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Ayya Santussika's Dharma Talks at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center
Ayya Santussika
Ayya Santussika, in residence at Karuna Buddhist Vihara (Compassion Monastery), spent five years as an anagarika (eight-precept nun), then ordained as a samaneri (ten-precept nun) in 2010 and as a bhikkhuni (311 rules) in 2012 at Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara in Los Angeles.
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2025-06-16 Coming Out of Crazyland: Three Characteristics Practice and Beyond 34:00
Readings from "Stillness Flowing" (biography of Ajahn Chah by Ajahn Jayasaro) describing practicing with the three characteristics for insight into the true nature of reality ('Beyond the Monkey' pgs. 375-379) and how it takes us to the end of the path.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-16 No Further than the Shore - Ajahn Chah 12:57
Observing phenomena in light of the three characteristics of existence: impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and not-self and the arising of wisdom as described by Ajahn Chah. Readings from "Stillness Flowing" - pages 201, 373-374, 534-535
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga
2025-06-15 Q&A Number 2 17:32
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
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 Be the Dhamma, See through the Sense of Self 30:24
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
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
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
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
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
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

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