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Ayya Santussika's Dharma Talks
Ayya Santussika
Ayya Santussika, in residence at Karuna Buddhist Vihara (Compassion Monastery), spent five years as an anagarika (eight-precept nun), then ordained as a samaneri (ten-precept nun) in 2010 and as a bhikkhuni (311 rules) in 2012 at Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara in Los Angeles.
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2025-06-10 Building up the Awakening Factors 38:29
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The Buddha's instructions on how to develop the 7 awakening factors all the way to realization of Nibbāna.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-10 Energy without Striving 21:33
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How can we develop the awakening factor of energy without trying to accomplish something, without coming from the personality view and our long conditioning to achieve?
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-09 Fueling and Starving the Hindrances and Awakening Factors 53:53
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The arising, persisting, non-arising and vanishing of the 5 hindrances and 7 awakening factors are based on causes. What are they? And, how can we use them to starve the hindrances and fuel the awakening factors? (SN 46.51)
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-09 Meditation on Loving-Kindness 21:30
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Infusing our investigation with an atmosphere of loving-kindness.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-09 Letting Go of Resentment - Bringing in Loving-Kindness 5:38
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A short reflection on letting go of resentment through investigation and bringing in metta.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-08 Breakthrough Defilement Killers 33:45
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Wearing away the defilements using the Buddha's method for effacement MN 8, including the 5 hindrances.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-08 Body Contemplation (33 Parts!?) 23:58
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Mindfully and kindly bringing attention to the body parts on the traditional list plus.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-08 Dropping in for Contemplation 25:14
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Establishing mindfulness and turning to investigation of whatever is present in this moment.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-07 Nibbana Biofuel: The Causes for Awakening 41:24
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"It's like when the heavens rain heavily downhill to fill the hollows ... they fill the ocean," starting with the factor of associating with noble people, factors are fulfilled all the way to Nibbana. AN 10.62 Craving
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-07 Guided Tour of the 5 Hindrances and 7 Awakening Factors 42:27
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After establishing mindfulness and scanning through the body, this guided meditation addresses the 5 hindrances and describes a natural progression through the 7 Factors of Awakening.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

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