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Dharma Talks given at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center
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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

2025-06-12 Brahmavihara Meditation 26:18
Ayya Cittananda
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Spreading all four Brahmaviharas: Metta, Karuna, Mudita and Upekkha
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-12 Who Do You Need to Pay and What Do You Need Them to Say? 15:05
Ayya Santussika
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How do we change the habits that continually bring us suffering? This is a reflection based on SN 3.13 "A Bucket of Rice" and a personal experience providing some ideas on how to let go of sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair, anger, resentment, righteous indignation, and so on that keep us bound up in suffering, pointing to Nibbāna here and now.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-11 Freedom from the First Two Fetters 40:34
Ayya Santussika
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How can we stop our habit of reinforcing the first two fetters: personality view and cultural and social conditioning that bring us suffering and keep us in ignorance?
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

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