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Dharma Talks given at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center
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2023-06-06 Anapanasati Part 1 37:13
Ayya Santussika
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A short explanation and guided meditation for the first two tetrads of Mindfulness of In and Out Breathing.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-06 Changing those Deep Patterns 26:19
Ayya Santussika
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We may think that our anger, anxiety, regret, jealousy, longing, sorrow, etc. are just a part of our character, or our karma, or that they assail us and we have no control over them or the power to abandon them. In this talk, we look at how to challenge this perception and stop feeding our mental and emotional patterns.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-05 Fire Meditation 40:00
Ayya Santussika
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Using the fire element as found internally and externally as a meditation object.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-05 Hiri and Ottappa: Guardians of the Earth as The Basis of the Gradual Training 6:30
Ayya Cittananda
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An excerpt from AN 10.76 "Three Things" shows how the gradual training starts with conscience and prudence (hiri and ottappa).
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-04 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

2023-06-04 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

2023-06-04 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 Digesting the Suttas 8:29
Ayya Cittananda
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Help with reading the suttas.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-03 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 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

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