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2021-12-01 The Seven Factors of Awakening 2: Cultivating Mindfulness and Equanimity in Formal Meditation and in Daily Life 69:14
Donald Rothberg
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Our practice aims at awakening (and awakened beings help others awaken). We review briefly the nature of awakening for the Buddha and later Buddhist traditions, and the centrality of the teaching of the Seven Factors of Awakening. We then explore the two foundational factors--mindfulness and equanimity--identifying their core qualities, as well as how to practice to cultivate each of these factors, both in formal meditation and in the movement of daily life. There is a talk and then discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-11-29 Four Brahma Vihara Supporting Meditation 33:00
Ajahn Achalo
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Four Brahma Vihara as a support to developing mindfulness and wisdom. A talk given to students of the Mahachula International Buddhist College Nov 29, 2021.
Mahachula International Buddhist College

2021-11-25 Q&A 33:13
Ajahn Sucitto
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00:12 Dispassion; 03:45 How do dispassion, disengagement and relinquishment reconcile with activism; 12:39 Body time versus clock time; 15:23 How should I teach mindfulness of breathing; 17:42 Joy and poignant sadness; 19:38 What is one then to be sensitive to in the third stage of the feeling tetrad; 25:55 Could you say that the citta is the deathless?
Bodhi College :  Breathing to Liberation (Ānāpāṇasati)

2021-11-25 Time, craving and where they stop 51:03
Ajahn Sucitto
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Your intimate environment is not about time, it’s about kamma. Enter into this embodied world with patience, resolution, goodwill and mindfulness, holding it steadily. There’s an aware intelligence that gets stronger and wiser when you can let go of the stories; it will work for your welfare.
Bodhi College :  Breathing to Liberation (Ānāpāṇasati)

2021-11-23 Q&A 38:29
Ajahn Sucitto
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00:35 How to work with painful memories; 08:33 Difference between pīti and sukha; 11:06 Style and benefits of your QiGong; 15:51 Awareness of bodily energies and sensations; 23:27 Feeling body from the inside vs. outside; 25:40 Which practices are precursors of satipaṭṭhāna practices; 27:43 How to shift from (uncomfortable) sensation to energy; 30:51 Reflective capacity of citta; 34:51 Mindfulness with pleasant but faint sensation; 36:57 Drowsiness with samādhi.
Bodhi College :  Breathing to Liberation (Ānāpāṇasati)

2021-11-23 Sutta + right view, attitude, mindfulness 62:42
Ajahn Sucitto
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An overview of the Ānāpānasati Sutta, the first three tetrads having to do with samatha – steadying and opening the energies of body and – and the fourth having to do with vipassana – onlooking, contemplating what samatha brings to light. Right view, right attitude, right mindfulness are the guiding factors.
Bodhi College :  Breathing to Liberation (Ānāpāṇasati)

2021-11-20 The Wise Body 48:43
Dawn Mauricio
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This talk addresses in broad terms the first foundation of mindfulness. The main points include recognizing our innate wisdom and slowing down to listen to it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Journey into Refuge, Presence, and Love

2021-11-20 Patiently Arriving : The Alchemy of Awareness--Retreat at Spirit Rock (Day 1) 59:05
Kittisaro
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First Day. Overview of Path: Sila (Virtuous Restraint), Samadhi (Collectedness), Panna (Wisdom). Patience and kindness in cultivating mindfulness of breathing. Buddho - Sacred word and moderating thought.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Journey into Refuge, Presence, and Love

2021-11-18 Guided Brahma Vihara Meditation 27:43
Caroline Jones
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Using mindfulness as a basis for the cultivation of meta (loving kindness0, karuna (compassion), and mudita (appreciation)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 2021

2021-11-16 Soft Landing 22:10
Ayya Medhanandi
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When we meditate, we are alone and yet with all the world. Thoughts intrude from all sides. But we land softly, secluded within, protected, serene. Gently we open the door to the heart with unassailable trust. We bend and bow silently, observing the breath with an empty mind. Then what’s the result of that? Giving our full attention to this moment, we are absolutely present, feeling every nuance of the ground beneath us or the pressure of each breath. Mindfulness deepens our awareness. Now we truly know the boundless peace of the mind's radiance.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

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