Retreat Dharma Talks
at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center
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Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
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| 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
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Ayya Santussika
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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.
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2025-06-14
Five Elements Meditation: Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space
24:57
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Ayya Santussika
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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.
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2025-06-15
Q&A Number 2
38:11
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Ayya Santussika
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Dispassion, cessation, delusion, Buddhas before Shakyamuni, Piti all night long, sharing merit and metta practice
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2025-06-16
No Further than the Shore - Ajahn Chah
12:57
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Ayya Santussika
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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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