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Retreat Dharma Talks

Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-05-31 (10 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
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2013-06-05 Evening Talk- Day 6 - Remember What You Love 41:28
Ayya Medhanandi
To harvest the real riches of the journey, seek refuge and protection in wisdom; and gain profound peace and happiness through the practice of loving-kindness, compassion and forgiveness. These qualities of reconciliation uphold virtue, concord, care and respect so that we can befriend what is noble and realize the truth for ourselves. Even in the darkest hour, remember what you love, awaken the highest from within you, and light the path to freedom.
2013-06-05 Learn to Meet What Arises 58:57
Ajahn Sucitto
We’re conditioned to make a self out of sense consciousness, but everything simply arises out of causes and conditions. We practice with right view and deep attention to meet what arises directly, see it as phenomena arising and changing.
2013-06-06 Be the One Who Listens to the Crazy Mind 63:03
Ajahn Sucitto
The beginning of insight is knowing what’s helpful and not, recognizing causes and conditions. We learn to meet difficult thoughts and feelings in skillful ways. Calming the body, using gentle and receptive gestures, we learn to listen to and soothe the crazy mind. One starts to see that negative experiences are not the problem but the sense of self that identifies with all of it.
2013-06-06 Evening Dharma Teaching - Day 4 - Satipaññā and Refuge to the Rescue 48:45
Ayya Medhanandi
How can we avoid the pitfalls that Mara sets for us on the path? Develop Sati (mindfulness) to act as a gatekeeper that can recognize the earliest signs of delusion, ill will, and greed. At the same time, cultivate paññā, wisdom and sharp discernment to protect against unskillful speech, conduct, and intention or thought. These foundational practices will be both refuge and rescue from the snares of Mara!
2013-06-07 Cultivation of Insight 61:04
Ajahn Sucitto
The development of insight comes from feeling experience as it arises. Detachment, dispassion and relinquishment enable the allowing of phenomena, witnessing of change, and letting go of making it personal. We’re able to be truly present and in touch with what’s happening.
2013-06-07 Laying Down Tracks for New Kamma 66:50
Ajahn Sucitto
A review of the key teachings – how to practice with body, heart and mind in a way that leads to liberation. Firming up faith, restraining from unskillful habits, exerting the mind in skillful investigations, enjoyment and contentment of the mind.
2013-06-08 Practicing with the Impossible 54:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Mind can be useful, but keep it in its place, the world of abstractions. It doesn’t do well in the living organic world. Meet the inconclusive impossibilities of life with heart’s fundamental quality to open and include.
2013-06-08 Evening Dhamma Teaching - This is Not Beyond our Doing 49:23
Ayya Medhanandi
We can bear witness to each others’ suffering by recognizing genuine spiritual friends or kalyānamitta who share our values and our desire for awakening. Spiritual friends can help us identify our individual pitfalls and support our letting go of these obstacles. It is a joy to share the Dhamma together.
2013-06-09 Unplugging and Letting Go 40:28
Ajahn Sucitto
We practice to develop skillful reflexes in response to our human condition. Use body as a reference point when unplugging from mind’s unskillful habits and reactions. Meditation is an occasion to sense the quality of ungrasping and letting go.
2013-06-09 Closing Dhamma Reflection - Resting into Simplicity 1:40:48
Ajahn Sucitto
On this renunciant retreat, we have been encouraged to rest back into simplicity. Letting go of the emotional uprisings and self-identification, shift into the presence of embodiment here and now. Here we find the capacity that’s able to be with and not waiver.
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