Podcast – Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
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The Body is in Awareness
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Residential Non-Retreat 2013 (Thirteenth Talk). We can use the teaching on anattÄ (not-self) to clearly see our attachment to the body. As an exercise, try sitting and thinking: "The body is in awareness."
The Timelessness of Awareness
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2013 (Fourteenth Talk). How to use the creations of the mind skillfuly and access which thinking is helpful and which is not.
Big Sunglasses With Eye Balls Falling Out of Your Head
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2013 (Fifteenth Talk). Ajahn Viradhammo encourages us to relax our eyes during meditation, explaining a couple ways we can do this, and leading a guided meditation to support this practice.
True Self-Help
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2013 (Eighth Talk). Ajahn Viradhammo speaks about Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Liem, analysing several readings to better understand enlightenment experiences and the process of how we suffer.
Making Effort Right Effort
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Residential Non-Retreat 2013 (Ninth Talk). Through a natural process of experimentation and investigation we can gain wisdom and learn how to make effort, right effort. By clearly seeing if an experience is increasing wholesome
Raising Energy Overcoming Dullness
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2013 (Tenth Talk). A quick example of how to use the breath to bring energy up in the practice.
How to Handle Thought Q & A
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2013 (Eleventh Talk). We deal with thought by changing unskillful perceptions into skillful perceptions. We are trying to figure out how to balance the mind, asking ourselves: "what does the mind need rig
I Teach Frustration
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2013 (Fifth Talk). Ajahn Cha would say: "I teach frustration." Ajahn Viradhammo explains how he learned in Thailand to frustrate his desires. By going against our natural habits of desire, comfort seeki
Brahmaviharas Guided Meditation
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2013 (Sixth Talk). This guided meditation begins with a talk about this-that conditionality. By questioning whether the mind is in a wholesome or unwholesome state we can more easily understand cause and
Ajahn Chah’s Teachings on Not-Self
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2013 (Seventh Talk). Ajahn Viradhammo reads some of Ajahn Chah's words on Dhamma and explains how Ajahn Chah taught his disciples about not-self.