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The greatest gift is the
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Dharma Talks
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2005-04-14
The Guests Come and Go
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Ayya Medhanandi
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“Being human is a guest house” wrote Rumi. Every day we greet new arrivals – joys, sorrows, hostilities and more; and moments of awareness too. We bow to the present moment and greet them all, be they thorns or unruly monsters like malice, shame, fear, anger or greed. Can we see them all just as they are, painful or pleasant – impermanent, not ours, not who we are? Can we let them come and go, and be grateful? Treat whatever passes through the heart as empty. After all, these are karmic messengers from beyond bearing unique spiritual gifts. For in their presence, we strengthen our practice. Wisely attentive, reflective, and aware, we are on the magnificent path of waking up.
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Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand
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2005-04-10
Reaching Out By Way Of The Inner
49:00
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Jose Reissig
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This talk explores what the Buddha meant when he said that the end of the world cannot be reached by walking, but can only be found in this fathom-long body.
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Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties
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2005-04-09
The Middle Way Is Not Halfway
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Jose Reissig
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The Buddha said that he taught the Middle Way. His Middle Way should not be understood as a compromise between extremes. Rather, he offers us a radical new way of dealing with the perceived polarities.
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Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties
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2005-04-08
New Beginnings
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Jose Reissig
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As we come to the end of the old and begin anew, is this "new beginning" just a gambit to circumvent a situation, or are we embarking in a genuine process of transformation? The practice provides invaluable support for the latter choice.
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Philadelphia Meditation Center
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2005-03-31
Self and the Plane of Becoming
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The larger plane of becoming is potent with tendencies that give rise to the person. This person becomes formed from our worries, fears, compulsions – it’s a restricted self. We practice widening into that larger citta realm and cultivating enlightenment factors to form around instead. This is how we take responsibility for what we put out into the world, and to change our kamma.
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Cittaviveka
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Winter Retreat
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2005-03-16
Ultimate Stability
53:14
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Ajahn Sucitto
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We seek stability in this ongoing pageant of being where we only find relative stability, maybe. Ultimate stability is found through non-feeding, relinquishing. This holy life is lived to be freed from being. Suffering comes about from clinging; the end of grasping is the end of suffering.
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Cittaviveka
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Winter Retreat
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2005-03-12
Ceasing of Self
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The world is on fire with becoming. It’s not so deliberate or conscious, but an involuntary reflex. Hold the spacious openness rather than the objects, notice how things shift, change and pass through. It’s not actually oneself, it’s patterning. In Dhamma practice these patterns have to be exposed so they can be seen compassionately, spaciously, calmly and allowed to unfold and give their energy back into awareness.
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Cittaviveka
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Winter Retreat
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