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Kittisaro, from Tennessee, a Rhodes Scholar and a Buddhist practitioner for over 35 years including 15 years as a Theravada monk in the Forest School of Ajahn Chah. He is also a practitioner of Pure Land and Chan Buddhism. He is co-founder, with Thanissara of Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat in South Africa and has completed two year long retreats. Kittisaro currently lives in the North Bay, California, teaches at IMS and Spirit Rock, and is co-author of Listening to the Heart, A Contemplative Journey to Engaged Buddhism. He lives in the North Bay CA, and is on the Teacher Council at Spirit Rock, and is a core teacher at IMS.

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Episodes

  1. Kittisaro: Retreat Review-All Practices point to the Mind/Heart

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  2. Kittisaro: Universal Door 2 Living Dynamic Refuge - Kuan Yin Recitation Samadhi

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  3. Kittisaro: Universal Door 1: One Substance, One Heart, One Body, Kuan Yin–Holding the Sacred Name

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  4. Kittisaro: Raft to the Peaceful Shore

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  5. Kittisaro: Namo, Faith and Returning my Life into the Way

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  6. Kittisaro: It's Ungraspable - the Multiplicity Within Wholeness

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  7. Kittisaro: Primal Bright Essence of Consciousness

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  8. Kittisaro: Tathagatagarbha - Primordial Matrix of Being

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  9. Kittisaro: Shurangama Samādhi: The Great Return

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  10. Kittisaro: The Extraordinary Blessings of Metta

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  11. Kittisaro: Transforming Struggle with Metta- Kind, Welcoming Attention

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  12. Kittisaro: Sky-line Heart: Beyond Concept and Conditioning

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  13. Kittisaro: Sakkha’s Question: The Cause of War and its End

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  14. Kittisaro: One Taste, Peace of Nibbana, Asankhata Dharma

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  15. Kittisaro: Overview of the Four Truths Leading to Peace

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  16. Kittisaro: The Extraordinary Transformative Power of Dharma + Story of Angulimala

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  17. Kittisaro: Nirodha (cessation of dukkha) and the Return to One Heart

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  18. Kittisaro: Stepping Out of Samsara

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  19. Kittisaro: Dharma Medicine: Samādhi & Guided Anapanasati Meditation

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  20. Kittisaro: Restoring Well-Being & Working with Long-term Illness

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  21. Kittisaro: From the Perilous to Safety through the Cultivation of Meditation

    (Big Bear Retreat Center)

  22. Kittisaro: No Footprints in the Sky (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflection and practice around the sky-like mind. Radical reflection, returning to the root, turning the mind to the deathless. Contemplating "what remains."

  23. Kittisaro: Breaking the Spell: Fingersnaps of Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) From the Shurangama Sutra, reflecting how all phenomena arises within the Wonderful bright true mind." Two potent tools for dispelling the illusion of separative consciousness: the contemplation of change and the cultivation of kindness.

  24. Kittisaro: Morning Sitting with Instructions: The Two Fundamental Roots; Contemplating Conditions and the Unconditioned. (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Kondañña's breakthrough contemplating guest/dust. As space is to form and silence is to sound, so is awareness to all phenomena.

  25. Kittisaro: Dharma Talk: The Great Return (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Radical reflection — returning to the root. Contemplation of impermanence as a potent key leading to dispassion, and the heart returning to its on unshakeable nature; mantra as mind-ground practice

  26. Kittisaro: Dharma Talk: Mindfulness, the Path to the One

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Relationship of mindfulness to Samadhi: Mindfulness of Breathing

  27. Kittisaro: Remembering Ajahn Chah

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  28. Kittisaro: The Great Return: A Taste of Peace (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  29. Kittisaro: There Are No Footprints In The Sky (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Contemplation of form & emptiness. Everything is sacred. Emptiness facilitates resonant response. Undivided non-dual nature of reality.

  30. Kittisaro: Freedom is the Essence of All Things (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Contemplating what never changes. The indestructible heart. Mind the Gap. Radical reflection, returning to the root, where all things merge. Kuan Yin's meditation method.

  31. Kittisaro: The Interplay Between Samatha and Vipassana

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Calm and Insight; contemplating supports for samadhi (unification of heart). Vitakka (directed thought), vicara (exploring, receptive attention), piti (joy), sukha (ease). Guided Meditation through 16 steps of Anapanasati Sutta.

  32. Kittisaro: True Peace Is Not Far Away

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The revelatory power of contemplating change, unreliability, and not self. What robs the heart of well being? Recognizing hindrances as teachers. Letting go.

  33. Kittisaro: Patiently Arriving : The Alchemy of Awareness--Retreat at Spirit Rock (Day 1)

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) First Day. Overview of Path: Sila (Virtuous Restraint), Samadhi (Collectedness), Panna (Wisdom). Patience and kindness in cultivating mindfulness of breathing. Buddho - Sacred word and moderating thought.

  34. Kittisaro: Monday Night Dharma Talk - The Power of Holding a Sacred Name

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  35. Kittisaro: This is Peaceful

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on Nibbana

  36. Kittisaro: Understand, Release, Realize, and Cultivate (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) 4 Noble Truths, Anatta

  37. Kittisaro: The Happiness of the Buddha (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Turning point in the Buddha's life. Reflections on mindfulness of breathing. Supports of samadhi. The great return, discovering the treasures of the heart.

  38. Kittisaro: The importance of cultivating the measureless.

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Dissolving unwholesome karma through the Brahma Viharas and other practices. The simile of the Salt Crystal.

  39. Kittisaro: This Is The Happiness Of The Buddha

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Gratitude to the parents and Ajahn Chah.

  40. Kittisaro: Receive The Moment: Cultivating The Friendly Heart

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Extending Metta above, below, and all around.

  41. Kittisaro: Like Drew Drops And A Lightning Flash

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring the relationship of conditions to unconditioned. Teachings of the two roots in the Mahayana and Theravada texts. Shurangma Sutra and Mula Sutta

  42. Kittisaro: One Taste: Return To The Root

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The merging of the Mahayana and Theravada. Kuan Yin's method. Turning the mind to the deathless.

  43. Kittisaro: Indestructible Samadhi.

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reflections on Shurangama Samadhi. Kuan Yin's meditation method. Retuning the hearing. Mind returning home.

  44. Kittisaro: Entering The Mula Sutta: Journey To Freedom

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Born of desire are all things. Ruled by mindfulness are all things. Yielding deliverance as essence are all things. Turning the mind to the deathless.

  45. Kittisaro: The Liberating Power Of Breath Practice

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Buddha's description of his own use of this practice: a neble dwelling, A Tathagata abiding. Deeping into the four tetrads of the Anapanasati Sutta

  46. Kittisaro: Introduction To The Anapanasati Sutta

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Mindfulness of breathing, 16 steps, four tetrads, Fulfilling the four foundations of mindfulness

  47. Kittisaro: The Five Great Gifts

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Beginning s month-long retreat. Aligning with refuge. The five great gifts of undertaking the five precepts. Not being in a hurry.

  48. Kittisaro: Meditation: Peace as the Ground of Resilience

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Gradual entry into release and peace as the ground of resilience.

  49. Kittisaro: Trust the Path: Medicine for Our Times (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  50. Kittisaro: Honoring the Sacred in this Moment (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Listening into depth. Relinquishing grasping and aversion is Nibbana. Working with breath and mantra. Resourcing ourselves.

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About this show

Kittisaro, from Tennessee, a Rhodes Scholar and a Buddhist practitioner for over 35 years including 15 years as a Theravada monk in the Forest School of Ajahn Chah. He is also a practitioner of Pure Land and Chan Buddhism. He is co-founder, with Thanissara of Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat in South Africa and has completed two year long retreats. Kittisaro currently lives in the North Bay, California, teaches at IMS and Spirit Rock, and is co-author of Listening to the Heart, A Contemplative Journey to Engaged Buddhism. He lives in the North Bay CA, and is on the Teacher Council at Spirit Rock, and is a core teacher at IMS.

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