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Dharma Talks given at Meditationszentrum Beatenberg
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2017-08-14 How to tame an elephant. The hindrances in meditation. 49:51
Yuka Nakamura
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What are the hindrances that can arise in our practice and how can we work with them skillfully?
14 day Vipassana Summer Retreat

2017-08-10 Appamanna-Boundless Benevolence 46:51
Fred Von Allmen
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2017-06-17 End of Retreat Reflections: Four Reference Points 32:33
Ajahn Sucitto
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Ajahn Sucitto leaves the group with four reference points to continue relating to as we leave retreat: relating to embodiment, to people, to earth and to the sacred. Themes of pausing, subjectivity and respect run through.
The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-17 Everyday Practice 23:29
Ajahn Metta
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Encouragement to bring awareness towards taking from the retreat that which what will continue to nourish you, to integrate even more into your life, as a field of protection. This way of practice will take care of you.
The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-17 Early Morning Reflections: Don’t Go into Automatic – What’s Beautiful Now? 12:27
Ajahn Sucitto
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An automatic quality can take over as we practice. It happens when we retain the past: I am this, I had this experience, I want to have another experience… Instead we can arise and awaken into this body even when it’s not so comfortable and bright. Receive everything as a gift, as something new. Access what’s beautiful now.
The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-16 I Teach Pleasure 62:57
Ajahn Sucitto
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The Buddha taught pleasure. When the mind feels safe and comforted, it doesn’t crave. It loses its fear and regret. This is pleasant. Sila helps us practice this skill of turning things to the subtle pleasure of releasing stress and pressure. We stop creating the boundary of self and other that prevents unification. To others as to myself.
The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-16 Qigong Instructions: Cow, Crane & Dragon 47:56
Ajahn Sucitto
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Warming up feet, legs, hips, arms; kwa squats; drawing the thread (shoulder opening); cow gazing at the moon; crane spreads its wings; punching the dragon; neutral position
The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-16 Teaching on Embodiment and Guided Meditation – Descending from the Top of Your Brain to the Basin of Your Heart 61:10
Ajahn Sucitto
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As we meditate, we might find ourselves dropping through layers of experience. Bits that are stuck and not yet resolved keep getting triggered. What we thought was past keeps coming in – people, places, events – and it’s happening now. But there is something that doesn’t move forward in time, a foundational experience of just being present. From this place of primary embodiment, where citta meets the body, we can begin to release the layers of construction that bind us.
The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-15 The Inner Critic: Practising at Home 51:35
Ajahn Metta
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One aspect of the inner critic is the constant commentator. It shamelessly criticizes you regardless of what you do or don’t do; you will never get it right. Like the story of the demons who visit the home of Sakka, the way we relate to our inner demons is to relate to them with kindness. Without resistance and negative emotions, they will shrink away.
The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-15 Qigong Instructions: The Active and the Receptive 49:59
Ajahn Sucitto
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Torso twists bending over each leg; waterfall; ball in the sky; cow gazing at the moon; crane spreads its wings; closing the field/gently gathering in
The Wisdom of Embodiment

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