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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center
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The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life
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| The Buddha frequently taught about the practice of the path as “a gradual training” (anupubbasikkhā), which unfolds in stages from the first step to the final goal of enlightenment. He most often talked about this gradual unfolding in terms of monastic life. However, he also made it clear that the path is open and available to lay followers as well and that many, many of his lay disciples were highly accomplished in the Dhamma, having developed the Path and attained the fruits on the way to awakening. |
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2023-06-03 (13 days)
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center
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2023-06-06
Changing those Deep Patterns
26:19
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Ayya Santussika
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We may think that our anger, anxiety, regret, jealousy, longing, sorrow, etc. are just a part of our character, or our karma, or that they assail us and we have no control over them or the power to abandon them. In this talk, we look at how to challenge this perception and stop feeding our mental and emotional patterns.
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2023-06-07
Sense Restraint, Moderation in Eating, Wakefulness
1:11:37
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Ayya Santussika
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Two purposes for sense restraint - wise decisions about what to take in through the senses - using sense restraint to break the chain of dependent origination at the feeling-craving link - moderation in eating - working with drowsiness - using the SN 36:95 Malunkyaputta Sutta, SN 3:13 A Bucket Measure of Food and AN 7.61 Nodding Off.
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2023-06-09
Sati, Samadhi, Panna and Metta
15:16
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Ayya Santussika
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Going deeper as we enter the 2nd half of this retreat, exploring the Buddha's words: ‘This is peaceful, this is sublime, that is, the stilling of all activities, the letting go of all attachments, the ending of craving, dispassion, cessation, Nibbāna.’ How can we have sati, samadhi and panna continuously?
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