Investigating Desire
The four fuels that keep us burning
and how with insight
they can be extinguished
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Going Forth
Going Forth into the homeless life
and acceptance into the
Buddhist monastic community.
The Gradual Path
The Buddha laid out the entire path from wherever we are
to Nibbana
clear and direct for all
The Essence
of the Practice
How to avoid settling
for anything less
than the essential
goal of the practice
In Sickness and
In Death
Exploring the way to relate
to these afflictions
with grace
for liberation
Turning the Wheel
of Dhamma
How to set into motion
and sustain Dhamma practice,
leading to liberation from
all the causes of suffering
The Wise Gatekeeper
How to prioritise and maintain mindfulness
at all times
in all situations
Transcendence
How to be free from the unwholesome, evolve into the wholesome
and
to let go of all the ties that bind us
The Good News,
the Bad News
and
the Truly Great News
How to make sense of this world
and to blossom here
Seeds
The Buddha's simile
in Samyutta Nikaya 22.54
Seeds of consciousness
planted in the earth of form
watered by desire
Laying Down the Burden
What is this burden?
How did it get here?
Who is carrying it?
. . .
How to put it down
Far
From the
Madding Crowd
How to practice the Buddha's teachings on solitude and seclusion
Poisonous Privilege
Teachings from the Buddha
on the deathly danger
of praise
honour and renown
Four Oceans of Tears
Four powerful images
offered by the Buddha
to demonstrate
the beginningless and
endless nature of samsara
Simplicity in Diversity
How we experience the world
and how the possibility of letting go of suffering exists for us
in each mindful moment
With reference to Samyutta Nikaya 14.7
The four foods
and how to relate to them
A careful look at this powerful teaching of the Buddha, A Child's Flesh
Samyutta Nikaya SN12.63.
A Conversation
about Samadhi
Sharing experience of Samadhi practice
with fellow samanas,
Ayya Sudhasso and Ayya Khemavamsi
Being the Buddha Seeing the Dhamma
40 minute guided meditation
followed by a Dhamma talk
on The Four Noble truths
Cultivating Well Being on the Path
A mostly silent 40 minute meditation session with Dhamma talk
Opening the heart to all experience, with kindness
Opening to the Timeless Dhamma
40 minute guided meditation, and Dhamma talk,
Investigating the Five Khandhas,
'five heaps',
that constitute the world of experience.
Investigating the Buddha's Teachings on Mind Seeing Mind
On the Cittanupassana section of Satipatthana Sutta
Turning the Wheel of Dhamma
Exploring Dependent Co-Arising How to relate to feelings in order to experience freedom from suffering
Investigating Feelings
Guided and silent meditation
for 40 mins,
followed by Dhamma talk
on Vedananupassana,
developing insight into feelings
The Cycle of
Life and Death
The Buddha's encouragement
to contemplate the cycle
of birth and death
in all its aspects.
Investigating the Body
Guided meditation and talk on the 31 body parts contemplation, for the development of dispassion
Donations towards Ayya's requisites
of food, shelter, medicine and travel
gratefully received
here
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