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2025-06-15 Q&A Number 2 38:11
Ayya Santussika
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Dispassion, cessation, delusion, Buddhas before Shakyamuni, Piti all night long, sharing merit and metta practice
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-15 Energizing the Awakening Factors using the Chakras 25:07
Ayya Santussika
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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.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-15 Murder Suicide Plot: Seeing through the Sense of Self 30:24
Ayya Santussika
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A detailed look into recognizing the sense of self in action and "stepping back" to the Dhamma perspective.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-14 Taking on Personality View Directly 10:41
Ayya Santussika
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Seeing our life through the lens of Dhamma instead of through the perspective of Personality View.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-14 Five Elements Meditation: Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space 24:57
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.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-14 The Buddha's Advice to Venerable Mahāpajāpati Still Relevant Today 9:14
Ayya Santussika
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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.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-13 How the Practice Ripens in Letting Go 31:10
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.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-13 Not Like It Says in the Books 26:42
Ayya Santussika
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Our experience may not match what we've read in the suttas or heard teachers describe. The encouragement here is to use the teachings as guideposts and learn for ourselves what works and what doesn't.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-12 Intuiting Your Way into Joy and Tranquility 17:26
Ayya Santussika
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Tips on cultivating the awakening factors of piti (joy) and tranquility (passaddhi) and encouragement to follow your intuition.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-12 Mid-retreat Q&A 22:00
Ayya Santussika
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Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

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