Dharma Talks
given at Dharmagiri
2009-12-15
Take Heart
32:22
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Kittisaro
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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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Dharmagiri
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2009-02-03
Pure Consciousness
35:34
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Kittisaro
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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
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Dharmagiri
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Original Brightness Retreat
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2009-02-01
THe Naked Heart
40:22
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Thanissara
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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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Dharmagiri
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Original Brightness Retreat
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2009-01-31
The Empty Bell
37:07
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Kittisaro
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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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Dharmagiri
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Original Brightness Retreat
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2009-01-31
Change of Lineage
44:43
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Kittisaro
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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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Dharmagiri
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Original Brightness Retreat
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2009-01-30
Facets of the Diamond
41:28
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Thanissara
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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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Dharmagiri
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Original Brightness Retreat
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2009-01-29
The Shurangama Samadhi
45:01
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Kittisaro
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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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Dharmagiri
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Original Brightness Retreat
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2009-01-27
All Beings are of One Substance
34:57
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Kittisaro
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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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Dharmagiri
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Original Brightness Retreat
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