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How to meditate | Guided Meditation and talks — 286 episodes

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Simple Truth, Simple Mindfulness

2

Situational Awareness

3

Towards Well-Being and Happiness

4

The Mind of Samadhi

5

Silent Attunement to Stillness

6

The Point of Balance

7

Attention Directed to Breathing

8

The Virtue of Humility

9

Four Basic Postures

10

Clearing Away Obstacles

11

Finding the Place of Stillness

12

Being With the Knowing

13

Questioning the Beliefs of ‘Me’ and ‘Mine’

14

Antidotes to Hindrances

15

Emptying the Emptiness

16

Reflective Attention

17

Here and Now

18

A Sense of Balance

19

Effort With No ‘Me’ at the Center

20

Perception of Here and Now

21

Suffering That Leads to the End of Suffering

22

How Big Is This Room?

23

The Practice of Reflective Enquiry

24

Working With the Body

25

Practice of Inner Listening

26

The Five Khandas

27

Focus of Intention

28

Is That the Mood or the Reality?

29

Open-heartedness

30

The Dhamma Knows ‘Me’

31

From Doer to Doing… and to Non-doing

32

Avijjā Paccayā Sankhārā

33

The Attitude of Non-grasping

34

The Mind’s Representation of the World

35

The Dhamma Aware of Its Nature

36

Trust in Awareness

37

The Last Breath of the Retreat Time

38

That Which is Born of the Dhamma

39

Swimming Against the Stream

40

The Unified Suchness of the Inner Sound

41

The Highlights of the ‘I-ness’ and ‘Me-ness’

42

‘Me’ Who Doesn’t Know

43

In Line with the Openness of the Attention

44

In Tandem with the Breathing

45

Aware of the Body’s Presence

46

The Timeless Door of Dhamma

47

A Profound Moment of No Births and Deaths

48

32nd Anniversary of Luang Por Chah Passing Away (reading)

49

Conscious Invitation

50

Outside of Cause and Above Effect

51

Re-design of the Question ‘Who’

52

The Steady River of Inner Sound

53

Creating Causes for Letting Go

54

Rupam Anattā, the Body Is Not-self

55

Felt Body Presence

56

Dukkha Is to Be Understood

57

A Moment of Inner Peace

58

That Which Knows

59

It’s Only a Feeling

60

The Framework of Dhamma Practice

61

Suññāta and Tathātā (Emptiness/Suchness)

62

Letting Go of Time and Identity

63

Nada Sound: The Ever-present Reminder

64

The Heart Beats While the Body Breathes

65

Self-adjusting Universe

66

Stepping Out of the Stream of Becoming

67

Developing Inner Listening

68

Abiding in Here and Now

69

The World of Convention

70

Cause and Effect

71

Untie the Worldly Thinking

72

Caught Up in the Sensual Music

73

The World of Becoming

74

Mind’s Version of the World

75

Practice Guided by Awareness

76

Habits of Self View

77

A Change of Context

78

Mind Creates Future

79

Whoever Sees the Dhamma Sees the Buddha

80

This World is Not Real

81

Know Your Own Character

82

Cultivating Inner Listening

83

Anicca, Dukkha and Anatta

84

Quality of Awareness

85

Quality of Attitude, Intention and Effort

86

Establishing the Right View of Non-Self

87

The Unconditioned

88

Self View

89

Present

90

Cessation Of Becoming

91

Plans

92

Inner Listening

93

Present Experience

94

Not Trying To Be

95

Ending Dukkha

96

The Mind Goes Out

97

Things Shift

98

The Forerunner of Wholesome States

99

Beautiful Results

100

Not To Do

101

Alive

102

Outflows

103

Present Reality

104

Moment by Moment

105

Following

106

Ideas of the Future

107

Habits of Attachment

108

Clear Seeing

109

Openness of Attitude

110

Non-manifest and Non-manifestative

111

The Process of Experiencing

112

A Change of View

113

Presence of the Body

114

The Perfection of Arising and Passing

115

The Mind’s Version of the World

116

Patterns of Restlessness

117

The Question that Doesn’t Have an Answer

118

Duality Has No Place to Land

119

Letting Go of Causality

120

Let the Awareness Has its Own Effect

121

Crossing the Flood of Attachment

122

Reflecting on Our Own Lives

123

An Offering of Appreciation and Gratitude to Luang Por Sumedho

124

If You Put it All Down You’ll See the Truth

125

The Urge to Become

126

Embodied Awareness

127

Exit Points, Causal Chains

128

Opening the Heart to the Everpresent Here and Now

129

Bringing Awareness to the Realm of Feeling

130

Suffering, Origin, Cessation, Path

131

Success And Failure On The Path To Liberation

132

Awareness Of The Body

133

Working with Loving-Kindness (Metta)

134

The Training of the Heart

135

Reflecting on Birth and Death

136

“The World”

137

Contemplating Feelings and Perceptions of the Mind

138

Cultivating Inner Listening

139

Engagement

140

The Purpose and Application of Freeing the Heart

141

Attuning the Heart to Dhamma

142

Attunement

143

Right View is the Forerunner of all Wholesome States

144

The Forms of the Conditioned Realm

145

The Timeless Quality of Dhamma

146

First Khandha—World’s Solidity Comes to an End

147

Awakened Awareness as a Life Source

148

The Attitude of Loving-kindness

149

The Presence of the Body

150

The World of Six Consciousnesses

151

Four Right Efforts

152

Attuned to the World

153

Cessation of Becoming

154

Being Awareness, Being Awake

155

Heart Established in the Quality of Knowing

156

Mind, Body, and the Quality of Metta

157

Freeing the Body from Unsupportive Habits

158

Pacify Distractions with the Nada Sound

159

The Quality of Vijjā, Awakened Awareness

160

Be Kind to Your Body

161

Letting Go of Attachment to the World

162

There’s the Unborn, Unoriginated, Uncreated

163

Peace is Where You Begin

164

In Harmony with Reality

165

Anicca-sañña

166

Reading From Luang Por Chah

167

Learning How to Fail

168

Two Kinds of Peacefulness

169

Coming and Going

170

Mindfulness of Breathing

171

Balancing the Qualities of Energy and Relaxation in the Body

172

The World Out There

173

Right View, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness

174

Practising Awareness

175

Start From Where You are

176

Don’t Cling to Anything

177

Body and Mind

178

Two Eyes

179

Three Modes of Self Creation

180

Empty Patterns of the World

181

The Reality of Here and Now

182

Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go

183

Perspective

184

Seeing Thus

185

It’s a Human Agreement

186

True Reality Has no Attributes

187

Emptiness and Suchness

188

Not Made of That

189

Inconceivable, Imperceptible

190

All Burns

191

90 Days in the Whole

192

Inclusion of a Moment

193

Nada Sound

194

‘Who’ is the Wrong Question

195

Sheltered Space

196

Where Doesn’t Apply

197

The Broken Glass

198

Being Awake Now

199

Undistracted Knowing

200

Framework of Experience

201

The Forerunner of Wholesome States

202

Trappings of Our Own

203

A Mysterious Balance

204

Life Carries On

205

Journey’s End

206

The Bigger Picture

207

The Felt Sense of Uncertainty

208

Unmoved

209

A Sense of Wakefulness

210

Listening Inwardly

211

One Moment at a Time

212

Right Effort based on Sati-pannya

213

Perceptions of the World

214

The End of the World

215

Two Trains of Thought

216

The Cessation of Dukkha

217

The Hunger of Being

218

It All Happens Here

219

A Reflection on Non-possession

220

Everything is Burning

221

Not Identifying with the Awakened Mind

222

An Owner of this Body and Mind

223

Breaking the Habit of Self View

224

A Natural Effect of Awareness

225

Is That So?

226

How Could It Be Any Different?

227

Seeking the Undying

228

Holding Both the Ultimate and the Conventional

229

Why Wake Up?

230

Not Moving, Not Standing Still

231

From the Center of Experience

232

Feeling the Breath

233

Cooling the Fires Within

234

All That Arises Passes Away

235

Searching for the Self

236

Ignorance Complicates Everything

237

Awareness of the Body

238

Perception

239

Right View

240

No I or Me or Mine

241

Letting Go of Time

242

Nothingness

243

Who Am I

244

Attitude

245

Day 5a – Talk – Devotion

246

Day 10a – Meditation: Simplicity of a Retreat Blob in a 3rd Row

247

Day 2c – Talk – Learning From Everything

248

Meditation Primer – Embodying Vijja

249

Meditation Primer – Open Receptive Heart

250

Meditation Primer – Investigating the Five Khandhas

251

Meditation Primer – Establishing Kindness and Acceptance

252

Meditation Primer – Attuning to Reality

253

Meditation Primer – Reflecting on the Blessings of Our Lives

254

Meditation Primer – Contemplating the Fragility of Life

255

Meditation Primer – Investigating Attachments to Conventions

256

Meditation Primer – Entering the Stream

257

Meditation Primer – Non-identification

258

Meditation Primer – Pain

259

Meditation Primer – Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta

260

Meditation Primer – Nibbana is the Cessation of Becoming

261

Meditation Primer – Bhava-tanha

262

Meditation Primer – Unsupported Consciousness

263

Meditation Primer – Vipassana – Insight

264

Meditation Primer – Perception

265

Meditation Primer – If this is the Last Breath?

266

Meditation Primer – Ajahn Chah Reading – Conventions

267

Meditation Primer – Inner Listening

268

Meditation Primer – Anicca – Impermanence

269

Meditation Primer – Samadhi – Collectedness

270

Meditation Primer – Rhythm of the Breath

271

Meditation Primer – Mindfulness of Breathing

272

Meditation Primer – Focus of Attention

273

Meditation Primer – Feelings of the Body

274

Meditation Primer – Dukkha – Unsatisfactoriness

275

Meditation during Winter Retreat

276

Being a Woman and a Mother

277

GM Listening to the Sound of Silence (113)

278

GM Letting the World End

279

GM Collecting the Mind in the Moment

280

Guided Metta Meditation

281

A Gradual Talk on Meditation (158)

282

Guided Vipassana Meditation

283

Meditation in Daily Life and Just Sitting is Not Enough

284

Meditation:Living Structures

285

Body Sweeping Meditation (301)

286

Aspects of Meditation Summer School 1982