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Luang Por Munindo - Q: How To Practice With A Conceited Sense Of Superiority
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - July 04, 2024 23:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) "How to properly understand the Buddha's teachings on not being better, equal or worse than others? I’m especially interested in how to deal with the feelings of being superior to those who do not search anything deeper in life, who merely pursue immediate gr...
Luang Por Munindo - The Saying No Practice
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - June 22, 2024 23:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) Virtues, transformation, helpful, spiritual muscle, energy management, habits, boundaries, vulnerable, nekkhamma parami, wilfulness, chocolate, forms, spirit, looking at your phone, addicted, focussing on the form, renunciation, sense of self, my way, squabbl...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: How Do Buddhists And Non-Buddhists Handle Anxiety?
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - June 19, 2024 23:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) Anxiety, counsellor, practitioner, emotions, fear, heart contraction, desire, greed, disciplined attention, intentional composure, schools, stub your toe, open hearted awareness, aligning meditation, counterforce of compassion, outshining, tears, empathy.
Luang Por Munindo - The First 45 Years Were The Hardest
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - June 15, 2024 23:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) Father’s Day, appreciation, gratitude, spiritual fathers, Ajahn Sumedho, celebration of gratitude, celebration of generosity, faith, true principles, chaos, implicit order, materialism, Ajahn Chah, faith, disciplined attention, power tools, musical instrument...
Everyone Wears a Mask. Don't Enter This Battle of Lies.
Through a Monk's Eyes - June 03, 2024 19:13 ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsFr. Seraphim encourages us to avoid false faces and the havoc they wreak.
Luang Por Munindo - Trusting In Open-Hearted Awareness
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - June 01, 2024 23:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) Enthusiasm, aspiration, progress, chronically obstructed, Ajahn Chah, obstructed, moods, bad kamma, accumulated denied dukkha, crying, itchy wound, scratch, right understanding, screeching birds, nirodha-sacca, ekayana, disliking, open the chest, welcome hear...
Luang Por Munindo - Blessings Received From Luang Por Sumedho
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - May 25, 2024 23:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) 90th birthday, gratitude, 50 years ago, visa, Wat Bovorn, Samanera Dhammiko, Wat Saket, commitment and ease, balance, daring spirit, Ajahn Chah, Varapannyo, against the current, ‘my way’, floating alms-bowl, gratification, overly heroically, goal, transforma...
Luang Por Munindo - Many Blessings Received From Luang Por Sumedho
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - May 25, 2024 23:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) 90th birthday, gratitude, 50 years ago, visa, Wat Bovorn, Samanera Dhammiko, Wat Saket, commitment and ease, balance, daring spirit, against the current, ‘my way’, floating alms-bowl, gratification, overly heroically, goal, transformation, transmuting, openn...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: How Can I Be Sure
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - May 21, 2024 23:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) Q: "How can we know for ourselves that we are firmly on the right path of practice?" Not sure, letting go, security, relationship with desire, longing, stress, subtlety, greed renunciation, afraid, look directly, ‘who wants’, complacent, Mara, Ajahn Chah, nothing to be afraid of, cons...
Luang Por Munindo - Going Forth From Home To Homelessness
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - May 12, 2024 23:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) Requesting bhikkhu precepts, robes, chanting, anagarika, Dhammapada 348, letting go of past future present, free from clinging, form, spirit, ochre robe, training, spiritual community, money, shelter, security, reputation, finding identity, supermarket trolle...
Ajahn Kevali - The Ripening Of Wisdom
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - May 05, 2024 23:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) Quiet contemplation, wisdom teachings, Ajahn Chah, wrong thinking, attitude, stories, nun, practical wisdom, study, suttamayapannya, wisdom from hearing, cintamayapannya, wisdom from mental analysis, bhavanamayapannya, wisdom from cultivation, frustration, f...
Luang Por Munindo - The Pain Of Perpetual Wanting
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - April 28, 2024 23:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) Restless, unsettled, asking yourself a question, gratify, aim, listening from the heart, ears in your chest, Ajahn Chah, tape recorder, conscious relationship, dreaming, afraid to feel, contracted denial, breathing exercise, chanting, no judgement, cookies an...
You Need Time and Space ALONE for a RESET of your Life
Through a Monk's Eyes - April 16, 2024 16:08 ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsFr. Seraphim encourages viewers to take time away before resetting their lives.
Luang Por Munindo - Feeling The Ache Of Longing
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - April 13, 2024 23:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) Christian monk, prayer, induction and instruction, catch a cold, Ajahn Chah in US, pariyatti, Nimbin, do's and don’ts, discipline attention, walking meditation, there’s just-knowing, calm, changed the course of my life, possibilities, 1970’s, questioning, ini...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: Identified As The Activity Of Awareness Or As Awareness Itself
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - April 07, 2024 23:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (edited version) Q: "Are we still identifying as the activity taking place in our hearts and minds, or are we remembering our refuge in the Buddha, in just-knowing awareness?" Dhammapada Reflections, framing experience, victims of suffering, Ajahn Thate, refuge, content, context, Awak...
Luang Por Munindo - The Number One Global Stressor
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - March 31, 2024 00:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada verse 163, Devadatta, winter retreat, excruciatingly difficult, intensely threatening, junk food, affluence, obesity, ease of access to information, contentment, ecological stressor, wars, technology, identified with the deluded sense of self, ‘my ...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: How To Deal With Feeling Misunderstood?
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - March 25, 2024 00:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (edited version) Q: “Can you speak about jealousy and how I can practice to combat the envy others have in my practice? Sometimes, friends can be critical and speak in a way that is judgemental and disparaging towards me. I feel misunderstood. How can I deal with this?” Self-centred, ...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: Please Would You Explain What Is Meant By, Being Born And Dying Moment By Moment
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - March 25, 2024 00:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (edited version) Q: "I have heard according to Theravada Buddhist teachings we are born and die at every moment, and we do this continuously, not only after our final breath. Could you please explain what this means?” Dependent Origination, kamma, rebirth, willing, daring, enquiring, ...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: Though I Am Practising Hard, I Seem To Be Going Backwards
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - March 25, 2024 00:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (edited version) Q: I have intensified my practice over the last year and a half. During this time my sila has gone backwards: Why is this the case? Sila, anger, attention, light, energy, dissolve, denial, restraint, 5 precepts, heedlessness, will, Ajahn Dukkha, conflation, peaceful, ...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: How Might Those With A Scientific Background Relate To Teachings On Rebirth?
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - March 25, 2024 00:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (edited version) Q: "For those of us with a Western scientific back ground, some of the more metaphysical teachings of the Buddha's teachings such as rebirth are hard to make sense of. And even from the perspective of the teaching on Anatta, rebirth is hard to make sense of! Please co...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: Isn’t It Selfish To Be Cultivating Contentment?
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - March 14, 2024 00:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) "Are we lacking in empathy if we feel contentment amongst all this suffering. Or are we indeed being selfish?" Dhammapada verse 197, 198, egotistical perspective, inflated, meditation, stillness and peace, deeper dimensions, ocean, bilingual, driving a car, a...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: What Precautions To take To Protect The Opening Heart?
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - March 14, 2024 00:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) "Are there any precautions of safeguards I should be taking as I sense the tenderness of my heart opening?" Becoming overly sensitive, parenting, karaniya metta sutta, normality, native sensitivity, naively vulnerable, hurt, the Buddha had pain, Vulture’s Pea...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: A Contemplation On The 5 Spiritual Faculties?
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - March 14, 2024 00:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) The Teaching of the Cobra, filtered through perceptions, uncertainty, conceptual level, intuitive level, felt level, letting go, unfortunately limited, clinging to forms, resistance, arguments, intuitive, excruciating consequences, flippant, precepts, drinkin...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: Can You Recommend Ways Of Letting Go Of Painful Rejections?
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - March 14, 2024 00:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) "I have been ghosted by two close friends. They disappeared, without explanation. I emailed each 3 times requesting an open discussion and neither replied. In meditation, I offer and ask for forgiveness. Can you recommend additional ways to help let go of the...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: A Contemplative Perspective On Compulsive Stress Eating
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - March 14, 2024 00:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) “I know from past experiences that increased food intake never genuinely makes me feel better. Might you have any advice? Evolutionary biologists, psychologists, demonize desire, wanting, craving, wholesome desires, enemy, smoking, breaking the habit, basic s...
Luang Por Munindo - 5 Minute 'Aligning' Meditation
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - February 12, 2024 00:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThis brief, non-traditional exercise of disciplined attention aims at helping meditators return to a state of embodied balance and alignment. It should always be applied with gentleness and care.
Luang Por Munindo - 10 Minute 'Aligning' Meditation
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - February 12, 2024 00:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThis brief, non-traditional exercise of disciplined attention aims at helping meditators return to a state of embodied balance and alignment. It should always be applied with gentleness and care.
Luang Por Munindo - Naturally Deepening Understanding
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - January 16, 2024 00:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) The Teaching of the Cobra, filtered through perceptions, uncertainty, conceptual level, intuitive level, felt level, letting go, unfortunately limited, clinging to forms, resistance, arguments, intuitive, excruciating consequences, flippant, precepts, drinkin...
Luang Por Munindo - The Open-Hearted State
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - December 31, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) new year’s resolution, modesty, truthfulness, assessing truthfulness, asking our heart, centre of the chest, open window, children playing, giggling, parents caring, Handel’s Messiah, retreat, extreme sports, abseiling, free diving, novels, movies, love stori...
Luang Por Munindo - No Days-off In The Monastery
Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks - December 24, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings(keywords) (slightly edited version) primary work, Dhammapada verse 301, cittabhavana, desire, tanha, fear, anxiety, present generated dukkha, old unmet dukkha, adopted dukkha, paranoid, complex, chaotic, satipatthana sutta, sati, recipe book, CJD, disposition, conjure up, numbness, fire, daring...
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