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Retreat Dharma Talks at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

During this retreat, we will use these seven powerful awakening factors as the framework for our practice.

2025-06-06 (14 days) Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

  
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2025-06-13 How the Practice Ripens in Letting Go 31:10
Ayya Santussika
We know there is a need for letting go when we experience suffering, but how do we do it? When we find that we can't let go just because we want to, we need to know how to put in the causes and conditions so the practice ripens in letting go.
2025-06-14 The Buddha's Advice to Venerable Mahāpajāpati Still Relevant Today 9:14
Ayya Santussika
The Buddha's step-mother and most senior bhikkhuni, Venerable Mahāpajāpati, came to him for a teaching in brief that she could use for ardent practice. We can use this advice to guide our practice today and our relationship with the world.
2025-06-14 Five Elements Meditation: Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space 24:57
Ayya Santussika
These meditations were taught to the Buddha's son Rahula (MN 62) on the elements: earth, water, fire, air and space, followed by the advice to develop meditation like each of these of these elements so that whatever might be experienced by the mind, likeable or dis-likeable, that would not invade the mind and remain.
2025-06-14 Taking on Personality View Directly 10:41
Ayya Santussika
Seeing our life through the lens of Dhamma instead of through the perspective of Personality View.
2025-06-15 Be the Dhamma, See through the Sense of Self 30:24
Ayya Santussika
A detailed look into recognizing the sense of self in action and "stepping back" to the Dhamma perspective.
2025-06-15 Energizing the Awakening Factors using the Chakras 25:07
Ayya Santussika
Guided meditation (following Chi Gong practice) beginning at the root chakra paired with mindfulness, traveling up through the chakras and awakening factors for visualization and investigation.
2025-06-15 Q&A Number 2 38:11
Ayya Santussika
Dispassion, cessation, delusion, Buddhas before Shakyamuni, Piti all night long, sharing merit and metta practice
2025-06-16 No Further than the Shore - Ajahn Chah 12:57
Ayya Santussika
Observing phenomena in light of the three characteristics of existence: impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and not-self and the arising of wisdom as described by Ajahn Chah. Readings from "Stillness Flowing" - pages 201, 373-374, 534-535
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