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Dharma Talks given at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center
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2023-06-09 Loving-Kindness and Compassion Meditation 39:13
Ayya Santussika
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Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-09 Sati, Samadhi, Panna and Metta 15:16
Ayya Santussika
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Going deeper as we enter the 2nd half of this retreat, exploring the Buddha's words: ‘This is peaceful, this is sublime, that is, the stilling of all activities, the letting go of all attachments, the ending of craving, dispassion, cessation, Nibbāna.’ How can we have sati, samadhi and panna continuously?
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-08 Guided Metta Meditation 32:07
Ayya Santussika
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Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-07 Sense Restraint, Moderation in Eating, Wakefulness 1:11:37
Ayya Santussika
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Two purposes for sense restraint - wise decisions about what to take in through the senses - using sense restraint to break the chain of dependent origination at the feeling-craving link - moderation in eating - working with drowsiness - using the SN 36:95 Malunkyaputta Sutta, SN 3:13 A Bucket Measure of Food and AN 7.61 Nodding Off.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-07 Anapanasati Tetrad 3 and 4 -- Guided meditation 48:47
Ayya Santussika
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Brief instruction on Tetrad 3 and 4 of Anapanasati - Mindfulness of in and out breathing, followed by a guided meditation for the 16 instructions.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-07 Kalyanamitta 9:02
Ayya Cittananda
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The support we get from each other -- Morning Reflection.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-06 Making a Wish and With Cunda on Purity 63:42
Ayya Santussika
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Description of the two suttas in the Numerical Discourses, AN 11.2 Making a Wish and AN 10.76 With Cunda.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

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

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