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Dharma Talks
2024-02-25 Q&A 16:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Q1 This person says that they are very sensitive and that things like traffic signs, noises, imperfections and the bustle of reality disturbs them. Do you have any advice? Q2 01:23 Could you comment on aging, sickness and death. Most of my friends and myself are in their late 70s or 80s and want to be more skilled in working with different stages and pain so as to be as prepared as possible for the dying phase.
Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat :  Cultivating the Empty Field

2024-02-25 Changing - Part One 1:30:22
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-02-25 Practicing with direct experience 39:04
Ajahn Sucitto
Examining direct experience we go deeply, beyond the constructions, finding in the heart that which is worthy of praise and emulation. This generates sangha, a living teaching.
Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat :  Cultivating the Empty Field

2024-02-24 Liberative Dependent Arising (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:28
Kim Allen
Liberative, or Transcendent, Dependent Arising describes an arc that runs from suffering (dukkha) to liberation, including many beautiful qualities like faith, joy, and tranquility. It shows how the mind gradually untangles through a lawful process.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation Retreat--1 Month

2024-02-24 Right effort is fulfilling effort with 20 min GM 34:53
Ajahn Sucitto
Notice the potency of unskillful language and how it can seem to squeeze us and create limitations in the mind.
Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat :  Cultivating the Empty Field

2024-02-24 Changing - Part Two 1:35:35
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-02-24 The satipatthāna 47:33
Ajahn Sucitto
The framework of body, feeling, heart, and phenomena arising is helpful and can be continued throughout the day.
Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat :  Cultivating the Empty Field

2024-02-24 Q&A 43:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Q1 Yesterday I had this thought that there is no shame in suffering. I'm wondering what is noble about the noble about the suffering in the first noble truth. Q2 06:17 Could you differentiate between awareness and consciousness? Q3 16:18 Please speak about bowing. Q4 20:39 Do you start and end your day with any reflections or recollections or practices? Q5 28:03 What is happening when right view and release become partially obscured again after right view has been attained? Why is it becoming obscured? Is cultivation of the empty field the main practice then and purification? Q6 33:32 It's taken several retreats to uncover this tremendous sense of guilt. When it arises it makes sense to avoid reconstructing the stories. the habit is to shut down the feeling. It appears as a pain in the chest. It shifts to holding back tears. Is this karma rather than the person?
Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat :  Cultivating the Empty Field

2024-02-24 Morning reflection: reading of part of a sutta on the 5 aggregates. 21:33
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February, 2024

2024-02-23 The Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:40
Jaya Rudgard
Reflections on the four noble truths, particularly on craving (tanha) and its abandoning.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation Retreat--1 Month

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