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2018-02-04 Transforming Suffering into Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:53
James Baraz
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Every moment has flavor tone of experience: pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. Typically, we react without thinking and act from attachment, aversion or delusion-the seeds of suffering. When we bring mindfulness to the moment we have the choice to respond with non-greed, non-hatred and non-delusion. Those are the seed of true happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-01-31 Meditation: Beyond the Veil of Thinking 20:25
Tara Brach
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This meditation awakens us to the space and aliveness in these bodies, and to resting in wakeful openness. When we get lost in thought, we practice relaxing open, and exploring the gap between thoughts. By opening beyond the veil of thinking, we discover the Beingness that is home.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-01-28 Evening - Opening talk - The foundation retreat - cultivation of Dhamma 45:47
Ajahn Sucitto
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Laying the groundwork for retreat, yogis are encouraged to stay in touch with qualities of mindfulness, persistence and right energy. Such steady practice fortifies the citta, rather than the thinking mind, as the source of stability in an inherently unstable world. 30:35 Guided Meditation: Guidance for getting grounded, establishing safety in the space around, making the space you’re sitting in your refuge.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto

2017-12-21 World of Mind 58:18
Nathan Glyde
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Maintaining the practice through all of life. Based on the Sutta; Two Sorts of Thinking; Dvedhāvitakka Sutta (MN 19).
SanghaSeva :  Dharmalaya Silent Retreat

2017-08-10 Becoming Mindful of Thought (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:54
Tempel Smith
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Most people are lost in thought, mesmerized by thought, experiencing the content of thought as real events. With the practice of mindfulness we can first learn to turn away from the dominance of thought, and then bring awareness to the direct experience of thinking as a present time experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat for Young Adults

2017-07-29 12: Mind Doesn’t Know How to Discharge – Body Does 68:55
Ajahn Sucitto
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In embodiment exercises there are two qualities to emphasize: energy and the body. The basis of energy is this body. Embodiment exercises can help us cultivate the ability to redirect energy from the thinking mind by referring to the body.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2017-07-29 09: Q&A: Am I Wasting My Opportunity Staying As a Lay Person? 45:09
Ajahn Sucitto
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Ajahn Sucitto responds to this question by first reframing it – rather than thinking: here’s the real world, how can I fit my practice into that? Consider: here’s the real practice, what kind of world can I operate in from that place? The reality that’s available to us all, regardless of place or position as monastic or lay person, is refuge. And the real refuge is in your presence. Be a refuge unto yourself.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2017-06-23 Day 3 Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Thinking (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:56
Nikki Mirghafori
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness

2017-03-22 Relying on Your Gut Intelligence 24:08
Ajahn Sucitto
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In this morning talk, Ajahn Sucitto points to a gut intelligence we all have that can be relied on to save us from the thinking mind. The thinking mind creates suffering. Our embodied (gut) intelligence is a savior, a source of safety; it always tells the truth.
Tisarana Buddhist Monastery :  Morning Meeting Offerings

2017-01-30 Words of Encouragement 53:22
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
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This talk addresses several potential difficulties in practice – attaching to ideas about mindfulness and concentration, attending to what happens when we snap-out-off-it, thinking that nothing is happening in practice, feeling half here and half not, and the tendency to “do” the practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  January 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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