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Ayya Santussika's Dharma Talks
Ayya Santussika
Ayya Santussika, in residence at Karuna Buddhist Vihara (Compassion Monastery), spent five years as an anagarika (eight-precept nun), then ordained as a samaneri (ten-precept nun) in 2010 and as a bhikkhuni (311 rules) in 2012 at Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara in Los Angeles.
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2025-06-13 How the Practice Ripens in Letting Go 31:10
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We know there is a need for letting go when we experience suffering, but how do we do it? When we find that we can't let go just because we want to, we need to know how to put in the causes and conditions so the practice ripens in letting go.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara
2025-06-13 Not Like It Says in the Books 26:42
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Our experience may not match what we've read in the suttas or heard teachers describe. The encouragement here is to use the teachings as guideposts and learn for ourselves what works and what doesn't.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-12 Intuiting Your Way into Joy and Tranquility 17:26
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Tips on cultivating the awakening factors of piti (joy) and tranquility (passaddhi) and encouragement to follow your intuition.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-12 Mid-retreat Q&A 22:00
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Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-12 Who Do You Need to Pay and What Do You Need Them to Say? 15:05
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How do we change the habits that continually bring us suffering? This is a reflection based on SN 3.13 "A Bucket of Rice" and a personal experience providing some ideas on how to let go of sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair, anger, resentment, righteous indignation, and so on that keep us bound up in suffering, pointing to Nibbāna here and now.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-11 Freedom from the First Two Fetters 40:34
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How can we stop our habit of reinforcing the first two fetters: personality view and cultural and social conditioning that bring us suffering and keep us in ignorance?
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-11 Body Meditation and Chi Gong 44:41
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Chi Gong to "shake off" tension in the body and ground the body with a mindful body scan that ends in sitting meditation.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-11 You Can Do It 16:20
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There comes a point when we don't need more information, we just need to practice and to come to the practice with a willingness to work our way through whatever challenges arise. This includes the doubt that we can awaken, that we can do it. In the story of Culapanthaka, a monk who seemed unlikely to absorb the Buddha's teachings, awakens. It is a reminder that we can, too.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-10 Building up the Awakening Factors 38:29
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The Buddha's instructions on how to develop the 7 awakening factors all the way to realization of Nibbāna.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-10 Energy without Striving 21:33
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How can we develop the awakening factor of energy without trying to accomplish something, without coming from the personality view and our long conditioning to achieve?
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

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