Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Sayadaw U Jagara's most recent Dharma talks

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A warm day ahead, with a friendly attitude.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The difference between the "concentration" of serenity and the concentration of insight. Developed in the frame of the four spheres of existence.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The various aspects upekkha can take in regard to our practice.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The 5 Faculties (Indriya) represented as diligence, its coachman, and its 4 horses.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Investigation into the process of cognition based on the six sense doors and questioning the reality of the self-identity.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How the training of our mind brings a clearer perspective. Understanding the process of dying on the experiential level.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Climb a tree and use the perspective you get when on top. The street here is also compared with the body.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The first of the Satipatthana practices for establishing mindfulness is the body.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Buddha's advice to Ananda after Sariputta's and Maha Moggallana's deaths. (SN.)

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Simile of the six animals, wanting to tame and understand their nature

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided Perspective Suggestions - Location/Direction within ourselves

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How, from an initial arousal, the awakening factors mature to insight into the 5 aggregates of existence

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Quality of Mind being in relation to different objects. Metta practice in general.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A guided practice starting with a reflection from the Buddha on the value of merit, to recollect our merit form our practice and then sharing the merits expansively to many realms of beings.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A guided meditaion with a story line of having an ideal and compassionate categiver for our wounds. The compassion was extended to others.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A guided meditation through the sense bases to experience freedom in their impermanent and not-self nature - so as to arrive at the present moment fully without wanting or sadness for this world.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) With the last tetrad as background, reflections on the role of conditionality in ending craving and defilements.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A guided meditation through the entire sequence focusing on impermanence and fading away to support equanimity, non- reactive observation.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) After a fifteen minute period of silent practice, the reflections on developing a mind like air and like space were presented.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Three ways offered to practice this step; (1) Receiving the Dhamma as the most priceless gift, illustrated in the story of King Bimbisara to Pukkusati. (2) Seeing the six sense bases as they really are without clinging. (3) Time - the present without me, myself and mine.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Critical text analysis of how Anapanasati practice fulfills the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. Discussion of the samadhi (step 11) and liberating the mind (step 12) from hindrances and self.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A guided practice for bringing the participation of all aspects of our lives, physically and mentally. The simile of a symphony conveys the essence of centering and gathering with the conductor's baton bringing together all musicians - Holistic approach.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A guided practice of the steps leading to experiencing the mind (step 9) and g;addening the mind (step10).

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reflections with the four elementsto develop a quality of observation refined by not-self.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The objctive of the Second Tetrad is discussed in a broad framework - with doctrine readings and humor-filled anecdotes - to inspire us to reflect on our life's objective.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reflections on two sources of sukka: the object and the body. Three signs for the quality of observation for sukkha: sign of effort, sign of samadhi, sign of equanimity. ( AN:3,102)

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Different perspectives offered for relaxing the bodily fabrications.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A review of the first tetrad discussing adjusting the mode of observation. For samatha mode, the preliminary signs of breath touch is calmed to a perception of the feint effect of the breathing process.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Similes for the experience of touch and contact (step 3): musician practicing an instrument; a person sawing a log; gatekeeper guarding arrivals and departures; an embroiderer threading a needle. Subdivisions of the emergence of the nimitta and nama rupa also presented as the "whole body".

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Inspirations and aspirations as objects. The first tetrad: the location and duration of the breath, and relaxing.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Continuation of Maha - Rahulovada Sutta: The Greater Exhortation to Rahula

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How do we relate to life, internally and externally? Listening and observing as a correct approach, together with carng and respect, (metta).

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Anapana sati seen in frame of instuctions given bu the Bddha to his son Rahula (MN:61, 62). "Gradual Training" overview and principles (MN:51)

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Difference between attention and mindfulness. Visuddhi Magga 8 ways of reflecting on death. Five hindrances, briefly touched.

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This principle is applied to meditation: The in-coming bread, the out-going bread.

(L’Association de méditation Parami) Jagara a proposé trois questions pour guider notre pratique et nos actions: Que fais-je? Pourquoi fais-je cela? Qui suis-je? Il a expliqué les relations entre ces trois questions et les quatre sati-sampajanna (compréhension totale de la qualité de présence). Il a aussi été question d’utiliser les conditionnements du soi pour aller au-delà de ceux-ci.

(L’Association de méditation Parami) Il a été question des quatre fondements de la qualité de présence (sati), du sentiment de rejet et de l’égo, de la foi et de l’amour.

(L’Association de méditation Parami) Jagara a discuté de notre capacité de développer une intimité avec le moment présent, avec toutes les relations qui composent notre monde et notre environnement. En comprenant les relations entre les phénomènes et entre les êtres, nous pouvons mieux agir et interagir.

(L’Association de méditation Parami) Jagara a discuté des dix domaines d’action méritoire. Vous trouverez une liste de ces dix domaines et un exposé approfondi (en anglais) sur ce sujet, au chapitre 6 (p. 94), du livre Abhidhamma in Daily Life. Jagara a aussi parlé de la conscience infinie en puisant dans Derniers Fragments d’un long voyage, écrit par Christiane Singer.

(L’Association de méditation Parami) Jagara s’est inspiré des paroles de la chanson Tu trouveras la paix, par Renée Claude, pour aborder le thème de l’amour bienveillant (metta). Il a aussi discuté de l’importance de la qualité de l’esprit dans toutes les actions et situations.

(L’Association de méditation Parami) Jagara a abordé les façons neuves de regarder la réalité et les perspectives qui invitent à cultiver un amour naturel et créatif.

(L’Association de méditation Parami) Jagara a abordé les relations entre la nature, le corps et l’esprit au moyen des notions des quatre éléments (air, eau, terre et feu).

(L’Association de méditation Parami) Jagara a abordé la pratique de la présence attentive (sati). Le texte bouddhique intitulé Maha Sattipatthana Sutta explique en profondeur cette pratique de «l’établissement de l’attention». Vous trouverez une traduction en français ici et vous pourrez aussi lire une traduction en anglais disponible sur notre site web (ou par PDF ici).

(L’Association de méditation Parami) Jagara a abordé le thème «Se protéger soi-même et protéger les autres» en s’appuyant sur un texte écrit par Nyanaponika Thera et inspiré du Sattipatthana Sutta. Il a aussi abordé le récit d’une ancienne détenue qui a écrit un article sur le thème de l’isolement et du confinement.