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Thanissara's Dharma Talks at Dharmagiri
Thanissara
Thanissara, from London, was a nun for 12 years in the tradition of Ajahn Chah and has taught internationally for over 30 years. She is co-founder of Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat, South Africa, Sacred Mountain Sangha, California, and Chattanooga Insight, Tennessee. She has an MA in Mindfulness Psychotherapy Practice from the Karuna Institute UK and is co-author of Listening to the Heart, A Contemplative Guide to Engaged Buddhism, author of Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth, and several books of poetry. She is a member of the Teacher Council at Spirit Rock and co-guiding teacher of Sacred Mountain Sangha.
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2015-01-17 Yoga of the Heart 39:10
An inner attitude of love, compassion, attunement to goodness, and deep acceptance in the face of obstruction.
Dharmagiri Being Dharma Month Long at Dharmagiri, South Africa
2015-01-15 Attitude of Kindness & Great Compassion Ceremony 33:44
Explanation (in brief) of Kuan Yin Great Compassion & Renewal Ceremony - Cultivating kindness in relationship to our experience.
Dharmagiri Being Dharma Month Long at Dharmagiri, South Africa
2015-01-15 Compassionate Transformation 43:57
Journey through shadow, understanding sankhara - patterning, and the patient and challenging process of compassionate relationship. Mr Mandela's journey into "I love you all"
Dharmagiri Being Dharma Month Long at Dharmagiri, South Africa
2015-01-14 Compassionate Transformation 43:57
Journey through shadow, understanding sankhara - patterning, and the patient and challenging process of compassionate relationship. Mr Mandela's journey into "I love you all"
Dharmagiri Being Dharma Month Long at Dharmagiri, South Africa
2015-01-12 Cultivation of Wise Reflection 43:01
Balance of calm and insight practice, wisdom arising from dukkha, practice of overcoming suffering, Bahiya's (the disciple who understood the teaching quickest) question to the Buddha.
Dharmagiri Being Dharma Month Long at Dharmagiri, South Africa
2015-01-09 Renunciation2 - Practice of the First Foundation of Mindfulness 45:16
Moving from reliance on sense bases to immediate practice, here and now, of mindfulness of body/breath - Aspects of attention.
Dharmagiri Being Dharma Month Long at Dharmagiri, South Africa
2015-01-08 Renunciation1 - Entering the River of Reality 39:07
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
Dharmagiri Being Dharma Month Long at Dharmagiri, South Africa
2012-09-26 Being Present 36:02
Skill with guiding attention - working with 3 streams of energy of body, heart & mind - What disturbs?
Dharmagiri Touching the Earth
2012-05-10 3.9.68 - Icon of the Heart 32:05
Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Study-Practice Program
2011-08-26 2.8.40 - The River of Self 45:01
Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Study-Practice Program

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