All Episodes
Ayya Santacitta's most recent Dharma talks (Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) — 141 episodes
Ayya Santacitta: A Way of Life That Is Onward-Leading
Ayya Santacitta: New Ways of Looking: Earth As Teacher
Ayya Santacitta: Moving at the Speed of Trust
Ayya Santacitta, Venerable Satima: Closing Ceremony
Ayya Santacitta: Progression of Insight & Mortality
Ayya Santacitta: The Five Faculties & Recognizing the Earth as Teacher
Ayya Santacitta: Devotion to Openness
Ayya Santacitta: Beyond What We Already Know OR Think We Know
Ayya Santacitta: Balancing Panna & Saddha
Ayya Santacitta: A Grounded Knowing
Ayya Santacitta: Indriya & Bala or the Buoyancy Needed to Continue
Ayya Santacitta: Letting Go into Metta
Ayya Santacitta: Developing the Five Indriya or Spiritual Faculties
Ayya Santacitta: The Three Refuges & the Mind Wide Open
Ayya Santacitta: Five Supports for Letting Go
Ayya Santacitta: What Most Needs to be Re-Membered in Service of Life?
Ayya Santacitta: Ancient Technologies ~ Reconsidering Our Ways of Looking
Ayya Santacitta: Reframing Perception VI ~ Refinement in the Service of Life
Ayya Santacitta: Reframing Perception V ~ What Is Real?
Ayya Santacitta: Reframing Perception IV ~ Linear & Cyclical Time
Ayya Santacitta: Recognizing In Ourselves the Very Buddha In Whom We Take Refuge
Ayya Santacitta: We Live in All Things, All Things Live in Us
Ayya Santacitta: Impermanence, Mortality and Other Enriching Contemplations
Ayya Santacitta: Letting Go & Letting Come ~ Our Aspiration(s) for the New Year
Ayya Santacitta: We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
Ayya Santacitta: Medicine for the Heart
Ayya Santacitta: Reframing Perception III ~ Our Life Seen From Afar
Ayya Santacitta: Reframing Perception II and The Unforgotten Wisdom at the Core of the Psyche
Ayya Santacitta: Reframing Perception I
Ayya Santacitta: Reframing Ourselves ~ Reframing Our Lives
Ayya Santacitta: Going Beyond What We Know in Service of What We Love
Ayya Santacitta: Choosing to Listen to Aliveness
Ayya Santacitta: Staying Engaged Takes Us Beyond Boundaries
Ayya Santacitta: Shifting Our Sense of Being
Ayya Santacitta: Standing Firm With Earth
Ayya Santacitta: Finding a Different Way to Move With All of It
Ayya Santacitta: Art & Symbols Are Portals Into New Realities
Ayya Santacitta: Giving In Rather Than Giving Up
Ayya Santacitta: Wisdom & Faith: Adjusting to Reality
Ayya Santacitta: Listening to What We Belong to
Ayya Santacitta: This Is a Journey of Discovery
Ayya Santacitta: I am the World & I Eat the World
Ayya Santacitta: The Pressure Which Urges Us to Evolve
Ayya Santacitta: Ancient Evolutionary Structures Rumbling
Ayya Santacitta: Let my Gift to the World be My Constancy
Ayya Santacitta: Faith & Wisdom or Living the Question
Ayya Santacitta: No Mud No Lotus
Ayya Santacitta: Restoring Ancestral Relationships
Ayya Santacitta: Impermanence ~ a Key for Opening the Door to Liberation
Ayya Santacitta: Landing in the Body & the Land
Ayya Santacitta: Widening the Arc of the Crash of Modernity
Ayya Santacitta: This Is Truly a Collective Practice
Ayya Santacitta: Stay Engaged So That the Path Can Become Discernable
Ayya Santacitta: Tending What Is Dense & Dark (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
Ayya Santacitta: Allowing Endings to Be What They Are (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
Ayya Santacitta: Making the Spaciousness of the Mind Accessible (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
Ayya Santacitta: Vistas We Have Never Seen Before (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
Ayya Santacitta: Ecoliteracy: Learning a New Language (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
Ayya Santacitta: Help Nature to Do Its Thing!
Ayya Santacitta: Lean Into What Really Matters
Ayya Santacitta: Taking the Long Term View & Serving Life
Ayya Santacitta: All of Us: Past, Present & Future
Ayya Santacitta: Opening to the Plain Potential of What Comes Next
Ayya Santacitta: Imagining Worlds Worth Working For
Ayya Santacitta, Laura Bridgman: Closing Comments
Ayya Santacitta: Talk - Let my Gift to Myself be Patience (Closing Reflections, including Poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer).
Ayya Santacitta: Trusting the Flow - Guided Meditation on the 5 Spiritual Faculties.
Ayya Santacitta: Talk & Guided Meditation - Bringing Wisdom & Faith into Centre Stage.
Ayya Santacitta: Talk - Not Too Much, Not Too Little - Practicing the Middle Path.
Ayya Santacitta: Guided Meditation - Arriving, Settling, Getting Started.
Ayya Santacitta: Challenging Habits of Modernity or a Different Kind of Generosity
Ayya Santacitta: Composting the Old Paradigm & Composting Yourself
Ayya Santacitta: Fine-tuning the Mind & 4 Tasks in an Age of Endings
Ayya Santacitta: The Way of Love Is Not a Subtle Argument
Ayya Santacitta: That's How Evolution Works ~ it's messy
Ayya Santacitta: The Five Elements Revisited ~ as earthworms do
Ayya Santacitta: Drawing Capacity from the Depth of Our Being
Ayya Santacitta: We Belong to a Rich & Robust Lineage
Ayya Santacitta: We Are Not Without Medicine!
Ayya Santacitta: How to Meet These Times?
Ayya Santacitta: A Launching Board for Growth
Ayya Santacitta: Being Rooted Here
Ayya Santacitta: Meeting the New Year With All Its Challenges and Blessings
Ayya Santacitta: Stepping Out of the Silo of Human Supremacy in 2025
Ayya Santacitta: Landing & Letting Go of the Addiction to Complexity
Ayya Santacitta: Earthbody Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: Grounded and Open to the New: Reflections on Winter Solstice and the Four Brahmaviharas
Ayya Santacitta: Chanting + A Reflection on Joy
Ayya Santacitta: The Mind Which Does Not Cling: Reflection on 7 Factors of Awakening followed by Guided Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: Dawning of a New Perception: Reflection on 4 Satipatthana and Bramhavihara followed by Guided Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: Our Belonging to this Planet
Ayya Santacitta: Upekkha and Allowing Things to End
Ayya Santacitta: Becoming the One You Have Been Waiting For
Ayya Santacitta: Freeing Up the Beauty
Ayya Santacitta: The Body as an Organ of Listening & Sensing
Ayya Santacitta: Expanding Perception through Contemplation of the Four Elements
Ayya Santacitta: Connected, yet spacious & balanced
Ayya Santacitta: If you can't get out of it, you need to get into it
Ayya Santacitta: Centering Practice and Sensing the Body
Ayya Santacitta: 'I Don't Know' Is a Powerful Point of Departure
Ayya Santacitta: Giving Thanks to Our Elder the Earth
Ayya Santacitta: Earthworm Practice in the Middle of It All
Ayya Santacitta: Our Bodies are Our Connection to Life
Ayya Santacitta: Power as Process ~ a Devotion to Openness
Ayya Santacitta: Let my Gift to Myself be Patience
Ayya Santacitta: Mature Love or There In the Middleness
Ayya Santacitta: The Biosphere Knows How to Stay Alive
Ayya Santacitta: Suffering and the End of Suffering: The Buddha’s Teaching on Anatta
Ayya Santacitta: Knowing What is Good for Oneself and What is Good for Others
Ayya Santacitta: Waking up to Being Participants of the Planet: Guided Meditation on the 5 Elements
Ayya Santacitta: Getting a Handle on Delusion: The Four Distortions of Perception
Ayya Santacitta: Seamless ~ Earth 'Speaking' to Earth Directly
Ayya Santacitta: Medicine for Overcoming Human Supremacy
Ayya Santacitta: Steadiness ~ Walking the Question & Becoming the Answer
Ayya Santacitta: The Wisdom of No Escape & Our Innermost Request
Ayya Santacitta: Beauty of Maturation ~ a Sensitizing to the Subtlety of That Truth
Ayya Santacitta: Staying As the Knowing ~ Stretch But Not Tear
Ayya Santacitta: We Are Worked Upon & Need to Allow It to Happen
Ayya Santacitta: As Old Barriers Are Melting Away ~ Precision as an Expression of Love
Ayya Santacitta: Realignment ~ Let the Alchemy Take Place
Ayya Santacitta: Stepping Outside the Box of the Current Cultural Paradigm
Ayya Santacitta: The More-Than-Human World Has Our Back Every Moment
Ayya Santacitta: Sense Making = When Cognition & Sensing Happen Together
Ayya Santacitta: How Can We Tap into the Liberating Potential of the Way Things Are?
Ayya Santacitta: The Body - a Field of Blessings & Challenges
Ayya Santacitta: Precision & Opening to What We Need to Know
Ayya Santacitta: A Road Map Through a Web of Assumptions
Ayya Santacitta: Honing the 7 Factors of Awakening on the Threshold
Ayya Santacitta: Emergence Happens as We Enter Sensorial Presence
Ayya Santacitta: Not Going Back But Coming Full Circle
Ayya Santacitta: Attunement ~ Becoming Like an Antenna
Ayya Santacitta: On the Threshold ~ The Sacred Is Not a Destination But an Approach!
Ayya Santacitta: There Is a Way to Mature Into ~ a Plug In Practice Ritual
Ayya Santacitta: Our Calling Fuels Our Evolution
Ayya Santacitta: Connecting With Your Calling ~ How the Biosphere Wants to Heal Itself Through You
Ayya Santacitta: Fake It Until You Make It ~ Being the Change We Want to See
Ayya Santacitta: Inviting Archaic Memories of Confidence & Wellbeing to Emerge Organically
Ayya Santacitta: Our Bodies, the Elements & Integration of Deep Time
Ayya Santacitta: Sense Yourself as a Fully Networked Organism!
Ayya Santacitta: Admiring the Earth, Feeling the Stretch and Being OK With That
Ayya Santacitta: Restoring Ourselves to Community With the More-Than-Human World