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2016-01-09 Q and A 44:55
Ajahn Sucitto
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Please give examples of how to cultivate right view within and outside meditation

2016-01-09 Evening guided meditation on death 42:08
Ajahn Sucitto
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Using citta to cultivate citta with experience; using the imagination / the world of the citta to help steer the citta; using the Five Subjects of Frequent Recollection; taking it up at least at the end of each day; cleaning up at the end of the day

2016-01-09 Group C Interview 2 37:30
Ajahn Sucitto
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1. On being a bored Buddhist 2. On feeling tight and uncomfortable 3. On body tension 4. On grasping and “I am”. 5. On benefits of nature 6. On letting wandering thoughts arise and pass. 7. On noticing states of mind; 8. On investigating "self"; 9. On suffering as a teacher; 10. On inner lights during meditation 11. On "nimmita".
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  UNK 2016-01-05 Ajahn Sucitto January 2016 Bangkok retreat (code:TPXT, 6 days)

2016-01-08 Standing meditation 37:38
Ajahn Sucitto
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vitaka, vichara; assessing the feelings; breathing and lengthening

2016-01-08 Morning talk - Guided meditation 32:01
Ajahn Sucitto
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the intelligence of citta responding to the needs of the puja; noticing (vitaka) and getting into the flow (vichara) sampling, assessing, appreciating, snuggles in - like trying on new clothes; the result is piti (a refreshing lifting up) and the citta appreciates this; these are the factors and not the object(s) of Samadhi; how does your citta fit in your body?; posture and balance can trigger it; feel it and adjust the two experiences – adjusting to it and sensitivity to it; can be sensed (a visual sense) and feel it (tactile) and can adjust between the two of these to be with it; thoroughly sensitive to it; calming any excitement or over eagerness with the breath; noticing the experience and noticing the noticing; sensitive to the mind consciousness, its objects; we are aware that we are aware; objects releasing by themselves

2016-01-07 Impermanence: Beyond the Rise and Fall of Things that Change 51:14
Shaila Catherine
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This talk by Shaila Catherine is the first in the speaker series "Doorways to Insight." Shaila Catherine describes the importance that is placed on recognizing and contemplating impermanence. This is one of the three main characteristics that we observe in insight meditation practices. We see and know that things change. Everything is changing—thoughts, emotions, feelings, perceptions, sensations, tastes, and emotions. But when we don't see the impermanence of things, we tend to grasp and cling to them. We tend to want to make them to last, and thereby we identify and become attached. As a result of attachment, we suffer, because they are changing anyway. Can we see beyond things that change, and realize what might be called changeless or deathless, to awaken with insight, to realize nibbana?
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2016-01-07 Understanding the Hindrances 57:44
Mark Coleman
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What are the hindrances to meditation and how do we work constructively with them?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2016-01-07 Guided meditation on the sense of touch and commentary 45:13
Ajahn Sucitto
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the sense of space/ distance; responding tonalities / intensities and the effect on awareness and the citta; appreciating body sensitivities to pressure, vibration, intensity, tension; the experience of noticing the body and appreciating the apparent sensitivities on the citta; returning to a mildly agreeable sensation; direct felt experience and its qualities; handing mental inclinations with a similar sensitivity; effects on the citta of the background pressure to “get it right”; the citta’s obsession to become something; learning the art of sensitivity; using discomfort as vehicle to attend internally to sensitivity and physical and emotional pain; widening the emotional lens

2016-01-07 Guided meditation 37:38
Ajahn Sucitto
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Developing the skill of recollection and the experience on the citta; where does the meaning sit?; the arising of citta to meaning; cultivating the immeasureables; the experience comes first; what is the quality of being touched by others’ suffering? Being willing to stay present with that is the movement of compassion; mudita; appreciating a feature or lucky moment for another, for oneself; appreciating the absence of physical pain; learning, sustaining and enriching the experience

2016-01-06 May Our Practice be the Cause of Happiness for Self and Others 1:49:21
Sylvia Boorstein
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Includes 30 minute meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

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