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The greatest gift is the
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Dharma Talks
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2017-07-29
08: Return, Return, Return
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The energy body is a particular fullness of being – this is citta. As it’s more completed, it becomes less obstructed. Take time to gather and center in the completed citta, even if it’s just for a few minutes. Meditation means to return time and time again.
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Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2017-07-29
14: It’s Just a Movement
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Puja is a time for offering, for being received into a quality of blessedness and welcome, just as you are. The mind searches for directions – all reasonable, but don’t follow it. Notice the energy of the movement that’s occurring now – no future, no past.
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Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2017-07-28
06: A Quality of Deep Attention
52:40
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The key to the Buddha’s awakening was his use of appropriate attention. Attention is either grounded in the right place or the wrong place, it’s one or the other. The lens of attention and the attitudes we bring to it are extremely significant. It matters how we are seeing things. Our attention is very potent. Whatever you attend to – doubt or confidence, aversion or goodwill – you’ll get more of it. Attention is an amplifier.
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Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2017-07-28
05: Put Aside What’s Unnecessary
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The contemplative process is one where you bring to mind simple things and put aside what’s unnecessary, obstructive and irrelevant. Not with aversion, but just noticing that in most of our life we’re moving forward into qualities of pressure, important business, people – but they’re only there because your mind put them there. There doesn’t have to be the drive forward, doesn’t have to be a next. Take time to stop and notice what’s not needed, notice what’s already here.
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Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2017-07-28
04: Walking without Headism
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Ajahn Sucitto addresses a form of bodily discrimiation called “headism.” It says, “I’m on top, everything is secondary to me,” and it drags everything underneath it around. Headism can be overcome by operating through the body rather than through the head. It can be practiced in walking meditation.
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Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2017-07-28
01: A Harmony of Body and Mind
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Meditation is where the body and mind interact. Physical form creates the boundary within which to dwell. No third party is needed, no abstractor, no one to do anything. Just allow body and mind to come into harmony autonomously.
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Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2017-07-26
The Dharma in the Holy Land 2: Dharma Practice, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and Inter-Generational Trauma
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Donald Rothberg
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In this second talk following Donald’s five weeks in Israel/Palestine, we focus first on how to bring our practice to difficult and sometimes stuck places generally, whether individual, interpersonal, or collective. What helps? We then, with a deep breath, examine the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with the aim of bringing empathy, compassion, understanding, and other aspects of our practice to what we interpret as a conflict between two traumatized peoples (albeit an asymmetrical conflict in which one side has much more economic, social, political, and military power). How do we understand, approach, and transform such inter-generational trauma? Some initial steps are identified, again with the suggestion that the dynamics are similar to many less complex but still very difficult and stuck situations of an individual or interpersonal nature.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2017-07-25
Tending Our Own Minds/Hearts, Caring for Others
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Nikki Mirghafori
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Nikki Mirghafori gave the second talk in a speaker series titled "Living Wisely in the World: Caring for Mind, Family, Society, and Planet". Teachings from the "Acrobat Sutta" were shared to illustrate how tending our own mind is a stepping stone to care for others, and the world. The power of actions leading to habit formation in the mind and body, which could either lead to liberation or suffering, were also discussed.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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Living Wisely in the World: Caring for Mind, Family, Society, and Planet
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2017-07-22
Workshop: The Happiness of Forgiveness - Living the Practice
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Mark Nunberg,
Wynn Fricke
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The practice of forgiveness releases an authentic happiness. So why do we ignore or resist it? In this workshop we will acknowledge our stories of resentments and disappointments and how they often imprison us. Forgiveness is not imaginary or hopeful, it is a deepening understanding and acceptance of what is already true. The goal of this workshop is to recognize the limitations of ill will as a strategy for life, and to appreciate letting go as the expression of deep wisdom and compassion.
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Common Ground Meditation Center
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2017-07-20
Talk: Metta/Lovingkindness
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Ruth King
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During this 5-day silent retreat we will explore the Brahma Viharas, or Divine Abodes–four practices that open and nurture the heart.
In the Buddhist teachings, these four practices–loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity–are considered the highest qualities of heart and emotional wellbeing.
On our retreat, we’ll not only begin to sense into these qualities of heart, but practice abiding and dwelling in them as well. Over time, these practices can become our true home, as well as the atmosphere in which we deepen our mindfulness practice and intimacy with life.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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Opening the Heart in the Divine Abodes
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2017-07-19
The Dharma in the Holy Land 1
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Donald Rothberg
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In the first of two talks reflecting on just returning from five weeks of teaching and traveling in Israel/Palestine, we start to explore two themes: (1) identity in the context of Buddhist teachings about anatta and Donald's experience of being with many people in Israel with very similar East European Jewish ancestry; and (2) how to understand, be with, respond to, and transform unresolved and tragic historical trauma and suffering, found both with Jewish Israelis and Palestinians both in Israel and the occupied territories. A second talk will continue this exploration.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Attached Files:
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Donald's Israel Slides
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2017-07-18
Living Wisely in the World: Caring for Mind, Family, Society, and Planet
3:23:00
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Jennifer Dungan,
Lisa Dale Miller,
Nikki Mirghafori,
Robert Cusick,
Shaila Catherine
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A famous verse in the Dhammapada states:
“All experience is preceded by mind, led by mind, made by mind. Speak or act with a corrupted mind, and suffering follows, as the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox … Speak or act with a peaceful mind, and happiness follows, like a never-departing shadow.”
This guest speaker series will explore the ways in which care for our minds leads to care for our families, societies and our planet.
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Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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2017-07-16
100% Heart Capacity
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Amita Schmidt
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What if you could use 100% of your heart capacity? What would be possible then? Improving inclusivity and connection will move you towards this 100% heart.
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Tri State Dharma
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