Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Bhante Buddharakkhita's most recent Dharma talks

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Learning to use mindful attention to unskillful and skillful state of mind is crucial for continuity of our practice in daily life

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Practicing the Noble 8 fold path can lead to experiencing a lot of joy in our practice and daily life. Joy serves as a basis & support for awakening; as a signpost to our progress, and an anti-dote to suffering

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Meeting aversion with mindfulness can lead to freedom from suffering

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Mindfulness of 6 senses can lead to equanimity where we are no longer attached to pleasant experience or aversive to unpleasant experiences.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The practice of equanimity towards beings and various states of minds, such as the eight worldly winds, can lead to peace and freedom.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) When we bring awareness to major intentions, we can make wise/wholesome choices & the practice of continuity of mindfulness, concurrence and concentration.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Pain is a given and suffering is optional. Mindfulness of unpleasant feelings, such as pain, can transform pain into fertile soil for wisdom and for freedom from suffering to arise.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Mindfulness of feelings plays a crucial role in our daily life and practice. The arising of feelings is beyond our control but mindfulness of them can make a difference between being in bondage and being free from suffering.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Practicing the 4 protective meditation namely- Reflection on the qualities of the Buddha or Dhamma or Sangha; Reflection on metta, reflection of body parts (visible ones); reflection on death causes and protect us from: Doubt, Attachment, Aversion, Laziness, respectively.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Metta is the quality of the heart/mind that wishes for the welfare, happiness and benefit of all sentient beings. Daily practice of Metta can reduce anger, aversion and lead to joy, happiness and concentration. All of which is very critical to the path of liberation.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Mindful reflection along with one's virtues such as observing the 5 precepts can lead to joy, happiness and fuel the path to freedom.

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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Cessation of Suffering coincides the realization of the end of suffering with the elimination of craving for sense pleasures, craving for existence and craving for non-existence. This is the practice toward ultimate final peace, Nibbana.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Meditate like chicken! A meditator should focus on skillful intention and right effort (both of which) are under one's control. However the result are beyond one's control.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding Suffering and abandoning the cause of suffering (craving for sense pleasures, craving for existence and craving for non-existence) can lead to peace, happiness and freedom.

(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center) Life is sometimes like a roller coaster. You can choose to scream at the ups and downs or apply a balanced mind and enjoy the ride. How do we stay calm and balanced in the face of happiness and pain?

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Mindfulness practice helps us to prevent and overcome unskillful states of mind and develop and maintain wholesome states of mind.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding the 11 benefits of practicing Metta along with mindfulness of the loveability of the difficult person and all beings can lead to happiness and freedom of the mind from annoyance.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The arising of the 5-hindrances is beyond our control. However mindfulness and wisdom applied to these hindrances can make a difference between being caught up in them and being free from them.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Use the acronym of M.A.I.N. (Mindfulness, Attitude, Insight and non-clinging) towards mindfulness of wholesome emotion can lead to development and maintain these beautiful states of mind such as generosity, lovingkindness, compassion, joy, happiness and wisdom.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness of hearing is one of five practices of mindfulness of Six Sense base. This practice can ground us by anchoring our attention apart from preventing unskillful states of mind from arising.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) By reflecting qualities of the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha along with the reflection on our ethical conduct, we experience peace, happiness and freedom.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The practice of the Noble eight fold path can transform oneself in the world around us

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness of the six senses, and removing the fetters can lead to various stages of enlightenment

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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practicing appreciative joy towards oneself and sentient beings, can overcome env, jealousy, aversion and lead to peace and happiness

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Questions about dealing with boredom/sloth and tupor. If there is no self in what is reborn

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness of the five aggregates of clinging can lead to freedom from clinging and letting go of conceit and wrong view

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to deal with the absence of hinderances plus other questions

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness of the five aggregates of clinging, can give insight into non-self, and can break through self delusion, and lead to freedom from suffering

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reminding yogis to slow down in order to see more details of this practice

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness of the intentions can help us to see our motivation behind actions. Also, this practice can reveal the relationship between cause and effect

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Twelve ways of meeting emotions with mindfulness and wisdom. Search practices pave the way to peace, happiness, and freedom.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness of the body, feelings, mind states, and Dharma's can lead to peace, happiness, and final liberation

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practicing appreciative joy forwards the success of others and can contribute to our happiness and peace

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) By developing the noble eightfold path we can abandon mental defilements (fetters) and realize peace, happiness, and ultimate freedom (Nibbana)

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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Meeting fear with mindfulness, courage, and wisdom can lead to peace, happiness, and final freedom

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The practice of impermanence can help us to overcome all kinds of cravings and experience freedom from suffering.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The practice of choiceless awareness is very important for progressing on the path to liberation

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Meeting the five hindrances with mindfulness and wisdom can make a huge difference in either being caught in them or being free from them

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness of the four elements helps to mentally dissect the body and go deeper into a visceral experience of the body

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The cultivation of right view of understanding can pave the way to ultimate happiness.

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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Venerable Bhante Buddharakkhita's Dhamma talk on Compassion and Equanimity--given at the Uganda Buddhist Centre temple.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Venerable Bhante Buddharakkhita's meditation instructions on the three characteristics of existence (impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, non-self)--given at the Uganda Buddhist Centre temple.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Venerable Bhante Buddharakkhita's meditation instructions on mindfulness of breathing--given at the Uganda Buddhist Centre temple.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Venerable Bhante Buddharakkhita's opening talk--given at the Uganda Buddhist Centre temple. Instructions on taking the refuges and precepts, call & response chanting, and remarks.