Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Ajahn Jayanto's most recent Dharma talks
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Born in Boston in 1967, Ajahn Jayanto grew up in Newton and attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison, during which time a period of world travel kindled a great interest in the spiritual life. A meditation class at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center led him to live for a while at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he made plans to join the monastic community of Ajahn Sumedho as a postulant at Amaravati Monastery in England in 1989. Taking bhikkhu (monk) ordination at the related Cittaviveka Monastery in 1991, he trained there and at Aruna Ratanagiri Monastery until 1997, at which point he embarked on a period of practice in Thailand and other Asian Buddhist countries. He returned to the UK in 2006, where he lived at Amaravati until moving to Temple in 2014. Since 2009 Ajahn Jayanto has helped to lead the efforts to establish a branch monastery in New England, and he now serves as abbot of Temple Forest Monastery.
Episodes
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Ajahn Jayanto: Afternoon Sit
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
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Ajahn Jayanto, Ajahn Sucitto, Ayya Medhanandi: About Chithurst Monastery, Temple Forest Monastery, and Sati Sārāņīya Hermitage
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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Ajahn Jayanto: This Precious Life
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) General reflections on practice.
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Ajahn Jayanto: Heart Body
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on body contemplation and loving kindness.
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Ajahn Jayanto, Ajahn Metta, Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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Ajahn Jayanto: Movement, Mirrors and Balance
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Finding balance and consistency in using the stuff of life to learn how the heart moves and deepens the practice
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Ajahn Jayanto, Ajahn Sucitto, Ayya Medhanandi: Closing remarks around precepts and spiritual friendships.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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Ajahn Jayanto: Bring Daily Life Into Practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on themes of the retreat in the context of its ending; ways we can use the teachings practically in our lives.
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Ajahn Jayanto, Ajahn Sucitto, Ayya Medhanandi: Questions and Answers
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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Ajahn Jayanto: Being With It
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Bring kindness to our practice by remembering that we care - and that we practice in relationship to ourselves and others.
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Ajahn Jayanto: Taking The Practice Home
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Tips towards expanding our practice to encompass the whole of our lives.
About this show
Born in Boston in 1967, Ajahn Jayanto grew up in Newton and attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison, during which time a period of world travel kindled a great interest in the spiritual life. A meditation class at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center led him to live for a while at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he made plans to join the monastic community of Ajahn Sumedho as a postulant at Amaravati Monastery in England in 1989. Taking bhikkhu (monk) ordination at the related Cittaviveka Monastery in 1991, he trained there and at Aruna Ratanagiri Monastery until 1997, at which point he embarked on a period of practice in Thailand and other Asian Buddhist countries. He returned to the UK in 2006, where he lived at Amaravati until moving to Temple in 2014. Since 2009 Ajahn Jayanto has helped to lead the efforts to establish a branch monastery in New England, and he now serves as abbot of Temple Forest Monastery.
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