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2023-02-06 "Home base" guided Satipatthana meditation 35:55
Ayya Tathaloka
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Dhammadharini :  2023 Winter Retreat, “Returning Home to the Satipatthanas: Where the Whole Path Comes Together”

2023-02-06 The Ovada Patimokkha & the Satipatthana: Connections and cultural context 50:40
Ayya Tathaloka
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Discussing connections between the Ovada Patimokkha and Satipatthana, and providing cultural context and explanation of terminology used in the Satipatthana sutta - with an emphasis on how this can inform our meditation practice.
Dhammadharini :  2023 Winter Retreat, “Returning Home to the Satipatthanas: Where the Whole Path Comes Together”

2017-06-06 Balancing the Mind in Meditation 48:48
Ayya Sobhana
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After her 6 week retreat at Dhammadharini, Ayya Sobhana shares guidelines for working with cittanupasana (contemplation of mental factors) and how to balance the mind factors that may come up in metta meditation. She also links the contemplation of the elements as tools to balancing the mind.
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2017-05-30 Sense Restraint as Part of the Gradual Training 48:29
Ayya Suvijjana
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Ayya Suvijjana talks about the first aspect of the gradual training given by the Buddha: sense restraint (indiya samvara). She reads from the Samyutta Nikaya 48.52 about the request from en elder monk (Mallika) for the Buddha's teaching in brief.
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2017-05-28 Vesak talk 49:25
Ayya Tathaloka
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2017-03-07 Why the 5 Aggregates are a Summery of Suffering 45:45
Ayya Sobhana
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This is a review of how clinging to the five aggregates is a summary of suffering and, in particular, why consciousness can be a key as to whether we are hooked in the system or not. Using examples from neuroscience Ayya Sobhana explains how before knowing the Dhamma we are much more reactive to 'the slings and arrow of outrageous fortune', but through practice we can become more equanimous and calm and can receive the experience of life without being disturbed by it.
Dhammadharini :  Tuesday Night Dhamma 2017 - The Five Aggregates

2017-02-26 Reflection on Patacari: From Sorrow to Freedom 26:02
Ayya Sobhana
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This is the third of four special Dhammadharini events celebrating the yearlong 2600th anniversary of Bhikkhuni Sangha, with a focus on the Arahant Bhikkhuni Mahapajapati Gotami, as the pathbreaker, leader, and mentor of the early women's sangha. This was a Seminar on the Leadership of Women in Buddhism.
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2017-02-26 Ayya Dhira on Ayya Khema: Path to Ordination and Becoming a Teacher 48:32
Ayya Dhira
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This is the third of four special Dhammadharini events celebrating the yearlong 2600th anniversary of Bhikkhuni Sangha, with a focus on the Arahant Bhikkhuni Mahapajapati Gotami, as the pathbreaker, leader, and mentor of the early women's sangha. In this talk Ayya Dhira from Germany gives a history of Ayya Khema also from Germany.
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2017-01-24 The Joy of Renunciation 51:58
Ayya Sobhana
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This talk was offered during the Tuesday night meditation. It talks about what questions to ask to use renunciation as a practice whether a monastic or in lay life.
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2017-01-18 Dhatuvibhanga Sutta - The Exposition on the Elements 1:25:22
Ayya Sobhana
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This talk was given at Yoga Mendocino. Ayya Sobhana first leads a meditation based on the first section of the Dhatuvibhanga Sutta using the elements. Then at 35:30 she goes on to summarize the sutta and take questions. This talk was given a few weeks after the bhikkhunis had done an extensive study of the sutta in their winter retreat.
Dhammadharini (Yoga Mendocino)

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