Donate  |   Contact


The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
 
Dharma Talks
2021-05-30 01 meditation: cultivating mudita as a foundation for the day's practice 15:25
Jill Shepherd
orienting to appreciation and gratitude as a foundation for this day of celebration
Auckland Insight Meditation one-day celebration of Vesak and the Auckland Insight community

2021-05-30 Guided Meditation – Open Stability 23:17
Ajahn Sucitto
In meditation we’re resetting the dynamic movement of mental and physical energies with open energy. Using body as a guide, resonate the sense of balance and stability throughout. Let mindfulness deepen and maintain a wide-open energy that is receptive.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Guided Meditation – Rhythm and Energy of Breathing 42:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Deal with the compulsions of becoming by tackling energy in the body. Thoughtful breathing becomes comfortable and soothing. Its rhythm moderates the floods, diffusing stressful energies and psychologies. Heart and body draw close in the enjoyment. From this place of samādhi you can stand back from the most fundamental flood of becoming.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Day 1 Q&A 44:47
Ajahn Sucitto
Can we chant just in the heart, without sound; Buddhism’s view on healing with energy; how to work with various energy blocks and imbalances; feeling disoriented when letting go of a topic and giving attention to body energies; what importance to give to thought; how does one cultivate absorption, to be with intense emotions; when only eating before noon does hunger become an object of meditation.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Guided Meditation – Body Energy Fields 23:25
Ajahn Sucitto
In standing, sitting and free movement postures, exercise an attitude of goodwill, sympathy and encouragement to invite body channels to open. Energies know what to do – body wants to wants to arrive at wholeness.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-29 Lightly Guided Meditation 30:49
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-05-29 Empowerment of Desire and Aspiration 1:19:55
Nathan Glyde
An exploration of the Iddhipāda (Bases of Power) as part of our noble path. Seeing them more in the light of empowerment of our deepest aspirations or most wholesome desires. A guided meditation and Dharma Talk, with time for questions: for privacy, only the teachers voice is on the recording.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - May 2021

2021-05-29 Q&A 36:05
Ajahn Sucitto
Please explain why you got the COVID vaccine as I am hesitant; can meditation help with IBS; can’t exhale completely because in breath rushes in; does it matter if formal practice/meditation is less; is manas an impediment to citta or can it be used beneficially; how to get over the pain of divorce; how to ask someone to leave a community due to ethical reasons; when desire is abandoned how is avijja eliminated; elaborate on terms samādhi, atammayatā, nibānna.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-05-29 Guided Meditation - Fountain of Feeling 17:29
Ajahn Sucitto
The cycle of saṃsara develops from feeling. Perceptions then form that stimulate particular actions that can be stirring, disturbing, exciting. Investigate these from the stillness and stability of presence. What’s needed?
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-05-28 Meditation on impermanence, Dhamma talk on Life of the Buddha - Part 4 1:20:37
Bhante Sujato
At Harris Park – Meditation on impermanence led by Bhante Sujato, Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato, last part of the series on the life of the Buddha: Mahāparinibbāna sutta
Lokanta Vihara

Creative Commons License