Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks: Recent Episodes
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery
Dhammapada verse 155, renunciation, youth, medicine, foundation, story, wealthy parents, education, poor, unshakeable realisation, fundamental principle, building a house, Ajahn Chah, visiting the West, going without to develop, affluence, option fatigue, overwhelmed, anxiety, entitlement, gratification, agrarian society, pre-internet, true principles, trust, merely reading, sport, music, medicine, research, Mozart, confidence in the Buddha, support, deluded ego, Four Noble Truths, craving, wholesome desire, Kosambi, trust, conflating belief and faith, friend, ‘my way’, attam saranam gacchami, anger, fear, anxiety, irrational, public speaking, smoking cigarettes, apparent reality, actuality, embodied mindfulness, intentional restraint, smart phone, confidence, addiction, self-respect, integrity, precepts, patience, ultimate transformer, wise reflection, disappointment, the past, countering, compassionate awareness, the Buddha’s last words, strive on towards fruition.
Dhammapada 163, goodness, benefit, overwhelm, evolution, Ajahn Sucitto, fault finding, neurobiologists, easy to criticise, politics, discriminative intelligence, whole body-mind, Ajahn Chah quote, Ajahn Thate, consciousness, brain, primary organ, guided meditation, dhammakatha.org, aliveness, vulnerability, open-hearted, spring, daffodils, snow drops, disagreeability, virtue, good fortune, precepts, spiritual fatalities, heart-awareness, slowing down, technology, talking, breathing, puja, appreciating the Buddha, out of balance, nourishing.
Wat Pah Pong, monks, nuns, laymen, laywomen, honouring, defining teaching style, parents, frustration, comfortable, fierce, warm-heartedness, relatability, icon, human being, Ajahn Amaro, over-sleeping, eat little, eat more, ideal, idealistic, attentiveness, lost in doubt, ‘I’ve been there’, gift, understandable initial approach, forms, techniques, traditions, bowing, shaking hands, creative approach, vegetarian, fasting, spirit of the spiritual life, heart of hearts, essence, Dhammapada Verses 1, 2, reverse impulse, ascetic practices, lineage, social media, distraction addiction, dismissing forms, conduit, supermarket trolley, Te Awamutu, Judaeo-Christian culture, sin and guilt, comparing, nervous system, pointing, beyond forms.
New Year’s Eve, various teachings, Kalama Sutta, relevant, Magadhi, throwing a tantrum, cold-hearted conceptual analysis, Kisa Gotami, totally identified in our heads, approximations, anger, wimpish, ineffectual, transformative power, strength, wisdom, meditation, cultivate compassion, flavour of solitude, nectar of peace, mother, intentional wishing, ‘may I be free from suffering’, contentment, conflated with complacency, abdication, ocean, stillness, turmoil, multidimensional, anger, protection, determinations, spiritual muscles, atrophy, 5 minute meditation on compassion, metta bhavana.
New Moon, Uposatha Day, Dhammapada verse 132, external, internal, happy being, frightened self, foe, right and left hands fighting, festive season, collective insanity, equanimous evaluation, emotionally loaded, judgement, discipled attention, embodied mindfulness, conscious composure, work colleague, neighbour, fear, belly, letting go, relinquishing, vibhavatanha, heart energy, connection, allow, irrational fear, Prodigal Son, welcoming, alienated, not an academic exercise, self-harming, not getting lost in pleasure or pain.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Mahamangala Sutta, blessings, auspiciousness, protections, imperturbability, worldly winds, lokadhamma, nivata, humility, self references, false humility, hubris, limited being, our least, overshadowing, wholesome aspirations, betrayed, heart-broken, asking for help, bowing practice, having to be different, creative relationship with practice, psychological safety net, self-regulation, trying too hard, right amount of effort, zeal, striving, enthusiasm, goals, motivating, idealistic, servant, sat nav, clinging, Ajahn Chah, Wat Pah Nanachat, emulate an earthworm, shiny Buddha, impressive qualities, modesty, a smidgen of salt, iodine, oceans warming.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Skilful means, Ajahn Chah, Everything Is Teachings Us, learning, bored, disillusionment, positive, inherently limited, purification, 5 spiritual faculties, spiritual competence, trust in true principles, law of gravity, consciousness, motivation, preferences, bad food, wound, healing, embodied mindfulness, emotionally literate, disciplined attention, attention span, discernment, casual culture, contentment, addiction, Bhikkhuni Mahapajapati, disillusionment, detachment, dispersal, modesty, contentment, frugality, effort, solitude, one-upmanship, sapling, protection, acorn, oak tree, hurry, natural unfolding, ‘my way’, letting go
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Positivity, communication, 4 Divine Abidings, well-wishing, empathy, equanimity, generosity, self-centred, gratitude, warm-hearted, 5 ways of dealing with distractions, sorrow, compassion, struggle, may I be free from struggling, self-care, Ajahn Chah, untangling, Tuina massage, metta bhavana, authenticity, welcoming practice, positive context, drunk on positivity, Dhammapada 163, generating benefit, wisdom and compassion.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Transformative potential, trust, meditation, patience, compost, frustration, casual gratification, appointed as abbot, training monastery, resistance, teachers, boredom, terrible-twos, boundaries, indecisive, renunciation, setting limitations, nekkhamma parami, extreme asceticism, nothing special, overly zealous, phone, devices, AI, stress, anxiety, indulge, deny, embodied just-knowing awareness, letting go, raw, untamed, saying ‘yes’, intentional kindness.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Kathina ceremony, dhamma talk, food, chanting, hungry, gifts, most important, true principles, benefit, blessings, Mahamangala Sutta, deva, auspicious, runes, virtue, anxiety, spiritual faculties, integrity, sila, precepts, beauty, transformation, remorse, joy, profound insight, insecurity, safety, confidence, sati, embodied mindfulness, literacy, emotional, intuitive, disappointment, investigation, victims, agency, fantasy, indriya samvara, container, intensity, anger, fear, resilience, meditation, goal, wisdom, pannya, Dhammapada 290, patience, mirror, curiosity, compost, nutriment, compassion, Kisa Gotami, grief, mustard seed, core elements, mindful hope, aspiration.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Mahayana, Theravada, ‘Trusting In The Heart’, suffering, the Middle Way, first teachings, Four Noble Truths, Pancavaggi bhikkhus, spiritual faculties, complicit, self-loathing, overwhelmed, nourished, Brahma Viharas, open-hearted state, samadhi, intoxicated, beguiling, anger, indignation, the three poisons, fear, rate of change, anxiety pandemic, conscious relationship, formal meditation, fear of losing control, Ajahn Dukkha, authentic compassion, undoing denial, who is afraid, storehouse of wholesomeness.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Results, Dhammapada 119, 120, growing up, fruit trees, creative, obstructions, denied dukkha, maranasati, mortality, trauma, traumatised, psychotherapy, damaged goods, cleaning your teeth, spiritual faculties, reintegrated, coping strategy, Chinese medicine, functional, basement, attic, ‘I can’t handle this’, Ajahn Chah, techniques, lotus, getting over suffering, heart energy, helpful.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Feeling challenged, failing, addictions, distraction, avoidance, dislike, hatred, megalomaniacal, disappointment, rage, progress, Dhammapada verse, 103, spiritual faculties, conquering delusion, Tathagata, sensitivity, aliveness, mindfulness, resilience, patience, grindstone, sword of wisdom, guided meditation, aligning, https://dhammakatha.org/qa/, practising, conceptual resilience, emotional resilience, tudong, frustration, physically resilient, loss, agrarian society, great patience, Ajahn Chah, transforming virtue, cultivating.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) The Discourse on the Turning of the Law, Four Noble Truths, foundation, advanced spiritual abilities, insight, preparation, spiritual faculties, human intelligence, comfort, the great matter, ‘what is this all about’, unshakeable, great doubt, rewire thinking, disappointment, approximations, letting go, resistance, heart energy, building up blessings, storehouse of wholesomeness, wholesome potential, indulging and denying, middle way, welcome Ajahn Dukkha, sacca, honesty, booking a restaurant, honest speech, believing in stories, dying, generosity, friendships, physical discipline, meditation, investigating fear, anxiety, Dhammapada 327, resolution, elephant, swamp, uplifting, the inspiration of cultivated attention
(keywords) (slightly edited version) The Discourse on the Turning of the Law, Four Noble Truths, foundation, advanced spiritual abilities, insight, preparation, spiritual faculties, human intelligence, comfort, the great matter, ‘what is this all about’, unshakeable, great doubt, rewire thinking, disappointment, approximations, letting go, resistance, heart energy, building up blessings, storehouse of wholesomeness, wholesome potential, indulging and denying, middle way, welcome Ajahn Dukkha, sacca, honesty, booking a restaurant, honest speech, believing in stories, dying, generosity, friendships, physical discipline, meditation, investigating fear, anxiety, Dhammapada 327, resolution, elephant, swamp, uplifting, the inspiration of cultivated attention
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Disinclination to teach, Brahma, unawakened state, but a little dust in their eyes, dana parami, transforming virtues, foundational, meditation, wisdom, supportive conditions, conceptual understanding, transformative understanding, relationship, kalyanamitta, helping hand, pointers, Ajahn Chah, lost in anxiety, fear, brains bursting, empathy, gift, loneliness, cold-heartedness, first book, first meditation retreat, disciplining attention, deluded personality, self obsessed, instilling virtues, Wester traveller, offering respect to the Buddha, practices, adequate examples, susceptibility, fully blown narcissists, mainlining bhava tanha, opening, softening, ‘my way’, lonely, self-referencing, forgetting about yourself, gentling, kathina, anumodana, form and spirit, shared participation.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Present moment awareness, past, future, resentment, forgiveness, aspirations, unique, newness, freshness, beginning again, soul, essence, endurance, ultimate transformer, cultivating competence, Thai language, great faith, great doubt, great endurance, formal meditation, two eyes.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Initial enthusiasm, clinging, Dhammapada v 221, resisting reality, fundamentalism, clinging to views, all religions, overly simplistic solutions, slogans, complex, confusion, chaos, effort, skill, discernment, meditation retreat, coping strategy, meditation teachers, political rallies, revivalist crusades, spiritual and psychological structures, feeling threatened, vertigo, true principles, Mahamangala Sutta, living in befitting places, accumulating a storehouse of wholesomeness, integrity, inner safe-space, immutable laws, Ajahn Dukkha, synthetic security, idealism, open-hearted awareness, fear of uncertainty, abbot, not-knowing, sadha, sila, sati, indriyasamvara, Venerable Sariputta.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Young people, morality, religions, precepts, inner safe space, nivata, Mahamangala Sutta, source of blessings, false humility, protection, self inflation, aligning, virtue, vectors, ritual humiliation, bubble burst, hubris, nemesis, ‘got a ticket on yourself’, ‘cruising for a bruising’, admiration, puja, honouring, selfless wisdom and compassion, people who look like their pets, Ajahn Chah, appreciative awareness, Bhikkhu Vakkali, autobiographies, Emperor Asoka, denigrating other religions, Ven. Sariputta, untidy robe, novice, seniority, Taungpulu Sayadaw, Ananda Maitreya, King of Thailand, see the loss, see the gain, ugliness, beauty.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada v 146, laughter, joy, fire, darkness, seeking the light, Commentaries, apocryphal, drunk, wisdom, distraction, heedlessness, Ajahn Chah, Living With The Cobra, hot, cool, samsara, nibbana, greed, hatred, delusion, heart, actuality, contentment, restless, nervous system, 2600 years ago, processing data, lose connection, open-hearted state, being loving, schmaltzy songs, poems, chronically obstructed, accumulated denied dukkha, the Awakened Ones, deep discontentment, overwhelm, reading a recipe book, frightening, Abhidhamma, sadness, abuse, abandonment, boarding school, Public School system, Prof. C. G. Jung, guilt, temporal model, present generated dukkha, old unmet dukkha, adopted dukkha, study, 5 ways of dealing with distracting thoughts, fundamentalist, cutting through, working through, burning through, Ajahn Thate, humility, good company.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Challenges, environmental, ethical, political, state of the world, Dhammapada verse one, verse two, the heart leads the way, core issues, speculating, well-being, greed, hatred, delusion, polluted awareness, distorted consciousness, 3 poisons adittapariyaya sutta, The Fire Sermon, pointing, Ajahn Chah, burning hot coal, letting go, precepts, study, sitting, focussing on forms, first book, first retreat, pujas, perfunctory, meditation, harmonious alignment, cellophane, saddha, sati, sampajanna, Kassapa brothers, fire worshippers, famous teachers, paraphernalia, really new, daring, unknown.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammacakkappavatana Sutta, Pancavaggi bhikkhus, realisation, Four Noble Truths, being ‘ready’, naïve, highest teachings, transmutation, addressing hunger first, Mahamangala Sutta, sorrow-less, grief-less, respectfulness, deva, transmutation, insight, self-respect, cultivation, humility, virtuous, arrogance, acknowledging limitations, middle way, contentment, gratitude, upbringing, instilling virtues, timely hearing Dhamma, noisy head, conscious listening from the heart, preparation.
(approx. 11 minutes) KEYWORDS: Q: "I have been keeping up the suggested '15 minutes of non-judgmental awareness practice' and am disconcerted to find an apparently endlessly critical voice in my head. I see where it comes from and how strong it is on sin and guilt, and how weak it is on forgiveness. I understand all too clearly what you mean by unacknowledged dukkha. How to proceed? If you have any more good advice, I will be glad to hear it." Compulsive controlling, unreceived, smoke, fire, indoctrination, knowing not-knowing, anger, counter design, spiritual faculties, heart language, head language, nebulous fear, reintegrated.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Emphasising friendship, Kalyanamitta, Discourse on Great Auspiciousness, Mahamangala Sutta, the company we keep, developing and maintaining, Dhammapada 328, joyous company, emphasising solitude, Wat Pah Pong, unaddressed pain, side effects of affluence, distraction, social media, Dhammapada 160, be your own refuge, monastics, Venerable Anuruddha, milk and water, gym, characteristics, difficult feedback, trusting confidentiality, struggling, valuing friends, casual culture, 4 divine abidings, metta, karuna, mudita, upekkha, boundless heart, daring vulnerability, open-hearted state, aliveness, compassion, empathy, feel the sadness, banter, cynicism, closed down, equanimity, limitations, kamma, learning to listen.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) "How to properly understand the Buddha's teachings on not being better, equal or worse than others? I’m especially interested in how to deal with the feelings of being superior to those who do not search anything deeper in life, who merely pursue immediate gratification of casual desires.” Ajahn Chah, Abhidhamma, Thai expression, ditthi mana, perceptions, up to scratch, balanced sensitivity, afraid of fear, hating aversion, spiritual toolkit, integrity, embodied mindfulness, intentional composure (indriyasamvara), wise reflection, compassion, challenging, enquiry, daring, judging, fear, overwhelmed, anger, indulging, denying, in-breath, expanding, temporary happiness, wellness retreat, selfless happiness, pressure.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Virtues, transformation, helpful, spiritual muscle, energy management, habits, boundaries, vulnerable, nekkhamma parami, wilfulness, chocolate, forms, spirit, looking at your phone, addicted, focussing on the form, renunciation, sense of self, my way, squabbles, communities of selves, the Buddha, selflessness, sugar, pleasure, diabetes, obese, food manufacturers, fat and salt, indriya samvara, intentional inhibition, open-hearted awareness, ‘I want’, fully own, dopamine hit, backlog, dana, sila, nekkhamma, the burden of deluded personality, integrity, wholesome intention, Ven. Ananda, freedom from remorse, bowing, arrogant, materialists, making offerings to the sangha, reading Dhamma, pointing, more lightly.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Anxiety, counsellor, practitioner, emotions, fear, heart contraction, desire, greed, disciplined attention, intentional composure, schools, stub your toe, open hearted awareness, aligning meditation, counterforce of compassion, outshining, tears, empathy.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Father’s Day, appreciation, gratitude, spiritual fathers, Ajahn Sumedho, celebration of gratitude, celebration of generosity, faith, true principles, chaos, implicit order, materialism, Ajahn Chah, faith, disciplined attention, power tools, musical instrument, selfless wisdom, selfless compassion, shifts in perspective, increased sensitivity, apparently intolerable, intense badness, personal baggage, kamma, epigenetics, 5 spiritual faculties, blind belief, potential competences, patient endurance, driven by bhava tanha, backlog, burning, tapa, embodying, conscious connected breathing, conceptual intelligence, emotional intelligence, intuitive intelligence, acupuncture, headaches, intervention, heart contraction, fear, disappointment, relationship, dislike, wanting to look at your phone, apparently insurmountable obstructions, beginner, contentment.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Enthusiasm, aspiration, progress, chronically obstructed, Ajahn Chah, obstructed, moods, bad kamma, accumulated denied dukkha, crying, itchy wound, scratch, right understanding, screeching birds, nirodha-sacca, ekayana, disliking, open the chest, welcome heart energy, smelly socks, six senses, six sense objects, liking and disliking, acupuncturist, affluence, sadness, frustration, rightly aligned, great renunciation, synthetic security, approximations, the dukkha of disappointment, resistance, tolerable, lemons, lack of self-worth, overwhelming, grief, addicted to your smart phone, denied desire, fear, breathing, manageable, death, receive the hurt, don’t be afraid of the hurt, trust, heart-contraction, skilful non-resistance, heedless acquiescence.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) 90th birthday, gratitude, 50 years ago, visa, Wat Bovorn, Samanera Dhammiko, Wat Saket, commitment and ease, balance, daring spirit, Ajahn Chah, Varapannyo, against the current, ‘my way’, floating alms-bowl, gratification, overly heroically, goal, transformation, transmuting, openness and honesty, pontifications, ex cathedra, challenges, scriptures, nanny’s room, rose quartz Buddha image, granary, idealism, respect for tradition, tried and tested, new and improved, changing robes, trust, changing dates of rainy season retreat, form and spirit, renovating Chithurst House, losing the spirit, translating, Sound of Silence, listening, social media, main-lining bhava tanha, identity in thinking, AI, according with changes, skill, gratitude.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Requesting bhikkhu precepts, robes, chanting, anagarika, Dhammapada 348, letting go of past future present, free from clinging, form, spirit, ochre robe, training, spiritual community, money, shelter, security, reputation, finding identity, supermarket trolley, bowing, magic ritual, selfless wisdom and compassion, self-centredness, Vakkali, perfect lotus, books, 8-Fold Path, extremes, Middle Way, pain, lost, scholars, shaking hands, harmlessness, selfless open-hearted awareness, emotions, having and not-having, knowing is the freedom, emotional sensitivity, emotional literacy, the work.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Quiet contemplation, wisdom teachings, Ajahn Chah, wrong thinking, attitude, stories, nun, practical wisdom, study, suttamayapannya, wisdom from hearing, cintamayapannya, wisdom from mental analysis, bhavanamayapannya, wisdom from cultivation, frustration, funerals, chanting, intuition, humility, unexpected breakthrough, kalama sutta, greed, hatred, delusion, abandoning unwholesomeness, good friends, creative in practice, fun, aliveness.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Restless, unsettled, asking yourself a question, gratify, aim, listening from the heart, ears in your chest, Ajahn Chah, tape recorder, conscious relationship, dreaming, afraid to feel, contracted denial, breathing exercise, chanting, no judgement, cookies and ice-cream, kama tanha, bhava tanha, vibhava tanha, wholesome desire, deluded desire, sense treat, the vortex of wanting, augmented reality, virtual reality, adding something extra, accumulated denied dukkha, Four Noble Truths, controlling, debts, craving for becoming, wanting to be certain, wisdom, wanting virtuous, fear of uncertainty, backlog, craving for getting rid or, not wanting to exist, wanting to get enlightened, welcome, into the light of day, Liberation, assumptions, feeling whole, smoking, addiction, the story of gratification is a complete con, reintegrating, reject heart energy, alienated from our own hearts, seeing through the con.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Christian monk, prayer, induction and instruction, catch a cold, Ajahn Chah in US, pariyatti, Nimbin, do's and don’ts, discipline attention, walking meditation, there’s just-knowing, calm, changed the course of my life, possibilities, 1970’s, questioning, initial inspiration, identity, forms, intoxicated by outer appearance, Vakkali, overly enamoured, sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches and mental impressions, false identity, wound on your forehead, approximation, restless, virtuous struggle, synthetic security, daring, taking risks, precepts, spiritual companions, letting go of the initial good feeling, downloading an app.
(keywords) (edited version) Q: "Are we still identifying as the activity taking place in our hearts and minds, or are we remembering our refuge in the Buddha, in just-knowing awareness?" Dhammapada Reflections, framing experience, victims of suffering, Ajahn Thate, refuge, content, context, Awakened beings, sites, sounds, liking and disliking, formal meditation, becoming the worldling, identified as the thinking mind, desire and craving, semantics, doubt, looking at the finger, heart of awareness, not-knowing, addicted to certitude, rung of the ladder, faith, fear of unsure, synthetic security, moral precepts, intentional composure, indriyasamvara, gradually, beginning again..
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada verse 163, Devadatta, winter retreat, excruciatingly difficult, intensely threatening, junk food, affluence, obesity, ease of access to information, contentment, ecological stressor, wars, technology, identified with the deluded sense of self, ‘my way’, hatred, morphing, pride, self-adoration, selfies, vulgar, intoxicant, religion, self-obsessed, virtues, humility, truthfulness, Greek myth, scientific scrutiny, beliefs systems, faith in True Principles, path of practice, 8-fold path, Right View, 4 Noble Truths, Right Aspiration, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Collectedness, schools, Conscious Studies, disciplined attention, understanding pain, balance.
(keywords) (edited version) Q: “Can you speak about jealousy and how I can practice to combat the envy others have in my practice? Sometimes, friends can be critical and speak in a way that is judgemental and disparaging towards me. I feel misunderstood. How can I deal with this?” Self-centred, generosity, truthfulness, integrity, sila, lotus flower, compromising, Venerable Ananda, freedom from remorse, safety, psychologist, GP, sugar metabolism, highest virtue, wisdom, nekkhamma parami, ability to say no, smartphone, adhitthana parami, determination, resolution, lokapala, protectors of the world, hiri and ottappa, wholesome sense of shame, balance, sila, anger, attention, light, energy, dissolve, denial, restraint, 5 precepts, heedlessness, will, Ajahn Dukkha, conflation, peaceful, child, agile, guided meditation, gentle, sensitive, mental exercise, Satipatthana Sutta, counting the breath, strength, weakness.
(keywords) (edited version) Q: "For those of us with a Western scientific back ground, some of the more metaphysical teachings of the Buddha's teachings such as rebirth are hard to make sense of. And even from the perspective of the teaching on Anatta, rebirth is hard to make sense of! Please could you give advice on how to relate to those parts of the teachings that seem to require belief in things we cannot know for ourselves and also the parts of the teachings that we plain just don’t understand.” Engage the paradox, dilemma, clinging, fear, selfless just-knowing awareness, anatta, compulsively taking sides, intelligence, not-knowing, laws of materiality, laws of consciousness, gravity, conceptual formulation, trust, study, uncertainty, greed, poison, humility, modesty, abdication, True Principles, not avoiding responsibility, dilemmas are a gift.
(keywords) (edited version) Q: I have intensified my practice over the last year and a half. During this time my sila has gone backwards: Why is this the case? Sila, anger, attention, light, energy, dissolve, denial, restraint, 5 precepts, heedlessness, will, Ajahn Dukkha, conflation, peaceful, child, agile, guided meditation, gentle, sensitive, mental exercise, Satipatthana Sutta, counting the breath, strength, weakness.
(keywords) (edited version) Q: "I have heard according to Theravada Buddhist teachings we are born and die at every moment, and we do this continuously, not only after our final breath. Could you please explain what this means?” Dependent Origination, kamma, rebirth, willing, daring, enquiring, 5 spiritual faculties, rainbow, burdensome, quandary, careful manner, self-adoration, vulgar, self-promotion, cooperation, harmony, self-obsessed, religion, Almighty, abominably, perpetual anxiety, community of selves, atta, anatta, society, morphing.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) “I know from past experiences that increased food intake never genuinely makes me feel better. Might you have any advice? Evolutionary biologists, psychologists, demonize desire, wanting, craving, wholesome desires, enemy, smoking, breaking the habit, basic skills, 5 spiritual faculties, faith, kamma, energy, intensity, embodied mindfulness, discipline attention, discernment, indriya samvara, skilful composure, containing, respecting intensity, hiri and ottappa, conscience, lokapala, protectors of the world, skilful shame and fear of the consequences of shamelessness, guilt, progress, unruly heart energy, competent, ill-will, truly responsible.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) The Teaching of the Cobra, filtered through perceptions, uncertainty, conceptual level, intuitive level, felt level, letting go, unfortunately limited, clinging to forms, resistance, arguments, intuitive, excruciating consequences, flippant, precepts, drinking alcohol, fifth precept, poison, blood-brain barrier, numbing, the open-hearted state, our spiritual workshop, compulsive contraction, deeply relevant, becoming stuck, embodied awareness, over stimulation, guided meditation, compassionate open-hearted awareness, aligning.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) "Are there any precautions of safeguards I should be taking as I sense the tenderness of my heart opening?" Becoming overly sensitive, parenting, karaniya metta sutta, normality, native sensitivity, naively vulnerable, hurt, the Buddha had pain, Vulture’s Peak, unawareness, 4 Noble Truths, falling in love, the capacity for being loving, discipline, righteous indignation, 2 extremes, Dhammacakkha sutta, middle way, embodied mindfulness, intentional composure, indriya samvara, projection, retreat, Bhajans, hymns, Jesus, Krishna, Kwan Yin, surfing, hang-gliding, wilderness, worshipping, idolizing, fundamentalism, sad, rational faculties, tension, rightly aligned, head, heart, belly, 25 questions.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) "I have been ghosted by two close friends. They disappeared, without explanation. I emailed each 3 times requesting an open discussion and neither replied. In meditation, I offer and ask for forgiveness. Can you recommend additional ways to help let go of these painful rejections?" Commitment, framing, learn, lost, samsara, uninspected relationship with pain, Ajahn Chah, comfort, convenience, denied dukkha, meeting dukkha with interest, endurance, vector for transformation, 10 parami, framing, noble ordeal, 5 spiritual faculties, overwhelmed, stories, strategies, awakening, Ajahn Dukkha.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) "Are we lacking in empathy if we feel contentment amongst all this suffering. Or are we indeed being selfish?" Dhammapada verse 197, 198, egotistical perspective, inflated, meditation, stillness and peace, deeper dimensions, ocean, bilingual, driving a car, agility of attention, evolution, essential tool, end of the world, cultivating awareness, multidimensional reality, cleaning teeth, strap-line.
This brief, non-traditional exercise of disciplined attention aims at helping meditators return to a state of embodied balance and alignment. It should always be applied with gentleness and care.
This brief, non-traditional exercise of disciplined attention aims at helping meditators return to a state of embodied balance and alignment. It should always be applied with gentleness and care.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) The Teaching of the Cobra, filtered through perceptions, uncertainty, conceptual level, intuitive level, felt level, letting go, unfortunately limited, clinging to forms, resistance, arguments, intuitive, excruciating consequences, flippant, precepts, drinking alcohol, fifth precept, poison, blood-brain barrier, numbing, the open-hearted state, our spiritual workshop, compulsive contraction, deeply relevant, becoming stuck, embodied awareness, over stimulation, guided meditation, compassionate open-hearted awareness, aligning.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) new year’s resolution, modesty, truthfulness, assessing truthfulness, asking our heart, centre of the chest, open window, children playing, giggling, parents caring, Handel’s Messiah, retreat, extreme sports, abseiling, free diving, novels, movies, love stories, vulnerable, joy, enthusiasm, evangelical, conflation, falling in love, denied dukkha, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair, norovirus, collude with the collective assumption, 5 hindrances, demonize, kilesa, indictment, pistachio ice-cream and pecan cookies, eating distraction, sloth and torpor, freeze, backlog, rag, reintegrated, imagined fear, offended, turn off the news, compassion.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) primary work, Dhammapada verse 301, cittabhavana, desire, tanha, fear, anxiety, present generated dukkha, old unmet dukkha, adopted dukkha, paranoid, complex, chaotic, satipatthana sutta, sati, recipe book, CJD, disposition, conjure up, numbness, fire, daring, contentment, a con, addiction, nekkhamma parami, repertoire of skilful means, authentic interest, cutting through, seeing through, burning through, abstractions on feelings, reintegrated into the heart, heedful suppression, competence, fanciful ideas, honesty, no judgement, spiritual warrior, hungry man teaching.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Metta, mudita, feeling threatened, personal survival, medical prognosis, collective crisis, 4 Divine Abidings, ICU, ideals, preparation, run aground, humility, tried and tested, The Discourse on the Greatest Blessings, unshakeable, stages of training, reputation, health, habitual addictions, indulgence and denial, psychotherapy, pontificating, Mahamangala Sutta, apparent sense of self, meditation retreat, daily meditation, 5 precepts, contented head, wide-open heart, belly at ease, aligning, heart-broken, 10 parami, vectors for transformation, dana, sila, nekkhamma, boundary-building, agents of suffering, deluded personality, transformed relationship with ‘I’.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Forest Sangha Calendar 2025, 50th anniversary, Wat Nanachat, contentment, blasé, wringing our hands, waiting, ocean, tumultuous, study and practise, 37 Bodhipakkhiya dhamma, Requisites for Awakening, knowing directly, unitive intelligence, music appreciation, compulsively comparing, one-bowl-eaters practice, ascetic practice, control freak, addiction to preferences, addiction to ascetic practice, yabber-yabber, conventional theistic religion, self-inflated, contributing compassion to the world, Venerable Mahapajapati Bhikkhuni, enamoured, alluding, cardamom, free to feel fear.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Sangha gatherings, kathina, Elders’ Council Meetings, burden of suffering, reaping rewards, old pain, criticism, cynicism, unmet pain, DDB, denied dukkha backlog, solitary practice, a right pickle, lost in samsara, reconfigure views, reading Braille, raw data, ouch, intense illness, heavenly messengers, assailed, ICU, capacity of heart, nivarana, anger, vibhava-tanha, rage, feel fully offended, feel accurately, daring, momentum, overwhelmed, loathing washing dishes, avoid using force, assertive, standing in ma bu, spick-and-span, Morrinsville, open-hearted awareness, allowing the native sensitivity, let rip, passionate rage, contraction in my guts, affluence, entertainment, incremental moments, cleaning our teeth, hunching our shoulders, heart wide open, 50 years, Nimbin.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Buddhist meditators, compulsive thinking, self-critical, fire and smoke, irrational fear, chronically disconnected, broken glasses, fully want, open-hearted awareness, vociferous lifestyle gurus, satipatthana sutta, kayanusati, Ajahn Chah, feeling investigation, habits of denial, backlog, pressure, retreat, self harming, anxiety, assailed, zealous, resilience, humility.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) 8 precepts, moral precepts, renunciate precepts, refining the practice, pressure, dam, leaks, Andalusia, transformation, mindfulness of breathing, energy, brahma-viharas, 5 khandas, insubstantiality, insight, liberation
(keywords) (slightly edited version)Dhammapada 418, dreich, Ajahn Chah, ‘Living With the Cobra’, upadana, clinging, Middle Way, All Blacks, thrash, porridge, lashings of chilly powder, organic sultanas, Harnham power porridge, 5 spiritual faculties, intentional inhibitions, indriyasamvara, energy extravagant, anger, balanced aliveness, rejection, feeling enquiring, just-knowing awareness,
(keywords) (slightly edited version)10 Qualities to develop as protection, inner stronghold, refuge, ultimate refuge in Budddha, Dhamma Sangha, intermediate training, development of qualities worthy of respect, ethical conduct, sila, intention, aspiration, knowing the teachings, being well-learned, chanting, good and profound friendship, kalyanamitta, receiving feedback, readiness to do any task at hand, enthusiasm for Dhamma, putting forth effort, motivation, contentment, being happy with whatever is present, sati, recollection, mindfulness not forgetfulness, wisdom.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada 297, vigilance, chaos, conditioned and unconditioned existence, false stories, protection, Awakening, aligning, orienting, three poisons, greed, hatred, delusions, indignant, aggressive, loss, grief, anger, indictment, Ajahn Chah, Reading the Natural Mind, Awakened Beings, wanting, symbols, Buddha image, approximations, theism, anthropomorphizing, saying grace before eating, gratitude, forgiveness, individuated sense of ‘I’, control freak, Psalm 130, prayer of supplication, ‘Through the goodness that arises from my practice…’, conscious wish, Mahamangala Sutta, imperturbability.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Explosion, emotional reaction, Kosambi monks, Nalagiri, Cinca, Mahamangala Sutta, Nagampatti, imperturbable, unshakable, actuality, heedless habits of clinging, culprit, upadana, Dhammacakkappavattana sutta, pancupadanakkhandha dukkha, the agents of limited being, holding, infancy, reputation, Brahman, medical prognosis, edgeless awareness, Jivaka, obstructing kamma, incremental moments, DDB, Ajahn Chah, charnel grounds, fear of ghosts, rejections, anger, intensity, daring, trying to have special experiences, integrity, lotus, physical exercise, cankama, walking meditation, Luang Por Wan, formal meditation, formal study, learning chanting, and physical exercise, kalyanamitta, good friends, confessional, priest, recitation of the 227 rules, intervention, acupuncture, support.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Ajahn Chah, crazy monastery, giggling, International Forest Monastery, misunderstanding, translation, the disease of unawareness, Buddho, 'the one who knows', selfless, just-knowing, citta, jit, heart, mind, merely thinking, abstractions, clinging, upadana, craving, desire, diabetes, collapsing heart awareness, compulsive behaviour, noting, ouch, centre of our chest, feeling awareness, fascinating carry on in our heads, senses and sense objects, disembodied, What Is Contemplation, pathways, percolate, AI, Chat-bot, abdication, the prison system, deems, punitive approach, punishment, Dhammapada verse 5, hatred, recidivism, Norway, commission, omission, silent meditation retreat, unlove, compassion.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada verse 228, praise and blame, stories whirling around in our heads, hurt, talented, sensitive, self awareness, unique, genetically, kammically, deluded notion, exceptionality, one-upmanship, Abhidhamma, conceit, 9 different types, ditthi mana, the knot of deluded egoity, conundrum, sati-pannya, disciplined attention, discernment, Rangiputa Beach, Pohutakawa, vedananusati, labouring this point, conscious caring, compassion, feeling investigation, stove, 8 worldly dhammas, retreats, the open-hearted state, Wat Hin Mak Peng, conscious relationship, irrational wanting, spew out onto the world, pursuit of aliveness, numbness, addiction to distraction, electric shock, befriend ourselves.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada verse 198, free from misery, accurate record, apocryphal, moot point, Rohini River, drought, water wars, rivers of blood, clear and calm, unwise, unhelpful, beauty, worthy, burden of remorse, upadana, clinging, obstruction of the heart, stubbed toe, pain, suffering, disembodied, concept and actuality, anesthesia, indulge in feelings, depression, numbing ourselves, affluence, distraction, something missing, aliveness, treats, samsara, sacca parami, honesty, laziness, gritting my teeth, exercising here-and-now whole-being judgement-free awareness, public speaking, boredom, addiction, the open hearted state, extreme sport, hymns, bhajans, meditation, shakti, bliss, hang-gliding, forms and spirit, projecting, slaves to the world.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada verse 198, free from misery, accurate record, apocryphal, moot point, Rohini River, drought, water wars, rivers of blood, clear and calm, unwise, unhelpful, beauty, worthy, burden of remorse, upadana, clinging, obstruction of the heart, stubbed toe, pain, suffering, disembodied, concept and actuality, anesthesia, indulge in feelings, depression, numbing ourselves, affluence, distraction, something missing, aliveness, treats, samsara, sacca parami, honesty, laziness, gritting my teeth, exercising here-and-now whole-being judgement-free awareness, public speaking, boredom, addiction, the open hearted state, extreme sport, hymns, bhajans, meditation, shakti, bliss, hang-gliding, forms and spirit, projecting, slaves to the world.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) misperception of reality, two extremes of feeling, neutral feeling as Middle Way, anapanasati, whole-body Eightfold Path, mindfulness in daily life, divine abidings, radiance, five khandas, six senses, insubstantiality, empty, peace
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada verse 290, wisdom, going for refuge, joy, confidence, beach, picnic, confidence, initial faith, impermanence, skilful means, tranquillity, deeply relaxed, dissolving habits of denial, DDB, denied dukkha backlog, upaya, armour, anger, sadness, disappointment, addiction to alcohol, wowed, Ajahn Chah, knowing so much, approximations, Abhidhamma, dosa mula citta, fire, patience, interest, knowing directly, discriminative intelligence, feeling investigation, denigrate, not-knowing, cancer, sila, sati, indriyasamvara, our spiritual toolkit, looking at the Buddha’s finger, Venerable Sariputta, intentional inhibition, exuberance, wanting to be sure, vibhava tanha, spacious open-hearted awareness, psychotherapist, empathy, meeting our embarrassing inadequacy, amazing.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) naive hope, succumb to feeling hopeless, cynicism, protection from chaos, buoyed up, ‘Reading The Natural Mind’, wanting and craving, hopefulness and hopelessness, sati-pañña, accuracy of awareness, lashings of cream, floods of maple syrup, repression, feeling without becoming, deconstructing the deluded sense of self, storehouse of wholesomeness and purification, gauging a monk’s competence, festival days, strength, stability, worldly winds, praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, honour and insignificance, agility, DDB, denied dukkha backlog, compulsive controlling, default strategy for coping with denied pain, traverse the territory of denial, essay, caught off-guard, puffed up, off hand, lineal logical, tricky, deviousness, Master Hsuan Hua, Wat Bovorn, teacher’s job is to trick you, stories, Ajahn Chah, frustrating, spiritual games, Mara wants us to play games, the Buddha wants us to wake up.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) The Disease of Denied Dukkha, True Principles, mere beliefs, aspirations, lists, 3 fires, 3 poisons, 4 Noble Truths, 4 Brahma Viharas, 5 Hindrances, 5 Ways of Removing Distracting Thoughts, 6 sense bases, 6 sense objects, 7 Factors of Enlightenment, 8-Fold Path, 8 Indicators of That Which is Dhamma, 10 Vectors of Transformation, 10 Parami, 12 links of Dependent Origination, 84,000 dhamma doors, Ajahn Tiradhammo, varieties of approaches, obstructions, kilesa, agility, cutting through, seeing through, burning through, tapa, 3 poisons, greed, hatred, delusion, ice-cream, grades of obstruction, appointment, obeyed, fear of not being heard, DDB, denied dukkha backlog, purifying our hearts, conscious relationship, denial, indulgence, Mt Everest, ‘I’ve been there’, moha, purifying awareness, humility, spiritual companions.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) The Disease of Denied Dukkha, True Principles, mere beliefs, aspirations, lists, 3 fires, 3 poisons, 4 Noble Truths, 4 Brahma Viharas, 5 Hindrances, 5 Ways of Removing Distracting Thoughts, 6 sense bases, 6 sense objects, 7 Factors of Enlightenment, 8-Fold Path, 8 Indicators of That Which is Dhamma, 10 Vectors of Transformation, 10 Parami, 12 links of Dependent Origination, 84,000 dhamma doors, Ajahn Tiradhammo, varieties of approaches, obstructions, kilesa, agility, cutting through, seeing through, burning through, tapa, 3 poisons, greed, hatred, delusion, ice-cream, grades of obstruction, appointment, obeyed, fear of not being heard, DDB, denied dukkha backlog, purifying our hearts, conscious relationship, denial, indulgence, Mt Everest, ‘I’ve been there’, moha, purifying awareness, humility, spiritual companions.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Minor and major suffering, tricks, avoidance, dukkha plus plus, dreams, grief, frozen, tears, parent, emotions, parking, blissful, Four Noble Truths, true principles, upaya, ubai, skilful means, conundrums, miserable, grumpy, backlog, denied life, medicating, spiritual faculties, idealistic, bhava-tanha, vibhava-tanha, aggressive, deficit, forces for transformation, terrible-twos, projections, disillusionment, gentle approach, introspection, misperceive, too much, Ven. Myokyo-Ni, parami, mettabhavana, self-caring, threatening, default, whole-being awareness, recipe book, wound, mirror, modesty, weakness.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Minor and major suffering, tricks, avoidance, dukkha plus plus, dreams, grief, frozen, tears, parent, emotions, parking, blissful, Four Noble Truths, true principles, upaya, ubai, skilful means, conundrums, miserable, grumpy, backlog, denied life, medicating, spiritual faculties, idealistic, bhava-tanha, vibhava-tanha, aggressive, deficit, forces for transformation, terrible-twos, projections, disillusionment, gentle approach, introspection, misperceive, too much, Ven. Myokyo-Ni, parami, mettabhavana, self-caring, threatening, default, whole-being awareness, recipe book, wound, mirror, modesty, weakness.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Coming home, dying, truth, via negativa, stress, true happiness, already here, addiction, detox, eight-step programme, coolness, idealism, crash, muck, spiritual friends, not becoming spiritual, freedom.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Samanera Precepts, structures, inner activity, outer activity, festival, graven images, rituals, deluded sense of self, transforming, anatta, skills, integrity, foundation, lotus, swamp, Ananda, freedom from remorse, disciplined attention, samanas, currency, sati, conscious caring, metta, nutriment, backlog, malnourished orphan, Ajahn Jayanto, our own best friend, conscious composure, inhibit, indriyasamvara, dust, neurotic repression, compulsive exuberance, wise reflection, tangles, translation, Thailand, Theravada Buddhism, kutis, form and spirit, Ajahn Kevali, something beautiful, treasuring, this inheritance, realization, not speculative, Ajahn Chah, masochist, grateful, sacrifices, shaming, guilt-tripping, extraordinary good fortune.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Joining the monastic community, principles, pressure, deluded sense of self, obstructions, dross, approximations, untamed heart, lucid, spiritual toolkit, integrity, hiriottapa, remorse, disciplined attention, Ajahn Chah, crazy, diminished responsibility, conscious composure, indriyasamvara, jackfruit, compulsiveness, conscious caring, weird cult, wise reflection, tangles, deviousness, the four imponderables, The Potter’s Shed, tradition, transplanting saplings, protecting legacy, sacrifice, competence, community practice, sangha tea, Bani Shorter, ‘harmonious resonance of shared aspiration’.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Joining the monastic community, principles, pressure, deluded sense of self, obstructions, dross, approximations, untamed heart, lucid, spiritual toolkit, integrity, hiriottapa, remorse, disciplined attention, Ajahn Chah, crazy, diminished responsibility, conscious composure, indriyasamvara, jack-fruit, compulsiveness, conscious caring, weird cult, wise reflection, tangles, deviousness, the four imponderables, The Potter’s Shed, tradition, transplanting saplings, protecting legacy, sacrifice, competence, community practice, sangha tea, Bani Shorter, ‘harmonious resonance of shared aspiration’.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Spring, retreat, enlightenment, balance, turgor pressure, blood pressure, central heating system, psychotic episodes, idealism, meniscectomy, whole-being awareness, inspiration intoxication, intelligence, fundamentalists, trust, fear, goal, modesty, anatta, emptiness, deconstruct, cynicism, metta, sadness, compulsive judging disorder, discriminative intelligence, fear of uncertainty, precepts, stress, self-aligning, community, Berwick-upon-Tweed, wilfulness, commitments, adhitthana parami, exercise routine, causal culture, frustration, becoming monk or nun, purifying gold, stable, commitments.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) politics, hollow, inconsequential, principle, 4 Divine Abidings, caring, empathy, image, wound, mirror, actuality, noggin, approximation, sensitivity, processing information, self-referencing, willing to feel hurt, backlog, denied hurt, affluence, entitled, obstructed, wishy-washing, until the cows come home, numbness, children, miserable, softening, breathing exercises, devotion, massage, acupuncture, disappointment, ‘may I be free from suffering’, meditation object, tears, rash, tardy, compassionate awareness, effective actions.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Ovada Patimokkha, template, purification, obstructed awareness, self-delusion, individuated sense of self, potentialities, self-transcendence, climbing Mt. Everest, preparation, spiritual adventure, psychotic breakdown, lying, alcohol, World Health Organization, group 1 carcinogen, poison, compulsive judging disorder, discriminative intelligence, unitive intelligence, sati, forgiveness, gratitude, generosity, spiritual education, control freakery, new age religion, 4 Noble Truths, happiness, recalibrate, doorpost, disappointment, reconfigure, inconsequential, backlog, massive burden of denied dukkha, habits of distraction, welcome Ajahn dukkha, self-aligning, Mahamangala Sutta, liberation, true principles, purifying gold, dross, smelting, pressure, applied, frustration, pollutant, Mahasatipatthana Sutta, approximations, no judgement.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) gift of silence, gratitude, gifts of four requisites, Anāthapiṇḍika's & Kāḷaka's offerings, Kāḷakārāmasutta, nature of consciousness, seeing, carpet, mirage, firewood, not-self, hearing, creaks, sensing, lump of foam, insubstantiality, muta, smelling, tasting, crisps, waves, ocean, cognizing, banana-tree, magicians trick, three kinds of feeling
(keywords) (slightly edited version) nettles & dock leaves, itch, suffering & the end of suffering, mindfulness of the body, pleasant, painful & neutral feeling, Noble Eightfold Path, Everyday Tai Chi, numbness, the Middle Way, waves on the ocean, five khandas, six senses, peace.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Assumptions, not-knowing, vitality, power porridge, unsafe, entitlement, disappointed, preparation, skilful consideration, self confidence, epithet, a misery guts, morning chanting, present generated dukkha, old unmet dukkha, adopted dukkha, open-hearted awareness, crestfallen, backlog, affluence, 84,000, blind person, Braille, gloves, numbed, indictment, news, self-condemnation, anticipation, 4 divine abidings, compassion, medical diagnosis, resisting, unapologetic willingness.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Loneliness, not fitting in, beyond the pale, animal sanctuary, spiritual faculties, marzipan, spare me, discriminative intelligence, inherent limitation, compounded, flux, equanimous perspective, embracing loneliness, my ashes, techniques, backlog, ka-pow, denied life, argument, agility, assuaged, overwhelmed, pariyatti, fear of failure, trusting in true principles, optimistic persuasion, the folly of their ways, pessimism, hell in a hand-basket, military industrial complex, middle way, Mahamangala Sutta, Discourse on the Greatest Blessings, aspiration.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Christmas Day, generosity, compassion, healing the leper, blind man, women, children, giving gifts, shortbread, 4 Divine Abidings, empathy, karuna, mudita, Ajahn Chah, excruciating, guilt, fear, self doubt, Wat Nanachat, Varapañño, aloneness, lost, self-obsession, kisa gotami, grief, numb, snap out of it, letting go happens, charnel grounds, brains going to burst, skill, wide of the mark, nervous breakdown, Yuhudi Menuhin, virtuoso, Ravi Shankar, trauma, abandoning our own hearts, faith, friends, outshine dark shadows cast by unawareness.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Christmas Day, generosity, compassion, healing the leper, blind man, women, children, giving gifts, shortbread, 4 Divine Abidings, empathy, karuna, mudita, Ajahn Chah, excruciating, guilt, fear, self doubt, Wat Nanachat, Varapañño, aloneness, lost, self-obsession, kisa gotami, grief, numb, letting go happens, charnel grounds, brains going to burst, skill, wide of the mark, nervous breakdown, Yuhudi Menuhin, virtuoso, Ravi Shankar, trauma, abandoning our own hearts, faith, friends, outshine dark shadows cast by unawareness.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) mindfulness of breathing, working with pain, difficult emotions & other issues, neutral feeling, kneading the dough, investigating the six senses & consciousness, knowing, contentment.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) My essence, true nature, etymologists, pathetic, misunderstood, approximations, Ajahn Vipassi, sore throat, high as a kite, secure, Christian monk, core level, middling level, surface level, haka, rugby, New Zealander, right view, children, true principles, instilling virtues, go for refuge, Buddho, George Sharp, mano vinnyana datu, ‘the one who knows’, knowingness, selfless, just-knowing awareness, What Is Contemplation, Wat Gor Nork, Q&A session, coarse thinking, thinking in stillness, feeling enquiring, Original Heart-mind, concepts, meditation technique, ‘just-knowing’, contented.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Monastic retreat, intensification, purification, Dhammapada 239, transformation of carbon dust, self-trust, safety, negative emotions, denied dukkha, dross, 5 spiritual faculties, faith, energy, mindfulness, collectedness, discernment, working out, faith, trust, impaired, belief, akin, mechanisms for avoiding dukkha, gentle, soft, open, distrusting, spurious, damaged goods, pseudo-spiritual, aliveness, intolerably painful, abusing drugs, spiritual friends, kidding ourselves, collectedness, just-so, agility, discernment, humility, failure, potentials.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada 146, Shrouded, unawareness, open-hearted awareness, spirit and form, bowing, apocryphal, Visakha, 500 students, drunk, psychic powers, stream-enterers, news podcast, G20, Bali, beer, inner fires, greed, hatred, delusion, adittapariyaya sutta, suicide, honesty, indulging and denying, middle way, overly harsh, accuracy, ruckus, sadness, self-doubt, blaming, smoke, hard work, precarious, deepest aspirations, malignant melanomas, mara, Dhammapada verse 85, preparation, patience, gentleness, forgiveness, 4 divine abidings, storehouse of goodness, strengthening the heart, feeble, Nibbana, awakening, selfless caring, empathy in the context of suffering, empathy in the context of joy, equanimity, chanting, breathing exercises, physical exercises, rock climbing, friends.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Meditation workshop, worldly work, CV, war, pollution, unawareness, cittabhavana, addiction to distraction, on the blink, old age, sickness, unplug, heart domain, intelligent fear, backlog or denied fear, middle way, spiritual faculties, faith, energy, mindfulness, collectedness, discernment, assertive, yielding, wanting, craving, resolution, good fortune, spiritual companions, gratitude.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada verse 2, heart domain, secular materialism, other cultures, tangles, child rearing patterns, trauma of abandonment, unsafe, spiritual education, individual self, denying our hearts, disillusioned, basement, soften, emotional household, hoarder affliction, native sensitivity, wholehearted, affluence, denied dukkha, overwhelmed, Morrinsville, frost, life-blood, middle way, road code, enthusiasm, Ajahn Dukkha, cutting through, seeing through, burning through, nine laps of the lake, cessation of dukkha, edge of overwhelm, reached the edge of perception, sati.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Hubris, unconscionable conduct, disappointment, huffy, Vikings, obligation, Kosambi, Devadatta, Chanda, sent to Coventry, help desk, disparaging, clinging, Rangiputa Beach, discipline attention, retreats, restrict field of awareness, close the heart, commitment, willpower, breathing, stomach upset, attic, basement, placate, living room, open-heartedness, devotional chanting, aliveness, vulnerable, raw, edge of overwhelm, dare to live, tears flow, compassion, Dhammapada 179.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Hubris, unconscionable conduct, disappointment, huffy, Vikings, obligation, Kosambi, Devadatta, Chanda, sent to Coventry, help desk, disparaging, clinging, Rangiputa Beach, discipline attention, retreats, restrict field of awareness, close the heart, commitment, willpower, breathing, stomach upset, attic, basement, placate, living room, open-heartedness, devotional chanting, aliveness, vulnerable, raw, edge of overwhelm, dare to live, tears flow, compassion, Dhammapada 179.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Inspiration, Alan Watts, retreat, spiritual community, modicum of tranquillity, use by date, disillusionment, conundrum, dying, indictment, fear of madness, greedy for results, unmet dukkha, sukha, overwhelm, humiliation, trauma, re-traumatized, 4 brahman viharas, force fields, protections, trauma of omission, trauma of commission, incremental trauma, talking therapy, listening therapy, movement therapy, qi gong, swimming, jogging, touch therapy, craneo sacral, acupuncture, PTSD, breathing therapy, disembodied, qualified, craving, skilful wanting, secular materialists, wrong end of the stick, self rightly aligned, Dhammapada 103, ordeal, rejection, charnel ground, deluded self, respect, admiration, backlog or denied life.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Inspiration, Alan Watts, retreat, spiritual community, modicum of tranquillity, use by date, disillusionment, conundrum, dying, indictment, fear of madness, greedy for results, unmet dukkha, sukha, overwhelm, humiliation, trauma, re-traumatized, 4 brahman viharas, force fields, protections, trauma of omission, trauma of commission, incremental trauma, talking therapy, listening therapy, movement therapy, qi gong, swimming, jogging, touch therapy, craneo sacral, acupuncture, PTSD, breathing therapy, disembodied, qualified, craving, skilful wanting, secular materialists, wrong end of the stick, self rightly aligned, Dhammapada 103, ordeal, rejection, charnel ground, deluded self, respect, admiration, backlog or denied life.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Frustration, self mortification, guiding principles, idealism, sailing, bearings, prevailing conditions, sticky rice, ethos, eat little, sleep little, speak little, balance, tolerating tension, dilemma, samatha and vipassana, Pat Stoll, Dhamma and Vinaya, monarchy and parliament, deluded personalities, thinking we are special, tycoons, politicians, meditators, ascetic practices, misidentification, Dhammapada 11 – 12, compulsive judging disorder, modesty, balk at the idea, openness, softness, commitment, vulnerable.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Scolding, Dhammapada v 76, admonition, hidden treasure, unmet dukkha, assertive, yielding, conscious composure, transformation, holding, potter’s wheel, disappointment, views, agents of our suffering, awareness space, imposing limitations, pressure, tension, peaceful, tolerate tension, predicated, Wat Nanachat, waxing lyrical.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Benefit of associating with the wise, skilful means, intentional simplicity, business, asceticism, patterns of delusion, kidding, sleeping, eating, consumer culture, spectacles, restlessness, bhava-tanha, vibhava-tanha, drunk driving, power tools, doing the spiritual work, deluded sense of self, actuality, wisdom and compassion, consciousness, substantial, identity, risky, depression, community or selves, rainbow, pot of gold, rightly aligned, Mahamangala Sutta, mischief, Three Poisons, greed, hatred, delusion, theism, anthropomorphism, devotion, kataphatic, sila, samadhi, pannya, tangled and confused, groundedness, lotus, swamp, Ananda, agility, vicissitudes, once removed, kusa grass, snail, stability, contentment, balance, goodbye cruel world, agents of our suffering, indictment, heart pain, trials and tribulations, control freakery, mental greed, humility, modesty, food.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Techniques, upaya, tight knot, deluded selfhood, 4 divine abidings, dilemmas, conundrums, 84,000 dhamma doors, agility, forgiveness, judgement-free awareness, discriminative intelligence, excruciating, taking sides, Dhammacakka Sutta, sway, extremism, compulsive judging disorder, bee’s knees, cat’s whiskers, stop meditating, fog, cloud, relaxation, zealous, assertive, Dhammapada verse 90, binding ties, gentleness.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Luang Por Sucitto, balance, wordsmith, progress, more is merrier, telephone system, Chithurst Monastery, supportive beams, sledge hammer, bow, acrow props, Victorians, cross beams, youth, technology, disruption, Silicon Valley, patterns, energy release, functional disruption, sauna, chantagara, hierarchy, ‘whatever’, ordination, tears, containment, wailing, energy, chaos, indriyasamvara, conscious composure, skilful restraint, integrity, sila, self respect, sati, mindfulness, wise reflection, Ven. Myokyo-Ni, carbon dust, diamonds, 3 poisons, greed, wanting, wholesome desires, craving, Refuge in the Buddha, faith in ‘selfless, just-knowing awareness’, chocolate, controlling, brother’s toys, backlog, denied desire, alienated, guilty, unmet life, hatred, open blue sky, clouds, possessed by self-hated, self disparagement, ‘I am amazing’, creative, see delusion as delusion, spiritual companions, positive and negative inflation, the blessing of spiritual community, warped awareness, healing.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Luang Por Sucitto, balance, wordsmith, progress, more is merrier, telephone system, Chithurst Monastery, supportive beams, sledge hammer, bow, acrow props, Victorians, cross beams, youth, technology, disruption, Silicon Valley, patterns, energy release, functional disruption, sauna, chantagara, hierarchy, ‘whatever’, ordination, tears, containment, wailing, energy, chaos, indriyasamvara, conscious composure, skilful restraint, integrity, sila, self respect, sati, mindfulness, wise reflection, Ven. Myokyo-Ni, carbon dust, diamonds, 3 poisons, greed, wanting, wholesome desires, craving, Refuge in the Buddha, faith in ‘selfless, just-knowing awareness’, chocolate, controlling, brother’s toys, backlog, denied desire, alienated, guilty, unmet life, hatred, open blue sky, clouds, possessed by self-hated, self disparagement, ‘I am amazing’, creative, see delusion as delusion, spiritual companions, positive and negative inflation, the blessing of spiritual community, warped awareness, healing.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Space, uncluttered, openness, colour, visual impression, consciousness, crowds, congestion, pulped, attention, airport, shopping precincts, cooling, middle way, extremes, polarities, repudiation, saturation, hallmark, Tathagata, tension, breathing, unresolved resistance, residue, discord, personality disorder, right effort, stressing, goal-seeking, emptiness, fitting, context, elucidate, sati, post, sampajanna, regulator, roams around, moderating, meaningfulness, context, well-measured, non-delusion, calligraphy, illuminations, curly cues, middle way.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Reading The Natural Mind, Chiangrai, wanting, wrong understanding, clinging, Dhammapada verse 198, untroubled, hatred, cold-hearted, aloof, true principle, not merely a concept, breakfast, tahini on toast, empathy, spiritual virtue, equanimity, kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, equanimity, 4 Brahma Viharas, BBC documentary, Cambodia, conscious sadness, tears streaming, OK-ness, space, having and not-having, subtlety, delusion, loss, praise, spiritual community, kalyanamitta, feedback, puffed-up, asset, good fortune, protection.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Relevance, practical, initial faith, doubt, spirit of enquiry, Going For Refuge, Triple Gem, first person present tense, gacchami, dynamic process, being perfectly aware, Dr. Thomas Jones, swearing allegiance, implication, limitless, measureless, edgeless, Learning From the Natural Mind, ingrown toenail, being perfectly honest, unmet life, daunting, vortex of delusion, being perfectly harmonious, being perfectly harmonious, Kalama Sutta.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Modes of listening to Dhamma, Discourse of Profound Auspiciousness, Mahamangala Sutta, Dhammasavana, critique, information, lectures, indoctrinated, Dhammasakaccha, a shared Dhamma inquiry, Rains Retreat, forgiveness, clear the slate, lurking, habouring resentment, 1975, Ajahn Thate, Wat Hin Mak Peng, Luang Por Kaaw, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Pathet Lao, Khmer Rouge, Viet cong, concord, cooperation, evolution of species, Ajahn Chah, attachment to views, right view, harbinger, samma ditthi, right beliefs, samma sankappa, right aspiration, right activation, identity politics, Christian monk, hiking, swimming, rip current, deep breathing, surrender, ‘let the Buddha take over’, affirmation, configuring individual identity, ‘oneself rightly aligned’, anatta, selflessness, identity as a multidimensional phenomenon, haka, role of religion, Going For Refuge, self promoting, self referencing, wound on the forehead, Dhammapada 348.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Supportive conditions, wisdom, perception, growing your own vegetables, fork, compost, companion planting, strength, stability, agility, virtues, patience, intimidation, shaming, counter-force, imagination, mistaken identification, lay claim, e-bike, pins and needles, holding too tightly, gratitude, bowing, Ajahn Mahabua, on your toes, scolding, softening, gentling, pet cat, thank you, don’t know, deluded ‘I’, push past, allowing, ‘I will die alone’, unmet life, backlog, attic, basement, get into a huff, sulk, denial, kalyanamitta, listening, chanting, ‘a servant of reality.’
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Teaching styles, translating, Rahula, wise reflection, relevant, rate of change, technology, political parties, blaming, wisdom, insight, supportive conditions, Awakening, illness, medicine, diet, exercise, instilling virtues, pejorative, virtue signalling, vitamin deficiency, gratitude, patience, forgiveness, generosity, kindness, integrity, sense of ‘I’, identity, strong, stable, subtle, Christian family, Prodigal Son, betrayal, forgiveness, Jesus on the cross, bickering, vicissitudes, reservoir, Kisa Gotami, mustard seeds, compassion, self-obsession, Devadatta, praise and gain, lick-spittle, intimidation, philosophical arguments, feeling enquiry, equanimity, generosity, counter-force for self-obsession, forgiveness, adding ill-will, contentment, Bhikkhuni Mahapajapati, modesty, contentment, frugality, effort, solitude, GP clinic, backlog, threatening, volatility, Mt Everest, past-life accumulations.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Ajahn Chah’s birthday, overly complex, new-age, elitist, accessible, challenging, joy, encouragement, gratitude, translations, German, Italian, Chinese, 360 Branch Monasteries in Thailand, 14 Branch Monasteries outside of Thailand, rigours, lonely, stuck with it, profound benefit, study, dramatic shift, death of father, Four Noble Truths, spiritual faculties, actuality, Ajahn Mun, Visuddhimagga, sila, samadhi, punnya, too much, do one thing, study your own heart, biography, walking meditation, ‘just walking’, sitting meditation, ‘just knowing’, becoming, letting go, Paul Breiter, arahant, Bodhisattva, hay-fever, boring, dying, indictment, clever ideas, Kruba Ajahn, Rinpoche, Roshi, showing off, shied away from, pindapat, Teaching of the Cobra, die before you die, habitual patterns of clinging, limited being, letting go, peace.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Ajahn Chah’s birthday, overly complex, new-age, elitist, accessible, challenging, joy, encouragement, gratitude, translations, German, Italian, Chinese, 360 Branch Monasteries in Thailand, 14 Branch Monasteries outside of Thailand, rigours, lonely, stuck with it, profound benefit, study, dramatic shift, death of father, Four Noble Truths, spiritual faculties, actuality, Ajahn Mun, Visuddhimagga, sila, samadhi, punnya, too much, do one thing, study your own heart, biography, walking meditation, ‘just walking’, sitting meditation, ‘just knowing’, becoming, letting go, Paul Breiter, arahant, Bodhisattva, hay-fever, boring, dying, indictment, clever ideas, Kruba Ajahn, Rinpoche, Roshi, showing off, shied away from, pindapat, Teaching of the Cobra, die before you die, habitual patterns of clinging, limited being, letting go, peace.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Ajahn Chah’s birthday, overly complex, new-age, elitist, accessible, challenging, joy, encouragement, gratitude, translations, German, Italian, Chinese, 360 Branch Monasteries in Thailand, 14 Branch Monasteries outside of Thailand, rigours, lonely, stuck with it, profound benefit, study, dramatic shift, death of father, Four Noble Truths, spiritual faculties, actuality, Ajahn Mun, Visuddhimagga, sila, samadhi, punnya, too much, do one thing, study your own heart, biography, walking meditation, ‘just walking’, sitting meditation, ‘just knowing’, becoming, letting go, Paul Breiter, arahant, Bodhisattva, hay-fever, boring, dying, indictment, clever ideas, Kruba Ajahn, Rinpoche, Roshi, showing off, shied away from, pindapat, Teaching of the Cobra, die before you die, habitual patterns of clinging, limited being, letting go, peace.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Ajahn Chah’s birthday, overly complex, new-age, elitist, accessible, challenging, joy, encouragement, gratitude, translations, German, Italian, Chinese, 360 Branch Monasteries in Thailand, 14 Branch Monasteries outside of Thailand, rigours, lonely, stuck with it, profound benefit, study, dramatic shift, death of father, Four Noble Truths, spiritual faculties, actuality, Ajahn Mun, Visuddhimagga, sila, samadhi, punnya, too much, do one thing, study your own heart, biography, walking meditation, ‘just walking’, sitting meditation, ‘just knowing’, becoming, letting go, Paul Breiter, arahant, Bodhisattva, hay-fever, boring, dying, indictment, clever ideas, Kruba Ajahn, Rinpoche, Roshi, showing off, shied away from, pindapat, Teaching of the Cobra, die before you die, habitual patterns of clinging, limited being, letting go, peace.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Retreat, good fortune, struggling, suicide, hopelessness, faith, overwhelmed, actuality, conventional religion, indictment, Tan Somdet Payutto Bhikkhu, Robin Moore, Dependent Origination, sorrow, lamentation, pain grief, despair, joy, liberation, integrity, wise reflection, purification, terminal prognosis, rationality, rituals, symbols, overshadows, arrogance, conceit, Lake District, Cumbria, poetry, heart matters, dagger, swatting a fly away, añjali, hongi, bowing, ‘whatever’, Platinum Jubilee, monarchy, Cromwell, republic, unity, secularism, intolerable, unendurable, according, harmonious.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Judgmental, comparing, wasting time, knife, carpentry, chisel, musical instrument, gauge, studying, pariyutti, techniques, creative, sensing enquiry, pattipati, approximations, limitations, clinging to labels, pointers, different orientation of effort, distrust thinking, discontentment and contentment, multidimensional awareness, ocean, tumultuous, stopping smoking cigarettes, preferences, prejudices, Morrinsville, Christianity, spiritual faculties, medicine, identity, fear, asking ‘who?’, Going for Refuge to the Buddha, identified AS selfless just-knowing awareness, purified consciousness, terror, there is nothing be afraid of if you are not clinging to wanting.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Contentment, wise reflection, gratitude, commitment, sacrifice, Vesak, Buddhahood, reputation, adhitthana, nekkhamma, parami, consumer culture, Ajahn Chah, affluence, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly-hood, meditation, faith, common-and-garden variety, wisdom, compassion fatigue, 8 Precepts, householder, honesty, fundamentalism, arthritis, scar tissue, loneliness, resolve, austerity, clinging, benefit, strength.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Actuality, indulging-denying, pleasure, competence, old age, sickness, death, flipped, ascetic, austerities, middle way, locus of identity, liking-disliking, agitated, nationality, English-Scottish, Theravada-Mahayana, having preferences, industrial floor polisher, deep contentment, imperturbability, Mahamangala sutta, dissipated, currency, runner beans, trellis, disadvantage, advantage, electric shock, meditation, lathe, chisel, tying shoe laces, actualize, disappointment, habits, intoxication, just-knowing awareness, deluded personality, boring, disillusionment, nibbida, energy extravagant, not-knowing.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Actuality, indulging-denying, pleasure, competence, old age, sickness, death, flipped, ascetic, austerities, middle way, locus of identity, liking-disliking, agitated, nationality, English-Scottish, Theravada-Mahayana, having preferences, industrial floor polisher, deep contentment, imperturbability, Mahamangala sutta, dissipated, currency, runner beans, trellis, disadvantage, advantage, electric shock, meditation, lathe, chisel, tying shoe laces, actualize, disappointment, habits, intoxication, just-knowing awareness, deluded personality, boring, disillusionment, nibbida, energy extravagant, not-knowing.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Spiritual practices, spiritual gymnastics, dramatic efforts, retreats, real practice, addicted, discontentment, bypass, emotions, early-life, not ready, willfulness, lock away, unawareness, breathing, health, grief, unlived life, trusting, faith, gradual, steadiness, inspiration, diving, stillness, include everything, hindrances, sadness, vortex, kidnap, empowered heedlessness, traumatized on retreats, not say I am wrong, doubt, garbage, backlog, disheartening, mitigating, companionship, community, exercise, diet, devotional practices, dis-empower, anger, fear, rationality, puny, bowing, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion, chanting, aligning with lineage.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Spiritual practices, spiritual gymnastics, dramatic efforts, retreats, real practice, addicted, discontentment, bypass, emotions, early-life, not ready, willfulness, lock away, unawareness, breathing, health, grief, unlived life, trusting, faith, gradual, steadiness, inspiration, diving, stillness, include everything, hindrances, sadness, vortex, kidnap, empowered heedlessness, traumatized on retreats, not say I am wrong, doubt, garbage, backlog, disheartening, mitigating, companionship, community, exercise, diet, devotional practices, dis-empower, anger, fear, rationality, puny, bowing, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion, chanting, aligning with lineage.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Approaching Buddhism, academic, Afghanistan, Gandhara Buddha images, suttas, patticca samuppada, Abhidhamma, cetasika, dosamula citta, cultural conditioning, devotion, Kalama Sutta, dhammavicaya, 7 bojjhanga, enquiry, believing, new age, pilates, chi gong, mantra chanting, silent meditation, accumulating spiritual credentials, Ajahn Chah, pariyutti, fear of death, patipatti, cooking, wisdom, beginner, America, sila, samadhi, pannya, Ven. Ananda, freedom from remorse, intention, disciplined attention, treadle sewing machine, potters wheel, discernment, accumulation of information, letting go, fear of a snake, relief, equanimity, aversion, listening inwards.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Approaching Buddhism, academic, Afghanistan, Gandhara Buddha images, suttas, patticca samuppada, Abhidhamma, cetasika, dosamula citta, cultural conditioning, devotion, Kalama Sutta, dhammavicaya, 7 bojjhanga, enquiry, believing, new age, pilates, chi gong, mantra chanting, silent meditation, accumulating spiritual credentials, Ajahn Chah, pariyutti, fear of death, patipatti, cooking, wisdom, beginner, America, sila, samadhi, pannya, Ven. Ananda, freedom from remorse, intention, disciplined attention, treadle sewing machine, potters wheel, discernment, accumulation of information, letting go, fear of a snake, relief, equanimity, aversion, listening inwards.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Ajahn Chah, ‘in the dead of the night’, fear, sadness, clarity and confidence, challenged to the core, overwhelm, Dhammapada verse 380, protector, secure abiding, thoroughbred, projecting hope, true identity, self-obsession, confidence, joy, indulging, denying, middle way, dead-end, alternative perspective, just-knowing awareness, misusing mindfulness and concentration, deluded egos, five spiritual faculties, saddha, viriya, sati, samadhi, punnya, faith, energy, mindfulness, collectedness, discernment, unendurable, insurmountable, outshine old habits, fragrance, tactile, amorphous, riveted, motivation, presence, strategies, ‘my awareness,’ no-strategies, control freaks, aliveness.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Ajahn Chah, ‘in the dead of the night’, fear, sadness, clarity and confidence, challenged to the core, overwhelm, Dhammapada verse 380, protector, secure abiding, thoroughbred, projecting hope, true identity, self-obsession, confidence, joy, indulging, denying, middle way, dead-end, alternative perspective, just-knowing awareness, misusing mindfulness and concentration, deluded egos, five spiritual faculties, saddha, viriya, sati, samadhi, punnya, faith, energy, mindfulness, collectedness, discernment, unendurable, insurmountable, outshine old habits, fragrance, tactile, amorphous, riveted, motivation, presence, strategies, ‘my' awareness, no-strategies, control freaks, aliveness.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Three different types of suffering, present-generated, old unmet, adopted, over reaction, Vittakasanthana Sutta, agility, techniques, hints, strategising, cutting through, seeing through, burning through, give a nod, big song and dance, investigation, conceptual understanding, physically, emotionally, mentally, relationally, inspiring conversation, emigrating, humility, satipatthana sutta, breathing, softening, middle way, emotional resistance, befriending, is this ‘I’, relational, burning through, patient endurance, incinerator, spoilt rich kids, competence, creative engagement.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Three different types of suffering, present-generated, old unmet, adopted, over reaction, Vittakasanthana Sutta, agility, techniques, hints, strategising, cutting through, seeing through, burning through, give a nod, big song and dance, investigation, conceptual understanding, physically, emotionally, mentally, relationally, inspiring conversation, emigrating, humility, satipatthana sutta, breathing, softening, middle way, emotional resistance, befriending, is this ‘I’, relational, burning through, patient endurance, incinerator, spoilt rich kids, competence, creative engagement.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Meeting ourselves, afraid, threatened, sadness, Dhammapada verse 201, victory, hatred, suffering is not an obligation, template, taking sides, deeply divided, conflicted, Dhammacakka Sutta, two extremes, a dead end, middle way, strengthening faith, skills, instruments, faith, just-knowing, inspiring, encouragement, ferry, Amsterdam, motivation, integrity, beauty, self-confidence, mindfulness, wise-restraint, samadhi, tears, maniacal bully, aversion, wars, informing, wise-reflection, asking the right questions, benefit.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Ovada Patimokkha, Dhammapada 183, right restraint, cooking, wisdom, compassion, evil, preparing the ground, robe dying, jackfruit, heedlessness, chocolate, indriyasamvara, wilful denial, Ajahn Chah, centipede, sterile environment, infection, tipple, alcoholic, 5 precepts, integrity, storehouse of goodness, gratitude, consumer society, disillusioned monastics, conscious appreciation, mudita, schadenfreude, (23.15 mins. Line 3) purification, compulsive judging, projecting, aversion, honesty, stubbing our toe, Ajahn Dukkha, present generated dukkha, old unmet dukkha, dartboard, adopted dukkha, happiness.
(keywords) (slightly edited version) Ovada Patimokkha, Dhammapada 183, right restraint, cooking, wisdom, compassion, evil, preparing the ground, robe dying, jackfruit, heedlessness, chocolate, indriyasamvara, wilful denial, Ajahn Chah, centipede, sterile environment, infection, tipple, alcoholic, 5 precepts, integrity, storehouse of goodness, gratitude, consumer society, disillusioned monastics, conscious appreciation, mudita, schadenfreude, (23.15 mins. Line 3) purification, compulsive judging, projecting, aversion, honesty, stubbing our toe, Ajahn Dukkha, present generated dukkha, old unmet dukkha, dartboard, adopted dukkha, happiness.
(keywords) (approx. 29 mins. - slightly edited version) Family, job, jhanas, goal-oriented approach, likable, affluent, healthy, great doubt, vicissitudes, reaffirmation of faith, actuality, chaos, order, kamma, realization, awakened, kaya kamma, vacci kamma, mano kamma, bowing, chanting, disposition of a servant, cittabhavana, flummoxed, sterile environment, purifying awareness, tough luck, compulsive judging mind, taking sides, ‘don’t know’, grounding, uncertainty, addiction to abstract understanding, wanting, craving, clarity, ease.
(keywords) (approx. 42 mins. - slightly edited version) Ajahn Chah passing away, ‘What Is Contemplation’, Rahula, mirror, wise reflection, citta, craft, proliferation, feeling enquiry, (1), goal, liberation, Dhammapada 154, unconditioned, unmade, imperturbable, griefless, dustless, secure, (2), wisdom and compassion, (3) Three Refuges, sustaining, safe haven, clear seeing, precipitated, actuality, (4) handful of leaves, Four Noble Truths, avijja, boredom, right effort, yabber, (5) five spiritual faculties, freedom from remorse, (6) six senses, (7) seven factors of awakening, stable trajectory, goodies, inner work, (8) Bhikkhuni Mahapajapati, gym, violin, fruit tree, compulsive judging, selfism, hatred, hell, bullying, speaking with your own heart, competence.
(keywords) (approx. 42 mins. - slightly edited version) Ajahn Chah passing away, ‘What Is Contemplation’, Rahula, mirror, wise reflection, citta, craft, proliferation, feeling enquiry, (1), goal, liberation, Dhammapada 154, unconditioned, unmade, imperturbable, griefless, dustless, secure, (2), wisdom and compassion, (3) Three Refuges, sustaining, safe haven, clear seeing, precipitated, actuality, (4) handful of leaves, Four Noble Truths, avijja, boredom, right effort, yabber, (5) five spiritual faculties, freedom from remorse, (6) six senses, (7) seven factors of awakening, stable trajectory, goodies, inner work, (8) Bhikkhuni Mahapajapati, gym, violin, fruit tree, compulsive judging, selfism, hatred, hell, bullying, speaking with your own heart, competence.
(keywords) (approx. 25 mins. - slightly edited version) Challenging, pandemic, politics, environment, hunger, Four Noble Truths, sensitivity, guts, MO, overly enamoured, a walking head, ground work, misappreciate, painting the living room, Wat Pah Pong, sweeping leaves, starving, sati, sampajanna, disciplined attention, remembering the bigger picture, open hearted, broad-minded, OK-ness, overwhelmed, inner competence, storehouse of wholesomeness, going gets tough, exercise, walking, jogging, trustworthy friends, Dhammapada 204, best of kin, generosity, in jail, buying into stories, outshining stories, ability, competence, yielding, assertive, honesty.
(keywords) (approx. 25 mins. - slightly edited version) Challenging, pandemic, politics, environment, hunger, Four Noble Truths, sensitivity, guts, MO, overly enamoured, a walking head, ground work, misappreciate, painting the living room, Wat Pah Pong, sweeping leaves, starving, sati, sampajanna, disciplined attention, remembering the bigger picture, open hearted, broad-minded, OK-ness, overwhelmed, inner competence, storehouse of wholesomeness, going gets tough, exercise, walking, jogging, trustworthy friends, Dhammapada 204, best of kin, generosity, in jail, buying into stories, outshining stories, ability, competence, yielding, assertive, honesty.
(keywords) (approx. 25 mins. - this talk is slightly edited.) Benefits, simplicity, agility, change, nippapanca, papanca, compulsive complication, complexity, food digestion, 37 Bodhipakkhiya Dhammas, 12 links of Paticcasamuppada, information, security, awareness, conceptual understanding, being honest, physical activity, food, exercise, technology, chat, verbal activity, manipulative speech, friendship, control, sacca vaccena, truth speech, safety, hopeless case, undermining assumptions, story of self-hood, global warming, Ajahn Chah, born-again Christian, preferences, prejudices, disheveled, scruffy, filed of enquiry, public speaking, threatened, no-self, anatta, Luang Por Liem, politics, 5 spiritual faculties, faith, energy, mindfulness, collectedness, discernment, hurt feelings, deepening, skilful strategy.
(keywords) (approx. 25 mins. - this talk is slightly edited.) Hiri, ottappa, shame, conscience, fear of judgement, dragons, lokapala, protectors of the world, vortex of self-hatred, step back, aligned with reality, cause and effect, twisted and distorted, intentional positivity, compassion, buoy us up, mitigating negativity, muesli wrapper, assailed by self-loathing, cast into hell, Dhammapada 58-59, blaming, projecting, distracting, heart energy, spiritual community, spiritual faculties, saddha, viriya, sati, samadhi, pannya, surface of the ocean, disheartened, antibiotics, drilling down, wholesome remorse, commitment, growing lotuses.
(keywords) (approx. 25 mins. - this talk is slightly edited.) Hiri, ottappa, shame, conscience, fear of judgement, dragons, lokapala, protectors of the world, vortex of self-hatred, step back, aligned with reality, cause and effect, twisted and distorted, intentional positivity, compassion, buoy us up, mitigating negativity, muesli wrapper, assailed by self-loathing, cast into hell, Dhammapada 58-59, blaming, projecting, distracting, heart energy, spiritual community, spiritual faculties, saddha, viriya, sati, samadhi, pannya, surface of the ocean, disheartened, antibiotics, drilling down, wholesome remorse, commitment, growing lotuses.
(keywords) (approx. 25 mins. - this talk is slightly edited.) Liking, disliking, lost, for and against, dead-end, chaos, middle way, dilemmas, affirming, clinging, alternative, fixed position, emerging sense of self, spiritual companions, Mahamangala Sutta, ‘my way’, conventional religion, cooperation, The 3 Refuges, prefect wisdom and compassion, faith, order and chaos, 3 different levels of intensity of suffering, 3 different sources of suffering, present generated dukkha, old unmet dukkha, adopted dukkha, intense challenges, fear of uncertainty, belief, ego, news broadcasters, personality, science and technology, spiritual faculties, attaching to feelings, laws of consciousness, disciplining attention, attending to the heart’s sensitivity, tennis, writing, computer coding, preferences, balance, hurt ourselves, stroke, vociferously complaining, catastrophize, cause and effect, climate change, intense enthusiasm.
(keywords) (approx. 25 mins. - this talk is slightly edited.) Retreat, transition, compartmentalizing, resistance, iriyapada, motivation, samavayama, effort, compassion, assertive, yielding, laziness, driving a car, formal meditation, obstructions, nivarana, 3 levels of intensity, cutting through, seeing through, burning through, competence, agility ability, fixed views, taking sides, harmony, opposing fixed positions, heroism, modesty, zeal, rote learning, hopeless case, craziness, according with change, sabbe sankhara annica, purification.
(keywords) (approx. 25 mins. - this talk is slightly edited.) Retreat, transition, compartmentalizing, resistance, iriyapada, motivation, samavayama, effort, compassion, assertive, yielding, laziness, driving a car, formal meditation, obstructions, nivarana, 3 levels of intensity, cutting through, seeing through, burning through, competence, agility ability, fixed views, taking sides, harmony, opposing fixed positions, heroism, modesty, zeal, rote learning, hopeless case, craziness, according with change, sabbe sankhara annica, purification.
(keywords) (approx. 32 mins. - this talk is slightly edited.) The easing of restrictions, asteroid, atomic war, minuscule virus, better prepared, deeply discontented, Buddhist meditators, self-critical, side effect of affluence, at risk, technology, shopping, travel, bored, weak, meditation, ambiguity, indignation, anatta, storehouse of wholesomeness, patient endurance, bitter endurance, gently bearing with, kindness, hatred, inner strength, adhitthana, resolution, vow, resilience, out of my scope, mindfulness, patterns, compassion, karuna, vortex of pain, mountain climbing, generosity, austerity, comfort, realization.
(keywords) (approx. 32 mins. - this talk is slightly edited.) (Background noise of rain) Retreat, deepening, ocean, surface, depths, apparent reality, actuality, argy-bargy, technology, wisdom, seeing both sides, biases, partial view, dogma, affluence, cynicism, addicted to distraction, suicide, denied dukkha, living simply, bottled away, consistency of effort, happiness, prioritize wisdom, Discourse on Greatest Blessings, Dhammapada 78, faith, humility, spiritualized ego, modesty, Bhikkhuni Mahapajapati, comparing, agility, samadhi, four foundations of mindfulness, 4 iriyapada, handful of leaves, aspiration, ritual, devotion, Ven. Tan Ajahn Mahabua, bowing, chanting, puffed up, selfless wisdom and compassion, generosity.
(keywords) (approx. 25 mins. - this talk is slightly edited.) Retreating, enquiring, God wants you to have more, televangelist, Four Noble Truths, craving, owning up, Reading The Natural Mind, smart phones, distraction, samatha, vipassana, anapanasati, frustration, ‘my way’, start-up, funding, resources, contradictions, stoners pontificating, balance, living simply, downtime, formal meditation, ascetic, consumer culture, rules, functional limitation, 5 precepts, glasses, mindful, aspirations.
(keywords) (approx. 25 mins. - this talk is slightly edited.) Retreating, enquiring, God wants you to have more, televangelist, Four Noble Truths, craving, owning up, Reading The Natural Mind, smart phones, distraction, samatha, vipassana, anapanasati, frustration, ‘my way’, start-up, funding, resources, contradictions, stoners pontificating, balance, living simply, downtime, formal meditation, ascetic, consumer culture, rules, functional limitation, 5 precepts, glasses, mindful, aspirations.
(keywords) (approx. 32 mins. - this talk is slightly edited.) Advantages of being older, memories, living in the ‘now’, bad press, disoriented, Jesus, questioning, Prof. C. G. Jung, hope, Alan Watts, The Way of Zen, enquiring, inspiration, commune, idealism, Hamilton, naive, disillusioned, bearings, motor-bike accident, Ram Dass, ‘Be Here Now’, diet, hatha yoga, mantra yoga, macrobiotics, 1972, Byron Bay, Australia, Mullumbimby, Nimbin, meditation retreat, Woodstock, hope, faith, discipline of attention, delight, delusion, Paul Breiter, spiritual companions, Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Sumedho, Bill Hamilton, Samanera Dhammiko, humour, Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Thate, suffering, indictment, judgement, message, disappointment, signpost, bitter endurance, feeling challenged, a good wicket, overwhelm, backlog, pioneer days, holy cow, equanimity, selfless just-knowing awareness, goal, foolishness.
(keywords) (approx. 30 mins. - this talk is slightly edited.) Consciousness, challenging, Ajahn Punnyo, unanswerable, percolate, cult, conspiracy theories, Four Noble Truths, anxiety, despair, faith, real wisdom, assailed, freedom, mass of suffering, old age, sickness and death, liberation, extreme asceticism, resolve, compassion, wanting, imperturbable calm and clarity, undefiled, greed, hated, delusion, message, decipher, eight-fold path, align our being, meningitis, culture of delusion, Dhammapada verse 76, spiritual faculties, faith, energy, mindfulness, collectedness, discernment, disadvantaged, googly, abstract knowledge, dogma, inherent inadequacy, inherent adequacy, abiding as awareness, meditation, precepts, live simply, friends, buy into the con, contributing to a wisdom culture.
(keywords) (approx. 24 mins. - this talk is a slightly edited version of the original.) Optimistic perspective, pessimism, negativity, strategic optimist, compulsively positive, clinging, identity, 4 noble truths, upadana, samma sati, abstract realms, disembodied mindfulness, stupid feet, whole body-mind, abstraction, 4 areas of monastic training, indignation, vortex, aversion and hatred, sadness, daily-life and formal training, two eyes, navigating space, internal dialogue, verbiage, still, settle, let go.
(keywords) (approx. 24 mins. - this talk is a slightly edited version of the original.) Optimistic perspective, pessimism, negativity, strategic optimist, compulsively positive, clinging, identity, 4 noble truths, upadana, samma sati, abstract realms, disembodied mindfulness, stupid feet, whole body-mind, abstraction, 4 areas of monastic training, indignation, vortex, aversion and hatred, sadness, daily-life and formal training, two eyes, navigating space, internal dialogue, verbiage, still, settle, let go.
(keywords) (approx. 28 mins. - this talk is a slightly edited version of the original.) Retreat time, what matters most, befitting, manifesting beauty, Dhammapada verse 53, flowers, brutality, unawareness, avijja, anatta, rainbow, ‘Who am I’, dementia, actuality, timeless truth, mapping the brain, self aggrandizing, relativizing, external agent, anthropomorphic beings, timeless truth, Going For Refuge, spiritual education, global identity crisis, (Previous talk: Self Caring and Self Obsessing), spiritual capacities, Ajahn Chah, integrity, mindfulness, skilful restraint, wise refection, stroke, 1982, monkeys in the telephone exchange, Anando, Sumedho, disintegration of the sense of self, free from remorse, unshakable, purified.
(keywords) (approx. 30 mins. - this talk is a slightly edited version of the original.) Retreat time, what matters most, befitting, manifesting beauty, Dhammapada verse 53, flowers, brutality, unawareness, avijja, anatta, rainbow, ‘Who am I’, dementia, actuality, timeless truth, mapping the brain, self aggrandizing, relativizing, external agent, anthropomorphic beings, timeless truth, Going For Refuge, spiritual education, global identity crisis, (Previous talk: Self Caring and Self Obsessing), spiritual capacities, Ajahn Chah, integrity, mindfulness, skilful restraint, wise refection, stroke, 1982, monkeys in the telephone exchange, Anando, Sumedho, disintegration of the sense of self, free from remorse, unshakable, purified.
(keywords) (approx. 30 mins. - this talk is a slightly edited version of the original.) Wisdom, both sides, Ajahn Chah, building a Dhamma Hall, ordaining monks, Dhammapada v 290, meditation, 4 Noble Truths, distraction, uninformed relationship with desire, unacknowledged grief, ease of being, faith, belief, remedy, conviction, skin cancer, antipodes, agility, deepening, not meditating, renunciation, booking restaurants, agile, integrity.
(keywords) (approx. 30 mins. - this talk is a slightly edited version of the original.) Self doubt, Ajahn Chah, compassionate attention, head exploding, suffering, gratitude, dross, homeless person, despair, 4 Noble Truths, abstraction, Kisa Gotami, Dhammapada verse 114, beside herself in grief, insanity, self-obsession, dispelled, 4 Brahma Viharas, conscious kindness, compassion, empathetic delight, equanimity, risk averse, ‘spare the rod and spoil the child’, religious zealots, indigenous people, Satan, equanimity, kamma, accuracy of perception, limitations, Professor of Medicine, oncologist, acupuncturist, kerpow, cancer, fear, indignation, anger, ‘why me?’, vegetarian, transformative understanding, uncertain, unsafe, calm and peace, balanced perspective, feeling threatened, resistance, a brilliant model, harmony, warm-heartedness, wisdom.
(keywords) (approx. 38 mins. - this talk is a slightly edited version of the original.) Self-reliance, anxiety, identity, personality, maturation, anatta, conventional sense of self, Mahamangala Sutta, rightly aligned, Dhammapada 157, Dhammapada 160, rare refuge, psychological approximation, fulcrum, frame of reference, relativizing, demonizing, dissipated, guttering, wildness, Brahma, Allah, Jehovah, egocentric, symbols, false fulcrum, not-knowing, control freaks, vaccination, anger, vortex, Four Divine Abidings: Kindness, Compassion, Empathetic Delight, Equanimity, tea caddy, blessings.
(keywords) (approx. 38 mins. - this talk is a slightly edited version of the original.) Self-reliance, anxiety, identity, personality, maturation, anatta, conventional sense of self, Mahamangala Sutta, rightly aligned, Dhammapada 157, Dhammapada 160, rare refuge, psychological approximation, fulcrum, frame of reference, relativizing, demonizing, dissipated, guttering, wildness, Brahma, Allah, Jehovah, egocentric, symbols, false fulcrum, not-knowing, control freaks, vaccination, anger, vortex, Four Divine Abidings: Kindness, Compassion, Empathetic Delight, Equanimity, tea caddy, blessings.
(keywords) (approx. 27 mins. - this talk is a slightly edited version of the original.) Ajahn Chah’s birthday, community, debt of gratitude, kindness, empathy, generosity, pontification, abstruse theories, character trait, selfless awareness, purifying gold, collective, individualistic, consensus, unanimity, attachment to views, control freaks, loser, winner, intensity, kilesa, loosen the knot, apologize, interjecting, one-upmanship, approximations, brahmaviharas, the four beautiful dispositions, generosity, susceptible.
(keywords) (approx. 27 mins. - this talk is a slightly edited version of the original.) Ajahn Chah’s birthday, community, debt of gratitude, kindness, empathy, generosity, pontification, abstruse theories, character trait, selfless awareness, purifying gold, collective, individualistic, consensus, unanimity, attachment to views, control freaks, loser, winner, intensity, kilesa, loosen the knot, apologize, interjecting, one-upmanship, approximations, brahmaviharas, the four beautiful dispositions, generosity, susceptible.
(keywords) (approx. 32 mins. - this talk is a slightly edited version of the original.) Strengthening the heart, training attention, crestfallen, happiness, heart-warming, heartbreaking, The Four Noble Truths, boiler-man, happiness as the goal, disappointment, sadness, mindfulness, restraint, wise reflection, spiritual tools, chronically unhappy, genetic propensity, cynical, añjali, remorse, regret, Dhammapada verse 166, unacknowledged pain, generate benefit, resisting reality, hopelessness, despair, control freaks, freedom, sharing with others.
(keywords) (approx. 32 mins. - this talk is a slightly edited version of the original.) Strengthening the heart, training attention, crestfallen, happiness, heart-warming, heartbreaking, The Four Noble Truths, boiler-man, happiness as the goal, disappointment, sadness, mindfulness, restraint, wise reflection, spiritual tools, chronically unhappy, genetic propensity, cynical, añjali, remorse, regret, Dhammapada verse 166, unacknowledged pain, generate benefit, resisting reality, hopelessness, despair, control freaks, freedom, sharing with others.
(keywords) (approx. 37 mins. - this talk is a slightly edited version of the original.) Kusala kamma, the goal, realization, muscle tone, gas in the tank, light, darkness of unawareness, nutriment, aspiration, rigors, making merit, puñña, positive momentum, canonical, trustworthiness, Dhammapada v 204, safe spaces, kin, Maori, whanau, impeccability, fake news, nefarious intent, friendliness, quandary, spiritual community, empathy, Ajahn Chah, brains explode, patient endurance, forbearance, bitter endurance, conscious cultivation, karaniya metta sutta, forgiveness, resentment, samadhi, disciplined attention, empathetic sorrow, skilful restraint, superficial assessment, samvara, lifetimes, ten parami, goal, cessation, wisdom and compassion, abiding in selfless, just-knowing awareness.
(keywords) Dhammapada v 290, wisdom, happiness, gratification, Dhammacakka Sutta, disappointed, awakened awareness, Tan Ajahn Chah, sangha development, going without, affluence, endurance, Dhammapada v 248, disastrous, cast iron guttering, rusty, wire brush, unawareness, actuality, hunger, indulging and denying, middle way, shaming, Americas World Yacht Race, skill, faith, growing up, indignation, radical contradiction, wise elders, rainbow, phantom, anattalakkhana sutta, not-self, blunt instrument, spiritual toolkit, integrity, dishonesty, foundation, aspirations, mindfulness, watchfulness, gate-keeper, skilful restraint, conditioned reactivity, ego, identity, wise reflection, mediocre, generosity, Kittisaro, honey, happiness.
(keywords) Happiness, meditation, exercises, views, Dhammapada verse 319, truncheon, pre-eminence, snake, souls, chaos, power, Four Noble Truths, wrong views, blame, security, conspiracy theories, pain, suffering, fear, aversion, bully, clinging, ocean, dive, gratitude, rituals, bowing, perfect wisdom and compassion, skilful habits, awakening, obstructions, unreceived suffering, basement of unawareness, traditional practices, aligned, softening, broadening, listening, receiving, superstition, absolve, honesty.
(keywords) Pali chanting, desire, translation, stove, frivolous, Chiangrai, Reading the Natural Mind, alienated, wound of separation, healing, divided, bakery, cookies, actuality, apparent reality, Q&A session, The Discourse on the Greatest Blessings, 5 Hindrances, ill-will, rainbow, ‘pot of gold’, monster, hunger, hurt, letting go.
(keywords) Pali chanting, desire, translation, stove, frivolous, Chiangrai, Reading the Natural Mind, alienated, wound of separation, healing, divided, bakery, cookies, actuality, apparent reality, Q&A session, The Discourse on the Greatest Blessings, 5 Hindrances, ill-will, rainbow, ‘pot of gold’, monster, hunger, hurt, letting go.
(keywords) Not-knowing, obstructed, goal, unsure, unsafe, goal-oriented, source-oriented, theistic and non- theistic, self, six elements, rainbows, questioning, greed, hatred, delusion, kamma, sixth element, medicine, cosmos, supercomputer, King Ashoka.
(keywords) Not-knowing, obstructed, goal, unsure, unsafe, goal-oriented, source-oriented, theistic and non- theistic, self, six elements, rainbows, questioning, greed, hatred, delusion, kamma, sixth element, medicine, cosmos, supercomputer, King Ashoka.
(keywords) Just-knowing awareness, multidimensional identity, core element, Christian monk, Vietnam, health, age, nationality, selfless, Ajahn Chah, Buddho, knowingness, Ajahn Thate, Bahiya Sutta, silence, edgeless, overwhelmed, aversion, spacious, frame of reference, unhelpful stories, bowled over, not knowing, conceptual certainty, unsafe, creativity, drowning, rip current, cyclic breathing, trusting, proficiency, memorizing, pianists, effort.
(keywords) Ovada Patimokkha, wrong-doing, wholesomeness, purification, Mt Everest, materiality, earth, air, fire, water, space, consciousness, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion, resource, generate energy, restraint, rugby world cup, compulsive judging, unitive intelligence, mindfulness, skilful restraint, fragmentation, gentleness, nutriment, sapling, iodine, goitre, thyroid, tenderness, wounded, sensitivity, kindness, forgiveness, terrible twos, patience, identified with deluded sense of self, anatta, ‘I’ gets constellated, virtues, samadhi, vipassana, beyond self and not-self.
(keywords) Ovada Patimokkha, wrong-doing, wholesomeness, purification, Mt Everest, materiality, earth, air, fire, water, space, consciousness, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion, resource, generate energy, restraint, rugby world cup, compulsive judging, unitive intelligence, mindfulness, skilful restraint, fragmentation, gentleness, nutriment, sapling, iodine, goitre, thyroid, tenderness, wounded, sensitivity, kindness, forgiveness, terrible twos, patience, identified with deluded sense of self, anatta, ‘I’ gets constellated, virtues, samadhi, vipassana, beyond self and not-self.
(keywords) New Year’s Eve, honesty, contemplation, evaluating, assessing, fear, true identity, moods, rope, collective anxiety, failure of religion, virtue, pandemic, threatened, feeling without clinging, clenched fist, hiri ottappa, lokapala, chaos, order, truth, sati pañña, ‘just-knowing’, inequality, environment, slavery, AI, partial, biased, goodness, groundwork, fuel, devotional practice, kindness, Discourse on Greatest Blessings, imperturbability.
(keywords) New Year’s Eve, honesty, contemplation, evaluating, assessing, fear, true identity, moods, rope, collective anxiety, failure of religion, virtue, pandemic, threatened, feeling without clinging, clenched fist, hiri ottappa, lokapala, chaos, order, truth, sati pañña, ‘just-knowing’, inequality, environment, slavery, AI, partial, biased, goodness, groundwork, fuel, devotional practice, kindness, Discourse on Greatest Blessings, imperturbability.
(keywords) Not-knowing, pabbajja, kitchen manager, sewing, good student, humility, modesty, youth, new, assumptions, agility, energy, asset, actuality, patience, oak trees, acorn, stress, advantages of being older, patterns, equanimity, striving, idealism, progress in practice, failure, energy of attention, dukkha, sukha, Vipassana lay teachers, Ram Dass, lokavidu, stories,
(keywords) Approaching meditation, judging, knee surgery, cause and effect, rejecting reality, fighting, sadness, anger, ill-will, discriminative intelligence, taking sides, mindfulness, restraint, wise reflection, precepts, dysfunctional, unawareness, festers, the all-of-us, anatta, soften, pariyatti, pattipati, success, joy, gladness, contentment, dreich, distracting thoughts, samadhi, agility, forest bathing, generosity, honey, Kittisaro, lawnmower, beauty, kindness.
(keywords) Crisis, skilful reflection, complaining, disharmony, extremism, sadness, anger, affluence, war, loss, compassion, empathy, emotional intelligence, warm-hearted, indictment, grief, denied dukkha, joy, sorrow, wisdom, unobstructed relationship, adopted dukkha, vulnerability, backlog, building strength, goodness, competence, conscious relationship, the refuge.
(keywords) Compassion, Kisa Gotami, empathy, grief, mustard seed, refugees, Balkans, sadness, indignation, denied dukkha, imposed limitations, 4 Foundations of Mindfulness, sensitivity, triggers, backlog, anger and sadness, chaos, affluence, contentment, convenience, stress-test, material progress, selflessness, dark-ages, mindfulness, homelessness, common-and-garden variety mindfulness, indriyasamvara, restraint, Alexander Technique, middle way, hope, rigour mortis, drugs, advertisers, fear, shopping online, meditation, monkey-mind, wisdom, Dhammapada 114, deathlessness.
(keywords) Goodness as nutriment, wisdom as fruit, 4 Noble Truths, pollutions, theistic religions, prayers of intercession, supplication, affirming, acrobat simile, self-centredness, inner strength, (Second question, 17.17m) surfing the waves of samsara, agility, balance, embodied awareness, sensitivity, whole body-mind, 4 Foundations of mindfulness, extricate, discipline attention, sadness, grief,
challenges, Queen Elizabeth, Prime Minister of New Zealand, Morrinsville, indignation, discontentment, compromising integrity, alcohol, weed, guilt, generated dukkha, adopted dukkha, potentize, walking meditation, Tai Chi, shaking hands, trust and gratitude.
(keywords) Not-knowing, life after death, scriptures, not-sure, intellectual certainty, God, Dhamma, Tao, Almighty, Lord, myth, mystery, the hard problem of consciousness, Galileo, dirty drinking water, tsunami, volcano, stories, vulnerability, five spiritual faculties, equanimous curiosity, conspiracy theories, fundamentalist beliefs, collective identity crises, contagion, projected anger, present-generated dukkha, old-unreceived dukkha, adopted dukkha, agility, selfless just-knowing awareness.
Question on self, illusion, misidentified, right thinking, agency, faith, daring, saddha, 5 spiritual faculties, proliferating, tangle, denied dukkha, anger, flood of darkness, sadness, (18.45mins) Question on Letting Go, Tan Ajahn Thate, wisdom, 5 spiritual faculties, pyramid, axis, abdication, IKEA chairs, Sound of Silence, inspiration, dilemma, free energy, frustration, collectedness, calm, Nagara Sutta, deluded personality, detritus, Dhammapada 58-59.
(keywords) Acknowledging faults, sinner, translation, Tai Chi, traditions, sorry, relativize self, personality, positive projection, negative projection, parenting, mirroring, therapist, mentoring, positive dependence, ritual, symbols, devotion, assimilated badness, guilt, instilling virtues, integrity, forgiveness, generosity, modesty, humility, technology, power, protections, collective identity crisis, confusion, divisive influence, interest in dukkha.
(keywords) Acknowledging faults, sinner, translation, Tai Chi, traditions, sorry, relativize self, personality, positive projection, negative projection, parenting, mirroring, therapist, mentoring, positive dependence, ritual, symbols, devotion, assimilated badness, guilt, instilling virtues, integrity, forgiveness, generosity, modesty, humility, technology, power, protections, collective identity crisis, confusion, divisive influence, interest in dukkha.
(keywords) Disenchantment, awakening, sadness, naivety, idealism, including everything, lever, concepts, suicide, hope, aversion, benefit, clinging, inner structures, refuge, sustenance abuse, addictions, fundamentalism, identity politics, projection, authority, nibbida, samvega, dukkha, sukha, momentum, unreceived dukkha, body surfing, generated dukkha, assimilated dukkha, container, caterpillar, butterfly, chrysalis, self respect, integrity, community, sati-pañña, spiritual companionship, technology, conscious not-knowing.
(keywords) Disenchantment, awakening, sadness, naivety, idealism, including everything, lever, concepts, suicide, hope, aversion, benefit, clinging, inner structures, refuge, sustenance abuse, addictions, fundamentalism, identity politics, projection, authority, nibbida, samvega, dukkha, sukha, momentum, unreceived dukkha, body surfing, generated dukkha, assimilated dukkha, container, caterpillar, butterfly, chrysalis, self respect, integrity, community, sati-pañña, spiritual companionship, technology, conscious not-knowing.
(keywords) Obsessive thinking, control, assumptions, preparation, unexpected, Refuge, control, capacities, resistance, obstructions, labeling, kilesa, enthusiasm, opening, neurosis, amplification, handful of leaves, upgrading, impeccability, remorse, self confidence, self doubt, vitality, aliveness, shaming, restlessness, seismologists, earthquakes, vectors of transformation, parami, vows, generosity, sacca parami, personality, blaming, binge watching, meditation techniques, kalyanamitta, spiritual companionship.
(keywords) Obsessive thinking, control, assumptions, preparation, unexpected, Refuge, control, capacities, resistance, obstructions, labeling, kilesa, enthusiasm, opening, neurosis, amplification, handful of leaves, upgrading, impeccability, remorse, self confidence, self doubt, vitality, aliveness, shaming, restlessness, seismologists, earthquakes, vectors of transformation, parami, vows, generosity, sacca parami, personality, blaming, binge watching, meditation techniques, kalyanamitta, spiritual companionship.
(keywords) Dhammapada 118, goodness, pleasure, puñña, momentum, intensity, precipitation, mindfulness, Ajahn Thate, contentment, injustice, rage, indignation, storehouse of goodness, stillness, Theragatha, waxing lyrical, burden, narrow minded, projection, capacious, simple-dukkha, super-dukkha, Dhammapada 278, unawareness, avijja, spiritual faculties, base level.
(keywords) Loss, abstraction, approximation, power porridge, whole body-mind, here and now, judgement free, cooperative community, false views, false thinking, Roman Catholic family, threatened, sadness, projection, fear, anger, indignation, habits, Dhammapada verse 34, hard work, Peter Higgs, Higgs Boson, commitment, confidence, (19.30 second question) monks disrobing, disappointment, grief, ruling the roost, Cambodian war, BBC, crying, free to suffer, skilful preparation, old kamma, pain ++, trigger, purification, trembling, Ajahn Chah, right preparation, flare-up, projection, remorse, slow down, vibhava tanha, tonal languages, interested in honesty.
(keywords) Doubts, uncertainties, spiritual toolkit, going for refuge, quandary, actuality, certainty, fear, mindfulness, recollectability, conundrum, soften, space, allow, receive, family pain, abstractions, creative solutions, precepts, prayer, adhitthana, determinations, waiting, disrobing, epigenetics, contentment, scrupulosity, OCD, letting go.
(keywords) Doubts, uncertainties, spiritual toolkit, going for refuge, quandary, actuality, certainty, fear, mindfulness, recollectability, conundrum, soften, space, allow, receive, family pain, abstractions, creative solutions, precepts, prayer, adhitthana, determinations, waiting, disrobing, epigenetics, contentment, scrupulosity, OCD, letting go.
(keywords) Regret, remorse, guilt, freedom, vibhava tanha, psychology of integrity, Integrity Quotient, Ven. Ananda, lying, stress, pay attention, avijja, Dhammapada verse 5, self hatred, introject, damaged goods, 2 bullies, guilt bombs, cutting, seeing, burning through, talking to pain, rapprochement, reconciliation, cafe, indignation, breathing, dozzy, cycling through.
(keywords) Good fortune, going for Refuge, MO (modus operandi), just-knowing selfless awareness, self respect, conscious composure, indriyasamvara, creative enquiry, Venerable Anando, freedom from remorse, inner chaos, inner order, Dhammapada verse 157, hiri, ottappa, protectors of the world, virtuous sense of shame, recoiling from unwholesomeness, immune system, 4 right efforts, (18 mins. - 4 rights efforts) mudita, empathetic joy, anumodana, reading biographies, Albert Schweitzer, egalitarianism, Ajahn Chah, multidimensionality, infrared, ultraviolet, tolerance of diversity, conscious valuing, tradition, physical exercise, inertia, goodness, Dhammapada 58-59, dark shadows, 10 parami, cutting, seeing, burning, TV, patient endurance, biases, prejudices, LP Tiradhammo, compassion, cynical, halitosis, altruism.
(keywords) Practical exercises, looking in the distance, slow deep breaths, standing on one leg, stress eating, compulsive judging, field day, consumption, lacking, here and now, attention, meditation techniques, contemplation, Rahula, mirror, wise reflection, negative emotions, replenishing, instilling virtue, copper sulphate crystals, precipitation, integrity, gratitude, forgiveness, humility, goodness, 4 Noble Truths, tanha, craving, fulcrum, owning wanting, arahant, gift, fear, 5 spiritual faculties, re-traumatizing, faith, intensity, mindfulness, collectedness, jhanas, discernment, rejection, failure, medicine, (41 mins., second question) metta, empathy, selfishness, Dhammapada v 197, 198, happiness, multidimensional reality, rainbow, spectrum, tears, sadness, depression, thinking, fundamentalist Buddhist, war, contentment.
(keywords) Practical exercises, looking in the distance, slow deep breaths, standing on one leg, stress eating, compulsive judging, field day, consumption, lacking, here and now, attention, meditation techniques, contemplation, Rahula, mirror, wise reflection, negative emotions, replenishing, instilling virtue, copper sulphate crystals, precipitation, integrity, gratitude, forgiveness, humility, goodness, 4 Noble Truths, tanha, craving, fulcrum, owning wanting, arahant, gift, fear, 5 spiritual faculties, re-traumatizing, faith, intensity, mindfulness, collectedness, jhanas, discernment, rejection, failure, medicine, (41 mins., second question) metta, empathy, selfishness, Dhammapada v 197, 198, happiness, multidimensional reality, rainbow, spectrum, tears, sadness, depression, thinking, fundamentalist Buddhist, war, contentment.
(keywords) skill in listening, going for refuge, form, spirit, egotism, anatta, conflicted, security, Four Noble Truths, not-self, frequencies on the spectrum of consciousness, dimensions of awareness, fasting, natthi mi saranam aññam, middle way, knowingness, Buddho, disharmony, discordant, sabbe dhamma anatta, enquiry, intentional frustration, sugar, wood lathe, (26.30mins) selfishness, selflessness, ego, personality, self image, message, meditation, stillness, greedy impulse, demanding, limited being, deluded egoity, octopus, forces of mara, begin again, (42 mins., second question) metta, desperation, stay at home, karuna, skin cream, boil, (49 mins., third question) equanimity, upekkha, empathetic joy, mudita, key, trust, space, possibilities.
(keywords) skill in listening, going for refuge, form, spirit, egotism, anatta, conflicted, security, Four Noble Truths, not-self, frequencies on the spectrum of consciousness, dimensions of awareness, fasting, natthi mi saranam aññam, middle way, knowingness, Buddho, disharmony, discordant, sabbe dhamma anatta, enquiry, intentional frustration, sugar, wood lathe, (26.30mins) selfishness, selflessness, ego, personality, self image, message, meditation, stillness, greedy impulse, demanding, limited being, deluded egoity, octopus, forces of mara, begin again, (42 mins., second question) metta, desperation, stay at home, karuna, skin cream, boil, (49 mins., third question) equanimity, upekkha, empathetic joy, mudita, key, trust, space, possibilities.
(keywords) Listening to dhamma talks, Rahula, wise reflection, compassion, right speech, responsibilities, decision making, confidence, junk food, 5 spiritual faculties, faith, near drowning, Venerable Sariputta, fundamentalism, selfless, energy, suicide, going for refuge, intensity, mindfulness, (26 mins second question), motivation, contentment, compassion fatigue, Magic Eye, (36.45 mins third question), Fear, anxiety, emotional turmoil, aversion, spite, Ven. Myokyo-Ni, precepts, self-respect, mindfulness, compulsive judging mind, embodied aspiration, vector, symbols, prayer, anthropomorphize, introject, (54.30 mins fourth question), self-centredness, virtues, conventional religion, challenge.
(keywords) - Negative emotions, pressure, meditation retreat, un-received life, anger, death, loss, kilesa, rage, terror, loneliness, purification, stress test, Dhammacakka Sutta, the Middle Way, energy, hopefulness and despair, pseudo-mindfulness, blaming, passive aggression, boredom, backlog, barometre, self doubt, techniques, balance, being space, imagination, patient endurance, strength, dukkha, anicca, anatta, lemon, sour, self structure, Ram Dass, Ajahn Chah, vipassana, pariyatti, patipatti, aliveness, intelligence, compassion, favourable conditions.
(keywords) - Science, war, famine, petulance, plague, consciousness, truth seekers, co-operation, spirituality, wisdom, delusion, myths, stability, satisfactoriness, non-self, Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta, death, fear, collectedness, 5 spiritual faculties, mortality, meditation on death, immortality, faith, not-knowing, doubts, aversion, immune system, compassion, honesty, integrity, self-mortification, middle way, Dhammapada 11-12, calm, benefiting others.
(keywords) - hope, community spirit, spirituality, naivety, creative vigilance, alertness, aliveness, depression, potential, sunshine, simile of the acrobat, mutual benefit, kamma, kayakamma, vaccikamma, manokamma, piyavacca, lovely speech, powerful, listening, compassion, quietness, threatening, vulnerable, listening to silence, stillness, sound of silence, frame of reference, exercise routine, walking meditation, habits of distraction, worry, honesty, future, here, now, terror, strength, competence.
(keywords) - Dhammacakka Sutta, good fortune, reality, feel good belief system, training our faculties, pain, loss, grief, suffering, letting go, Sallatha Sutta, two arrows, Dalai Lama, anger, unprecedented confusion, altruism, kindnesses, indriya samvara, conscious composure, heedless reactivity, the beautiful, unreceived life, cat scratching, cause and effect, intentional inhibition, Alexander Technique, compulsive judging disorder, taking sides, no judging the judging mind, mobile phone use, dopamine, moralistic injunctions, text-speak, microwave, bowing, new ability.
(keywords) - N.B.Interference of rain noise for first 6 minutes. Original story of the Discourse on the Cultivation of Kindness, 500 disciples, overwhelmed by fear, judging, self critical, compulsive judging disorder (CJD), materialism, discriminative intelligence, investigation, mindfulness, restraint, wise reflection, our spiritual toolkit, actuality, compassion, anxiety, selfless awareness, labelling, rejection, relativize, unitive intelligence, worldly winds, outshine, Dhammapada verse 5, beguiling, learning.
(keywords) - Heedfulness, appreciative awareness, Dhammapada verse 258, opinions, proliferation, contemplation, equanimous, uncertainty, death, consciousness, anxiety, frame of reference, Four Noble Truths, not knowing, clinging, modicum of equanimity, happiness, wisdom, stress test, unawareness, equanimity, equipoise, balance, patient endurance, integration, transformation, skilfulness, clarity.
(keywords) - Ajahn Chah memorial puja, group practice, chanting, sweeping, standing Buddha image, attendant duties, the refuge, contributing to community, surrendered, challenges, ascetic monk, relaxation, concentration, transformation, inconsistent, betel nut, adjusting according to time and place.
(keywords) - Precious opportunity, spiritual community, anxiety, proliferation, contemplation, collectedness, clarity, trust, chaos, Ajahn Thate, the heart itself and the activity of the heart, dust of the world, the knowing, striving, Tai Chi, gusto, Tibetan teachings, breakdown, Dhammapada v 290, Go For Refuge To The Buddha, doubt, faith, fragrance of the rose, floating, aversion, hatred, liking and greed, goal-oriented practice, source-oriented practice, nitty-gritty, big toe, deluded ego-self, treading water, look more deeply.
(keywords) - Habits, retreats, energy, transformation, diamonds, Naranjana river, floating upstream, preferences, humiliation, frustration, viriya, agility, walking- sitting- standing- lying down- meditation, Ven. Anando, Four Right Efforts, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Seven Factors of Enlightenment, kindness, gentleness, solitary practice, fear, nutriment, resolve, begin again, trust, swimming, benefit.
(keywords) - Dhammapada verse 173, ideals, symbols, selflessness, actuality, obstructions, goal, clinging, sailing, La Gomera, chisel, steering wheel, mentor, security, just-knowing awareness, security, constellated, frame of reference, ‘me’ and ‘my way’, hallucination, agility, community, teacher, benefit.
(keywords) - Change, environmental degradation, political structures, religious structures, SANITY IN THE MIDST OF UNCERTAINTY, uncertainty, doubt, war zone, anxiety, views, old age, sickness, death, devaduta, patient endurance, self-forgiveness, restraint, fear, investigation, aversion, competence, benefiting oneself and others.
(keywords) - Dhammapada verse 258, wisdom, peace, fear, listening, restraint, strength, vulnerable, suffering, overwhelm, challenges, loss, ageing, muscle tone, heavy lifting, saddha, parami, blaming, upaya, punnya, goodness, replenishing, storehouse, self-respect, depression, social scientists, lying, trustworthiness, protection, generosity, offerings, mindfulness, integrity quotient, harmony, environment, survival.
(keywords) - Accelerating rate of change, feeling great, feeling not so great, intensely challenged, false security, Dhammapada 91, letting go, past, future, holding skillfully, tea caddy, health, youth, patient endurance, ultimate purifier, Dhammapada 399, unsafe, unsure, expanded awareness, protection, confidence, nutriment, sustaining, challenges, Ajahn Chah.
(keywords) - Goal, happiness, death, wisdom, actuality, frustration, sorrow, unobstructed, unwillingness, Wat Nanachat, apologies, asking for help, buoying up, listening, monastic training, suitability, self-referencing, self-promoting, self-disparaging, self-degrading, personality, baggage, Zen monasteries, spiritual companionship, extra option, spiritual faculties, finely tuned, nuances, regurgitating, clinging, sound-symbol, benefit, safe space, offensive speech, conflicts, looking in the right direction.
(keywords) - Four Noble Truths, application, concepts, approximations, sugar molecule, language, dukkha, limitation, indictment, avoidance, goodness, kindness, compassion, self respect, sadness, beautiful potential, receiving ourselves, no judgement, letting go, freedom, mindfulness, containment, indriyasamvara, questions, dhammavicaya, Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Sumedho, the path, insight, suffering is a choice, forgetting about ourselves.
(keywords) - Dhammacakka Sutta, Wisdom and compassion, protection, nourishment, 4 Noble Truths, 8-fold path, warm hearted, capacious, delight, mudita, participation, envy, jealousy, aspiration, puja, devotional, spiritual community, communal statement of a shared commitment to the transcendence of me and my way, rituals, symbols, generosity, dana, bouquets, self obsession, smart phones, sila, integrity, freedom from remorse, heedfulness, selflessness, service, rigidity, softening, indignation, sadness, Christian teachings, thy will be done, dedication of punnya, wholesome potential.
Dilemmas, uncertainty, self, not-self, Dhammapada 157, Dhammapada 380, conundrums, extricate, conditioned, unconditioned, uncreated, self essence, fixation, idealism, wisdom and compassion, compassion fatigue, 8 worldly dhammas, praise and blame, gain and lost, pleasure and pain, honour and insignificance, outfit, creative solutions, clinging, aversion and hatred, desire and greed, sadness and depression, dogma, learning from life.
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The Middle Way Is Not All Beige: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 40 mins)
Nibbana, Noble silence, pressure, intensification, vector, transformation, purification of gold, sickness, old age, frustration, renunciation, Middle Way, moderation, sadness, old pain, tears, purging, riding the wave, contentment, indulging, denying, snowboarding, surfing, rage, anxiety, fear, agile, unreasonableness, unawareness, liking, disliking, modestly, boredom, loneliness, sleeplessness, self-harming, balanced perspective, awareness, disagree-ability, specks of dust, servant, student, savaka, formal practice, daily-life, earworms.
The Agony of Egoity: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 37 mins)
Nibbana, awakening, self, other, approximations, sugar molecule, right understanding, Sedaka Sutta, The Acrobat, mutual benefit, chaos, ego, self-identity, child development, Christianity, relativizing, omnipotent, God, dilution, perpetual selfies, materialists, fearlessness, kindness, awareness, security, just knowing, tranquillity, questioning, confidence.
Commitment, Competence, Contentment: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 32 mins)
Affirming, hopefulness, renunciation, gratitude, hope, Dhammapada 302, affluent, anxiety, effort, mindfulness, restraint, discernment, aspiration, commitment, personality, bee sting, physical exercise, language, adhitthana, resolve, competence, excellence, relevance, tumultuous, distress, 2 types of contentment, running away, politics, environmental degradation, gratification, wisdom, change, anicca, impermanence, choice.
What Actually is Wisdom: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 47 mins)
Dhammapada 275, skewered, barbs, eight worldly winds, fear, approximation, application, scholars, eight fold path, stillness, tranquility, aliveness, Switzerland, Schweizerdeutsch, not-thinking, clinging, indulging, upaya, skilful means, discordant, Middle Way, six senses, consumerism, hooked, advertising, Beatles, realization.
What Actually Is Selfishness: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 47 mins)
Listening to Dhamma talks, agreeing and disagreeing, taking sides, appreciative awareness, sensitive receptivity, shared contemplation, resolution, generosity, moral philosophy, feeling investigation, loving kindness, empathy, learning from boredom, me and my way, contentment, unshakable, Mahamangala Sutta, victims, re-traumatizing, seeing selfishness, conceit, Ajahn Thate, 8 worldly winds, griefless, dustless, security, learning to lose.
Unobstructed Relationship With Everything: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 35 mins)
(Poor sound quality). How to listen to Dhamma talks, questioning, eyes closed, 7 factors of enlightenment, Dhammavicaya, feeling investigation, dhammasakaccha, dhammasavana, training, agreeing/disagreeing, hell, heaven, Dhammacakka Sutta, Theravada, uninspected assumptions, contentment, doubt, well-being, resting, rejuvenate, damaged goods, sinner, compulsive or constructive, tweets, websites, beginning again.
It Is Obvious What We Need To Be Doing: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 35 mins)
Ajahn Chah, ignorance, craving, seeing clearly, unshakable ease, compassion fatigue, caring professions, 4 Brahmaviharas, upekkha, praise, insult, excessive zeal, modesty, fitting in, loneliness, IMS, slow down, jhanas, Hollywood heroes, unfolding.
Coping With Compassion Fatigue: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 35 mins)
Transformation, suffering into freedom, Dhammacakka Sutta, awakening, preparations, resources, caring professions, social media, hopefulness, Brahmaviharas, Metta, Karuna, Mudita, Upekkha, strength, being loving, conscious well-wishing, selflessness, protection, compassion, empathy, sadness, softening, joy, delight, envy, competence, equanimity, kamma, letting go, renunciation, gratification, boundaries, responsibilities, skilful, 7 Factors of Enlightenment, 10 Parami, healing, imperceptible, refresh, stillness.
Making Wisdom the Priority: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 30 mins)
The Turning of the Wheel of the Law, appearance, wisdom, happiness, beauty, ugly duckling, pancakes, butterfly, eternal hell, clinging, suffering, pain, pay attention, goodness, compassion, potential, integrity, C6,H12,O6, honey, distractions, training, 4 Noble Truths, YouTube, vitality, settling, seeing.
Realigning Perception With Reality: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 45 mins)
Kalyanamitta, gurus, questioning, dhammavicaya, Awakening, vulnerability, cultivation, kamma, fooled, misperceptions, retraining perceptions, right amount, indignation, aversion, TED, cognitive science, death, maranasati, Dhammapada verses 11-12, eternal hell, sunburn, addiction to distraction, self-promoting, 4 Noble Truths, lying about reality, presence, desire, dissatisfaction, mindfulness, sense restraint, wise reflection, tanha, healing a wound, leprosy, feeling investigation, skilful inhibition, not-clinging, benefit, outflows, getting the message, mirror.
The Stillness of Ajahn Chah: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 45 mins)
100th birthday, complexities, light bulb, advertising, Mahamangalasutta, samana, beauty, benefit, jhanas, sickness, biography, Stillness Flowing, Still Forest Pool, doughnuts, hundreds-and-thousands, plastic, WMD, consequences, ‘me’, ‘my way’, Everything Is Teachings Us, assertive, yielding, rabies, metta, stinging ants, doubt, Rodin, zeal, striving, sticky rice, idealistic, constancy, adhitthana, ascetic practices, letting go.
Skilfully Daring: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 43 mins)
Temple of the Cave of Diamond Light, photoshopping, scruffy, misrepresentation, Theragatha, Therigatha, approximations, temples, Buddha images, projecting, iconoclastic, enquiry, Dhammavicaya, 7 Factors of Enlightenment, toolkit, photogenic, Sri Ramana Mahashi, Bhakti, hogwash, indriya samvara, sati, Yuhudi Menuhin, mindfulness, sense restraint, acupuncture, computers, complexities, technology, ecology, bees, intuition, affluence, goodness, eternal hell, open-hearted awareness.
Skilfully Daring: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 30 mins)
Dhammacakka Sutta, 4 Noble Truths, accumulating, consuming, wanting, personality promotion, hoarding, OCD, emblematic, cago, patinissaggo, relinquishing, letting go, itching, delusion, Bhikkhuni Mahapajapti, dis-passion, detachment, dispersal, modesty, contentment, frugality, effort, solitude, capitalism, transformation, carbon dust, diamonds, training, floating upstream, renunciation, disciplined diet, mushrooms, going forth, death, daring, radical shift, Stillness Flowing, fear, fasting, modesty, gentleness, patience, honesty, samadhi, assumptions, cultivation.
Agile Attention: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 40 mins)
Fixed views, realization, awakening, migrating geese, ideals, obstructions, goal, unobstructed relationship, Ajahn Thate, praise and blame, concentration, investigation, rigidity, 8 worldly winds, praise/blame, gain/loss, pleasure/pain, honour/insignificance, success/failure, Dhammapada 228, Prof. Jung, shadows, cutting-through, seeing-through, burning-through, dilemma, functional frustration, anatta, self-image, intensity, swimming, balance, endurance, abdication, gestation, monarch butterflies, chrysalis.
Right Renunciation: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 31 mins)
Benefiting oneself, benefiting others, dishonesty, amplification, alternative example, compromise, trust, confidence, virus, killing, hygiene, road code, preferences, skin cancer, precepts, wisdom, alcohol, clarity, intention, speech, Anando, remorse, pain, message, self respect, ambiguity, uncertainty, reasonableness, habits, anxiety, conceit, guilt, kindness, self-acceptance, forgiving, learning.
Right Renunciation: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 30 mins)
Anagarika precept ceremony, Forest Masters, training, samadhi, jhana, vipassana, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, nekkhamma parami, transformation, siladhara, saying ‘no’, surrendering, child-rearing, terrible two’s, parenting, rights and responsibilities, entitled, exercises, wildness, burnishing credentials, meditation, food, frustration, containment, investigation, indulgence, denial, balance, middle way, intensity, confidence, gold.
Minister for Loneliness, sociology, politics, psychology, boredom, liking, disliking, extravert, introvert, preferences, renunciation, awakening, meditation, exuberance, intensification, blaming, helpful.
Aloness: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 28 mins)
Minister for Loneliness, sociology, politics, psychology, boredom, liking, disliking, extravert, introvert, preferences, renunciation, awakening, meditation, exuberance, intensification, blaming, helpful.
Applied Mindfulness: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 30 mins)
Teaching, commodification, perspective, becoming, role, compassion, empathy, clear comprehension, sati, sampajañña, technique, benefit, kindness, patience, objectification, simplification, Dhammapada 100, memory, fantasy, suttas.
Trust and Distrust: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 42 mins)
Faith, trust, floating, controlling, believing, saddha, 5 spiritual faculties, certainty, relationships, fragrance, honeysuckle, renunciation, loneliness, signpost, strength, insight, gratification/contentment, awareness itself, verified faith, resource, forbearance, mystery, death, not-knowing, stop thinking, denied doubt, backlog, unitive intelligence, new atheists, mature faith, nourishment, pukkusati, delusion, Coldstream, quagmire, dandelion, conscious relationship.
Encountering the Uncertain: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 50 mins)
Precept ceremony, renunciant, joy, props, raw reality, strategic frustration, awakening, cancer, agility, subtlety, control, commitment, unobstructed awareness, non-suffering, training, wisdom, Ajahn Chah, crossed wires, Ajahn Sumedho, becoming, heat, purification, gold, catch ourselves, enlightened, over-eating, undermined, forgetting, knee surgery, anthropomorphize, remembering quicker, bowing, damp-course, Hilti drill, piano, spiritual muscle, spiritual tools, contract, expand, reading the heart, liking-craving, disliking-hatred, new year’s resolution, sugar, will-power, fully wanting.
Let THIS Be Enough: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 50 mins)
Traditions, optimizing, benefit, here-and-now, precepts, forgiveness, aspiration, skilfulness, past, future, regret, lost, vows, projection, mirror, self-image, narcissist, besotted, guilty, Gandhi, ideas relevance, feelings, pleasure, clinging, wisdom, contentment, Rangiputa Beach, wanting, letting go, idealization, agility, aliveness, not-doing, moods, Dalai Lama, dislike, aversion, hatred, subtlety, productive, precepts, positivity, saying yes/no, understanding, clarity.
Harmonious Community: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 45 mins)
Christmas, gatherings, families, happiness, cooperation, personality, aspiration, awakening, individuality, deluded personality, kamma, food, right understanding, queues, identification, discord, beneficial, jamming, musicians, beauty, joy, soft powers, hubris, Icarus, trusting, controlling, relaxation, strategize, stress, creativity, tension, fear, disadvantage-absence, advantage-presence, rejection, lease-hire car, unreliable, friend, trust-worthiness, self-trust, refuge, wanting to change, unconditioned love, gratitude. .
Protecting the Beauty: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 45 mins)
Fortunate, privilege, goodness, misfortune, unreliability, sense treats, understanding, 6 senses, field of study, Enlightenment, pet cat, injury, intelligence, mirage, rainbow, Odysseus, Sirens, insult, Twitter, worry, samsara, salt and sugar, food, indulgence/denial, stopping thinking, suicide, solo sailing, snake/rope, Sapiens, money, beauty, pollution, 5 spiritual faculties, junk food, craving, smoking, benefit.
Stages and Signposts: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 46 mins)
Ajahn Chah, path, signposts, happy faces, insights, hints, old age, sickness, death, disillusionment, obliged to suffer, death, questioning, samma ditthi, seeing accurately, threatened, letting go, ostrich practice, gratitude, skills, 5 hindrances, Ajahn Thiradhammo, 3 approaches, ‘Cutting Through’, ‘Seeing Through’, ‘Burning Through’, Rahula, mirror, wise reflection, contemplation/proliferation, self-respect, transforming, fire, patient endurance, stages, letting go a little, lot, completely, surrendering, don’t see the clinging, seeing clinging, forgetting about clinging, faith, trust, getting lost in pleasure and pain, limitations, softening the ‘I’, modesty, right effort, mistakes, semi-autonomous selves, rigidity, arrogance, gentling, readying, denied anger, skilful letting off steam, practice in the body, monastic training, hard physical work, blaming.
A Generative Unfolding Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 43 mins)
Retreat, intensity, renunciation, beyond limitations, allowing, study, stages of development, oak trees, sila, integrity, self-trust, samadhi, discipline of attention, steadiness, pañña, wise reflection, discernment, gardening, predicting, conflict, distraction, doing meditation, resolution, disintegration, bypassing, agility, subtlety, confidence, container, feeling safe, ghosts, dreams, movies, films, novels, readiness, precepts, external authority, impeccability, legal complexity, tudong, vulnerable, giving it time, Ajahn Chah teaching vinaya, discipline, indriya samvara, beautiful flowering, trusting.
An Apparently Unending Ordeal Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 43 mins)
Ajahn Chah, path, goal, inspiration, interest, gratitude, heart-breaking, difficulties, preparation, listening, Dhammapada 76, blessing, naievity, energy, distraction, reality, old age, sickness, death, stories, materialism, capitalism, communism, Christianity, Buddhism, confidence, trust, faith, excitement, suffering, lost, bone-breaking struggle, self-trust, impeccability, precepts, Ananda, remorse, guilt, bowing, intense retreat, forms, spirit, chanting, hurricane, chaos, disciplined attention, Bodhi tree, tedious, boredom, repetition, cancer prognosis, conquering Mara, agility, 4 right efforts, 4 foundations of mindfulness, creativity, stop meditating, listening to dhamma talks, warm-heartedness, Somdet Nyanasamvorn, kindness, cooperation, manners, patient endurance, transforming obstructions, keep walking.
With Kind Eyes: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 43 mins)
right view, 8 fold path, spiritual practice, special experiences, insights, enlightenment, awareness itself, receptivity, effort, relationships, Anuruddha, harmony, kindness, benefits, obstructions, community, harmonic, appreciation, gratitude, threatened, defensive, safety, NHS, scientific education, discriminative intelligence, religion, rigidity, public speaking, humiliation, in the body, eyes, Alexander Technique, Holy Island, delusion, Devon Vihara, success/failure, teachers, looking for your glasses, comparing, iconoclasts, one-upmanship, idiot, winning, letting go, gentleness, goitre, 8 worldly dhammas, bodhi tree.
For The Benefit Of All - Guided Meditation: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 41 mins)
selflessness, post-enlightenment, renunciation, modesty, compassion, discipline, austerity, wisdom, teaching, inspiration, sustaining, cause and cessation of suffering, helping, Ajahn Mahabua, ferocious tiger, foolishness, little dust, softening, obstructions, approximations, rage, anger, counter-force, containing, repression, indulgence, imagination, compost, fear, sadness, worry, empathy, aloneness, loving-kindness, Niranjana river, Sujata, vow, upstream, denied pain. (approx 30 minutes into the talk) Guided Meditation on Compassion.
Be Like A Tree: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 50 mins)
formal meditation, breath work, body awareness, materialism, permission to explore, organic confidence, responsibility, embodiment, concentration, controlling, walking meditation, obstruction, 'my way', Sound of Silence, unconditioned, changelessness, cittabhavana, six signs, presence, 8 worldly dhammas, special experiences, psychic powers, balance, anapanasati sutta, guided meditation, alignment, groundedness, softening, broadening, listening, receiving, just-so reality. .
Living Well In The Midst Of Uncertainty: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 28 mins)
rate of change, technology, Uber, block-chain, anxiety, change, anicca, wisdom, amplification, comfort, complacency, food, heedlessness, benefit, impermanence, purification, reality, nibbindati, selfishness, slavery, Stephen Pinker, human rights, education, empathy, narcissism, mindfulness, wise views, Mindfulness In Schools, dot b, amygdala, hopefulness, fear, chaos, spiritual immune system, threatening, cooperation, intuition, creative vigilance, optimism, pessimism, tension, stress, apathy, hopelessness, depression, mutual benefit. .
Die Before You Die: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 28 mins)
Chanting, togetherness, affirmation, struggling, other shore, raft, Dhammacakka Sutta, repetition, Ajahn Chah, elderly woman, get the message, dying, me and my way, current, craving, drowning, preferences, excess striving, concepts, feel the consequences, dukkha, limited being, Icelandic, tripped up, heart-broken, resistance, middle way, Dhamma talks, praise, bored, daring, winning, No. 1, criticism, learn to lose, massage, Wat Nanachat, sword or wisdom, grindstone, pressure, systems balanced, psychological, bow into, In The Dead of Night, fear of death, ordeal, timing, surrender, Ajahn Thate, heron. .
Caring Without Clinging: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 30 mins)
non-attachment, conflict, nourishment, self-referencing, saddhiviharika, attendant, gratitude, surrender, gladness, suffering, planet, cold-hearted, concepts, thinking, conundrum, initial approximation, mango, Rome, reality, Socrates, toolkit, identity, Ajahn Thate, abdication, Mara, delusion, actuality, space, silence, stillness, perspective, mindfulness, sense restraint, wise reflection, retreat, guest, irritation, choice, obligation, beauty, contrast, arrogance, superficiality, feeling investigation, sound of silence, aspen grove, shimmering silver leaves.
When We Meet Ourselves: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 50 mins)
Bearings, alignment, selfishness, charity, donations, generosity, self-structure, psychotherapists, anatta, non-self, selflessness, ego, scratching, itch, gratification, unconditioned contentment, self-existent well-being, Dhammapada 103, Luang Por Sumedho, grindstone, ordeal, training, commitment, tried and tested, Venerable Myokyo-Ni, excruciating frustration, edge, In The Dead of Night, ghosts, charnel ground, fearlessness, humility, Trevor Leggett, daunting, daily-life, wanting, NZ beaches, Rangiputa.
On Not-becoming a Buddhist: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 25 mins)
Homelessness, security, refuge, identity, safety, possessions, physicality, ageing, mind, emotions, renunciation, ordination, actuality, realization, just-knowing, truth discerning awareness, religion, anagarika, arahant, bodhisattva, view, surrender, resistance, conundrum, tolerant, functional becoming, roles, agility, teacher, mask, precepts, experiment, recognition, not-becoming.
Conducive Listening: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 36 mins)
Quietism, aggression, fixed position, bodhisattva, arahant, enlightenment, Heartwood sutta, receptivity, benefit, according with, not-self, spin-drier, quietude, relative calm, depth, stillness, saying 'no', investigation, compulsive, internet, unplug, agility, discriminating, receptive, dhammasakaccha, Mahamangala Sutta, dhammasavana, acumen, dhammacakka sutta, savaka, Sariputta, Moggallana, listening, Luang Por Chah, Don Meung, recorder, artists, contemplation, inner temple, quandaries, access, becoming.
Moving On: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 38 mins)
Awakening, unfaltering, here-and-now, wisdom, compassion, vision, approximation, inspiration, non-attachment, letting go, liking, disliking, Dhammapada 91, swans, quickening of faith, imposition, fooled, lokavidu, actuality, Wat Pah Nanachat, Heartwood Discourse, Mahasaropama sutta, status, integrity, samadhi, fear, desire, obligation, maps, limitations, fixate, fault, altruistic, Ajahn Thate, Ajahn Mun, honesty, consistency, sugar, ascetic practices, modesty, special practices, addictions, emotions, agility, appreciation.
Transmuting Suffering: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 34 mins)
Moods, pleasure, pain, view, vicissitudes, cryonics, preferences, alternative, daring, Galileo, explorers, astronomy, radical, inner journey, samma ditthi, shift in perspective, becoming, realization, Ven. Sariputta, goal-oriented, source-oriented, inherent OK-ness, meditation, stillness, judgement-free, here-and-now, whole-body, suffering, high and low, trust, faith, transmutation, intolerable, dhamma/delusion, dream-life and awakening, synthesize, digested, antibiotics, super-bugs, being with suffering, Dhammapada 172.
Consuming the Sacred: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 42 mins)
Enlightenment, contemplation, meditation, guilty, thinking, contentment, proliferation, feeling investigation, toolkit, rock climbing, 84,000 Dhamma doors, consumer society, kamma, Rahula, mirror, relevance, incremental, burnout, Chris Martin, Coldplay, 1960's, 1970's, plundering, rampant consumption, gompas, ashrams, zendos, pioneer culture, kauri trees, aspiration, unbecoming, quietude, sound of silence, resentment, stillness.
We Need All The Reminders: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 28 mins)
Dhammacakkappattana sutta, suffering, freedom, dogma, pointing, faith, benefit, pollutions, forgetting, blaming, mahasatipatthana sutta, tradition, Buddha image, symbols, mirror, wisdom, compassion, inherent inadequacy, capitalism, consumerism, stories, possibility, misery, principles, right direction, pariyatti, patipatti,old age, sickness, death, truth-seeker, Jackfruit, unawareness, spiritual community, Aldous Huxley, mescaline, 'It shouldn't be this way', resisting reality, knee operation, Ajahn Thate.
Trust in Knowing: Aruna Ratanagiri (25 min)
keywords: Buddha, Consciousness, Personality, Proliferation, Suffering, Knowing, Awakening
Being a Servant of Reality: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 34 mins)
chanting, effort, master, stress, worry, forms, Buddha, unobstructed, actuality, knowingness, feeding momentum, disposition, upadana, insight, rip current, familiarity, 40 years, Israelites, delusion, surrender, downing, rhythmic breathing, joyous, Christian monk, receptive, trusting, conduit, Ajahn Tiradhammo, ritual, Bani Shorter, Bhikkhu Vakkali, judo, uposatha hall, re-gilding, meditation, rigid, recovering control freak, Ajahn Chah, real practice, harmony.
On Being a Servant of Reality: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 34 mins)
chanting, effort, master, stress, worry, forms, Buddha, unobstructed, actuality, knowingness, feeding momentum, disposition, upadana, insight, rip current, familiarity, 40 years, Israelites, delusion, surrender, drowning, rhythmic breathing, joyous, Christian monk, receptive, trusting, conduit, Ajahn Tiradhammo, ritual, Bani Shorter, Bhikkhu Vakkali, judo, uposatha hall, re-gilding, meditation, rigid, recovering control freak, Ajahn Chah, real practice, harmony.
Confidently Not Knowing: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 36 mins)
Death, control, Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Thate, humour, discipline, Ajahn Sumedho, goody-goody-two-shoes, goals, disorientation, threatening, seismic, just knowing, extraordinarily special, thoroughly normal, reverence, agility, transformation, raw emotions, ramifications, excruciating, relational, synthetic security, trusting, source-orientation, turtle, theistic religion, techniques, organic confidence, actuality, vortices, just knowing mind, rip current, approximations, silent contemplation, swimming, Piha, panic, precepts, renunciation, nekkhamma, indriya samvara, toxic conceit, resources, gratitude.
Posture and Breath: Aruna Ratanagiri (approx. 29 min)
Keywords: posture, weight, breath, energy, aspiration, direction, allowing, listening
Mindful Listening: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 36 mins)
Meetings, harmony, cooperate, opinions, face-book, frivolous, vexatious, insidious, disintegration, babble, fallacy, personality belief, unobstructed awareness, inner inquiry, me and my way, irritation, enjoy, faith, doubt, samsara, anatta, gratitude, self-promotion, scriptures, self, compulsive identification, wanting, apparent, fracture of consciousness, self-image, mirror, compassion.
Why Can't I let Go: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 45 mins)
Commitment, wisdom, compassion, reality, stories, house-builder, story-teller, winter retreat, ordeal, momentum, bungee-jumping, chocolate, embodiment, Mahasatipatthana sutta, cognitive scientist, attic, data, walking meditation, festival, wrong views, self-disparagement, guilt, neurosis, damaged goods, disempowering, kamma, faith, saddha, floating, disposition, arbitrary, patience, dare, bitter endurance, modesty, soft powers, ambition, dhammachanda, entitlement, miso soup, compassion, Dhammapada 11-12, happiness, 3 types of dukkha, collective conspiracy, peacefulness.
Progress in Practice: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 40 mins)
New anagarika, distraction, maps, rewards, obstructions, hindrances, emotions, Swiss army knife, splinter, grindstone, entitlement, Ajahn Chah, results, fantasizing, oak trees, pariyatti, patipatti, practice, instruction, induction, uncertainty, disillusioned, assumptions, receptive, strive, diligence, humility, compassion, faith, patience, C.S. Lewis, nourishment, agile, skills, sati, samadhi, sense restraint, wise-reflection, samvara indriya, repression, indulgence, Alexander Technique, investigation, heart-abiding.
Obstructed Awareness: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 35 mins)
Winter Retreat, silence, progress, obstacles, hindrances, Luang Por Tiradhammo, 5 nivaranas, idealizing letting go, intensity, ill-will, rage, abandoning, transcendence, emotional obstructions, agility, psychotherapy, beginner's mind, dazzled, insights, foundation, timidity, preparation, overwhelm, anger, horse training, eat/sleep/speak little, samadhi, purifying gold, emotional malnutrition, judging, limitation, benefit.
Before Letting Go Happens: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 37 mins)
Ovada patimokkha, compassion, complexity, helpfulness, hindrances, comparing, kindness, nibbana, endurance, self, me-ness, bitter-endurance, letting go, embodiment, here-and-now, judgement-free, moths, Meister Eckhart, earthworm, sense restraint, Ajahn Chah, desire, skilfulness, lifetimes, visceral anger, Dhammacakka Sutta, faith, motto, wisdom.
Learning from Icarus: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 35 mins)
Happiness, smile, clinging, impermanence, generosity, integrity, beauty, affluence, upadana, meditation, moth, killing, sense objects, chocolate, marzipan, restraint, spiritual faculties, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Sariputta, Icarus, Daedalus, unconditioned, bypassing, gratitude, joy, jalopy, intoxication, mindfulness, enlightenment, therapy, egoic needs, balance, agility, elders.
The Spirit of the Spiritual Life – Part 2: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 22 mins)
Cobra, sati, sampajannya, pannya, security, paradox, quandary, uncertainty, silence, just-knowing, awareness, aspiration, trust, concentration, feeling-investigation, contemplation, judgement, interest, energy, questions, conundrums, synthetic security, confidence, ambiguity, conspiracy, fake-news, integration, disintegration, capacity, intolerable, unacceptable, unendurable.
The Spirit of the Spiritual Life – Part 1: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 34 mins)
Ajahn Chah, awareness, flow, forms, spirit, vinaya, Kanchanaburi, Bani Shorter, materialism, frustration, ambiguity, 25th anniversary, medallions, amulets, Dalai Lama, conduits, maps, cartographer, 5 spiritual faculties, trust, learning to walk, livelihood, simile of the raft, when to let go, disrobing, uncertainty, precepts, terror, doubt.
The Carrot Isn't The Goal: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 46mins)
New Year's Eve, inquiry, goals, aspirations, resolutions, ice-cream, equanimity, compassion, clinging, donkey, apparent reality, actuality, tradition, reflective awareness, sati, translation, savaka, meditation, techniques, typology, goal-orientation, source-orientation, energy, enthusiasm, willfulness, conscious receptivity, gratitude, problems, faith, doubt, respect, slowing down, achievement, sore throat, misunderstanding, burn-out, kamma, quietness.
Really Relevant Teachings: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 22 mins)
Realization, feelings, skilfulness, liberation, Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Thate, arahant, defilements, kilesa, views, letting go, goal, world, pleasure, pain, restraint, 'I', mindfulness, wise reflection, lokavidu, wisdom, compassion, equanimity.
Where To Turn For Support: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 45 mins)
Depletion, 4 monastic supports, faith, apparent reality and actuality, tried and tested, compassion, sadness, precepts, freedom from remorse, safety, tudong, sickness, sugar, salt, integrity, compromise, hope, companions, parents, knowledge, study, rebirth, kamma, doubts, anatta, contentment.
Mindfulness, Restraint, Reflection: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 30 mins)
Calm, contentment, Ajahn Chah, kathina, distraction, mindfulness, restraint, reflection, truth-seeker, samvara indriya, goal, happiness, gratification, skilful-means, upaya, inherent adequacy, inadequacy, rainbows, forgiveness, 5 spiritual faculties, balance, viriya, intensity, trust, salt, enthusiasm, zeal.
Reading Scriptures and Sitting Practice: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 28 mins)
Ajahn Chah, scriptures, liberation, conceptual thinking, Right View, clinging, opinions, positions, peace, just knowing, prejudices, preferences, specializing, forest monasteries, discriminative intelligence, unitive intelligence, contemplation, silence.
Leave it up to the Buddha: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 40 mins)
Skillful means, creative ability, obstructions, pariyatti, complexity, 5 spiritual faculties, encouraging, wounded spiritual faculties, healing, good fortune, self-doubt, laziness, procrastination, receptivity, sound silence, dysfunctional mindfulness of breathing, contentment, Ovada Patimokkha, faith.
Knowing the Knowing: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 34 mins)
Ajahn Chah, effort, resistance, skillful means, goal, obstructions, habitual tendencies, pristine awareness, anicca, dukkha, anatta, dying, brain damage, not knowing, control freaks, willingness, agility, daring, formal meditation, conceit, advaita vedanta, dhammavicaya, Shri Ramana Mahashi, Ovada patimokkha.
Constancy Helps: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 40mins)
Retreats, goodness, 4 Right Efforts, benefit, burn-out, constancy, modesty, Ajahn Mun, 5 precepts, remorse, buoyancy, well-being, 8 worldly dhammas, strength, citta, gentle, kindness, patience, forgiveness, trace elements, respect, admiration, appreciation, virtue, devotion, Mahamangala Sutta, puja, heroes, bowing, lathe, yoga.
Mindfulness of the Body: Aruna Ratanagiri (72 min)
(keywords): body, breath, anapanasati, techniques, kindness, calming, samadhi, investigation, insight, intention, effort, arising, ceasing, internal, external, mindfulness, postures, activities, elements, asubha, death.
Right Mindfulness: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 min)
(keywords): Mindfulness, presence, concentration, understanding, effort, wholesome, unwholesome, Four Noble Truths.
A Daring Spirit: Aruna Ratanagiri (approx.37 mins.)
Four Noble Truths, Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, benefit, samsara, indulgence, denial, old-age, sickness, death, truth seeker, liberation, asceticism, middle way, Dhammapada 384, pleasure, pain, daring, spiritual work, nyanadassanam, riding bicycle, map, sabhava dukkha, dukkha dukkha, sila, integrity, scientific testing, false security, Ven. Myokyo-Ni, meditation, relaxation, concentration, investigation, transformation, energy, floating, Devadatta, enthusiasm, gentleness, steadiness, humility.
The Way It Seems To Be and The Way It Is: Aruna Ratanagiri (approx.37 mins.)
Apparent reality, actuality, ageing, irritating arahant, Ajahn Chah, reflection, views, samvara indriya, restraint, energy, transformation, feeling judged, parents, mother, fundamentalism, arguments, meditation, well-being, hindsight, paradox, Ajahn Thate, heart, activity of the heart, awareness, activity in awareness, abiding as awareness, arahant's breakfast, preferences, Dhammapada 11 – 12, agility, admiration, Asian Buddhist, authority, question.
Going for Refuge to Reality: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx 39)
Solitude, group practice, sickness, training, cultivation, shock, walking meditation, balance, effort, obstructions, waiting, patience, wise reflection, contemplation, pain, suffering, smooth pebbles, noble struggle, expanded awareness, Ajahn Sucitto, sacrifice, willingness, ballet, Yehudi Menuhin, Jonny Wilkinson, letting go.
Conducive Conditions: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 28 mins)
Spiritual companions, friendship, kalyanamitta, goal, wisdom, compassion, letting go, conducive conditions, inspiration, excitement, wild-flowers, 4 right efforts, transcendence, Triple Gem, commitment, renunciation, distraction, fuel, data fast, Ajahn Chah, eating, talking, ritual, refuge, conscious sensitivity, 4 Divine Abidings, sadness, Kosambi, Anuruddha, harmony, preferences, solitude.
Looking Into Liking and Disliking: Aruna Ratanagiri, (40 mins.)
Preferences, gorse, Ajahn Thate, Arahant, Enlightened, breakfast, porridge, Burma, Ajahn Chah, Middle Way, study, LP Tiradhammo, steadying, slowing down, renunciation, simplification, intensification, formal practice, sensitivity, frustration, Dhammapada 163, pottery, source-oriented practice, goal-oriented practice, being and doing, listening meditation, sound of silence, receptivity, trusting, feeling-investigation, pushing hands, letting go.
Don't Just Read the Map: Aruna Ratanagiri (36 mins)
Duty, preferences, study, maps, daily-life, goal, Anguttara Nikaya, trust, serving, cooperation, here and now, body, letting go.
Our Spiritual Skills: Aruna Ratanagiri, Vesakha Puja (31 mins.)
Mahamangala Sutta, greatest blessings, disillusionment, letting go, Dhammapada 91, Ajahn Chah, investigation, surfing, driving, 4 Noble Truths, responsibility, confidence, strength, stories, meditation, resolution, honesty, anger, boredom, distraction, limitless awareness, compassion.
Breath & Kindness: Aruna Ratanagiri (16min)
(keywords): attitude, quality, attention, kindness, breath, body, effort, patience, welcoming, balance
Helpful Ways of Wanting: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 26 mins).
Progress, sensations, trying, Dhammapada 34, images, Mara, delusion, training, Four Noble Truths, mistakes, mindfulness, letting go, patience, kindness, gentleness, modesty, language, arrogance, ambition, inspiration, ignorance, dust, no judgement.
Breath & Awareness: Aruna Ratanagiri (33 min)
(keywords): body, mood, effort, breath, posture, sensations, energy, mind, friendliness, receptivity, intention, nourishment, peace, change, awareness
Understanding Leads to Peace: Aruna Ratanagiri,(approx. 30 mins)
New anagarika, nature, pain, knowledge, preferences, investigation, wise reflection, clarity, bliss, dhammavicaya, 7 Factors of Enlightenment, anticipation, distraction, worry, anxiety, patient endurance, gentleness, focus, holding, agility.
Body, Mind & Mystery: Aruna Ratanagiri (31 min)
(keywords): sensations, breathing, actuality, presence, mind, foundation, noticing, energy, balance, technique, comfort, change, patterns, awareness, now, knowing, mystery
Trust and Transformation: Aruna Ratanagiri, (approx. 40 mins).
Purification, faith, trust, parami, wisdom, compassion, generosity, integrity, fragrance, motivation, beliefs, controlling, ego, moods, disharmony, training, rules, Alexander Technique, self-trust, wounding, healing, distrust, loving-kindness, forgiveness, goal, Ajahn Chah, harmony.
Finding Sanity in the Midst of Insanity: Aruna Ratanagiri, (34 mins.)
Imperturbability, peace, Jesus, world, right view, flux, lemons, chilies, mindfulness, wise reflection, wisdom, compassion, goal, fire, anicca, dukkha, disenchanted, training, unformed, uncreated, precepts, spiritual companions, comparing, traditions, systems, 32 parts, seasickness, depth, inherent peace.
Exercising Spiritual Ability: Aruna Ratanagiri, (42 mins)
Complexity, environment, hopelessness, impatience, anger, spiritual faculties, Dhammapada verse 95, blockchain, beliefs, naivety, faith, energy, mindfulness, collectedness, discernment, apparent reality, actuality, rope, snake, assumptions, Syria, feeling awareness, thinking, slowing down, formal practice, middle way, pain, identification.
Utterly Frustrating Teachings: Aruna Ratanagiri, (27 mins)
Restraint, remorse, happiness, benefit, nature, Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, Middle Way, investigation, dogma, samvara indriya, exuberance, sadness, bindweed, old man's beard, trust, beliefs, balance, awareness, sadness, containment, doubt, dynamo.
Awareness as Kindness: Aruna Ratanagiri (30min)
(keywords): Body, mind, attention, clarity, kindness, breath, restlessness, tiredness, thought, sensations, relaxation, wakefulness, spaciousness, vibrancy, posture, awareness
Teach Me What I Need To Learn: Aruna Ratanagiri, (38 mins)
Standards, values, compromise, workplace, Dhammapada verse 198, war, religion, politics, environment, empathy, views, wisdom, goodness, happiness, self-respect, clear seeing, compassion, integrity, stability, discernment, right-speech, right-action, right-livelihood, consistent, principles, samadhi, calm, strength, kamma, failure, investigation, complexity, wise reflection.
Broad Focus: Aruna Ratanagiri (29min)
keywords: Breath, body, thought, discomfort, patterns, change, directing, receiving.
Ajahn Chah, attention to detail, daily life, monastic training, precision, mindfulness, care, integrity, virtue, precepts, awareness, sangha, dispassion, sila, samadhi and pañña.
Building on Goodness: Aruna Ratanagiri, (30 mins.)
Generosity, kindness, cooperation, heartwood, essence, source code, wisdom, clinging, merit, Ajahn Chah, disagreements, arguments, blind people, elephant, parable, views, let go, change, Mahapajapti, dispassion, detachment, dispersal, modest, contentment, frugality, effort, solitude, alcohol, Dhammapada verse 290, Amaravati, dana, sila, bhavana, rules, all-blacks, rugby, orchestra, cooperation.
Mindfulness of Breathing: Aruna Ratanagiri, (28 min)
(keywords): breath, body, mind, change, energy, agitation, sleepiness, calm, attention, information, evaluation, balance, mindfulness, effort.
Change & Stillness: Aruna Ratanagiri (19 min)
(keywords): body, sensations, awareness, immediacy, change, stillness.
Meditation on Friendliness: Aruna Ratanagiri, (28 min)
(keywords): Wholesomeness, meditation, quality, welcoming, friendliness, breath, body, feeling, well-wishing, heart-space
Big-Hearted, Broad-Minded: Aruna Ratanagiri, (31 mins)
Message from Thailand, Ajahn Chah, rubbish, limitless, clinging, children, control, expand, education, suicide, discriminating, not-knowing, boredom, loneliness, middle-way, covertness, precepts, smart-phone, Refuge, symbols.
Being with Breathing: Aruna Ratanagiri (25 min)
(keywords): clearity of intention, thoughts and sensations, relationship to experience, finding the breath, evaluating and adjusting the breath.
Victory and Defeat: Aruna Ratanagiri, (35mins)
(keywords) Cricket, tug-of-war, yacht race, Dhammapada verse 201, war, wisdom, apparent reality, actuality, retreat, information, understanding, sugar molecule, approximation, honey, Socrates, lokavidu, saffron track suits, money, restraint, renunciation, pressure, psychotherapy, desire, tension, pressure, diamonds, transformation, what next, 4 noble truths.
The Buddha's Most Important Teaching: Aruna Ratanagiri, (50 mins)
(keywords) Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, 2 extremes, Middle Way, 8 Fold Path, 4 Noble Noble Truths, 3 stages of insight, symbol, tradition, faith, lineage, good fortune, chaos, order, investigation, pain, dhammavicaya, contemplation, meditation, getting lost, sanity, insanity, asceticism, let go, liking, disliking, 5 precepts, enthusiasm, Right View, taming, wildness, stillness, humility, horses, preparation, journey, gentle, formal meditation, aligning, softening, expanding, receiving, just so.
(keywords) Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, 2 extremes, Middle Way, 8 Fold Path, 4 Noble Noble Truths, 3 stages of insight, symbol, tradition, faith, lineage, good fortune, chaos, order, investigation, pain, dhammavicaya, contemplation, meditation, getting lost, sanity, insanity, asceticism, let go, liking, disliking, 5 precepts, enthusiasm, Right View, taming, wildness, stillness, humility, horses, preparation, journey, gentle, formal meditation, aligning, softening, expanding, receiving, just so.
(keywords) Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, 2 extremes, Middle Way, 8 Fold Path, 4 Noble Noble Truths, 3 stages of insight, symbol, tradition, faith, lineage, good fortune, chaos, order, investigation, pain, dhammavicaya, contemplation, meditation, getting lost, sanity, insanity, asceticism, let go, liking, disliking, 5 precepts, enthusiasm, Right View, taming, wildness, stillness, humility, horses, preparation, journey, gentle, formal meditation, aligning, softening, expanding, receiving, just so.
Little Letting Goes and Big Letting Goes: Aruna Ratanagiri, (32 mins)
(keywords) Asalha Puja, Turning the Wheel of Dhamma, benefiting, realization, avoidance, grasping, arahant, bodhisatta, consequences, instinct, precepts, interest, pain, message, accident, quantity/quality, retreat, skilful means, goal-oriented, money, source-oriented, trusting, floating, Sariputta, Right View.
Verses on Loving-kindness (English): Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery, Northumberland UK
Current of Goodness: Aruna Ratanagiri (20 mins.)
(keywords) Monastic Training, Anagarika, 8 precepts, renunciation, skilfulness, training, vinaya, lineage, laity, generosity, Ajahn Chah, parents, goodness, sacrifice, frustration, overwhelm, restraint, goal, energy, liberation, faith, poisons, simplification, Middle Way, liking, disliking, clinging, gratitude.
Contrasting Perspective: Aruna Ratanagiri (36 mins.)
(keywords) confidence, concepts, deepening, beliefs, challenges, Mahasaropama Sutta, goal, comfort, unconditioned, changeless, personality, realization, contrast, peace, retreat, agility, precepts, protection, chaos, depression, mindfulness, manipulation, rugby, wisdom.
Escaping this Agony of Egoity: Aruna Ratanagiri (40 mins.)
(keywords) relevance, beliefs, benefits, certainty, wars, upaya, dilemma, land purchase, frustration, intensity, cultivation, spiritual facilities, mindfulness and wise reflection, egoity, bhava, samsara, airport, perfume, secure abiding, daring, precepts, protection, humility, controlling, Thailand, stop meditating, deepening, tolerating uncertainty.
Natural Peace: Aruna Ratanagiri (25 min)
(keywords): listening, sounds, physical sensations, thoughts, actuality, presence, allowing, stillness in change
All Dhammas Converge on Feeling: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 min)
(keywords): narratives, self-image, actuality, sixfold sense-experience, Ajahn Chah, a refuge unto oneself, depending on others, citta, the heart, the One that Knows, natural intelligence, moral sensitivity, the place of faith, verifying the teachings, all dhammas converge on feeling, pleasant-unpleasant-neutral, greed-hatred-delusion, self indulgance, self recrimination and awareness as the Middle Way.
Remembering to Cultivate the Refuges: Cittaviveka Monastery, (40 mins),
(Keywords) Sanctuary, going for refuge, faith, inspiration, beliefs, gardening, intimidation, Mac or PC, study, right effort, making mistakes, striving, yielding, gentleness, commitment, soft powers, beginning again, forgiveness.
Breathing with the Whole Body: Aruna Ratanagiri (30 min)
keywords: Breathing meditation techniques from Chinese Chi Gung exercises
Tai Chi of the Mind: Aruna Ratanagiri (26 min)
(keywords): Chen Man Ch'ing, Tai Chi, invest in losing, learning from mistakes, do not resist, ego as tension, my way and maipulating experience, awareness, moving with experience, Tai Chi of the mind, effort & relaxation.
A Small Problem with the Gong: Aruna Ratanagiri, Veskha Puja (40 mins)
(Keywords) Forms, puja, circumambulation, gratitude, tradition, spirit, essence, compass, map, pointing, honouring, suffering is not an obligation, pain, sutta, greed, aversion, delusion, awareness, questioning, empty boat, responsibility, daring, indignation, junk food, Ajahn Chah, realization, dog droppings, blaming, projection, modesty, unplugging, addiction, deluded personality belief, Dhammapada verse 85, inspiration, Bhikkhuni Mahapajapati, earthworm practice.
The Advantages of Commitment: Aruna Ratanagiri, 26th April 2015 (33 mins)
Commitment, addithana, parami, ten foot holes, music, cerebral haemorrhage, staying power, passions, ‘my way’, ‘The Buddha’s Way’, disrobe, Jack Kornfield, relationships, resolve, feeling safe, tradition, relaxation, softening, deepening, faith, gentleness, spiritual warrior, pushing hands, assertive, yielding, simplification, Minimalist Bakers, clarity, Dhammapada verse 280, procrastination, good fortune, short-sightedness.
A Fresh Start: Aruna Ratanagiri (47 min)
(keywords) New Year Day, forgiveness, ritual, myths, symbols, letting go of the past, victim, ‘A Working Class Hero’, education, dreams, identity, energetic, perpetrator, becoming, peace, stillness, desire, electricity, ignorance, goodness, merit, feeling, ability, blame, loving, feeling threatened, pain, resistance, soft powers, goals, assertive, gentleness, humility, integrity, Ajahn Thate, Ajahn Chah, kindness.
Stop: Aruna Ratanagiri (29 mins)
(keywords) Dhammapada 85, beyond, superficiality, apparent reality, actuality, grief, anxiety, Dart Sutta, pain, Angulimala, Mahamangala Sutta, unshakable, intimidation, training, faith, confidence, trust, indignation, tweet, transformation, essence, unmade, undying, doing, not-doing, effort, questioning, patient endurance.
Honouring the Triple Gem: Aruna Ratanagiri, Magha Puja, (36 mins)
(apologies for the poor sound quality) (keywords) 1250 Awakened beings, respect, Ovada Patimokkha, 5 precepts, form, spirit, sanctuary, preparation/practice/realization, beauty, just so, dying, spontaneity, grief, patience, oak trees, frustration, wisdom, compassion, subtlety, impatience, gratitude.
Appreciating Beauty: Aruna Ratanagiri, (30 mins)
(keywords) Silence, intensity, nature, translation, indulgence, denial, Middle Way, sensuality, disturbed, WPN, Meeting Hall, design, drunk, architect, ostentatious, minimalism, outflows, wildness, food, fear, overwhelm, numb, judgment, camera, Sydney, sensitivity, wisdom, Ajahn Chah, leaky boat, laws, precepts, samadhi, discernment.
Sorting the Bullies: Aruna Ratanagiri, (30 mins)
(keywords) Desire, goal, craving, despair, bullies, 5 hindrances, humiliation, intimidation, threatened, overwhelm, mentoring, role models, remorse, ignorance, racial prejudice, LGBT, sexual orientation, understanding, sadness, meditation, politics, evangelicals, kilesa, restraint, renunciation, energy, intensity, aborigines, rituals, anthropology, adolescence, adults, youth, rejection, revenge, victims, compassion.
The Sensitivity of a Spiritual Warrior: Aruna Ratanagiri, (50 mins.)
(keywords) Anniversary, Ajahn Chah memorial, gratitude, boredom, infection, undivided attention, friendship, fear, loving-kindness, doubt, anxiety, Varapanyo, empathy, emulation, spiritual warrior, AA, forgiveness, agility, opinions, contentiousness, wounded, ideals, zeal, beetle nut, parents, theory, photograph, ants, medicine, NE Thailand, vinaya, discipline, navaka, training, patience, kamma, opening, monkey-mind, failure, mastery, servant, bowing, narcissism, gift.
Preference and Prejudice: Aruna Ratanagiri, Aruna Ratanagiri (26mins)
(keywords) Paris, Unity, extremism, nationality, religion, ethnicity, reprisal, France, aspirations, upaya, skilful means, Dhammapada verse 1&2, wealth, rugby, Kiwi bloke, sport, context, content, identity, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Sri Lanka, Burma, anatta, dogma, Ajahn Chah, conceit, love, Dhammapada verse 5, liking, disliking.
The Right Amount: Aruna Ratanagiri, (36 mins)
(keywords) Attainments, form, spirit, bargaining, Ajahn Chah, 4 Right Efforts, enlightenment, materialism, bowing, mirror, psychotherapy, obstructions, projections, hierarchy, innovation, youth, sapling, Dalai Lama, Maori, scriptures, photogenic, control, uncertainty, Refuge, Buddha consciousness, beauty, neurosis, transcendence, faculties, trust, intensity, gold, relax, contradiction.
Where the Power Lies: Aruna Ratanagiri (40 mins)
(keywords) New Year’s Eve, peacefulness, retaliation, views, victims, assumptions, Dhammapada verses 1&2, diet, exercise, coffee, fruit juice, twitter, 8-fold path, belief, dukkha, harmony, disillusionment, clinging, forgiveness, resentment, memory, arahant, desire, reading, gratitude, generosity, will-power, wound, surrender, trust, wisdom, compassion, materialism, judgements, energy, resolutions.
Keeping Effort Constant: Aruna Ratanagiri (30 mins)
(keywords) Inspiration, zeal, ardent, stories, house-builder, Dhammapada 153-4, craving, personality, stream-entry, desire, accusation, guilt, sin, precepts, Ajahn Chah, flying, Italy, crash, pressure, equanimity, just-so, just-knowing, brain damage, stroke, fun, happiness.
Balancing Inner and Outer Attention: Aruna Ratanagiri, (25 mins)
(keywords) Generosity, offerings, lake work, letting go, drongo, materialism, resentment, desire, environmental, wisdom, relationship, patience, humility, meditation, love, rejection, retreats, obligation, email, fear, blaming, terror, religion.
Universal Truths: Luang Por Munindo, Aruna Ratanagiri, (37 mins)
(keywords) Birth, ageing, illness, death, letting on, denial, change, Vietnamese coffins, ashes, Dhammapada 6, maranasati, Ernest Becker, Flight from Death, Denial of Death, anxiety, myths, terrorism, joy, pleasure, self, quietness, welcome, momentum, impermanence, tie-dye, conceit, peace.
Generosity and Selflessness: Aruna Ratanagiri (31 min)
(keywords) Kathina, Not-Self, Individualism, Community & Cooperation, Generosity, Morality, Precepts, Meditation; kathina talk at Harnham 19th October 2014
Having withou Having: Aruna Ratanagiri (30 min)
(keywords) Monastery, hi-tech, materialism, Ajahn Sumedho, frustration, effort, commitment, abbot, sacrifice, mindfulness, Ajahn Chah, affluence, self-awareness, samadhi, Devadatta, precepts, conceit, sorrow, grief, therapist, compassion, opinions, irritation, idealism, comparing, extrapolation, contentment, compulsiveness, communism, egalitarianism, TV, investigation, wisdom.
Happiness Guaranteed: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 mins)
(keywords) disappointment, elections, betrayal, affluence, dependence, gratification, Milgram, sensuality, adolescence, Mara, wanting, disillusioned, depression, samvega, compassion, patience, smell, Mahamangala Sutta, harmony, anger, fear, daring, tolerance, negativity, speech, smoking, conflict, confidence, gratitude, generosity, wisdom.
Sincerity: Aruna Ratanagiri, (24min)
(keywords) contemplation, roles, CEO, form, spirit, teachers, authenticity, games, Dalai Lama, commodification, materialism, techniques, sensationalism, religion, Ajahn Chah, intoxicants, danger, heartwood, liberation, mindfulness, renunciation, agility, daily-life.
Strictly Flexible: Aruna Ratanagiri (42 mins)
(keywords) Obstructions, dealing with distractions, anger, loving kindness, gratitude, techniques, deconstruction, damage limitation, agility, investigation, discriminative intelligence, guilt, frustration, sensationalism, Wat Pah Nanachat, eat/speak/sleep, yielding, relationship, dana, sila, bhavana, preserves, letting go, awareness, sati/pañña.
Broad Focus and Right Concentration: Aruna Ratanagiri (45min)
(keywords) jhana, samadhi, meditation, formal practice, mindfulness, clear comprehension, right concentration; Date: 17 August 2014
Formal and Daily-life Practice: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 mins)
(keywords) Resolve, retreat, commitment, retreat, peace, daily-life, mindful, desire, wise reflection, benefit, disappointment, wisdom, integrity, war, precepts, suffering, samadhi, 5 spiritual faculties, hurt, speech, money, fires of greed aversion delusion, fire sermon, holidays, escape, gadgets, fear, interest, Ajahn Chah, samadhi/vipassana, weeds, focus, investigate.
The Buddha's Teaching and Metaphysical Questions: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 min)
(keywords) The Infinite, limitations, dukkha, realization, self and not-self, conventional and ultimate reality, limitations of language, end of suffering, meaning, teachers, personality.
The Space Around Emotions: Aruna Ratanagiri (58 min)
(keywords) Vedana, feelings, emotions, awareness, second and third foundations of mindfulness.
Humility is Helpful: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 mins)
(keywords) Honesty, wrong-doing, humility, tradition, respect, forgiveness, obstructions, egoity, stories, anger, self, World War One, Israel, wisdom, energy, respect, liberation, Ajahn Mahabua, bowing, judging, power tool, role, limitations, inner work, making a difference, subtlety, gentle, daring, Dhammapada 85, politics, humility.
All-pervading Integrity: Aruna Ratanagiri (30 mins)
(keywords) Sila, precepts, foundation, happiness, good fortune, liberation, island, vulnerability, retreats, renunciation, teaching, cleansing, scriptures, lotus, Ajahn Chah, America, translation, morality, integrity, judgemental, beauty, harmony, trust, impeccability, confidence, psychotherapists, moralising, reflection, abattoir, deceit, Dhammapada 54, strength, effort, argument, self-promotion, meditation, restraint, samvara indriya, exuberance, willingness, ability, respect, decisiveness, hesitation, precision, doubt, indulgence, gift, harmlessness, safety, offering.
Practicing Below the Radar: Aruna Ratanagiri (30 mins)
(keywords) Carelessness, beliefs, distractions, electric shocks, goal, money, technology, right mindfulness, trying, lost, security, meditation, Mara, servant, attaching to progress, blind-spots, suffering, blame, kamma, traditional Buddhists, bigger picture, past lives, frustration, vector, transformation, energy, focus, reflection, right view, compost, loss, grief, preparation.
Reconsidering Concentration: Aruna Ratanagiri (24 mins)
(keywords) Childhood, scriptures, 8 Fold Path, mindfulness, exclusivity, attention, printing press, reading, conscious presence, steadiness, aging, dementia, anger, vortex, desire, anxiety, anticipation, distractions, potentization, controlling, conflicting, relationship, inclusive, wisdom, evil, good, transcendence.
Relaxation, Concentration, Transformation: Aruna Ratanagiri (35 mins)
(keywords) Meditation, greed, freedom, shopping, distortions of consciousness, clear seeing, relaxation, anxiety, worry, retreat, work, unemployment, concentration, bliss, vipassana, focus, relevance, beauty, art appreciation, potential, vulnerability, aversion, insight, let go, will, awareness, tranquillity, effort, attention, abiding as spaciousness, receptivity, obstructions, mindfulness of breathing, hindrance, no expectations, tolerating pressure, discernment, intentional thoughts, jhana, happiness, investigate wanting, body sweeping, uncreated reality, balance.
Suññata: Aruna Ratanagiri (25 min)
(keywords) Sunyata, tudong, awareness of the body, mindfulness
Simply Listen: Aruna Ratanagiri (29 mins)
(keywords) Crisis, helping, thinking, not-thinking, eloquence, meditation, Marshal McLuhan, opinions, strength, conceit, investigation, vegetarian, women, Nyanavira, scriptures, war, pressure, Prince Charles, silence, kindness.
The Right Amount: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 mins)
(keywords) Balance, food, shopping, speech, retreat, trust, Middle Way, eightfold path, effort, concentration, mindfulness, sati-pannya, awareness, actuality, snorkelling, Timor, dilemma, silence, insecurity, sleep, talking, precepts, friends, protection, study, self, practice, driving, cooking, pancakes, jhanas, relaxation, resolve, lifetimes, renunciation,
Resolve to Begin Again: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 mins)
(keywords) Patience, transformation, choice, out clause, anagarika precepts, homelessness, form and spirit, security, Awakening, stress, pressure, frustration, teachers, training, bowing, samsara, judo, willingness, humility, Ajahn Chah, criticism, Dhammapada 122, serving, death, control, faith, trust, verification, desire, ill will, delusion, enthusiasm, doubt, daring, new, protection, precepts, friends.
Forgiving Makes You Strong: Aruna Ratanagiri (30mins)
(keywords) New Year, forgiveness, ritual, Easter, resentment, idealising, theory, bhavana, guilt, formal practice, comparing, silent awareness, Christians, Hadrian’s Wall, crazy, ignorance, choice, memory, Ajahn Chah, noise, disciple, faith, restraint, blaming, losing temper, apologies, Schindler’s List, power, hurt, negative emotion, victim, contentment, complacency, dhammachanda, enthusiasm, wisdom.
Riding the Edge: Aruna Ratanagiri (33 mins)
(keywords) New Year, forgiveness, habits, growth, mindfulness, uncertainty, clinging, refreshed, form/spirit, temple, bowing, Ajahn Chah, Buddha image, science, death, faith, personality, immortality, 5 spiritual faculties, faith, daring, aliveness, precepts, integrity, spiritual companionship.
You Don’t Have to be a Spiritual Gymnast: Aruna Ratanagiri (34mins)
(keywords) Ajahn Chah, not-clinging, teachers, teachings, techniques, moth, right view, religion, intimidation, mindful, letting go, controlling, pitfalls, hammer, carpenter, jogging, cycling, Sir Chris Hoy, egalitarianism, humility, agility, sanity, bow, love, child, right holding.
The Question of Evil: Aruna Ratanagiri (39mins)
(keywords) Magha Puja, Ovada Patimokkha, evil, hatred, holocaust, Idi Amin, poison, Devadatta, restraint, redecorating, child development, saying ‘no’, relating, 5 precepts, saying ‘yes’, tie-dye robes, goodness, appreciation, purification, gratitude, humility, parents, sacrifice, inflation, teaching.
Not Seeing Two Things: Aruna Ratanagiri, 2nd Feb. 2014 (34 mins)
(keywords) Silence, freedom, children, work spiritual community, ancient city, liberation, intoxication, youth, health, distraction addiction, spiritual gluttony, wrong views, chemicals, renunciation, needing, lacking, Triple Gem, retreats, inquiry, information fast, books, relevant, hunger, conditions, unconditioned.
I am Not a Sinner: Aruna Ratanagiri (36 mins)
(keywords) Peacefulness, Buddhism, water, pure, clear, preacher, Ajahn Thate, space, bhavatanha, craving, hell, lotus, enlightenment, super saturation, precipitation, determination, success, grit, learning, pariyatti, patipatti, pativedhi, study, practice, realization, Krishnamurti, goal, scholars, mountain climbing, arguments, there-and-then, here-and-now, snorkelling, apophatic, kataphatic, affirming, God, language, enduring, faith, Israelites, desert, 40 years, resolve, effort, doing, not-doing, self/not-self, beyond.
Considering Priorities: (48mins)
(keywords) Christmas Day, doubts, thinking, certainty, guilty, death, materialism, poetry, managers, efficiency, human birth, 5 indriya, faith, trust, humility, energy, comfort, mindfulness, carefulness, contradiction, dilemma, insight, recollectedness, concentration, discontentment, discernment, wisdom.
Unshakable Ease: Aruna Ratanagiri (44 mins.)
(keywords) Amaravati, temple, transcendence, struggled, liberation, Middle way, Mahamangala Sutta, blessing, happiness, trust faith, surrender, detox, addiction, relationship, retreat, empathy, bliss, kalyanamitta, restraint, indulgence, Thai monasteries, integrity, anger, harmless, Ananda, remorse, healing, guilt, daring, desires, Ajahn Tate, arahant, karaniyametta sutta, imagination, concentration, zombies, Penang, expanding awareness.
Helping us do our Work: Aruna Ratanagiri (38mins.)
(keywords) Rules, form, spirit, renunciation, almsround, sadness, pleasure, grasping, eating, materialism, essence, buildings, architects, meditation, techniques, experts, fixed positions, change, apparent reality, actuality, mistakes, Meister Eckhart, CG Jung, enlightenment, shadow, Jewish story, God, goal, cookies, vulnerable, tool kit, mindfulness, wise reflection, trust, energy, focus, discernment, judgmental, nature, Ajahn Chah, geese, navigation, contentment, desire, cholesterol, migraine, euphoria, love, source, equanimity, patience, medical procedures, restaurant, war, politicians, boredom, organ recital, listening, dying, rage, Dylan Thomas, dying, Ampleforth abbot.
There are No Problems in Reality: Aruna Ratanagiri (31 mins)
(keywords) Precepts, refuges, anagarika training, pressure, energy, patience, humility, loving kindness, intensity, meditation junkies, daily-life practice, friends, old age, sickness, death, resistance, indulgence, avoidance, ignorance, greed, aversion, delusion, fire, problems, symbols, rupa, wisdom, compassion, honesty, doorway, rainbows, humiliation, stories, helping.
Kathina 2013: Aruna Ratanagiri (36 min)
(keywords) Kathina, Ratanagiri, celebration, ichi-go ichi-he, one occasion one encounter, preciousness, uniqueness, this moment, comparison, story, Japan, nara, deer park, shinto, nature, modern society, dana, sila, bhavana, morality;
This is Practice (2): Aruna Ratanagiri (37mins)
(keywords) Benefit, projection, organized religion, ritual, hierarchy, intimidation, liberation, middle way, views, HRH Prince Charles, environment, meat, vegetarian, Mahamangala Sutta, trust, belief, four Noble Truths, nibbana, unobstructed awareness, hope, spontaneous opening, just so, meditation, retreats, sati, liking/disliking, problems, relics, war, peace, weak, LP Sumedho, coffee, emptiness, body, carefulness, Bodhgaya.
Actions Have Consequences: Aruna Ratanagiri (30 mins)
(keywords) Parenting, kamma, spiritual education, motorbike, accident, hospital, heedlessness, pessimism, optimism, Refuges, Precepts, narcissism, views, hopelessness, awareness, indignation, politics, environment, naivety, strategic optimism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, humility, delusion, synergy, technology, intolerable, Aung San Suu Kyi, incarceration, metta, equanimity, transformation, eradication, slavery, judging, letting go, change, integration, disintegration, honesty, humility, daring.
Vast Field of Awareness: Aruna Ratanagiri ( 31mins)
(keywords) Blessings, sila, samadhi, punnya, Keats, unshakeable peace, wild flowers, foundations, cultivation, goodness, emptiness, transcendence, context, insight, karaniyametta sutta, humble, contented, food, tradition, meditation, relax, concentration, listening, crazy, suicide, trust, allowing, intuition, intensity, frustration, failure, energy, dilemma, wanting, taking sides, problem resolution.
Valuable Frustration: Aruna Ratanagiri (43 min)
(keywords) Balance, interest, kindness, self-respect, intensity, ageing, sickness, death, love, happiness, despair, intoxication, threatened, conceit, Viriya, overwhelm, preferences, asceticism, underwhelm, imperfection, Bahiya Sutta, comparing, contentment.
Going for the Summit: Aruna Ratanagiri (41 mins)
(keywords) Peace, goal, happiness, suffering, concept, meditation, ideas, scriptures, identity, experience, Ben Nevis, mountain climbing, Mt Everest, liberation, dana, sila, bhavana, mindfulness, selfishness, conceit, generosity, isolation, integrity, transformation, diamonds, wisdom, compassion, heat, pressure, container, self-respect, trust, friendship, lotus, aspiration, techniques, awareness, attention, intimidation, dazzled, assessment, tradition, not-meditating, kindness, sotapanna, right view, study, mistakes, Abhidhamma, psychology, sadness, tears, passions, Zen stories, letting go, ENDS ABRUPTLY ASW BATTERIES RAN OUT.
Mind What You Say: Aruna Ratanagiri (49 mins)
(keywords) Nationality, spiritual community, misunderstandings, identity, humour, Right Speech, Vipassi, high as a kite, asubha meditation, anapanasati, kamma, 3 types of action, 5 precepts, evil, 10 wholesome actions, lying, slander, abuse, gossip, impeccability, conduit, killing, confidence, calm, psychiatrists, casual behaviour, order, disorder, stress, sadness, transformation, goodness, relaxation, trust, honesty, timing, situation, wording, intention, restraint, distraction, peace, scriptures, confession, received in truth, contemplation, proliferation, letting go, silence, twitter, facebook, Ajahn Chah, listening, savaka.
Appointment with The Buddha: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 mins)
(keywords) Faith, well-being, self-respect, trust, confidence, Ajahn Chah, initial faith, verified faith, complete faith, awareness, sotapanna, The Buddha’s waiting room, boredom, doing, striving, growth, development, letting go, becoming, not-doing, 4 Right Efforts, insight, imagination, forest masters, appreciation, food, idealization, coffee, synthetic energy, desire, burning, agility, love, body surfing, techniques, honesty.
Spiritual Greed: Aruna Ratanagiri (42 mins)
(keywords) Ajahn Chah, fear, terror, restlessness, teachers, gratification, wanting, concepts, enthusiasm, innovation, education, wring views, discrimination, purification, fire, gold, humility, wisdom, passion, self, awareness, not-knowing, failure, success, patience.
Funeral Contemplation of Contentment: Newcastle (21 mins),
(keywords) Wisdom, relevance, beauty, joy, remorse, regret, Anando, integrity, contentment, kindness, mother, cherishing, Nalagiri, killing, transformation, love, Dhammapada verse 4, anger, contemplation, light, mindfulness, gratitude, hurt, shame, environment, generosity, rituals, offerings, selfishness, bhavana, questioning, helping, compassion, potential.
Entering the Monastery: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 mins)
(keywords) Dhammacakka Sutta, celebration, Four Noble Truths, practice, anagarika, commitment, faith, realization, water, questions, intention, lost, encouragement, self, roof tiles, work-monk, my way, the Buddha’s Way, suffering, contentment, Awakening, gratitude, renunciation, applied frustration, boredom, chanting, purity, language, surrender, bowing, conditioning, confidence, helpfulness, harmonious, concord, compassion, meditation, integrity, generosity, psychosis, serving the Triple Gem.
Awareness Itself: Aruna Ratanagiri (33 mins)
(keywords) Gratitude, focus, previous teachers, Whale Bay, Ajahn Thate, Mother, disappointment, blackberries, funerals, grandchildren, space, expanded awareness, harmony, rebirth, science, beliefs, non-dual, war, denial, functional frustration, don’t know, preferences, reactions, enemy, pain, edgeless, limitless, fear, bowing, dedication.
Finding Happiness: Aruna Ratanagiri (45 mins.)
(keywords) Unshakable happiness, beliefs, ignorance, investigation, friends, conventional happiness, peace, goal, clinging, smile, ease, mindfulness, education, butterflies, beauty, habits, nightmare, egoist, personality, doubt, love, death, questioning, apparent reality, movies, hunger, goodness, contentment, leper, gratification, formal practice, daily-life practice, household life, preference, pursuit of happiness, pleasure, pain, views, opinions, other, religions, confidence, understanding, liking, disliking,
Looking into Rainbows: Aruna Ratanagiri (44 mins)
(keywords) Enlightenment, gratitude, effort, enthusiasm, zeal, commitment, concentration, determination, jhanas, contentment, asceticism, EDL, kindness, ease, gentleness, anger, patience, assertive, modesty, floating upstream, self, sadness, gladness, rainbow, mirage, CJD, judgement, arrogance, control, Dalai Lama, intelligence, respect.
Buddhists Making a Difference: Aruna Ratanagiri (41 mins)
(keywords) Injustice, poverty, politics, revolution, Right View, education, intuition, kindness, gentleness, restraint, optimism, 24 hours news, wars, skills, Refuge, insights, integration, theory, thinking, victims, awareness, reflections, impermanence, attention, concentration, focus, will power, fundamentalists, mindfulness, bigger picture, daily-life, body, harmony, relationships, naivety, intimidation, doubt, agility.
Inspecting Assumptions: Aruna Ratanagiri ( 30 mins.)
(keywords) Shock, goodness, naivety, balance, children, death, pain, awareness, training, wood chopping, Roman Catholics, funerals, Morinaga Roshi, slowing, desire, careful, precepts, intention, Ajahn Chah, self, hurt, intolerable, effort, Dhammapada 11-12, letting, rights, enthusiasm, interest, pressure, frustration, well-being, indignation, kindness, gentleness, patience.
What is the Real Practice: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 mins)
(keywords) Gathering, Thera, Elders, meetings, views, equanimity, concord, skill, idealism, beliefs, relationships, sitting, consensus, pain, investigate, publications, email, blogs, print-on-demand, Ajahn Chah, experience, chickens, soldiers, passions, intensity, monastic culture, retreats, spiritual faculties, judging, teachers, work, Myokyo-Ni, daily-life, empathy, intuition, hurt, disappointment, balance, four noble truths.
The Craft of Contemplation: Aruna Ratanagiri (30 mins)
(keywords) Marshal McLuhan, fundamentalism, questioning, investigating, concentration, toolkit, samadhi, train, belief, goal, a feeling-enquiry, sati, awareness, mindfulness, wilfulness, 7 factors of enlightenment, equanimity, body, interest, reflective awareness, in the dead of the night, death, fear, ghosts, inner dialogue, non-fear, 32 parts, frustration, enemy, disappointment, energy.
Renunciation and the Beautiful: Aruna Ratanagiri (26 mins.)
(keywords) Insult, renunciation, samanera, TV, ordination, pabbajja, commitment, society, suffering, credit card, happy, becoming, slowing, virtue, clinging, eating, music, distraction, no, yes, fooled, desire, ill-will, grasping, parami, heedlessness, love, training, beauty, intensity, hurt, suttas, theory, CS Lewis, sanity, generosity, Thailand, radiance, ignorance, habits, light.
Healthy Doubt: Aruna Ratanagiri (36mins.)
(keywords) Doing dishes, Ajahn Chah, control, spiritual life, sitting, daily-life, trust, awareness, discernment, goal, liberation, frustration, techniques, struggle, striving, problems, effort, internet shopping, enemy, desire, interest, gratification, refuge, certainty, decisions, apparent reality, disbelief, ill-will, anger, overwhelm, sleepiness, intuition, anxiety, worry, transformation, precepts.
Measuring Practice: Aruna Ratanagiri (42 mins)
(keywords) 1250 arahants, Ovada Patimokkha, beliefs, freedom, distraction, goal, samsara, satisfaction, contentment, rituals, symbols, traditions, rational faculties, bowing, wisdom, compassion, respect, unwholesome, goodness, purification, wound, precepts, responsibility, merit, letting go, conceit, vipassana, defiled insight, barometre, nun, Bhikkhuni Mahapajapati, dispassion, detachment, dispersal modesty, contentment, frugality, effort, solitude, anger, guilt, perspective, willingness/ability, ideals, itch, infection, smoking, inhibiting, restraint, resolutions, desire/fear, failure, memory, facebook, Chithurst, cittaviveka, parties, freedom.
Contemplation on Gratitude: Aruna Ratanagiri (29mins)
(keywords) Parents, Ajahn Chah, virtue, selfishness, inherent goodness, self, loving-kindness, kick-starting, cranking, generosity, pure consciousness, honey, Thailand, religion, punnya, beauty, walking stick, ingratitude, manners, tradition, rules, mindfulness, wise refelction.
Benefits of Practice: Aruna Ratanagiri (41 mins)
(keywords) Stress, wanting, dhamma talks, diligence, letting go, goal, faith, realization, inspiration, chaos, changelessness, habits, contentment, anger, pain, refuge, mindfulness, doubt, willing-endurance, enlightenment, fear of uncertainty, energy, hurt, Chithurst, progress, tree planting, Ajahn Sucitto, Dhammapada 122/121, goodness, evil.
Apparent Reality and Actuality: Aruna Ratanagiri (33 mins)
(keywords) Dhammapada verse 79, delight, bliss, happiness, enlightened, chaos, disharmony, confusion, feelings, techniques, tranquillity, questions, investigation, assumptions, interest, energy, awareness, downloading, dhammavicaya, retreat, Ajahn Mun, fear, liking, disliking.
Welcoming Awareness: Aruna Ratanagiri (37mins)
(keywords) Skilfulness, heedlessness, awakening, shock, samadhi, conceit, despair, complaining, meditation, gladness, insight, grasping, retreats, ideals, anatta, self, Ajahn Chah, non-self, vipassana, discontentment, sotapanna, ill-will, mindfulness, personality, judgement.
Don't turn away from your Suffering: Aruna Ratanagiri (36 mins)
(keywords) Dhammapada verse 354, craving, belief, grasping, attachments, affection, fondness, relationship, children, love, suffering, resisting reality, mindfulness, stress, appreciation of beauty, sensation, attention, retreat, change, quietness, letting go, ice-cream, frustration, addictions, energy, distractions, alcohol, comfort-eating, opinions, 4 Noble Truths, inspiration, feeling-awareness.
Staying on Track: Aruna Ratanagiri (34 mins)
(keywords) Environment, improvement, intelligence, extrapolation, identification, past, future, now, history, thinking, anticipation, anxiety, body awareness, wanting, desire, words, ritual, Buddha image, parents, teachers, shrine, Bamiyan Buddhas, Christianity, bowing, faith, goal.
Tuning Attention: Aruna Ratanagiri (37 mins)
(keywords) Dhammapada verse 36, ease, protection, contentment, confusion, past, control, precepts, proliferation, concentration, ego, effort, fear, driving, music, tuning, just-right, technique, trust, safety, judging, awareness.
Balance Within Intensity: Aruna Ratanagiri (37 mins)
(keywords) Effort, Middle Way, extreme, intensity, fasting, mediocrity, viriya, insight, Ajahn Chah, cemetery, ghosts, limitations, terror, solitude, Ajahn Sumedho, pressure, leadership, criticism, sadness, training, right-effort, idealism, naivety, eating, eight-precepts, renunciation, listening, talking, diets, macrobiotic, vegetarianism, awareness, meditation, techniques, perfectionism, Metta Sutta, fear, goal, striving, yielding, identity.
Conducive Companionship: Aruna Ratanagiri (30 min)
(keywords): Dhammapada verse 78, beliefs, rituals, insight, radiance, potential, questions, animals, vulnerability, spiritual resource, teachers, acknowledging faults, conceit, friendship, delusion, respect, appreciation, Mahamangala Sutta, death, devotion, puja, humility, equality, wisdom, virtue, obstructions, compassion, self, worthy, yoga, bowing, offerings, goal.
Contemplation or Proliferation: Aruna Ratanagiri (34 mins),
(keywords) Dhammapada verse 82, wisdom, pain, attachments, habits, distraction, reading, retreats, boredom, anticipation, rationality, Bodhidharma, grief, me and mine, possessions, toys, body, mind, views, opinions, anxiety, here and now, whole body-mind, judgement-free awareness, praise and blame, disappointment, stories, receptivity.
The Small Moments Matter (17mins)
(keywords) Joy, regulations, details, anger, dishonesty, attention, gratitude, parents, difficulties, Mother, caring, remorse, sila, Dad, smile, rules, fire, enlightenment, anticipation, identity.
Preferences: Aruna Ratanagiri (31 mins)
(keywords) Lliking, disliking, identity, moods, Ajahn Chah, Middle Way, suffering, preparation, recovery, contemplation, chanting, opinions, Normans, Saxons, abbot, monks, training, food, addiction, death, sickness, hierarchy, Cobra, Quaker, tape recording, forest, poison, Dhammapada 302, renunciation, householder, self-pity, mindfulness.
Flawed Assumptions: Aruna Ratanagiri (34 mins)
(keywords) Aung San Suu Kyi, freedom, appreciation, economy, health, Ajahn Chah, Buddhism, monasteries, discernment, mindfulness, education, death, uncertainty, friends, relationships, habits, non-abiding, identity, desire, blame, good fortune, peace.
Contemplation on Equanimity: Aruna Ratanagiri (43 min)
(keywords): Ajahn Chah, flower, vipassana, death, virtue, parami, transformation, contentment, wisdom, treat-junkies, happiness, joy, sadness, upekkha, serenity, depression, teachers, middle way, Four Noble Truths, Queen Elizabeth, projection, musicians, monarchy, drugs, ego, Aung San Suu Kyi, Four Divine Abidings, empathy, failure, renunciation, victims, indifference, kamma, 8 worldly Dhammas, griefless, dustless, secure, blessings.
Relationships, Integrity, Discernment: Aruna Ratanagiri ( 70 mins)
(keywords) Celebration, spiritual community, Ajahn Jayasaro, potential, enlightenment, liberation, insight, dana, Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Mun, visuddhimagga, offerings, generosity, form, spirit, Taliban, self, joy, sila, precepts, intention, aggression, infidelity, impeccability, integrity, bhavana, meditation, technique, wisdom, kamma, rebirth, fundamentalists, doubt, empathy, right view, suffering, anger, psychotherapy, trust, ideals, death, energy.
A Heart Rightly Directed: Aruna Ratanagiri (34 min)
(keywords) Dhammapada verse 43, dogma, benefit, questions, Mahamangala Sutta, environment, relationships, ideals, health, beauty, old age, change, loss, feelings, contemplation, responsibility, power, authority, belief, discontentment, desire, compassion, 4 Noble Truths, clinging, belief, distraction, one-pointedness, precepts, boundaries, rituals, symbols, chaos, crisis, goodness.
Self Reliance as the Goal: Aruna Ratanagiri (22 min)
(keywords): Dhammapada verse 160, personality, ego, refuge, praise, affection, security, rainbow, winning, losing, meditation, doubt, awareness, confidence, skilfulness, 84,000 dhammas, here-and-now, whole body-mind, judgement-free, stories, past, future, memories, fantasies, breathing, sadness, gratitude, obstructions, mistakes, eating, drugs, faith.
Letting Go of Stuff: Aruna Ratanagiri (33 min)
(Keywords): Dhammapada verse 14, safety, training, letting go, skilful means, mindfulness, simplicity, money, precepts, active engagement, contemplation, restraint, becoming, impassioned, indulgence, shopping, desire, ill-will, investigation, fear, loneliness, passive engagement, radical receptivity, no judgement, no view, no position, patient endurance.
Choosing Contentment: Aruna Ratanagiri (25 min)
(keywords) Guardian newspaper, happiness, mindfulness, ego, consumerism, choice, investigation, gratification, Christmas, wanting, grumpiness, stories, signs, Mayan calendar, annica, dukkha, anatta, death, attention.
Reflecting on Reflecting: Aruna Ratanagiri (45mins)
(keywords) Gratitude, despair, progress, samadhi, thinking, discernment, investigation, peace, wilfulness, loneliness, tranquillity, politics, habits, family, choice, death, worry, desire, compassion, advertising, communication, conscience, sadness, warmth.
Renunciation Is Not an Obligation: Aruna Ratanagiri (27 mins.)
(keywords) Renunciation, Ajahn Chah, Sangha, progress, loss, advantage, privilege, contentment, self-seeking, anger, victims, sadness, training, masochism, death, funerals, Tangi, carpentry, teachers, welcoming, driving, passion, energy, ego, delusion, privacy, one.
The Art of Meditation: Aruna Ratanagiri (37mins)
(keywords) Benefits, dangers, giving up, disappointment, technique, myths, rituals, wilfulness, death, music, creativity, ego, mindfulness, concentration, obstructions, retreat, walking meditation, ease, peace, question, awareness, stillness, inquiry, befriending the mind, fear, Ajahn Mun, Master Tsu Yun, Ramana Mahashi, cremation, delusion, respect, original mind, Buddha images, inspiration, wisdom, compassion, concepts, precepts, forms, counselling, grief, body, smoking, spirit.
Unflappability: Aruna Ratanagiri (30 mins)
(keywords) Equanimity, upekkha, Ajahn Thate, revolution, leukaemia, enthusiasm, vitality, imperturbable, Ajahn Chah, awareness, attention, regret, worry, intensity, chaos, insight, one-pointedness, tranquillity, numbness, samsara, mess, focus, interest, understanding, letting go, don’t-know, dying, kamma, 4 Divine Abidings, compassion fatigue, virtue.
Distraction Addiction: Aruna Ratanagiri (30 mins)
(keywords) Sacca parami, truthfulness, content, context, identity, awareness, judgement-free, honesty, idealism, hurt, boredom, surrender, failure, anticipation, retreats, relationships, formal practice, distraction addiction, meditation, virtue, energy, investigation, intensity.
When to Intensify: Aruna Ratanagiri (34 mins)
(keywords) Tai chi, vegetarianism, nvc, concentration, greed, hatred, delusion, Ajahn Chah, falling apart, macrobiotics, kalyanamitta, awakening, protection, vulnerability, judging, discerning, awareness, investigation, dialogue, early life, mindfulness, anger, depression, functional denial, suicide, integration, retreat, festivals, intensity, balance.
Between Like and Dislike: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 mins)
(keywords) Facebook, fixed views, popularity, self-promotion, causes of suffering, dhammacakka sutta, opinions, preferences, dhammapada verse 213, affection, endearment, senses, attachments, pleasure, pain, training, middle way, mindfulness, boredom, 60 years old, content/context, peace, victims,
Being the Context of Experience (37 mins)
(keywords) Pañña, wisdom, patience, endurance, habits, resources, attachments, scriptures, teachers, Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Tate, beliefs, discernment, intelligence, exercising wisdom, suffering, identity, awe, joy, delight, indignation, content/context, views, tradition, kilesa, chanting, Buddha, arahant, defilements, wise relationship, hunger, right amount, balance, perspective, integration, disintegration, insight, doubt, purification, suicide, depression, vulnerable, contemplation.
Attached to Non-attachment (21mins)
(keywords) Boredom, resentment, anger, energy, honesty, principles, chaos, education, ideals, politics, peace, change, grasping, disappointment, going forth, almsround, Bangkok, monasteries, monks, problems, barometre for practice, loss, agility, mindfulness/concentration.
Hope in the midst of hopelessness: Aruna Ratanagiri (20 mins)
(keywords) Patience, endurance, habits, virtue, transformation, austerity, practice, depression, disillusionment, kindness, principle, application, unendurable, experience, relevance, hopelessness, hope.
Finding My Precious Question: Aruna Ratanagiri (27 mins)
(keywords) Questions, priorities, values, compromise, encouragement, Buddha image, beauty, projection, answers, retreats, information, problems, experts, Sariputta, suffering, deepening, resolution, letting go, wheel, bodhi tree, symbols, Afghanistan, Dhammavicaya, meditation tools, bliss, agony, Ajahn Mun, Ajahn Fun, mindful, loving kindness, integration, organic, ill-will, anger, frustration, positivity, reality, containment, investigation, relaxation, contentment, boredom, old age, understanding, irritation, jhanas, loneliness, reality.
Four Noble Truths: Aruna Ratanagiri (44 mins.)
(keywords) Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta, insight, enlightenment, vow, sharing, freedom, despair, denial, ignorance, samana, Luang Dta Mahabua, compassion, helping, good fortune, Christianity, halo effect, Tibetan teachings, gratitude, abandonment, friends, commitment, renunciation, habits, suffering, Ajahn Chah, dukkha, nirodha sacca, meditation, fun, faith, intimidation, power, concentration, choice, blessing, interest, loss, rejection, greed, aversion, delusion, obesity, strength, Buddha, animals, eightfold path, right view, kamma, rebirth, hell, believing, disbelieving, atheist, trust, humility, wealth, monks, nuns, money, householder, kilesa, benefit.
Perfectly Frustrating Practice: Aruna Ratanagiri (43 mins)
(keywords) Viriya, energy, sustainable, ideals, compromise, questioning, training, attention, imitation, power, authority, refuge, scriptures, meditation techniques, intensity, retreat, silence, frustration, sickness, dying, restraint, Jim Morrison, precision, intoxication, possessed, music, meditation, becoming, respect, passion, patience, interest, problems, faith, trust, confidence, self, anger, food, sadness, becoming, honesty, disenchantment, Buddhism, apparent reality, ambiguity, loving-kindness, rigidity, imbalance, wellbeing, agility, multidimensional practice, integration, Christianity, gratitude, discrimination, unitive faculty.
The Agility Factor (32 mins)
(keywords) Metta, loving-kindness, resentment, fear, depression, ill-will, negativity, sleeping well, benefits, psychic force-field, transformative force, Nalagiri, indignation, rage, psychic immune system, aspiration for liberation, meditation in the body, ease, mother and child, selflessness, agility, argument, empathy, forgiveness, ideals, principles, dignity, 5 precepts, after retreat, compulsive meditation, relationships, emotions, blaming, judgement-free awareness, critical intelligence, unitive intelligence, guilt, grief, suicide, loving wishing.
Vow Power: Aruna Ratanagiri (33mins)
(keywords) Additthana parami, determination, vows, resolution, dana, Sila, nekhamma, virtue, self-referencing, ego, right-relationship, offering, friends, energy, ritual, self-respect, impeccability, basic goodness, effort, fear, intention, virtual reality, integration, wild passion, anger, suicide, renunciation, intensity, eating, sleeping talking, heart energy, transformation, diamonds, containment, trust, precepts, Patimokkha, modesty, dedication, cultivation, punnya, merit, prayer.
20 Years as Abbot at Harnham: Aruna Ratanagiri (43 min)
(keywords) Servant, master, view, leader, building project, community, hippies, military, creativie engagement, experts, compulsive, stillness, design, discipline, dilemma, mindfulness, chanting, forgiveness, psychological obstruction, Jungian analysis, psychotherapy, dukkha, extremes, lawyers, doubt, uncertainty, panic attack, authority, not-knowing, timing, trust, diversity/conformity, embodied mindfulness, split-off, defilements, rage, desire, indignation, lying, learning from everything, difficulties, blogosphere, criticism, earthquake, conflicts, resolution, crisis.
Integrity, The Ground: Aruna Ratanagiri (29 mins)
(keywords) Progress, regress, inspiration, precepts, back-sliding, compromising integrity, protection, foundation, happiness, goodness, nourishing, aspiration, liberation, uplifting, lying, stealing, killing, hurt, intention, security system, wild passions, self-trust, self-respect, transformation, purification, diamonds, remorse, child-rearing, skilful means, meditation retreats, sitting, everyday mindfulness.
Being the Source of Goodness: Aruna Ratanagiri (27 mins)
(keywords) Ten paramita, dana, generosity, sila, bhavana, integrity, meditation, precepts, selfishness, greed, happiness, wisdom, suffering, peace, gratitude, computer, affluence, good fortune, lacking, radiance, mother, wealth, desire, children, loving, shaming, education, grasping, loss, dying, caring, self, ego, limited being, argument, mindful reflection, volunteering, metta bhavana, dedicating merit, sickness, gym, working out, individuality, dependency,
Vectors of Transformation: Aruna Ratanagiri (53mins)
(keywords) Building virtues, paramita, non-abiding, forces of goodness, love, hate, ideals, tradition, ten parami, obstructions, problems, dana, generosity, Ajahn Sumedho, training, motivation, sila, integrity, morality, swearing, precepts, frame of reference, lying, intention, responsibility, right action, right thought, scientific model, boundaries, refuge, nekhamma, renunciation, music, dancing, addhitana, resolve, determination, complacent, comfort, convenience, tudong, death, happiness, vitality, exercise, NHS, punnya, wisdom, discernment, sickness, kamma, truth-discerning awareness, compulsive judging, Viriya, energy, betrayal, bitterness, mindfulness, khanti, patient endurance, flying, sacca, honesty, metta, loving-kindness, upekkha, equanimity, guilty, helping, right view, self, insight, relinquishment, perception, non-abiding.
Balancing Acceptance and Action: Aruna Ratanagiri (45 mins)
(keywords) Correspondence, family, contemplation, relevance, daily-life practice, introspection, Dhammapada verse 160, attachment, security, safety, freedom, happiness, equanimity, bhikkhuni, ordination, nun, resolution, King Pasenadi, Visakha, Upali, kumarakassapa, mother, going forth, ego, meditation, crying, arahant, cruelty, practice, fondness, goal, clear seeing, letting go, building, clinging, pain, endurance, relaxation, investigation, preparation, death, aspiration, forgiveness, zeal, misunderstanding, samsara, lazy, building accident, miracle, fighting, abdication, contentment, striving, right view, obstructions, Ajahn Sumedho, wisdom, resignation, hurt, restlessness.
The Spirit of Community: Aruna Ratanagiri (33 min)
(keywords) Christmas, family, rugby. Orchestra, selflessness, Aung San Suu Kyi, virtual community, shared aspiration, goal, selflessness, offerings, generosity, right relationship, dana, empathy, compassion, communication, gifts, offering, rituals, purity, pride, conflict, honey, power of giving, meditation, concentration, vanity, volunteering, anger, forgiveness, emptiness, shrine, chi gung,
Motivation, bowing.
Self, Not Self and Beyond: Aruna Ratanagiri (45 mins)
(keywords) Dhammapada verse 90, habits, distress, freedom, tension, stress, bondage, inspiration, journey, self, heretic, atta, anatta, passion, Ajahn Maha Amon, training, praise, insult, mindfulness, sense-restraint, Ajahn Chah, samadhi, vipassana, not-self, spiritual bypassing, theory, practice, liberation, confidence, ideas, clinging, peace, stillness, riding a bike, competence, stages of practice, confusion, wanting, unwholesome, jhana, doubt, obstructions, insight, ideals, goal, preparation, vows, resolution, retreat, dangers, drugs, unlived life, pain, emotions, kindness, friendship, travelling, scriptures, psychotherapy, discernment, ego, 4 essential practices, mindfulness of breathing, metta, mindfulness of death, dedication of punya, commitment, loving-kindness, judging, criticism, discriminative intelligence, unitive intelligence, denial, sports industry, fashion, distraction, ignorance, family, happiness, conceit, inflation, joy, blessings.
The Theory and the Practice: Aruna Ratanagiri (30mins)
(keywords) Talk about practice, language, pariyatti, pattipatti, surrender, energy, confidence, intimidation, certainty, interest in reality, disappointment, doubt, views, argument, right view, Ajahn Chah, shared enquiry, learning from others, awareness, dhamma, vinaya, preferences, stress, becoming, food, stages, guru.
How to Love Without Suffering: Aruna Ratanagiri (30 mins)
(keywords) Love, friends, family, pets, non-attachment, Dhammapada 211, pain, loss, death, grief, wisdom, victims, letting go, previous lives, trust, sadness, Aung San Suu Kyi, resolution, prison, sensitivity, open-heartedness, formal practice, becoming, meditation, choice, heart radiance, taking sides, anger, TV, preference, freedom.
Doing What Needs To Be Done Without Hesitation: Aruna Ratanagiri (35 mins)
(keywords) Dhammapada verse 280, procrastination, tardiness, irresolution, indulging in sleep, habits, patience, forgiveness, benefitting others, greed, addictions, kindliness, compulsion, aversion, rage, boredom, hatred, admiring others, Auschwitz, beauty, meditation, love, delusion, self-judgement, bowing, monks disrobing, friendship, enlightenment.
Inherent Adequacy: Aruna Ratanagiri (37 mins.)
(keywords) Liking and disliking, dhamma-mind/worldly-mind, wisdom, movies, spiritual education, mindful ageing, old age, disintegration, Alzheimer’s, dementia, contentment/discontentment, complaining, arrogance, knees, Ajahn Chah, doctors, judging, patience, meditation, mindfulness, therapy, gratitude, jhana, nivaranas, tolerance, loving-kindness, unlived life, early-life pain, vulnerable, celibate renunciate life, children, preferences, compassion, sensitivity, beauty.
Finding Reliable Supprt Within: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 miuntes)
(keywords) Dhammapada verse 199, Happiness, greed, hope, inner journey, four foundations of mindfulness, 4 divine abides, brahma viharas, intimidation, christianity, nazis, investigating reality, bliss, spiritual energy, letting go of ideas of the goal, vision of the way, tediousness, anger, restraint, death, passions, saying no, saying yes, indulgence, gratitude, contemplation, lacking, love, happiness.
Radiant Disbelief: Aruna Ratanagiri (39 mins)
(keywords) Dhammapada verse 24, heedfulness, radiance, Ajahn Thate, softness, strength, abuse, restraint, contemplation, clinging, fundamentalism, energy, beliefs, views, freedom, meditation, uncertainty, worry, desire, ill will, fantasies, proliferation, compulsive, obsession, Ajahn Chah, Noble Ones, doubt, argument, men, fighting, losing, gradual, steady, electronic age, frantic, computers, demanding.
Reality, Creativity and Conventions: Aruna Ratanagiri (45 mins)
(keywords) Old age, wisdom, novels, tradition, creativity, sonnet, poetry, rules, relaxation, bowing, chocolate, questions, preferences, puja, power, nuns, change, shrine, translations, hiriottapa, mindfulness, investigation, forms, beauty, Vakkali, methods, sitting, technique, restlessness, fear, doubt, confidence, threatened, anger, reality, desire, interest, letting go,
I Just Don't Know: Aruna Ratanagiri (28 mins)
(keywords) Attention, retirement, insecurity, clinging, inherent security, mindfulness, fear, anxiety, aversion, habits, just knowing, agility, intuition, preparation, dana, gratitude, retreat, right time, anger, perception, creativity, kindness, uncertainty, betrayal, denial, dilemma, precepts, deep meditation, terror, death, mystery, truth, weddings, funerals, self-interest, loss, wisdom.
We Are the Authors of our Story: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 mins)
(keywords) Dhammapada verse 2, inspiration, retreat, experiments, focus, faith, patience, contentment, happiness, ability, Dhammapada verse 1, honesty, spiritual culture, indignation, anger, benfit, blaming, skilful means, agility, Daedalus and Icarus, craftsperson, labyrinth, unhappiness, creativity, prapunca, proliferation, sensationalism, change, discernment, craziness, investigation, relaxation, concentration, Dhammavicaya, kindness, boredom, false religion.
Walk the Way of Increase: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 mins)
(keywords) Dhammapada verse 282, translation, transformation, consciousness, mundane, insight, supermundane, enlightenment, understanding, meditation techniques, vipasanna, confidence, health, sacrifice, Rahula, wise reflection, stream-entry, regret, evangelism, Billy Graham, sklful means, anger, greed, death, lust, joy, appreciation, delight, goodness, generosity, wisdom, prison, insecurity, precepts, mindfulness, distraction, views, conceit, clinging, contemplation, Elders Council, deepening.
Three Primary Skills for Spiritual Life: Aruna Ratanagiri (35 mins)
(keywords) Self-judgement, compulsion, love, disciminating, identity, responsibility, resistance, true identity, consequences, attachments, benefit, clinging, inspiration, pain, bliss, dukkha, judgement-free awareness, here-and-now, whole body-mind, understanding, greed, aversion, delusion, poison, body awareness, personal history, past, future.
Restraint, Reflection, Realisation: Aruna Ratanagiri (44 mins)
(keywords) Dhammapada verse 369, liberation, passions, victim, cultivation, dullness,greed, aversion, body, patience, ritual, contentment, bowing, embodied awareness, diet, vegetarianism, speech, gratitude, generosity, humility, help, recitation, chanting, discipline, mind, misunderstanding, feedback, restraint, conceit, identity, meditation object, effort, wise reflection, argument, stress, men and women, Ajahn Chah, tolerance.
Making Room for Reality: Aruna Ratanagiri (36 min)
(keywords) Teachers, loss, old age, four noble truths, disappointment, beauty, bowing, fear, equality, virtue, goodness, love, admiration, prefernces, Ajahn Sumedho, desire, responsibility, obligation, honouring, mistakes, hatred, judgements, identity, awareness, clinging, suffering, Buddha, argument, attachment, pain, stubborn, avijja, desire, equanimity.
Distingushing a Wayfarer: Aruna Ratanagiri (48 mins)
(keywords) Dhammapada verse 142, celebration, greif, sadness, solace, help, grasping, realisation, loss, peace, thoughts, problems, awakened, desire, illwill, fear, knowing, purity, radiance, pollutions, resistance, fire, suffering, honesty, food, facebook, internet, energy, distraction, containment, leaving retreat, 5 hindrances, jhanas, harmless, forgiveness, resentment, blameless, education, agression, giving, dana, depression, selfishness, happiness.
Whatever Helps: Aruna Ratanagiri (23 mins)
(keywords) Silent practice, goal, distractions, disorientations, sadness, investigation, relationships, death, study, right thought, Bhikhuni Mahapajapati, effort, coffee, mindfulness, questions, doubt, attachments, agility, modesty, contentment, humility.
Why We Value Wisdom: Aruna Ratanagiri (31 mins)
(keywords) Ajahn Liam, wisdom, Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Thate, prayer, England, good fortune, problems, Ajahn Sumedho, old age, trust, samana, renunciate, conventional/supermudane wisdom, tsunami, kamma, right view, mudita, shock, Ajahn Amaro, resistance, loss, sadness, Sariputta, Mogghalana, sorry, grief, despair, nyanadassanam, transendent wisdom, lokiya, lokutara, impermanance, uncertainty, change, beyond belief, loving-kindness, compassion, meditation, realisation, food, threatened, understanding.
Gratitude Inventory: Aruna Ratanagiri (30 min)
(keywords) Recollecting Ajahn Chah, patimokkha, purification, heat, pressure, old pain, letting go, depression, retreat, conscious gratitude, good fortune, poor me, honouring blessings, parents, thinking, sense balance, spiritual teachers, renunciation, enlightenment, offering help, sacrifice, too much too soon, distraction, fundamentalism, anticipation, suffering, threatened, anxiety, trust, fear of loss, storehouse of gladness, disasters, turning it around.
Marking a Death Anniversary: Aruna Ratanagiri (18 min)
(keywords) Denying death, Ajahn Chah's anniversary, positive attitude, fear, pain, not getting lost, regularity, precepts, predictability, uncertainty, chaos, form, truths, 3 Refuges, symbols, order/chaos, dependability, aging, insecurity, security, religion, youth, intelligence, money, wealth, health, sacrifice health for Dhamma, beauty, 4 intoxicants.
Faith Develops Wisdom: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min)
(Keywords) faith, wisdom, saddha, pannya
Why Respect: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 min)
(keywords) Children, disillusionment, beauty, respect, appreciation, psychotherapy, old age, Luang Por Chah.
Beckoning Silence: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min)
(keywords) Birthday cards, friendship, community, companionship, monastic life, boredom, T.V., sociability, solitude, excitement, sense stimulus, opinions, anger, beauty, stillness, detachment, right/wrong, dispassion, disappointment, rage, compulsion.
Recovering Crisis Addicts: Aruna Ratanagiri (29 min)
(keywords) Newspapers, drama, novels, quadrilogy, movies, wholesomeness, energy, health, entertainment, fixed positions, gossip, body contemplation, road accidents, racing, Olympics, addiction, imagination, certainty, partiality, wisdom, compassion.
The Insulting Truth: Aruna Ratanagiri (29 min)
(keywords) Humiliation, anjali, too-much, security, false identity, offended, hurt, symbolic Buddha, bowing, teacher, resistance, dying, indignation, loss, 3 types of Dukkha, disappointment, views, spiritual work, insult, blaming, mindfulness
Giving Thought to Dying: Aruna Ratanagiri (42 min)
(keywords) Contention, war, dead, meditation, inspiration, maranasati, bereavement, grief, sadness, funeral, beauty, tears, past lives, Buddhist culture, coffins, view, killing, losing loved ones, denial, ignorance, cancer, not-knowing, samadhi.
Me, Mine, Ours, Comedy or Tragedy: Aruna Ratanagiri (34 min)
(keywords) Autism, mistakes, views, assumptions, youtube, intimidation, attachments, possessions, comedy, desensitising, suffering, retreat, intensity, relax, kilesas, formal practice, daily-life practice, arguments, irritation, right questionng.
The World out of Control: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 min)
(keywords) Refuge, control, body, exercise, finances, litigation, government, delusion, security, self, atta, drunk, sober, stealing, material possessions, dana, sila, renunciation, heavenly realms, dangers of sense indulgence, re-education, astrology, cultivation, not-self, disciplining attention, proliferation, rage, anxiety, sadness, sitting, trusting, mindfulness, investigation, deep listening, filed of awareness, understanding, precepts, 30 princes, saying no, relaxation, chaos, eternal hell, Zen, not-thinking, past, future, tuning a musical instrument, pain, attention, no-suffering, end of our tether, happiness, retreat.
Relax, Grow, Transform: Aruna Ratanagiri (42 min)
(keywords) Meditation, agility, stages, progress, health, skills, fundamental shift, effort, relaxation, passaddhi, contentment, sauna, belly breathing, discernment, confidence, mindfulness, cultivation, concentration, habits, investigation.
Helping Turn the Wheel: Aruna Ratanagiri (35 min)
(keywords) Vesakha’s precepts, Asalha puja, vassa, retreat, formal practice, symbols, ritual, conditioning, chores, unfair, resistance, ‘my way’, liking/disliking, aspiration, preferences, attachments, breakfast, chanting, routine, determination.
What to Do with Regret: Aruna Ratanagiri (40 min)
(keywords) Here and now, regret, remorse, hiriottapa, shame, autism, guilt, mindfulness, samsara, memories, past, future, dying, sin, change, power, trust, patience, prayer, determination, endurance, aspiration, rituals, logical brain, symbols.
If it Shouldn't Be this Way it Wouldn't Be this Way: Aruna Ratanagiri (31 min)
(keywords) Hatred, resistance, acquiescence, drunkenness, passions, peace, Ajahn Chah, surgery, knees, demands, needs, mindfulness, Dhammapada, darkness, light, Visakha, Croatia, stream-entry, personality, grasping, suffering, habits, utopia.
Rituals for Beginning Again: Aruna Ratanagiri (45 min)
(keywords) Forgiveness, ritual, chanting, symbols, regularity, Buddha images, football, mindfulness, heedlessness, remorse, gratitude, realisation, teachers, apology, limitlessness, suffering, anger, worthy refuge, Bodgaya, respect.
When to Act: Aruna Ratanagiri (52 min)
(keywords) Acceptance, letting go, merit, anger, indignation, root causes for suffering, wheel of life, panic, Mr. Wang, surrender, choice, spiritual advisors, MP3 files, effort, greed/aversion/delusion, addiction, change, jhanas, contentment.
Compassionate Silence: Aruna Ratanagiri (37 min)
(keywords) Indecision, quandary, doubt, appreciation, friends, change, uncertainty, companionship, changing job, medical diagnosis, don't-know, stillness, silence, awareness, content of awareness, dilemma, desire, refuge, being wrong, meditation.
Our Inner Community: Aruna Ratanagiri (36 min)
(keywords) Praise and criticism, faith, imperturbability,, blessings, insult, blame, doubt, inner and outer community, refuge, my way, silence, intensity, delusion, preferences, cause and effect, fighting, authority, clinging, griefless, realiation.
Happiness Unlimited: Aruna Ratanagiri (52 min)
(keywords) Confidence, sects, disrobe, happiness, pleasure, joy, vesakha puja, flow, death, responsibility, doubt, sensitivity, compassion, freedom, realization, understanding, middle way, right view, clear seeing, panic, breathing, trapped, fighting, resentment, no resistance, surrender, drowning, trust in the Buddha, anger, indignation, Burma, skillfulness, snakebites, boundaries, religion, philosophy, eightfold path, Ulysses, sirens, commitment, meditation, beauty, perspective, timing, concentration, Bhojanga garden, investigation, watchfulness.
One Step at a Time: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min)
(keywords) Samanera, ordination, bhikkhu, video, happiness, gladness, selflessness, patience, Aung San Suu Kyi, beauty, kindness, money, pollution, blame, balance, driftwood, disappointment, pain, loneliness, loss, understanding, compassion, renunciation, restraint, indescribable beauty, mindfulness, joy, death, reputation, meditation retreat, samana, unshakable peace.
What about Rituals: Aruna Ratanagiri (46 min)
(keywords) Technology, puja, Vesakha puja, patimokkha, training, purification, arahant, discomfort, bowing, ego, change, anjali, power, getting it wrong, Maori, reception, war, hongi, greetings, silabbata-paramasa, idols, skilful means, identity.
Reaction, Regret, Renewal: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 min)
(keywords) Reactivity, sin, heedlessness, gardening, bhojanga, failure, suffering, bowing, teacher, disappointment, revenge, resentment, regret, remorse, guilt, memories, stealing, evil, condemning, parents, children, suicide, renewal, forgiveness.
Contentment Is not the Goal it Is the Way: Aruna Ratanagiri (29 min)
(keywords) Discontentment, inherent contentment, chaos, frustration, habits, awareness, drugs, refuge, bowing, symbols, bodhi tree, wheel, responsibility, conscious relationship, strength, faith, riots, choice, meditation, criticism, complaining.
What Is the P.A.T.H.: Aruna Ratanagiri (47 min)
(keywords) patience, frustration, concrete cancer, plastic, pollution, world, senses, 3 signs, freedom, safety, awareness, emotions, thinking, philosophy, concepts, true identity, virtual-self, skilful-means, 84,000 dhamma doors, whole body/mind
Appreciative Awareness: Aruna Ratanagiri (46 min)
(keywords) not-self, dogma, nibbana, practice, awareness, mindfulness, techniques, becoming, theistic religion, doubts, appreciation, language, poetry, clear comprehension, sati-sampajannya, scriptures, viriya, energy, laziness, attachments, timidity, self-disparagement, depression, balance, infatuation, falling in love, disrobing, rituals, anumodana, dhamma talk, Ram Dass, dilemma, agility, anger, grief, trauma, letting go, criticism, cultivation, silence, space.
Death and Keeping the Practice Constant: Aruna Ratanagiri (40 min)
(keywords) Consistancy, clinging, recollection of death, inevitablility, undeterminded time of death, denial, enlightenment, frineds, health, vipasanna, beauty/ugliness, liberating energy, right perspective, forgiveness, wasting time, prioritising.
G.O.D.S. to Believe in: Aruna Ratanagiri (60 min)
(keywords) Relevance, distractions, gratitude, gladness, metta, karuna, disappointment, contentment, offering, inadequacy, inner wealth, meditation, struggle, serving, mastering, duties, obligations, Burma, letting go, death, fear, myths, religion.
Cultivating Selfless Action: Aruna Ratanagiri (43 min)
(keywords) Imbalance, passivity, precepts, no judgment, awe, cessation, right speech, right action, Jesus, trust, skiful means, patience, competitiveness, right time and place, personal limitations.
Practicing under Pressure: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min)
(keywords) Measuring practice, barometer, burdens, family, money, aging, beginning again, anxiety, depression, contentment, confidence, doubt, medical, pressure, confusion, advice, mindfulness, opinions, letting go, faith, love, views, injustice.
Going Without: Aruna Ratanagiri (26 min)
(keywords) Insult, religious tolerance, dying, enemies, modesty, frugality, kassapa, sotapana, letting go, intimidation, renunciation, creativity, conceit.
Tis But: Aruna Ratanagiri (45 min)
(keywords) Mental illness, depression, modesty, frugality, jhana, parajika, sanghadisesa, communication.
Essence of Buddhist Training: Aruna Ratanagiri (39 min)
(keywords) Feelings, inner tyrant, compassion, passion, creativity, betrayal, habits.
Manners Maketh the Man: Aruna Ratanagiri (39 min)
(keywords) Homosexuality, change, stability, respect, dispute, schism, harmony, community.
Embracing the Tragedy of Burma: Aruna Ratanagiri (41 min)
(keywords) Technology, media, happiness, fear, indignation, doubt, metta.
Susceptible to Ritual: Aruna Ratanagiri (40 min)
(keywords) Fixed opinions, arrogance, form and spirit, containment, transformation, devotion.
Different Modes of Practice: Aruna Ratanagiri (44 min)
(keywords) Comparing Teachers, goal/source oriented practice, no techniques.
Addressing Antisocial Behaviour: Aruna Ratanagiri (27 min)
(keywords) Ideals/reality, intimidation, Antisocial Behaviour, Ideals and reality, Self-image, Violence
Ego Too Is Just So: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min)
(keywords) Demonizing ego, low self-esteem, conscious honesty.
Where Home Is: Aruna Ratanagiri (44 min)
(keywords) False security, intimacy, sexual appetite, violence, community, blaming, forgiveness, compassion.
God Beliefs: Aruna Ratanagiri (46 min)
(keywords) Meat-eating, guilt, soul-theory, leaving the church, prayer.
Going for Refuge from Moment to Moment: Aruna Ratanagiri (49 min)
(keywords) Intuition, generosity, dedicating merit, Triple Gem, unworthiness, self-views.
Self and Not Self: Aruna Ratanagiri (60 min)
(keywords) Finding our own way, uncertainty, theory and practice, doubt, anatta, psychotherapy, sotapana.
Is Meditation Relevant: Aruna Ratanagiri (31 min)
(keywords) Basic skills, intoxication/tranquilizing, barometer, relativizing self.
Sitting in the Buddha's Waiting Room: Aruna Ratanagiri (47 min)
(keywords) Going Forth, renunciation, energy, training, change, morality, ignorance, letting go, assumptions, saying 'no', confidence, aging, sickness, death, denial, powerlessness, joy, security, meaninglessness, patience, waiting, frustration.
Distracting Thoughts: Aruna Ratanagiri (36 min)
(keywords) Bhikkhu ordination, aging, sickness, death, 5 ways of dealing with distractions, judgment.
Anagarika Precept Ceremony: Aruna Ratanagiri (25 min)
(keywords) Going Forth, renunciation, anagarika, remorse, clarity, conceit, precepts.
The Buddha Being the Buddha: Aruna Ratanagiri (50 min)
(keywords) Birth of awareness, limitlessness, celebration, gratitude,
Believing in Heaven and Hell: Aruna Ratanagiri (47 min)
(keywords) Gender Issues, rebirth, six realms, beliefs, anger, authority figures, optimism, faith,
Where Freedom Lies: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min)
(keywords) Women’s practice, refuge, space, silence behind silence.
Falling into Hell: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min)
(keywords) 6 realms, creating heaven and hell, suicide, compassion, exercise, impermanence.
In Pursuit of Happiness: Aruna Ratanagiri (33 min)
(keywords) Dana, wisdom, transformation, selflessness.
Integrity and the Five Moral Precepts: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 min)
(keywords) Happiness. trust, remorse, inquiry.
Laziness: Aruna Ratanagiri (35 min)
(keywords) Dhamma lists, measuring ourselves, guilt, 8 types of laziness, tiredness.
Don't Be Afraid: Aruna Ratanagiri (33 min)
(keywords) Practice while traveling, renunciation, becoming, non-self, Reacting, reaction, becoming, flow.
Resolving Religious Conflicts: Aruna Ratanagiri (34 min)
(keywords) Views, prejudice, not-thinking.
Nobody Entering the New Year: Aruna Ratanagiri (55 min)
(keywords) Interest, ego, a place to do nothing.
Transforming Dilemmas: Aruna Ratanagiri (35 min)
(keywords) Ecological problems, fooled by aggression and greed, consequences of unawareness; delusion – chemical and otherwise; cause/effect; from condemnation to compassion.
Health and Sickness Part Two: Aruna Ratanagiri (44 min)
(keywords) Physical, emotional, psychological trauma.
Health and Sickness Part One: Aruna Ratanagiri (30 min)
(keywords) Aging, sickness, death, underlying view.
Why Should I Be Good: Aruna Ratanagiri (28 min)
(keywords) Goodness is functional, not ultimate.
We Are what We Attend to: Aruna Ratanagiri (39 min)
(keywords) Silence, TV, technology, skillful distraction, judging, discipline, study, attention, virtue, balance, middle way, paramitas, versatility.
Conscious Contentment: Aruna Ratanagiri (29 min)
(keywords) Forgiveness, aspiration, BEING contented, failure, aspiration, choice, forgiveness, wisdom, hold the tension.
Buddhism With Beliefs: Aruna Ratanagiri (33 min)
(keywords) Evangelism, fundamentalist, cults.
Our Six Teachers: Aruna Ratanagiri (40 min)
(keywords) Studying the six senses, The Fire Sermon, daily life.
Is this Dhamma Diluted: Aruna Ratanagiri (28 min)
(keywords) Cultural trimmings, renunciation, ambition.
Am I Practicing Rightly: Aruna Ratanagiri (35 min)
(keywords) Non-blaming, willing receptivity, uncertainty.
Readiness to Love: Aruna Ratanagiri (58 min)
(keywords) Guilt, hell is not eternal, welcoming everything.
Upekkha Even Mindedness: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min)
(keywords) 10 paramitas, social attitudes.
Celebrating Mother: Aruna Ratanagiri (34 min)
(keywords) Mother’s Day, forms, staying power, helpful doubt.
Football, Frustration and Freedom: Aruna Ratanagiri (40 min)
(keywords) Abuse, disappointment, raw reality.
Self Image Surrendered: Aruna Ratanagiri (27 min)
(keywords) Designer clothes, reputation, suicide, false energy.
Being One with Brahma: Aruna Ratanagiri (53 min)
(keywords) Brahma Viharas, offerings, morality, meditation.
The Conch Shell Lesson: Aruna Ratanagiri (44 min)
(keywords) Romance, learning from mistakes, 10K is enough.
Please Teach Me what I Need to Learn: Aruna Ratanagiri (43 min)
(keywords) Attending to beauty, don’t know, deathless awareness.
Honey Jar Dhamma: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 min)
(keywords) Goodness as nourishment, not taking sides.
Waiting for the Messiah: Aruna Ratanagiri (33 min)
(keywords) Mindful meetings, enlightenment, exercise.
Funny Movies: Aruna Ratanagiri (41 min)
(keywords) Developing awareness and dealing with its content.
Emotional Education: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 min)
(keywords) Negative emotions, daily life and formal practice.
Mindful Madness: Aruna Ratanagiri (33 min)
(keywords) Enthusiasm, elephant dung paper, suicide, medication, stop smoking technique; getting rid of bad habits.
Trustworthy Intuition: Aruna Ratanagiri (33 min)
(keywords) Australian toad problem, creative tension, Log Simile.
No Dogma: Aruna Ratanagiri (28 min)
(keywords) Birth and death, no-self, resentment, forgiveness.
Divine Dilemmas: Aruna Ratanagiri (24 min)
(keywords) Doing and not-doing meditation, compassion.
Christmas Message: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 min)
(keywords) Giving, receiving, selflessness, letting go.
Living a Blameless Live: Aruna Ratanagiri (39 min)
(keywords) Cultivating regular reflection.
The Flowers of Sensual Pleasure: Aruna Ratanagiri (27 min)
(keywords) Sensitive equanimity, greed, appreciation.
Finding Our True Identity: Aruna Ratanagiri (26 min)
(keywords) Mindfulness, security, identity, developing virtues.
Interest in Reality: Aruna Ratanagiri (30 min)
(keywords) Judgment, transformation of anger.
Broad Spectrum Mindfulness: Aruna Ratanagiri (37 min)
(keywords) Expectations, enthusiasm, body, forms.
Understanding Is a Wonderful Thing: Aruna Ratanagiri (34 min)
(keywords) Rules, letting go, alcohol, smoking, engendering peace; New Year; Consumption (Eating/Drinking/Smoking); Consumerism; the 227 Vinaya rules.
Playing in the Buddha's Orchestra: Aruna Ratanagiri (36 min)
(keywords) Effort, technology, compassion, states of mind.
Earthly Good: Aruna Ratanagiri (26 min)
(keywords) Groundedness, being tested, balancing intuition.
Unshakeable Peace: Aruna Ratanagiri (31 min)
(keywords) Rituals, spiritual guidance, confusion, challenges.
Enhanced Awareness: Aruna Ratanagiri (41 min)
(keywords) Pleasure, drug use, energy, trust, gods.
In Search of Happiness: Aruna Ratanagiri (27 min)
(keywords) Meditation, retreat, limitation, frustration, entertainment, food, pleasure, suffer, pain, discernment, lasting happiness, condition, meditate, study, anger, passions, perspective, unhappy, restraint, energy, distraction, greed, quiet, contemplative, delusion, reality, moral, beyond, awareness, initial understanding.
Selling Samsara: Aruna Ratanagiri (51 min)
(keywords) Cultivating willingness, identity and attachment, letting go.
Cultivating Radiant Equanimity: Aruna Ratanagiri (43 min)
(keywords) Practice, Christmas, holidays, human beings, confusion, equanimity, death, mortal, funeral, life, perspective, help, energy, marana sati, reality, feeling, meditation, equanimity, compassion, kamma, detachment, loving-kindness, monks, Buddha, good-looking, reaction, values, morality, mindful, slaves, relationships, prejudice, Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Tate, preferences, consistent, intensity, retreat, silence, harmony, friends, traffic, discernment, enlightenment, realization, will, greedy, willingness, love, receive, fault, limited, obstructed, wisdom, teachings, angry.
Agility of Attention: Aruna Ratanagiri (35 min)
(keywords) Meditation, letting go, change, clinging, grasp, feelings, Ajahn Chah, agility, resistance, precepts, inspiration, trust, peaceful, suffering, creative, mind, relationship, heart, sheep, watchfulness, technique, religion, effort, complex, attention, passion, conversation, cautious, body, head, heart, obsession, sound of silence, investigate, thoughts, pleasure, pain, fantasies, energy, meditation object, worry, anger, inquiry, energy, body posture, awareness, kamma, preparation, work, investigate.
According with Change: Aruna Ratanagiri (26 min)
(keywords) Papers, change, practice, truth, peaceful, fragrance, stimulus, question, spiritual life, happy, safe, secure, Buddhist teachings, concept, Dhamma, belief, disappointment, feeling, true, teacher, grasp, cling, introduction, impermanent, idea, changing, predicament, suffering, resisting, predictable, culture shock, unfamiliar, Thailand, Wat Nanachat, Ajahn Chah, forest, city, noise, silence, monks, sick, busy, preferences, agility, flow, integrity, morality, help, attitude, confusion, together.
Forgiveness Is Possible: Aruna Ratanagiri (40 min)
(keywords) Trust, betrayal, reality, suffering, ill-will, cruelty, mindfulness, anger, abuse, responsibility, enemy, Buddha, hindrances, simile, heart, memory, resentment, thoughts, nourish, restrain, mind, well-being, world, friendship, tranquility, reflect, hate, desire, retreat, loving-kindness, energy, revenge, happy, compassion, Dalai Lama, monk, torture, prison, mind, ignorance, suffer, moral.
Alone Together: Aruna Ratanagiri (25 min)
(keywords) Right effort, relationships, daily-life, personality tendencies, lifestyle choice, kamma, accumulations, meeting limitations, unobstructed relationship, investigating suffering, avoidance, commitment, monks, nuns, loneliness, aloneness, spiritual community, deepening, willingness, sensuality, indulgence, possibility, mindful doubting, becoming, cults, learning to relax, trust, allowing uncertainty, evangelical fundamentalists, certainty, fear, fixed position, rigidity, benefit of knowing we don't know.
Reality Dialogue: Aruna Ratanagiri (31 min)
(keywords) Dhamma talks and Dhamma discussions, Mahamangala Sutta, listening to teachings, blessings, dialogue, moon-day observance, dedicating sacred time, putting time aside, regularity, inner world, groups, email correspondence programme, attention, inflation, dependency, student/teacher relationship, sharing questions, Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Thate, intimidation, conscious ability, projection, inadequacy, charisma, skillful mean, friendship, suffering, solitude, dreams, strength, encouraging and respecting our questions.
In the Shade of the Bodhi Tree: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min)
(keywords) Samatha, Vipassana, techniques, IMS, Gaia House, U Ba Kin, Goenka, Mahasi Sayadaw, limitations of strategies, Ajahn Chah, Zen, Zazen, right view, self/not-self, relationships, deepening, friendship, sacrifice, formal practice, reading the heart/mind, will, focus, fantasy, memories, inquiry, meditation, space, light, sense consciousness, awareness, understanding, happy mind, integrated inquiry, difficult questions.
Clearing the Basement: Aruna Ratanagiri (47 min)
(keywords) Body posture, six points of awareness, effort, scriptures, attainments, patience, humility, emotions, asking questions, feeling freely, regret, disappointment, extreme sport, compensation, junk food, wanting, feeling lacking, anger, fear, desire, mindful, enemy, real relationship, investigation, true self, recognizing enlightenment, Meister Eckhart, introspection, meditation, meeting ourselves, patience, seeing God, denied desires, right wanting.
Preparing for Death: (Aruna Ratanagiri 28 min)
(keywords) Samsara, reincarnation, rebirth, aging, distraction, dying, 'going with it', loss, choice, fear, worry, strategy, mindfulness, unobstructed awareness, accurate receptivity, judgment-free awareness, rebelliousness, here and now, refuges, realms of existence, celestial, human, hungry ghosts, animal, hell, doubt, closest approximation to reality, myths, humility.
Goodness Has Unavoidable Consequences: Aruna Ratanagiri (28 min)
(keywords) Dying, intensity, peace, anger, choice, greed, pain, a good life, senses, guilt, self-hatred, gratitude, illness, intolerable, universal loving-kindness, preference, ideals, passions, liking/disliking.
How to Remember Heart Matters: Aruna Ratanagiri (35 min)
(keywords) Important, distraction, shopping, conscious, committed, sacrifice, peace, ritual, chanting, symbol, puja, bowing, energy, still, quiet, responsible, attention, multitasking, values, family, obligation, resentment, problems, fear, lonely, mindfulness, gratitude, patience.
The Bigger Picture: Aruna Ratanagiri (37 min)
(keywords) Buddhist beliefs, faith, wisdom, mindfulness, contentment, inspiration, naivety, impermanence, energy, desire, grasping, new dimension, intelligence, restraint, Ajahn Chah, balance, compassion, lost in grieving, pain, evil, indignation, enemy, sensitive awareness, equanimity.
It Feels Good to Be Mindful: Aruna Ratanagiri (41 min)
(keywords) Meetings, community issues, complexity, sati, recollection, concentration, regret, seeing consequences, learning from suffering, relief, conflict, tax, dilemma, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, meditation, anxiety, anticipation, beginning again, fear, attachments, reactivity/dhamma contemplation, recollection of the Buddha.
There Is Something We Can Do About It: Aruna Ratanagiri (36 min)
(keywords) Truth, mindfulness, thoughts, practice, clear comprehension, sati, sampajana, energy, endurance, peaceful, delusion, insight, spiritual faculties, cultivation, speech, heedless, work, analysis, compulsive, suffering, death, agile, strength, meditation object, concentration, watchfulness, hungry ghost, posture, doubt, children, feeling, insight, ignorance.
Monastic Training: Aruna Ratanagiri (54 min)
(keywords) Talk to new monks, clarification, meditation, lifestyle, communal living, traveling, Asia, monastery, Ajahn Thate, interaction, sensory world, character training, Ajahn Chah, insight, anagarika, samanera, bhikkhu, stages of training, commitment, renunciation, robe wearing, participation, pressure, precepts, responsibility, navaka, patimokkha rule, integration, restraint, internalizing principles, samana sañña, renunciate culture, support, majjhima, thera, aligning with Dhamma, cultivating willingness, authority, convention, harmony, honesty, insight, integrity, tolerance, prejudice, Thailand, body, patience, passion, resentment, abuse, structures, dutanga practices, trust, assumptions, idealism, arrogance, stubbornness, conceit, loneliness, aloneness, intimacy, helpful expectations, time away, contentment.
In the Image of Ourselves: Aruna Ratanagiri (25 min)
(keywords) story, image, robe, painful, energy, ashamed, ego, function, nature, fascination, conflicts, suffer, neurotic, understanding, meditation, thinking, drama, self-obsession, contented, happy, fear, delusion, letting go, crazy, conceit, heart, undivided, transformation
Please Put your own Mask on First: Aruna Ratanagiri (44 min)
(keywords) Healthy self-interest, kamma.
Just Leave It Over There: Aruna Ratanagiri (46 min)
(keywords) New Year ritual, forgiveness, renewal, aspiration.
Impossible Paradox: Aruna Ratanagiri (50 min)
(keywords) 4 Foundations, body posture, 32 parts, social action.
Frustration and the Religious Life: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min)
(keywords) Mountain climbing, mistakes, goodness.
We Are More than our Feelings: Aruna Ratanagiri (39 min)
(keywords) What is sati, daily-life practice.
Am I Ready: Aruna Ratanagiri (35 min)
(keywords) Entering retreat, restraint, right preparation.
Not too Special: Aruna Ratanagiri (34 min)
(keywords) Simplicity, silence, deepening, perspective.
Who Says it's Wrong to Feel Afraid: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min)
(keywords) Meeting fear in new ways.
Prayerful Practice: Aruna Ratanagiri (47 min)
(keywords) Creative effort, trusting relationship.
A Deciple of Reality: Aruna Ratanagiri (61 min)
(keywords) Endurance, griefless, discipleship, creativity, precepts.
Not Forgetting the Point of Practice: Aruna Ratanagiri (35 min)
(keywords) Form and spirit, technique, precepts.
Enlightened Personality: Aruna Ratanagiri (53 min)
(keywords) Serving , arahants, psychology, boredom.
Prepared for the Journey: Aruna Ratanagiri (73 min)
(keywords) Mountain climbing, mistakes, goodness.
Offering the Gift of Confidence: Aruna Ratanagiri (30 min)
(keywords) faith, evangelic, faculties, discernment, reality, questions, commitment, trust, heart, wisdom, sadha, belief, religion, enthusiasm, inspiration, naive, problems, unshakable, contemplating, consequence, religion, knowledge, Buddha, truth, suffering, mindful, realization, doubt, limitation, freedom, hindrances, desire, exhausted.
Meeting our Anger: Aruna Ratanagiri (39 min)
(keywords) Investigation into what is, willingness.
A New Way of Seeing: Aruna Ratanagiri (35 min)
(keywords) Training perception, hope, saying ‘no’.
Profoundly Simple: Aruna Ratanagiri (49 min)
(keywords) Basic view, kindness, one-pointedness.
No Choice: Aruna Ratanagiri (26min)
(keywords) Contentment, effort, inhibiting, bad news.
Recognising Relevance: Aruna Ratanagiri (31 min)
(keywords) Judging mind, awareness, community.
Teachings on Compost Practice: Aruna Ratanagiri (35 min)
(keywords) Source and goal oriented practice.
A Buddhist Way of Happiness: Aruna Ratanagiri (43 min)
(keywords) Good friends, few needs, virtue.
No Fixed Position: Aruna Ratanagiri (46 min)
(keywords) No comparing, sitting posture, precepts.
Cultivating Willingness: Aruna Ratanagiri (36 min)
(keywords) Non-comparing, refreshing inwardly.
Being Love: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min)
(keywords) Undivided attention, compulsiveness, free from fear.
Really Comfortable: Aruna Ratanagiri (39)
(keywords) Friends, sanctuaries, challenging ourselves.