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2023-06-05 Welfare and Happiness in this Life and in Lives to Come 21:19
Ayya Santussika
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A lay man asks the Buddha how lay people can have welfare and happiness in this life and in lives to come. the Buddha answers with four accomplishments for welfare and happiness in this life and four accomplishments ensuring welfare and happiness in future lives.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-05 Highest Blessings 44:18
Ayya Santussika
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The Mangala Sutta (Highest Blessings) as another version of the gradual training as it applies to lay life and also reaches the highest goal: realization of Nibbana.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-05 Meditation on Water 37:18
Ayya Santussika
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Guided meditation on the water element, internally and externally, and meditating "like water" so "arisen agreeable and disagreeable contacts will not invade the mind and remain."
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-04 The Gradual Path in MN 39 At Assapura 1:10:43
Ayya Santussika
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This is an examination of the steps in the Gradual Training as represented in MN 39 The Longer Discourse at Assapura. Here the Buddha includes beautiful similes for the five hindrances and the experience of the four jhanas. Our study has the aim to deepen our own practice and progress on the path.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-03 Brief intro 11:06
Ayya Santussika
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Gradual Path outline
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-03 Earth Meditation 24:27
Ayya Santussika
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Guided meditation on the earth element, internally and externally, and meditating "like the earth."
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-03 Advice to Rahula 24:59
Ayya Santussika
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Using the Buddha's advice to his son, Rahula, on developing different types of meditation, starting with meditating on the earth element internally and externally, and meditating "like the earth."
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-03 Honest Assessment Morning Reflection 11:29
Ayya Cittananda
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Taking stock of where you are in your practice so you can make progress.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2022-10-25 Returning home - final dialogue 33:07
Willa Thaniya Reid, Carole Melkonian, Elizabeth Day
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Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  ‘There is nothing you need hold on to, there is nothing you need push away’: A path to the peace of letting go

2022-10-25 Picking the world up 21:16
Willa Thaniya Reid
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Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  ‘There is nothing you need hold on to, there is nothing you need push away’: A path to the peace of letting go

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