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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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2017-04-10 Chanting 4:43
Ajahn Sucitto
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2017-04-10 Puja: Alignment to opening beyond self 13:26
Ajahn Sucitto
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Ritual can be used to consciously, clearly enter the sacredness of the moment.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2017-04-09 Channels For Release 64:31
Ajahn Sucitto
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Mindfulness can be sustained through a neutral act of observing visual, listening auditory or feeling in ones body. The latter is useful for emotions and psychological afflictions that cannot be opened.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2017-04-09 Puja: Yoga of Voice, Yoga of Heart 25:57
Ajahn Sucitto
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Chanting helps to open the body and energize emotional sensitivity. As our voices merge in the group there is harmony. The art of praising a venerable figure uplifts the heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2017-04-08 The Turning Point - Handling The Senses, Ayya Medhanandi Bhikkhuni -chant leader 1:20:48
Ajahn Sucitto
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The path to nibbana begins by bringing values and virtues into being. As these strengthen, they provide an alternative to the pull of the senses. This leads to liberation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2017-04-08 Mindfulness Of Body - Ground, Space and Rhythm 46:58
Ajahn Sucitto
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Mindfulness of body checks the speed and attitude of our thought world. Exercises in sitting and walking have a similar relaxed mode of attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2017-04-08 Layers Of Being and Their Peeling 1:16:50
Ajahn Sucitto
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Development of body and mind entails a path of revealing and releasing "layers" of conditioning: physical, sensual, emotional and conceptual.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2017-04-08 Puja: Entering The Sacred 53:57
Ajahn Sucitto
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The sacred is a universal, impersonal but subjective mode of experience - of presence, openness, devoid of self-image. With "Puja" we resonate silence and enter it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2017-04-07 Chanting 1:29
Ajahn Sucitto
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2017-04-07 Going Forth - A Refuge 1:32:05
Ayya Medhanandi
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Entering a period of silent retreat simulates the monastic 'Going Forth' with an aspiration to deepen our virtue, samadhi, and wisdom. We take Refuge in our highest spiritual potential as human beings, working from faith in our ability to do this; training and transforming the mind through good-will, wise reflection, and selflessness; and opening our hearts to offer that refuge and safety to others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

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