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2017-07-18 Taking Refuge 7:47
Bonnie Duran
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Five precepts and taking refuge.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  15th Anniversary People of Color Retreat

2017-05-23 Refuges & Precepts & Introduction to Chanting Them 50:55
Brian Lesage
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This talk offers reflections on one way of understanding the refuges and precepts. It also introduces the practice of chanting the refuges and precepts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-04-28 Opening Talk & Welcome, Refuges and Precepts 66:05
Marcia Rose
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Mountain Hermitage :  Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-04-15 Protection skill and strength - Refuges and Precepts 54:26
Ajahn Sucitto
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Refuges and precepts offer the practice of Protecting our Dharma-hearts.They are then a source of inner wealth, friendship and an asset for meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2017-04-07 Chanting Refuges & Precepts (Call and Response) 6:07
Steve Armstrong
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Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Awareness, Insight & Liberation

2017-04-02 Guided Meditation - Becoming a Refuge unto Yourself 48:17
Ajahn Sucitto
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We take refuge, but we also become a refuge. The degree to which we can cultivate value, precepts and restraint, we gain an increasing sense of authority to stand against the outward pull of thought and sense desire. This strength or determination can be felt in the body. Tap into the imaginal to sense its depth.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-04-01 Q&A Pt II 32:46
Ajahn Sucitto
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1. How to practice last 3 of 8 precepts; recipient of one’s giving determines one’s merit – please explain; 2. how interpersonal aspect of energy affect/support one’s practice and meditation; 3. giving hand to hand vs. in disembodied ways (credit cards, etc.); 4. self consciousness around my giving’ the art of receiving has been neglected; 5. how to be with others who don’t know their own goodness
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-04-01 Q&A Part I 48:53
Ajahn Sucitto
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Caring for aging parents; celestial realm as metaphor or actuality; those who are spontaneously reborn; sacrifice; when I know I’m not observing precepts perfectly; meditation practice feels flat; advice for caregivers in medical field; breaking through feeling bleak about the world; subjective nature of the sacred
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-03-24 If You Grow Good Fruit, Eat It! 13:58
Ajahn Sucitto
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Ajahn Sucitto responds to a question about dana parami, describing the gift of safety that can be provided by keeping precepts and sustaining open awareness. He reminds us that in the field of dana we are also in a position to receive generosity, partaking of the good fruit we have grown.
Tisarana Buddhist Monastery :  Morning Meeting Offerings

2017-03-14 2017 4NT Retreat - Introductory Talk, precepts, and Guided Meditation with Bhante Gunaratana 35:03
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
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Bhavana Society of West Virginia :  2017 Four Noble Truths Retreat

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