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Dharma Talks
given at Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
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2018-12-03
40 Guided Meditation: Brahmavihāras
56:09
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Cultivation of the brahmavihāras is based upon generating perceptions and felt senses through various bases. This guided meditation refers to the bodily and mental bases, in addition to primary sympathy – anukampa – as the underlying basis, to bring these boundless qualities into fullness. They then can serve as soothing orientations within the tribulations of this human realm. |
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November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge
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2018-12-02
39 Q&A
45:43
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| How does one maintain one’s center in the world? What are the 8 worldly “winds” and how to relate to them? What do we ask forgiveness for from Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha in evening chanting? How to balance energy between personal practice and moral duty to respond to suffering in the world? |
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November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge
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2018-12-02
38 Release
46:33
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Practicing for release follows the trajectory of knowing (ñāṇa) and culminates in realization (aññā). We review the aggregates with dispassion, recognizing their causal basis, and stop taking them to be self. Devotional practices support the shift from self-consciousness to trackless consciousness where self, other, future, past are no longer concocted. This is the turning towards the deathless. |
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November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge
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2018-12-01
37 Passing of Difficult Feeling
54:54
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| The inability to feel difficult emotions causes closure of heart and body. If things haven’t been allowed to arise, they don’t pass. Using the practice of calming and insight, we calm just enough to make difficult feeling manageable and let it move through the body, then apply the skill of insight to look into just this experience without proliferation. Dispassion, clarity, and a wide attentive heart remain. |
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November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge
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2018-11-29
34 Q&A
3:30
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Is mano essentially the same as citta sankhara;? Is there awareness besides sense consciousness? Clarification between sati/mindfulness and citta. Is mindfulness of body necessary for liberation, why? Difference between circumstances and conditions; how to “eradicate” self-view. |
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November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge
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