2015-01-10 The Training of Samadhi - Guided Meditation 30:59
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2015-01-09 Renunciation2 - Practice of the First Foundation of Mindfulness 45:16
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Moving from reliance on sense bases to immediate practice, here and now, of mindfulness of body/breath - Aspects of attention.
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2015-01-09 Higher Training of the Mind/ Heart 49:09
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The ancient practice of religion and yoga binds us to limitation in order to go beyond limitation. Cultivating inner access to stability, healing and an abiding of well being through the cultivation of samadhi and jhana.
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2015-01-08 Renunciation1 - Entering the River of Reality 39:07
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The practice of renunciation. Leaving behind & going forth. Contemplation of death. Tolerating uncertainty. Entering the flow of Life as an act of trust. The Great Earth & times of radical shift. Grace. Wisdom of the KoiSan People
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2015-01-08 Leaving Behind Apartheid of the Heart 37:58
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Introduction to Mindfulness and Satipatthana Sutta as a training in freedom. Sakka's question to the Buddha about conflict.
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2015-01-07 Developing the Yoga of the Mind 29:49
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Realization of Dharma is both gradual and immediate. Ajahn Chah's reflection on Being Dharma. Training in awarness.
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2012-09-26 Being Present 36:02
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Skill with guiding attention - working with 3 streams of energy of body, heart & mind - What disturbs?
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2012-05-10 3.9.68 - Icon of the Heart 32:05
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2011-08-26 2.8.40 - The River of Self 45:01
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2011-04-04 Establishing Mindfulness 38:36
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Sacred Mountain Sangha - Study-Practice Program
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2009-12-15 Take Heart 32:22
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Balance within practice. A compassionate response. From is emptiness, emptiness is form. The gift of fearlessness. The way of generosity, kindness and integrity.
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2009-02-03 Pure Consciousness 35:34
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The Shurangama Sutra, Matangi’s daughter & Ananda’s enlightement Sky Like Mind Those who delight in mental proliferation (papanca) never know Nibbana The end of birth and death Apartheid of the mind Nisagardatta’s method What Remains - What doesn’t move
Dharmagiri :  Original Brightness Retreat

2009-02-02 Ekayana - The Way to One 46:45
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All practices converge in mindfulness, all practices emerge from mindfulness - mindfulness is the royal way to the One
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2009-02-01 THe Naked Heart 40:22
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The mind like a rabbit in the head lights of the Hua T’ou The swoon of the bardo’s and present time effects Not using meditation like a lawyer but understanding what gets us obstructed The story of Hui Neng & the world speaking the Diamond Sutra Jatukanni’s question to the Buddha
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2009-01-31 The Empty Bell 37:07
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The chipmunk, the donkey and the dew drops Aspiration, despair, depression & Ajahn Chah’s encouragement Suffering for the sake of ending suffering Touching obstructions patience & kindness Giving credit for practice already done & the highest merit Like an empty bell
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2009-01-31 Change of Lineage 44:43
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Direct knowing of emptiness Between existence and nihilism Emptiness isn’t empty, wonderful existence doesn’t exist Grasping & papanca is the root of birth and death Surface & depth of ocean is all water Change of lineage from reliance on papanca to pure knowing Angulimala and original hua t’ou – STOP
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2009-01-30 Facets of the Diamond 41:28
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Host & the guest and the fundamental confusion between the two Staying at home, the one that hears the sound and the sound merge Allow the world the come to the heart. Before knowledge Original nature & original split Self structure as defence against original pain of separation
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2009-01-29 The Shurangama Samadhi 45:01
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The Dharma door of Chan / Zen The King of Samadhi’s – the Shurangama – Durable – Samadhi The context of the Shurangama Sutra – Ananda, Matangi’s daughter, Manjushri, the Buddha & Avalokitesvara Kuan Yin’s favoured meathod – ‘returning the hearing’ The pure, bright and primordial essence of consciousness Anuruddha seeks out advice from Sariputta – ‘Turn your mind to the Deathless’
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2009-01-27 All Beings are of One Substance 34:57
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Avalokitesvara – the Lord of Ease Ekayana – All streams lead to the ocean - all Dharma doors lead to the One Heart All Dharma doors are connected to Mindfulness Crossing over beings of the self nature – being kind is being Kuan Yin All Beings have been our mother, father, relative and are potential Buddha’s Kittisaro’s mother’s death and his tribute to her
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2009-01-27 Kuan Yin - Bestower of Fearlessness 38:07
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Turning the state rather than being turned by the state Liberating the orphans of consciousness & being liberated from them Stories of Ajahn Chah – Knowing pain & ‘What About the Rest of Us?’ The man who wanted to hang himself Returning to the Still Bestower of Courage & Fearlessness.
Dharmagiri :  Original Brightness Retreat

2009-01-26 I Have Faith in Nights 21:22
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Encouragement to ‘bear the reality’ of suffering, to listen beneath the splits The holding of splits within this one heart Empathy rather than judgement The difficult practice of compassion
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2009-01-23 The Heroic Human Heart 31:55
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An abandoned old lady Bearing reality of being human With patience obstruction drop away Like walking into the mist The more the suffering, the more the bliss Indestructible Heart
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2009-01-22 Where Letting Go and Embracing the World Meet 39:18
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Compassion says ‘I am Everything’ - Wisdom ‘I am Nothing’ Where emptiness leans into aversion and compassion into grasping Ajahn Chah’s reflection on teachings as way of providing balance Metta and the attendant blessings of metta Meeting English football hooligans
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2009-01-20 Emptying the Boulders of the Mind 43:10
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Using the breath to steady the mind, to reflect on impermanence and to see ‘non ownership’ The boulder is not heavy if you don’t pick it up This is ‘how it is’ – methods to access the third noble truth Replacing reactivity with mindfulness – the flood stopper
Dharmagiri :  Original Brightness Retreat

2009-01-19 Through the Gateway of Dukkha 40:19
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The 4 truths that en-noble as we grow through them The 8 kinds of Dukkha – Anando, ex marine & monk, bowing through anger Death is also impermanent, seeing through impermanence, one touches peace. When the causes of dukkha break up, it ceases - revealing the timeless dharma.
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2009-01-19 The End of Mark Making 37:39
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The tendency of the proliferating mind to designate permanence to the transitory through the process of thought Papanca – conceptual proliferation creates the billion fragments of the world The Diamond Sutra – The Guest and the Host What remains? Kappa’s question to the Buddha
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2009-01-18 Suffering as Opportunity 37:19
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The Buddha’s reluctance to teach The first turning of the Dhamma wheel The Four Noble truths and accompanying practices Contemplating desire – resolving dukkha – the primary split.
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2009-01-18 The Centrality of Minfulness 37:16
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Replacing reactivity of mind with mindfulness Mindfulness as container & as that which reveals & discerns what is Citta conditioned by perception & sankhara Healing the citta through mindful awareness Finding balanced energy as a support for mindfulness
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2009-01-16 It's Uncertain 40:49
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Meeting Ajahn Chah in Thailand Know the breath and you’ll know everything Opening the Dharma Eye Underlying pervasive peace Samsara & Nibbana arise at the same place
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2009-01-14 The Terrorist and the Treasure 33:55
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Kittisaro’s father and mother meeting Ajahn Chah The terrorists of the heart that rob the true treasure Finding a solid footing Ajahn Chah's encouragement to be an earth worm rather than a bodhisattva Ajahn Chah’s take on Samatha & Vipassana Letting go is peace
Dharmagiri :  Original Brightness Retreat

2009-01-13 Fruit Arises According to the Dharma 33:21
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Path Activity breaks up obstructions Beginners mind, patience, kindness This is how it is Working with how it is rather than how it should be The three streams of karma / energy Samadhi as healing
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2009-01-13 Mara - The Ultimate Teacher 30:21
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The challenge of dukkha. Without Mara, no Buddha. Path Activity illuminates the hindrances Without hindrance there’s no path That which knows desire and aversion is not desire & aversion ‘I Know You Mara’
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2009-01-12 The Capacity to Bear Reality 41:37
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The heavenly messengers that set the Buddha on his quest The Buddha’s early struggle and discovery of the middle way The First Jhana and simile of the Bathman’s Apprentice Citt’ekaggata – A unified heart suffused with well being
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2009-01-12 Samadhi - The Destroyer of Ignorance 37:42
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The Four benefits of Samadhi The three streams of energy The Five Jhana factors
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2009-01-12 From Coarse to Subtle 39:43
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An exploration of that which pulls us out presence The subtle breath body & the senses
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2009-01-11 Gathered Attention Here and Now 35:27
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Three supports for present moment attention Withdrawing the mind from longing and disappointment for the world Using the breath to steady attention
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2008-08-20 Being Dharma 46:01
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From hearing to study to practice to being the Dharma
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2008-08-18 The Yak Enamoured by its Tail 46:40
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An exploration of papanca (conceptual poliferation) and nipapanca - the root of birth and death.
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