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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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2025-06-11 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
2025-06-09 Fueling and Starving the Hindrances and Awakening Factors 53:53
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The arising, persisting, non-arising and vanishing of the 5 hindrances and 7 awakening factors are based on causes. What are they? And, how can we use them to starve the hindrances and fuel the awakening factors? (SN 46.51)
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-09 Meditation on Loving-Kindness 21:30
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Infusing our investigation with an atmosphere of loving-kindness.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-09 Letting Go of Resentment - Bringing in Loving-Kindness 5:38
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A short reflection on letting go of resentment through investigation and bringing in metta.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-08 Breakthrough Defilement Killers 33:45
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Wearing away the defilements using the Buddha's method for effacement MN 8, including the 5 hindrances.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-08 Body Contemplation (33 Parts!?) 23:58
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Mindfully and kindly bringing attention to the body parts on the traditional list plus.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-08 Dropping in for Contemplation 25:14
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Establishing mindfulness and turning to investigation of whatever is present in this moment.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-07 Nibbana Biofuel: The Causes for Awakening 41:24
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"It's like when the heavens rain heavily downhill to fill the hollows ... they fill the ocean," starting with the factor of associating with noble people, factors are fulfilled all the way to Nibbana. AN 10.62 Craving
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-07 Guided Tour of the 5 Hindrances and 7 Awakening Factors 42:27
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After establishing mindfulness and scanning through the body, this guided meditation addresses the 5 hindrances and describes a natural progression through the 7 Factors of Awakening.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-07 Water for Arahant Soup 32:44
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"A mendicant develops and cultivates the seven awakening factors depending on and grounded on ethics, acquiring great and abundant good qualities." This reflection points out several ways that virtue supports us in our practice, as the "water for arahant soup".
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-06 Vital Conditions for Developing the Awakening Factors 18:42
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Beginning this two week retreat with the encouraging words of the Buddha from two discourses: SN 46.1 The Himalaya and AN 9.1 Awakening.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-04 Closing Guided Meditation and Dhamma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:30:43
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with Ayya Cittananda, Ayya Santacitta, Ayya Santussika
Guided meditation relating to the planet and our place on it, followed by a Dhamma Talk on the instructions given to Ven. Mahapajapati by the Buddha as encouragement for continuing practice in daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World
2025-06-02 Mindfulness of Breathing: Body, Feelings, Mind and Dhamma (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:26
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A gentle guide through all the steps with a focus on Dhamma reflection.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World
2025-05-31 Untangling the Innter Tangle: Relationship with Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:18
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Based on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, this talk explores our relationship with the body, feelings, mind and Dhamma - to untangle the tangle of suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World
2025-05-17 Thinking: When It's Helpful, When It's Harmful 64:12
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Karuna Buddhist Vihara
2025-05-10 East Bay Dhamma -- Dhammapada Verses 44-59 3:18:40
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Karuna Buddhist Vihara
2025-05-10 If You See Something Say Something: Skillful Praise and Criticism | Ayya Santussikā 57:13
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This dhamma talk and Q&A was offered on May 10, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - DHAMMA TALK 27:41 - Q&A
Karuna Buddhist Vihara
2025-05-03 Resources for the Mind | Ayya Santussikā 1:14:23
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This dhamma talk and Q&A was offered on May 3, 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - DHAMMA TALK 21:00 - Q&A
Karuna Buddhist Vihara
2025-04-19 8 Movements Towards Peace and Happiness | Ayya Santussikā 62:20
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This dhamma talk and Q&A was offered on April 19, 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - DHAMMA TALK 21:10 - Q&A
Karuna Buddhist Vihara
2025-04-12 East Bay Dhamma - Dhammapada Verses 28-43 62:17
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Karuna Buddhist Vihara
2025-04-12 Inspring Teachers and Inspiring Students | Ayya Santussikā 69:36
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This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on April 12, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

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