-31
            Meditation with Body Contemplation 
    
        2025-10-04
            Meeting Hatred with Love and Compassion 
    
        2023-07-15
            Meghiya Sutta & Humility 
    
        2023-05-25
            Metta and Karuna: Unlimited Kindness and Compassion  (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2023-05-15
            Metta Meditation 
    
        2024-06-19
            Metta Meditation 
    
        2021-05-15
            Metta Sutta Chant (The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness) 
    
        2025-06-12
            Mid-retreat Q&A 
    
        2014-11-02
            Mindfulness and Climate Action : 5 
    
        2024-05-07
            Mindfulness of Breathing Lite (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2025-06-02
            Mindfulness of Breathing: Body, Feelings, Mind and Dhamma (Retreat at Spirit Ro… 
    
        2024-06-15
            Mindfulness of Feeling 
    
        2020-05-16
            Mindfulness of in-and-out breathing meditation 
    
        2024-06-15
            Mindfulness of the Body Morning Reflection 
    
        2024-06-14
            Mindfulness of the Body Techniques 
    
        2022-06-12
            More Love Less Attachment 
    
        2020-09-27
            Morning chanting and guided meditation 
    
        2024-04-05
            Morning Chanting and Meditation Day 4 
    
        2021-06-07
            Morning Chanting in English (Chant Along) 
    
        2021-06-06
            Morning Chanting in Pali (Chant Along) 
    
        2024-04-03
            Morning Class Day 2: "Impermanence" as Permanence 
    
        2024-04-03
            Morning Day 2: Homage and Meditation 
    
        2024-04-04
            Morning Day 3: Guided Meditation - Breath and Metta in 4 Quarters 
    
        2024-04-05
            Morning Day 4: Meditation / Contemplation of Non-Self 
    
        2024-04-06
            Morning Day 5: Anapanasati Meditation with Guidance 
    
        2024-04-06
            Morning Day 5: Q&A Meditation Instruction and Everything Else 
    
        2024-04-07
            Morning Day 6: Brahmavihara Meditation, Practice Q&A, Refuges and Precepts 
    
        2024-04-07
            Morning Day 6: Chanting and Meditation 
    
        2016-11-12
            Morning Dhamma Talk 
    
        2016-11-13
            Morning Dhamma Talk 
    
        2022-06-04
            Morning Reflection: The Burden 
    
        2025-03-22
            Morning Session: Anapanasati Tetrad 1 + Metta 
    
        2025-03-25
            Morning Session: Guided Meditation - Brahma Viharas 
    
        2025-03-23
            Morning Session: Guided Meditation - Tetrad 1 + 2 + Mudita 
    
        2025-03-24
            Morning Session: Guided Meditation - Tetrads 1, 2 + 3 
    
        2025-03-23
            Morning Session: The Best Kinds of Joy 
    
        2024-03-30
            Nekkhama and the Elements of Escape 
    
        2024-03-30
            Nekkhama in the Material World 
    
        2024-03-31
            Nekkhama Within Intention 
    
        2025-01-01
            New Year's Daylong Part 1 of 2 - Thus Should You Train 
    
        2025-01-01
            New Year's Daylong Part 2 of 2 
    
        2025-06-07
            Nibbana Biofuel: The Causes for Awakening 
    
        2025-06-16
            No Further than the Shore - Ajahn Chah 
    
        2023-05-12
            Noble Disciples Introduction 
    
        2017-09-09
            Noble Eightfold Path, Right View Part 1 
    
        2017-09-09
            Noble Eightfold Path, Right View Part 2 
    
        2020-03-28
            Noble Truths meditation 
    
        2025-06-13
            Not Like It Says in the Books 
    
        2011-01-05
            Nothing At All to Worry About 
    
        2025-09-27
            Nothing to Accomplish - Except Building A Kuti, Two Monasteries, and Realizing … 
    
        2024-06-17
            Observing an Aspect of Mind 
    
        2024-06-18
            Observing the  Five Hindrances as an Aspect of Dhamma 
    
        2024-06-18
            Observing the Seven Factors of Enlightenment as an Aspect of Dhamma 
    
        2012-02-29
            One Auspicious Day 
    
        2011-06-07
            One Earth Sangha 
    
        2025-03-21
            Opening Session: Settling In 
    
        2024-08-31
            Opening the Dhamma Eye 
    
        2025-01-11
            Opening to the Training, Generosity and Unconditional Love 
    
        2024-05-10
            Opening Up Our Potential (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2022-06-05
            Ordinary and Exceptional 
    
        2025-08-23
            Overcoming Dukkha with Dhamma 
    
        2025-04-06
            Overcoming Fear and Dread 
    
        2022-03-19
            Patience 
    
        2024-03-24
            Patience—Developing the Pāramīs as a Way to Work with Aversion | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2022-12-24
            Peace on Earth and in our Hearts 
    
        2023-06-14
            Perception of Light Meditation 
    
        2022-07-02
            Perception the Third of the Five Khandas 
    
        2024-06-17
            Perceptions, Thoughts, Feelings 
    
        2023-05-13
            Powers 
    
        2025-07-12
            Practice in the Worst of Times : Lessons from Maha Gosananda 
    
        2022-04-09
            Practicing During Crisis 
    
        2016-07-24
            Practicing for Our Own Welfare and the Welfare of Others 
    
        2020-03-28
            Present with suffering discussion 
    
        2024-06-12
            Present with the Cycle of Feeling and Letting Go 
    
        2022-04-23
            Progressive Instruction MN 56 
    
        2021-05-08
            Projections and Stereotypes 
    
        2021-05-08
            Projections and Stereotypes 
    
        2016-11-11
            Public Talk 
    
        2016-11-14
            Public Talk at Grace Church Parish Hall 
    
        2025-02-08
            Put Your Face on the Closet Shelf - Real Change Is Letting Go of the Conditioni… 
    
        2021-08-21
            Q&A - Career Obsession, Creativity, Worldly Comparison 
    
        2021-08-14
            Q&A - Enjoyment, Fear of Impermanence, the Entertainment Industry… 
    
        2021-07-03
            Q&A - How do I work with deferring too much to others 
    
        2021-07-31
            Q&A - How is body contemplation important for meditation? 
    
        2024-06-10
            Q&A 1 
    
        2024-06-13
            Q&A 2 
    
        2024-06-16
            Q&A 3 
    
        2025-06-17
            Q&A 3 
    
        2024-06-19
            Q&A 4 
    
        2025-06-15
            Q&A Number 2 
    
        2023-12-23
            Q&A with Ajahn Anan: Relationships and Meditation Practice 
    
        2017-06-16
            Q&A with Ayya Santussika and Ayya Santacitta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2024-06-14
            Reaching the End of the World 
    
        2021-04-17
            Reading of Verses From the Dhammapada - The Self 
    
        2021-06-19
            Rebirth and Death 
    
        2024-09-28
            Reflection on Death 
    
        2022-05-21
            Reflections on Loneliness 
    
        2025-06-18
            Reflections on NIbbana and the Path 
    
        2024-12-14
            Reflections on Pilgrimage | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2021-06-25
            Reflections on Sharing Blessings in English (Chant Along) 
    
        2021-06-27
            Reflections on Sharing Blessings in Pali (Chant Along) 
    
        2023-12-02
            Reflections on the Recent Visit to Ajahn Gunha 
    
        2023-05-16
            Reflections on the Self 
    
        2024-06-19
            Reflections on the Teaching in Brief 
    
        2021-07-04
            Reflections on Universal Well-Being in English (Chant Along) 
    
        2021-07-09
            Reflections on Universal Well-Being in Pali (Chant Along) 
    
        2016-08-04
            Refrain From Killing 
    
        2020-07-04
            Relaxed, Alert, & Happy Guided Meditation 
    
        2024-06-08
            Relaxing into Retreat 
    
        2024-06-09
            Relaxing into Retreat 2 
    
        2021-04-24
            Renewal of the Heart and the World 
    
        2023-05-15
            Renunciation 
    
        2022-10-07
            Renunciation or Letting Go? and How? 
    
        2025-05-03
            Resources for the Mind | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2023-02-25
            Restlessness And Worry - The Fourth Hindrance 
    
        2024-06-20
            Retreat Closing 
    
        2016-11-12
            Retreat Introduction 
    
        2024-06-07
            Retreat Introduction 
    
        2017-06-15
            Revisiting the Noble Eightfold Path & Four Determinations (Retreat at Spirit Ro… 
    
        2024-05-09
            Right Intention (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2022-02-12
            Right Speech: What to Say and When to Say It 
    
        2024-05-09
            Right View All the Way to Nibbana (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2021-07-10
            Right View and Sunita, feat. Rev. Heng Sure 
    
        2012-02-17
            Salutation to the Triple Gem 
    
        2021-06-08
            Salutation to the Triple Gem in English (Chant Along) 
    
        2022-01-08
            Samadhi 
    
        2025-03-15
            Sati-Sampajañña | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2023-06-09
            Sati, Samadhi, Panna and Metta 
    
        2024-06-17
            Sayings of the Dhammapada on the Mind 
    
        2021-06-09
            Seeing What is Not Beautiful as Beautiful 
    
        2021-06-24
            Self and Non-Self (Week 1) at BCBS 
    
        2021-06-29
            Self and Non-Self (Week 2) at BCBS 
    
        2021-07-06
            Self and Non-Self (Week 3) at BCBS 
    
        2021-07-13
            Self and Non-Self (Week 4) at BCBS 
    
        2021-08-21
            Self-Reflection 
    
        2021-05-22
            Self, Non-Self, and Metta 
    
        2023-06-07
            Sense Restraint, Moderation in Eating, Wakefulness 
    
        2023-05-27
            Seven Kinds of Wealth 
    
        2017-10-16
            Shame, Guilt, and Regret (Dhamma talk) 
    
        2021-07-24
            Sharing and Q&A 
    
        2024-04-27
            Sila Pāramī - Daylong Retreat Part 1 of 3 
    
        2024-04-27
            Sila Pāramī - Guided Meditation Part 2 of 3 Daylong Retreat l Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2024-04-27
            Sila Pāramī - Hiri & Ottappa - Part 1/3 Daylong Retreat l Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2023-02-18
            Sloth And Thorpor - The Third Hindrance 
    
        2023-06-25
            SN 35:28 | Burning ~ the Fire Sermon 
    
        2023-06-27
            SN 36:21 | Sivaka 
    
        2023-06-24
            SN 56:11 | Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Dhamma 
    
        2022-05-07
            Solving the Problem: Dhamma to the Rescue 
    
        2013-03-19
            Stand Strong and Love 
    
        2011-10-21
            Standing Up to Greed, Hatred and Delusion 
    
        2024-06-08
            Start Where We Are 
    
        2024-03-02
            Staying Balanced With the Help of Our Friends 
    
        2025-01-18
            Stumpy, Don't Follow Me! | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2025-06-18
            Summary of Morning Reflection on Nibbana 
    
        2015-10-04
            Sustained by Sangha 
    
        2021-02-20
            Suttas on Nibbana 
    
        2025-06-14
            Taking on Personality View Directly 
    
        2025-03-01
            Taking the Self Out of Current Affairs | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2014-07-10
            The Art and Power of Listening: to Ourselves, to Each Other, to the Dhamma and … 
    
        2023-05-13
            The Bamboo Gates 
    
        2020-07-25
            The Basis of Piti (Mindfulness of Breathing Part 2) 
    
        2024-01-12
            The Big Picture 
    
        2017-06-13
            The Body Breathing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2023-07-08
            The Book Of Dana. Developing Positive Emotions. 
    
        2025-06-14
            The Buddha's Advice to Venerable Mahāpajāpati Still Relevant Today 
    
        2021-08-14
            The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness in English (Chant Along) 
    
        2021-08-14
            The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness in Pali (Chant Along) 
    
        2023-02-11
            The Challenge of Ill Will 
    
        2024-07-13
            The Crux of Delusion 
    
        2021-06-06
            The Distortion of Dukkha and Sukha 
    
        2021-04-10
            The Fetters That Fall Away at Stream Entry 
    
        2023-05-16
            The Five Powers 
    
        2022-04-30
            The Five Precepts 
    
        2021-06-22
            The Four Boundless Qualities in English (Chant Along) 
    
        2021-06-25
            The Four Boundless Qualities in Pali (Chant Along) 
    
        2017-06-17
            The Four Noble Truths - Part 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2013-07-13
            The Four Noble Truths in Action - Part 1 
    
        2013-07-13
            The Four Noble Truths in Action - Part 2 
    
        2013-07-13
            The Four Noble Truths in Action - Part 3 
    
        2013-07-13
            The Four Noble Truths in Action - Part 4 
    
        2023-06-03
            The Gradual Path in MN 39 At Assapura 
    
        2017-09-12
            The Great Disciples: People and Personalities in the Buddha's Community 
    
        2023-05-15
            The Healthy Mind/An Arrow 
    
        2023-06-28
            The Highest Blessings Chant 
    
        2021-06-05
            The Highest Blessings in English (Chant Along) 
    
        2023-01-28
            The Hindrance of Sensual Desire 
    
        2019-09-03
            The Joy that leads to Enlightenment 
    
        2025-07-03
            The Key to Easing Relationships: Love, Respect and Equanimity 
    
        2024-05-11
            The Mettā Pāramī | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2024-05-11
            The Mettā Pāramī--Guided Meditation | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2017-06-13
            The Middle Way to Awakening - You can do it! (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2024-04-13
            The Pāramī of Sacca: The Real Truth | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2024-05-18
            The Pāramīs: Energy & Resolution | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2011-01-21
            The Power of Buddhist Prayer 
    
        2024-08-11
            The Qualities That Bring Joy, Happiness and Awakening 
    
        2023-04-22
            The Removal of Unwholesome Regret 
    
        2023-05-16
            The Seven Factors 
    
        2021-05-08
            The Simile of the Boat 
    
        2012-01-20
            The Simile of the Cloth 
    
        2023-05-13
            The Six Recollections 
    
        2022-10-06
            The Solid Ground of Dhamma 
    
        2024-03-09
            The Strength & Power of Our Intentions and Actions 
    
        2013-10-18
            The Two Most Important Things 
    
        2013-10-18
            The Two Most Important Things 
    
        2023-04-08
            The Twofold Assembly: Monastic and Lay ~ Love For All Beings 
    
        2022-10-08
            The Ultimate Letting Go 
    
        2022-10-08
            The Ultimate Letting Go Addendum 
    
        2025-05-17
            Thinking: When It's Helpful, When It's Harmful 
    
        2017-06-16
            This is Samsara - There's nothing wrong (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2021-08-07
            Thoughts 
    
        2024-06-18
            Three Characteristic 
    
        2025-06-17
            To Do Good for the Sake of Goodness 
    
        2014-04-20
            Today’s Climate Reality 
    
        2017-06-10
            Training for Peace 
    
        2020-06-27
            Tranquil Body and Mind Meditation 
    
        2013-09-14
            Transcending Five Fears 
    
        2023-05-21
            Truth 
    
        2023-05-06
            Understanding Rigidity 
    
        2023-05-25
            Understanding the Hindrances to Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2025-08-16
            Unreasonable Harmony 
    
        2025-05-31
            Untangling the Innter Tangle: Relationship with Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2024-06-01
            Upekkhā (Equanimity) Pāramī 
    
        2020-04-04
            Uprooting aversion and discussion 
    
        2024-05-25
            Vesak - The Buddha's passing away 
    
        2024-05-25
            Vesak Morning Session: The Buddha Coming Into the World 
    
        2024-05-25
            Vesak: Ceremony Bathing the Buddha: Letting go of what is past and opening to t… 
    
        2025-06-06
            Vital Conditions for Developing the Awakening Factors 
    
        2025-06-07
            Water for Arahant Soup 
    
        2023-06-04
            Welfare and Happiness in this Life and in Lives to Come 
    
        2025-09-20
            What Are We Really Building?: An Empty Hut, Community, Our Practice 
    
        2020-07-04
            What is and is not Dhamma 
    
        2021-08-14
            What Provokes Our Unwholesome Tendencies 
    
        2025-06-21
            What the Practice is For: Equanimity in All Situations | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2024-07-06
            What to do When Leaders are Unprincipled 
    
        2024-03-16
            What Would the Buddha Say? Peaceful Communication Skills for Difficult Times Pa… 
    
        2024-03-16
            What Would the Buddha Say? Peaceful Communication Skills for Difficult Times Pa… 
    
        2024-03-16
            What Would the Buddha Say? Peaceful Communication Skills for Difficult Times Pa… 
    
        2025-07-19
            What You Know and What You Believe 
    
        2021-05-08
            What's the background of the Buddha statue? 
    
        2022-03-15
            When meditation and life are not going as planned 
    
        2020-07-11
            Where to put our effort 
    
        2025-06-12
            Who Do You Need to Pay and What Do You Need Them to Say? 
    
        2024-05-04
            Wisdom (Paññâ) Parami 
    
        2024-05-18
            Wisdom Power 
    
        2023-03-11
            Wise Discernment: Gender Discrimination in the Sangha 
    
        2017-06-18
            Worldly & Unworldly Pleasure & Pain (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2025-07-26
            Yes, Please Do Resuscitate: Reviving Your Practice | Ayya Santussikā 
    
        2025-06-11
            You Can Do It 
    
        2025-07-02
            You’re GOOD! Character Development for Awakening 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        Select one of Ayya Santussika's 22 retreats
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        1900-01-01
            IMCB Regular Talks 
    
        2000-01-01
            Tuesday Talks 
    
        2012-01-01
            Tuesday Talks—2012 
    
        2014-04-20
            Loving the Earth: Awareness, Action and Celebration 
    
        2015-10-04
            A Day of Connection: Sustainable Practice for a Sustainable World 
    
        2015-10-12
            Letting Go 
    
        2016-11-11
            Retreat 
    
        2016-11-14
            Daylong on Lopez Island, Washington 
    
        2017-06-13
            The Middle Way Monastic Retreat 
    
        2022-06-03
            Infusing Every Aspect of our Life with the Dhamma 
    
        2022-10-04
            Embracing Change, Mastering Letting Go 
    
        2023-05-12
            Becoming a Noble Disciple: Cultivating the Mind and Life of the Ariyasāvako 
    
        2023-05-24
            Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet - A Retreat with Buddhist Nuns (252R23) - On L… 
    
        2023-06-03
            The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life 
    
        2023-06-23
            Skillful Living in a World on Fire: Grounded in the Noble Eightfold Path 
    
        2024-04-02
            Dispelling Delusion: Exploring the Vipallāsas Through Early Buddhist Poetry 
    
        2024-05-05
            With the World on Fire, Embody the Eightfold Path 
    
        2024-06-07
            Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart 
    
        2025-03-21
            Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity 
    
        2025-05-30
            Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Other… 
    
        2025-06-06
            Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga 
    
        2025-06-30
            Disentangling the Tangle 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
         
        
            
  
         
     
 
    
        
    
	
        
		
			
                
                    
    
      
      
        
           
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      This guided meditation, dhamma talk, questions and responses was offered on October 25, 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
00:00 - Guided Meditation
16:44 - DHAMMA TALK
28:20 - Q&R
     
          
            
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  2025-09-26 
  All Conditioned Things Are Impermanent -  All Things Are Not Self l KBV & CMM
 
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      00:00  -    10:00   Morning Chanting
10:00  -    35:27  Sutta Reflections
35:27  - 1:09:21 Comments, Questions and Responses
This video is a recording of the regularly presented Sutta Study by Ayya Santussika and Ayya Cittananda that occurs most Friday evenings at Karuna Buddhist Vihara.  These meetings start with the Morning Chanting followed by the study of discourse(s) of the Buddha from the Sutta Pitaka. In this video Ayya Santussika and Ayya Cittananda are joined by Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho from the Clear Mountain Monestary.  The Suttas discussed include:
Arising  AN 3.136  https://suttacentral.net/an3.136/en/sujato
With Channa SN 22.90   https://suttacentral.net/sn22.90/en/sujato 
With Ananda SN 44.10   https://suttacentral.net/sn44.10/en/sujato  
The Shorter Discourse with Saccaka MN 35   https://suttacentral.net/mn35/en/sujato
You can find more information about Karuna Buddhist Vihara at the website below:
https://www.karunabv.org/
     
          
            
            	Karuna Buddhist Vihara