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Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks — 298 episodes
Success Calls For Commitment
Intentional Appreciation
It Is What You Are, Not What You Look Like: Ajahn Chah Memorial
The Special Relevance Of Compassion
Reintegrating Rather Than Relinquishing
Seeing Humility As A Safety Net
Susceptible To Seeing Anew
Outshining The Sorrow
Nekkhamma And Option Fatigue
This New Religious Paradigm
Balancing of Wisdom and Compassion
The Positivity Of Denied Dukkha
The Three Greats
Right Determination
Readying Ourselves For Life
The Doorway Of Generosity
The Actual Newness Of Each Moment
The Fundamentalist Disposition
On Humility
The World On Fire
An Avoidable Conflagration
Respect, Humility, Contentment, Gratitude
Q: Dealing With The Endlessly Critical Voice In My Head
Building Beautiful Friendships
Q: How To Practice With A Conceited Sense Of Superiority?
The Saying No Practice
Q: How Do Buddhists And Non-Buddhists Handle Anxiety?
The First 45 Years Were The Hardest
Trusting In Open-Hearted Awareness
Many Blessings Received From Luang Por Sumedho
Q: How Can I Be Sure
Going Forth from Home to Homelessness
The Pain of Perpetual Wanting
Feeling The Ache Of Longing
Q: Identified As The Activity Of Awareness Or As Awareness Itself
The Number One Global Stressor
Q: How Might Those With A Scientific Background Relate To Teachings On Rebirth?
Q: Though I Am Practising Hard, I Seem To Be Going Backwards
Q: How To Deal With Feeling Misunderstood?
Q: Please Would You Explain What Is Meant By, Being Born And Dying Moment By Moment
Q: A Contemplation On The 5 Spiritual Faculties?
Q: A Contemplative Perspective On Compulsive Stress Eating
Q: What Precautions To take To Protect The Opening Heart?
Q: Can You Recommend Ways Of Letting Go Of Painful Rejections?
Q: Isn’t It Selfish To Be Cultivating Contentment?
10 Minute 'Aligning' Meditation
5 Minute 'Aligning' Meditation
Naturally Deepening Understanding
The Open-Hearted State
No Days-off In The Monastery
Appreciative Awareness Practice
Dissolving Denied Dukkha
Why Can’t I Stop Thinking?
Who Am I Without My Likings and Dislikings
Believing in True Principles or Believing in Personality
Why The Buddha Could Never Be Triggered
Taking the Right Medicine
If You Think You Are Special You Are Probably the Same As Everyone Else
Happiness in the Midst of Unhappiness
Our Evolving Relationship With the Refuges
Hope as a form of Creative Vigilance
How to Live a Life Full of Blessings
UPAYA: Skilful Means
The Disease of Denied Dukkha
Your Spiritual Toolkit
Transform, Translate, Protect
The Right Amount of Pressure
Applied Compassion
Self aligning Self transcending
The Essentiality of this Practice
Positively Alone
What Do We Identify As
The Five Dhamma Delivery Devices
World On Fire
Awareness Work
So Happiness Follows
Fed Up with Becoming Fed Up
Meditation and or Therapy
On Being Ordinary
Functional and Dysfunctional Frustration
Is Buddhism a Form of Escapism?
Applying Skilful Means
‘New and Improved’ or ‘Tried and Tested’
Right Empathy
Refuge in the Three Aspirations
Concord or Conflict
Insight and Integration
Are We Suffering From a Virtue Deficiency?
With Gratitude to Venerable Ajahn Chah
Trusting In True Principles
Wanting to Progress in Practice
Awareness Upgrade
The Middle Way: Not Merely Taking Sides
Contentment Emerging Naturally
Turning Attention Around and Looking Inward
Sitting in the Charnel Grounds
Deepening our Faith
Being Interested in Dukkha
When Faced With a Dilemma
How to Contemplate
Feeling Deeply Threatened
Simplify
Supported and Protected
Do We Really Have To Take Sides
Change and Agility
Recovering From Our Addiction To Distraction
Welcoming the Unwelcome
Wise and Foolish Wanting
So What Have I Learnt in 70 Years
Contributing to a Wisdom Culture
Optimism and Naivety
The Morphing of the Sense of Self
The Option Addiction
Are Kindness and Compassion Already Enough?
Self Caring and Self Obsessing
These Beautiful Emanations
Bowing to Suffering
Wholesomeness Strengthens the Heart
Grasping at a Rainbow
Vector of Embodied Aspiration
Including the Sense of Self
The Disease of Unawareness is Disastrous
Going for Refuge and Identity
Clear and Simple Teachings
Because Some Things Matter More
According With Success and Failure
The Actuality of Sadness
The Most Important Question That Almost Nobody Is Asking
When Practice Doesn’t Go To Plan
When We Get To Feel Too Pleased With Ourselves
Learning To See What We See
I Don’t Know How to Handle this and that is OK
Am I Destined To Feel Guilty Forever
Reactive Or Responsive
Unapologetic Pursuit Of Contentment
Demonising Ego Is Unhelpful
To Make the World a Better Place
The Myth Dispelling Teachings
Enlivening
Befriending Silence
Cultivating Conscious Composure
Fear Also is Part of Practice
Uncertainty, Mindfulness and Wise Reflection
Community, Daring, Adaptability
Handling the Big Questions
Intensity, Agility, Kindness, Resolve
Bringing Light Into The World
Feel The Fear Without Being Afraid
The Point of Virtue
Agility and Patience
Wholehearted Participation In Life
First We Must Meet Ourselves
Building Up A Storehouse of Goodness
Developing Agility of Attention
Wisdom and Compassion Go Together
Making A Difference
In Reality There Are No Problems
Silent, Selfless, Spacious
Extremism and Identity
Unobstructed Blessings
Withdrawing From An Addiction To Distraction
Trusting and Distrusting Teachers
Not As It Appears
Learning From Everything
The Swamp Monster, Fear
Gratitude and Contentment
The Middle Way Is Not All Beige
The Agony of Egoity
Commitment, Competence, Contentment
What Actually is Wisdom
What Actually Is Selfishness
Unobstructed Relationship With Everything
It Is Obvious What We Need To Be Doing
Making Wisdom the Priority
Realigning Perception With Reality
The Stillness of Ajahn Chah
Acceptance and Relinquishment
Skilfully Daring
Agile Attention
Impeccability
Right Renunciation
Aloneness
Applied Mindfulness
Trust and Distrust
Encountering the Uncertain
Let THIS Be Enough
Harmonious Community
Stages and Signposts
A Generative Unfolding
An Apparently Unending Ordeal
With Kind Eyes
For The Benefit Of All: Guided Meditation
Be Like A Tree: Guided Meditation
Die Before You Die
Caring Without Clinging
When We Meet Ourselves
On Not-becoming a Buddhist
Conducive Listening
Moving On
Transmuting Suffering
Consuming the Sacred
We Need All The Reminders
On Being a Servant of Reality
Confidently Not Knowing
Mindful Listening
Why Can't I Let Go
Progress in Practice
Obstructed Awareness
Before Letting Go Happens
Learning from Icarus
The Spirit of the Spiritual Life - Part 2
The Spirit of the Spiritual Life - Part 1
The Carrot Isn't The Goal
Where To Turn For Support
Mindfulness, Restraint, Reflection
Reading Scriptures and Sitting Practice
Dedication of Mangala House
Leave it up to the Buddha
Knowing the Knowing
Constancy Helps
A Daring Spirit
The Way It Seems To Be and The Way It Is
Going for Refuge to Reality
Conducive Conditions
Looking Into Liking and Disliking
Don't Just Read the Map
Our Spiritual Skills
Helpful Ways of Wanting
Understanding Leads to Peace
Trust and Transformation
Finding Sanity in the Midst of Insanity
Exercising Spiritual Ability
Utterly Frustrating Teachings
Teach Me What I Need To Learn
Building on Goodness
Big-Hearted, Broad-Minded
Victory and Defeat
The Buddha’s Most Important Teaching
Little Letting Goes and Big Letting Goes
Current of Goodness
Contrasting Perspective
Escaping this Agony of Egoity
Remembering to Cultivate the Refuges
A Small Problem with the Gong
The Advantages of Commitment
A Fresh Start
Stop
Honouring the Triple Gem
Appreciating Beauty
Sorting the Bullies
The Sensitivity of a Spiritual Warrior
Preference and Prejudice
The Right Amount of Effort
Where the Power Lies
Keeping Effort Constant
Balancing Inner and Outer Attention
Universal Truths
Having without Having
Happiness Guaranteed
Sincerity
Strictly Flexible
Formal and Daily Life Practice
Humility is Helpful
All-pervading Integrity
Practicing below the Radar
Reconsidering Concentration
Relaxation, Concentration, Transformation
Simply Listen
The Right Amount
Forgiveness Makes You Strong
You don't Have to Be a Spiritual Gymnast
The Question of Evil
Not Seeing two Things
I Am not a Sinner
Considering Priorities
Unshakeable Ease
Helping us Do our Work
THIS Is Practice
Actions Have Consequences
Vast Field of Awareness
Valuable Frustration
Going for the Summit
Mind what you Say
Appointment with the Buddha
Spiritual Greed
Funeral Contemplation of Contentment
Entering the Monastery
Awareness Itself
Finding Happiness
Looking into Rainbows
Buddhists Making a Difference
Inspecting Assumptions
What Is the Real Practice
The Craft of Contemplation
Renunciation and the Beautiful
Healthy Doubt
Measuring Practice
Contemplation on Gratitude