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2019-08-06 Cutting Through Our Stories (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:15
Tempel Smith
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Keeping your attention directly at the sense doors lets us cut through our habit of being lost in thought. As mindfulness increases, we can eventually by mindful of thought as it arises.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Young Adult Retreat

2019-07-23 Evening Dharma Talk - Nirvana, McMindfulness and Ethics 52:54
Stephen Batchelor
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Reflections on mindfulness and ethics, including a critique of the nationalist ethics of Burmese monks and the reduction of mindfulness to “McMindfulness.”
Gaia House :  Secular Buddhist Retreat

2019-07-23 Relevant Mindfulness 40:45
Ajahn Sucitto
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Mindfulness is the ability to bear things in mind with a steady intention. Like the sides of the hand, there is a hard side with its ability to bar and repel corrupting influences, and a soft side that lingers and takes in the qualities. Select an object of meditation based on what’s needed, and give attention to the careful holding.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

2019-07-21 Citta and Non-Grasping 38:30
Ajahn Sucitto
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When the mind is not steady and has gone into activation, clinging is inevitable. The clung-to experience creates the person. But there’s a choice. Our responsibility is to manage the flood of the aggregates through mindfulness.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

2019-07-20 Mindfulness and Non-Grasping 51:10
Ajahn Sucitto
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The trained mind is fluid and flexible – natural. The untrained mind is fixed and grasping – loses its agility. Training comes through mindfulness of the 4 bases and 3 aspects of mind. Body gives mind something to anchor itself on so the habits of grasping that create a fixed self can be released.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

2019-07-19 Developing Mindfulness Of Thoughts and Thinking 54:39
Chris Cullen
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Morning instructions on ways of practicing with thoughts so as to develop a more spacious relationship with thinking and understand more fully the shaping power of perception and papañca (projection, proliferation, objectification.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2019-07-16 Taking the Problem out of Pain 47:45
Shaila Catherine
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In this talk, Shaila Catherine encourages practitioners to view illness and pain as opportunities to practice equanimity, patience, and mindfulness of the body. When we are sick or in pain, we can still practice being attentive to present conditions, and reflect that all beings are all also subject to illness and death. Illness is not wrong; it is inevitable. The more we resist this fact, the more mental suffering we add to our physical difficulties. When we learn to be present with both pleasant and unpleasant feelings, we will know an experience of profound peace.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Meditation in Hard Times

2019-07-16 Asalha Puja – Middle Path 68:28
Ajahn Sucitto
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We can get sidetracked with a focus on mindfulness or stress reduction or meditation techniques. We don’t understand what leads up to them, the Noble 8-Fold Path. This Path begins with right view - knowing the heart and how it’s affected - and right effort - bringing up skillful mindstates.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

2019-07-15 Body: Elemental, Grounding, Groundless 48:59
Chris Cullen
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1st day evening talk about practicing mindfulness of body, including reflections on cultivating samadhi, elements practice and emptiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2019-07-09 Compassion - How it is Supported by Mindfulness and Joy? 45:03
Jenny Wilks
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Gaia House :  Opening the Heart with Mindfulness and Compassion

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