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2006-09-09 The Buddha's Prescription For Happiness: Seven Factors Of Enlightenment 62:11
James Baraz
The Seven Factors of Enlightenment are mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, calm, concentration and equanimity. When brought to fruition they lead to the highest happiness we can experience. How can we cultivate these qualities consciously in our meditation practice and in our life?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-08-12 Samatha Meditation 42:13
Fred Von Allmen
The power of collectedness
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2006-07-30 Guided Meditation - External Kindness 40:05
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2006-07-19 Guided Meditation - Lifting The Heart 42:36
Ajahn Sucitto
The process of samādhi is as important as anything else, wherever the process lands. Give priority to 3 fundamental roots: inclination towards kindness/well-being; protection/warding off what’s harmful; letting go of sense contact.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-18 The Precious Flaw 42:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation is not about getting any particular state or feeling. It’s about knowing what’s happening without getting bonded to it. Only by handling experience is there freedom. What we handle is our precious, necessary flaw – our suffering. Meet it and know it as Mara.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-16 Guided Meditation On Energetics - Deepening Ground 47:57
Ajahn Sucitto
In meditation the ground has to be both clear and enjoyable. Make a joyful kind of effort. Refer to breathing to give focus; refer to the physical when the mind spins out. Track energy along the chakras – expand it, spread it around. May this be well.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-16 The Whole Person - integrating bodily, emotive, rational patterns 56:14
Ajahn Sucitto
A teaching on the faculties of body, speech and mind and their patterning, saṇkhāra. In meditation, we work with the energy of these patternings. Clear and soothe body energies with breathing, and heart energies open. Upright presence of body allows us to remain attuned with the madness of the mind.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-15 The Buddha's Prescription For Happiness: Seven Factors Of Enlightenment 57:34
James Baraz
The Seven Factors of Enlightenment are mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, calm, concentration and equanimity. When brought to fruition they lead to the highest happiness we can experience. How can we cultivate these qualities consciously in our meditation practice and in our life?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-07-13 Guided Meditation - Opening To The Sense Of 'other' 21:04
Ajahn Sucitto
The tendency is to conceive ourselves as being a separate entity; yet, we’re always in something. There is something around us without which we wouldn’t survive. Practice sensing into the ‘us-ness’, the sense of me and something else. Mindfulness of body and breathing support this practice.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-12 Guided Meditation - Posture 17:51
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

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