Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks from Retreats

Being Dharma Month Long at Dharmagiri, South Africa

Being Dharma, taught by Kittisaro & Thanissara, draws from Theravada, Pure Land and Chan practice to explore the journey - as taught by Ajahn Chah - from "hearing the Dharma, learning, understanding, practicing and seeing the truth of the Dharma, to Being Dharma."

2015-01-07 (27 days) Dharmagiri

2015-01-07 Developing the Yoga of the Mind 29:49
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Realization of Dharma is both gradual and immediate. Ajahn Chah's reflection on Being Dharma. Training in awarness.

2015-01-08 Leaving Behind Apartheid of the Heart 37:58
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Introduction to Mindfulness and Satipatthana Sutta as a training in freedom. Sakka's question to the Buddha about conflict.

2015-01-08 Renunciation1 - Entering the River of Reality 39:07
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The practice of renunciation. Leaving behind & going forth. Contemplation of death. Tolerating uncertainty. Entering the flow of Life as an act of trust. The Great Earth & times of radical shift. Grace. Wisdom of the KoiSan People

2015-01-09 Higher Training of the Mind/ Heart 49:09
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The ancient practice of religion and yoga binds us to limitation in order to go beyond limitation. Cultivating inner access to stability, healing and an abiding of well being through the cultivation of samadhi and jhana.

2015-01-09 Renunciation2 - Practice of the First Foundation of Mindfulness 45:16
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Moving from reliance on sense bases to immediate practice, here and now, of mindfulness of body/breath - Aspects of attention.

2015-01-10 The Training of Samadhi - Guided Meditation 30:59
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2015-01-11 Ajahn Chah's Advice about "Terrorists" 37:36
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Kittisaro reflects on his father's life, as his father approaches death. Seeing and working through the force of greed, hatred and delusion.

2015-01-12 Cultivation of Wise Reflection 43:01
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Balance of calm and insight practice, wisdom arising from dukkha, practice of overcoming suffering, Bahiya's (the disciple who understood the teaching quickest) question to the Buddha.

2015-01-12 Nature of Phenonmena Through Insight 35:04
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Balance of samatha and vipassana. Exploration of phenomena, and dhammas, power of seeing impermanence, dispassion and relinquishment.

2015-01-13 A Heavenly Messenger Arrives: Today My Father Died. 50:47
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Kittisaro reflects on his father and his death. The ending of greed, hatred and delusion is nibbana. An analogy from the Shurangama Sutra. Entering the living silence.

2015-01-14 Mother of All Phenomena - Contemplating Thus! 34:00
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The liberating aspect of the teaching. Realization of the "unborn, uncreated" The door to the Dharma is never closed. Depth of Kuan Yin.

2015-01-14 Compassionate Transformation 43:57
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Journey through shadow, understanding sankhara - patterning, and the patient and challenging process of compassionate relationship. Mr Mandela's journey into "I love you all"

2015-01-15 Compassionate Transformation 43:57
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Journey through shadow, understanding sankhara - patterning, and the patient and challenging process of compassionate relationship. Mr Mandela's journey into "I love you all"

2015-01-15 Attitude of Kindness & Great Compassion Ceremony 33:44
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Explanation (in brief) of Kuan Yin Great Compassion & Renewal Ceremony - Cultivating kindness in relationship to our experience.

2015-01-16 Hatred is Never Appeased by Hatred 38:54
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Moving beyond the tendency to make a problem. Metta as an aspect of wisdom. Apartheid of the soul. The eternal law. The Buddha's simile of the saw.

2015-01-17 Yoga of the Heart 39:10
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An inner attitude of love, compassion, attunement to goodness, and deep acceptance in the face of obstruction.

2015-01-18 Practice Guided by Wisdom 35:26
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Moving beyond rigidity and attachment to views about practice into agility in response to conditions. Working with doubt.