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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2014-12-21
The Journey of Awakening
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Donald Rothberg
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Using as reference points Mary Oliver's poem, "The Journey", the story of the Buddha's life, and our own experiences, we outline the archetypal stages of the spiritual journey from the taken-for-granted habitual life, to receiving "heavenly messengers" putting that life in question, to shifting our core life intentions, to working with challenges, to awakening, and, finally, to a return to the "ordinary" world.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat
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2014-12-15
Closing Talk
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Listening to the unique but common struggles of others; Ajahn Sucitto on a 40 year retreat; some personal history of how Ajahn came to meditation and his early struggles; thank you to all participants; coming from a place of gratitude; being firm with all the reasons that we throw up not to practice; take a little time every day to sit and breathe; it's as important as eating or bathing every day; the citta goes one way - it does not go down, it goes up. “Thank you for your determination and your company and your honesty in the practice. May you all progress and develop and may your cittas rise to happiness and peace.”
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Young Buddhists Association of Thailand
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Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat
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2014-12-15
Some points to notice about the Mind
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Review thoroughly how your mind works; the world is created by the mind in this very body; seeing uncertainty; using the body to receive and allow the citta to calm; see how the citta sits on its worry and flies on its desire and is carried along by its fear; the citta sankhara never stops creating reasons why it has to keep going just a little bit further; watch how craving paints the world with beautiful but very thin paint. You can do it, you can see it. Pause, check, be aware.
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Young Buddhists Association of Thailand
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Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat
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2014-12-14
Have you found a Place?
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Ajahn Sucitto
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A place to stay, a place to sit, a place to feel more comfortable in yourself; taking time and practicing with all four positions; the spider and the web of impressions, memories, sensations and feelings; what is it that compounds it and sticks it altogether? Seeing/ listening to the citta moving and the stirring up of thoughts; releasing the citta from being a someone; using samatha to calm and separate the citta from its endless spinning
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Young Buddhists Association of Thailand
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Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat
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2014-12-12
Reflection on the Satipatanna sutta and the Anapanasatta sutta
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Sati - the quality that allows remembering; different types of bodies we can experience inwardly through mindfulness of our physical senses and the mind; cultivating feelings from honesty, calm, patience and metta/ loving kindness - cultivating the citta/ heart; four places to live in a complete practice; wise attention; what do I feel/ feel like? Sankharas or energies / vitalities in the body; feeing oneself from the trap of the senses using the body of the breathing ; what knows how to breathe? Cultivating the experience of anapanasati - purifying through breathing. Discovering and working with tensions in the body - widen and soften. Breathing calm and patience into the body, nursing the body.
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Young Buddhists Association of Thailand
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Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat
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2014-12-12
Morning Reflection - How to practice
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The nature of praise; the nature of Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha. Filling the heart with faith and aspiration; cultivating uprightness of the body, the mind; being present in the river of our lives with all experiences. Mindful of the body - moving through the body and optimizing the posture. Mindful of attitude.
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Young Buddhists Association of Thailand
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Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat
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2014-12-10
Race, Racism, and Spiritual Practice 1
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Donald Rothberg
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We examine, in the context of contemporary concerns about racism, how we relate teachings about suffering, compassion, transforming ignorance, courage, and skillful action to our responses to racism. We also look briefly at the history of race and racism, and suggest ways of responding to racism individually, relationally, and collectively.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2014-12-09
Reflections On Race And Diversity
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Joseph Goldstein
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During the closing transition days of IMS's Three-Month Retreat, there were some group discussions about IMS's diversity initiatives. Bonnie Duran led a group for people of color (POC) meditators, and Joseph Goldstein spoke to and led a discussion with the non-POC group. His intention was to provide an introduction to the work IMS is undertaking in undoing racism and other diversity issues, and to describe his own personal exploration in this area.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Three Month - Part 2
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