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Dharma Talks
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2023-11-13 The Emptiness Which Is a Fullness or Loosening Our Grip 51:41
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation on the Five Elements and Impermanence
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2023-10-12 Impermanence as a Compassionate and Liberating Way of Looking 51:31
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Liberating Ways of Looking

2023-10-02 You Are All Going to Die (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:15
Pamela Weiss
A talk on the truth of impermanence and mortality, arising and passing, and making the unwanted wanted.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Mindful of Death, Awakening to Life

2023-07-25 Morning Reflections #21: Fading Away (Step 14) 41:00
Sayadaw U Jagara
A guided meditation through the entire sequence focusing on impermanence and fading away to support equanimity, non- reactive observation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-18 Q&A 57:29
Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
Questions are précised: 00:00 Q1 What do you mean by “re-wilding your mind”? 19:59 Q2 What’s the relation between pitti, sukka and chi. 25:05 Q3 Which comes first after sense contact, sannya (impression/ perception) or vedena (the feeling)? 28:00 Q4 Does the third sattipatana (the establishments of mindfulness) only include citta of mano / manus? 34:21 (LB) Q5 How to contemplate the “gunky” parts of the body – the organs that get diseased etc. 41:35 Q6 I have a sense of the experience of annica like a connection to dynamism. Impermanence has a very time bound quality to it. 42:31 Q7 How can one develop one’s yoniso manisakara to keep attention turned inwards?
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-17 The Nature of Awakening: Traditional and Contemporary Paths of Awakening 68:04
Donald Rothberg
We examine first the Buddha’s teachings about awakening, We see how he understands the process as involving two processes. We are mindful of and work through what gets in the way of touching our natural awakening—greed, hatred, and delusion (or the two forms of reactivity—grasping after the pleasant and pushing away the unpleasant, along with ignorance about the nature of impermanence, reactivity or Dukkha, and not-self). We also develop those qualities which both support and manifest awakening, qualities identified in the teaching of the Seven Factors of Awakening. We see further how the Buddha at times identified the nature of awakened awareness as “signless, boundless, all-luminous,” and trace similar accounts of awakened awareness in the Thai Forest tradition and Tibetan Dzogchen and Mahāmudrā. Then we ask the question about whether these wonderful teachings and associated practices are sufficient for awakening in the contemporary world. We point to how such teachings and practices are crucial but also need to be complemented by and integrated with a contemporary map of awakening, identifying forms of contemporary conditioning (and greed, hatred, and delusion) that are not found in the traditional account. Broadly speaking, we can identify two inter-related core areas—a first identifying more “psychological” conditioning, and more “social” conditioning (for example, around gender, race, sexual orientation, age, etc.). The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock Live: Monday Night with Donald Rothberg

2023-07-16 Impermanence 56:20
Yuka Nakamura
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation

2023-07-13 Impermanence: The Portal to Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:25
Susie Harrington
With a stable and unified mind we can turn to impermanence. This turning into our observing change in our vipassana practice leads us to see not only the temporality of everything but the interconnected and impersonal Nature of experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration and Awareness 2023

2023-06-20 Impermanence 46:54
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective TCVC June 2023

2023-06-12 Morning Instructions: seeing impermanence, and impersonality in the body 56:30
Nikki Mirghafori
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Energy Body, Receptacle of Mind and Matter

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