Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery: dharma talks and meditation instruction
268 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★ - 10 ratingsThe Aloka Vihara sisters are a community of bhikkhunis (fully-ordained nuns) and samaneris (novices) dedicated to practicing the Buddha’s teaching in the style of the Theravada Forest Tradition. Their practice emphasizes simplicity, renunciation, service and an orientation towards learning from the natural world, all held within the context of the Buddha’s teachings. The sisters are committed to embracing and integrating the realities and challenges of contemporary society into their practice.
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Episodes
Ayya Anandabodhi: Gradual Transformation of the Heart
April 23, 2023 18:08 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Anandabodhi: Attuning to the Nature of Things
April 02, 2023 15:00 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Reflections on death and grieving.
Ayya Anandabodhi: Better than, worse than, equal to...?
March 26, 2023 16:00 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Reflections on self, not-self, and interbeing.
Ayya Anandabodhi: Making Space for Transformation
March 12, 2023 16:00 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) The practice of giving, ethics, and meditation can undo the confusing experience of being a separate individual person, as we attune more fully to the nature of the way things are.
Ayya Anandabodhi: Softening and Opening
March 05, 2023 19:00 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Ayya Anandabodhi reflects on applying the Four Noble Truths while caring for her elderly mother. The mention of "surrender" in this talk refers to putting one's hands in the air in a surrender position as a response to noticing one is getting contracted or holding on to a position or a view.
Ayya Anandabodhi: Morning Reflections on Anatta
January 31, 2023 18:00 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Anandabodhi: Final Day Reflections
January 03, 2023 18:00 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Santacitta: Upekkha ~ a blessing
January 03, 2023 04:05 - 43 minutes - 60.4 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: Make the dark night shine
January 02, 2023 02:41 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Reflections on anatta
Ayya Santacitta: Even the most sublime state of mind comes to an end
January 01, 2023 22:27 - 37 minutes - 50.9 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: The important work of cultivating the mind
December 31, 2022 22:32 - 40 minutes - 55.9 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation on earth element, unsatifactoriness, compassion & impermanence
Ayya Santacitta: The Four Brahmavihara & Anicca
December 30, 2022 22:42 - 42 minutes - 59.1 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation
Ayya Anandabodhi: Morning Reflections on Impermanence
December 30, 2022 12:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Santacitta: Our bodies are sacred land ~ Elements & Mortality
December 30, 2022 03:17 - 43 minutes - 59.7 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Talk & Guided Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: Asubha ~ Permeates our assumptions & opens them up
December 30, 2022 03:05 - 41 minutes - 56.8 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: Turning upright what had been turned upside down
December 30, 2022 02:58 - 21 minutes - 29.4 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Santacitta: Taking your seat, relaxing & allowing
December 29, 2022 03:17 - 44 minutes - 51.3 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: Realization & Actualization = Resilienz or the Capacity to Stay in Relationship with our Experience
August 28, 2022 21:48 - 55 minutes - 76.2 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Talk & Guided Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: The Six Elements & Emergent Response
August 28, 2022 02:51 - 29 minutes - 41.2 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: Rejoicing in Community
July 04, 2022 00:52 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: What I Learned from Community
July 04, 2022 00:14 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Santacitta: Die Sieben Erwachungsfaktoren
June 03, 2022 23:55 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Geführte Meditation | Sutta-Erkundungen
Ayya Santacitta & Ayya Sabbamitta: 'Unwissenheit' AN 10.61
June 03, 2022 23:42 - 1 hour - 65.6 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Lesung, Diskussion & geführte Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: Die fünf Fähigkeiten (indriya) & Leerheit
May 06, 2022 23:17 - 54 minutes - 31.4 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Geführte Meditation | Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Ayya Santacitta: Abschluss der Reise in die 37 Qualitäten, die das Erwachen beflügeln
May 06, 2022 23:13 - 18 minutes - 10.8 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Ayya Santacitta: Die fünf Indriya & Karuna
April 01, 2022 19:46 - 30 minutes - 17.5 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Geführte Meditation | Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Ayya Santacitta: Die 10 Fesseln oder Geistestrübungen stufenweise entfernen
April 01, 2022 19:42 - 21 minutes - 12.1 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Ayya Santacitta: Samadhi als Erwachungsfaktor & Metta/Karuna
March 04, 2022 08:54 - 34 minutes - 19.7 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Geführte Meditation | Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Ayya Santacitta: Samadhi eröffnet Einsicht ~ Rechte Sammlung
March 04, 2022 08:53 - 21 minutes - 12.2 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Ayya Santacitta: Die sieben Erwachungsfaktoren ~ Vertiefen & Erweitern von Erfahrung
February 18, 2022 09:05 - 31 minutes - 18 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Geführte Meditation | Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Ayya Santacitta: Das Dharma antwortet uns durch Lebensumstände ~ Rechte Bemühung & Rechte Achtsamkeit
February 18, 2022 09:02 - 35 minutes - 20.1 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Ayya Santacitta: First Vipallasa
February 05, 2022 14:30 - 57 minutes - 33.2 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Seeing what is impermanent (anicca) as permanent (nicca).
Ayya Santacitta: Temporäre Befreiung des Geistes durch Mitgefühl
January 21, 2022 18:03 - 44 minutes - 25.4 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Geführte Meditation | Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Ayya Santacitta: Eine Einladung unser Leben zu untersuchen ~ Rechtes Handeln & Rechter Lebenserwerb
January 21, 2022 18:01 - 26 minutes - 15.4 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Ayya Anandabodhi: Guided Meditation Day Seven
January 02, 2022 13:30 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Anandabodhi: Morning Reflection
January 02, 2022 10:00 - 20 minutes - 16.8 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Anandabodhi: Kamma and the Four Right Efforts
January 01, 2022 16:15 - 43 minutes - 34.9 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Santacitta: A Different Perception of Disturbances ~ Face It Full On!
January 01, 2022 10:00 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Reflection & Guided Meditation
Ayya Anandabodhi: Afternoon Guided Meditation Day Five
December 31, 2021 13:30 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Anandabodhi: Morning Reflection Day Five
December 31, 2021 10:00 - 18 minutes - 14.6 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Anandabodhi: The Sparkle of Impermanence
December 30, 2021 16:15 - 32 minutes - 26.4 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Anandabodhi: Guided Meditation - Cultivating Presence
December 30, 2021 13:30 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Santacitta: Do i Want to Grasp or Do i Want to Understand?
December 30, 2021 10:00 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Reflection & Guided Meditation
Ayya Anandabodhi: Guided Meditation Afternoon Day Three
December 29, 2021 13:30 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Anandabodhi: Move Towards Freedom
December 29, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 16.6 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Santacitta: Really Being Here for this Collective Rite of Passage
December 28, 2021 19:41 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Reflection & Guided Meditation
Ayya Anandabodhi: Elements of the Path
December 28, 2021 16:15 - 35 minutes - 16.1 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Santacitta: Connection, Compassion & Blessings
December 04, 2021 10:11 - 28 minutes - 38.6 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation | Blaisantkerk, Gent
Ayya Santacitta: The Four Elements & Non Separation
December 04, 2021 10:08 - 37 minutes - 51.2 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation | Blaisantkerk, Gent
Ayya Santacitta: We are Not Separate
December 04, 2021 09:48 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Talk & Guided Meditation | Blaisantkerk, Gent