Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks

Whatever Helps: Aruna Ratanagiri (23 mins) (keywords) Silent practice, goal, distractions, disorientations, sadness, investigation, relationships, death, study, right thought, Bhikhuni Mahapajapati, effort, coffee, mindfulness, questions, doubt, attachments, agility, modesty, contentment, humility.

Why We Value Wisdom: Aruna Ratanagiri (31 mins) (keywords) Ajahn Liam, wisdom, Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Thate, prayer, England, good fortune, problems, Ajahn Sumedho, old age, trust, samana, renunciate, conventional/supermudane wisdom, tsunami, kamma, right view, mudita, shock, Ajahn Amaro, resistance, loss, sadness, Sariputta, Mogghalana, sorry, grief, despair, nyanadassanam, transendent wisdom, lokiya, lokutara, impermanance, uncertainty, change, beyond belief, loving-kindness, compassion, meditation, realisation, food, threatened, understanding.

Marking a Death Anniversary: Aruna Ratanagiri (18 min) (keywords) Denying death, Ajahn Chah's anniversary, positive attitude, fear, pain, not getting lost, regularity, precepts, predictability, uncertainty, chaos, form, truths, 3 Refuges, symbols, order/chaos, dependability, aging, insecurity, security, religion, youth, intelligence, money, wealth, health, sacrifice health for Dhamma, beauty, 4 intoxicants.

Gratitude Inventory: Aruna Ratanagiri (30 min) (keywords) Recollecting Ajahn Chah, patimokkha, purification, heat, pressure, old pain, letting go, depression, retreat, conscious gratitude, good fortune, poor me, honouring blessings, parents, thinking, sense balance, spiritual teachers, renunciation, enlightenment, offering help, sacrifice, too much too soon, distraction, fundamentalism, anticipation, suffering, threatened, anxiety, trust, fear of loss, storehouse of gladness, disasters, turning it around.

Receiving Experience: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min)

Forgiveness & Reconcilliation: Aruna ratanagiri (41 min)

The Good, the Bad and Radical Acceptance: Aruna Ratanagiri (50 min)

Beyond Belief: Aruna Ratanagiri (52 min)

Faith Develops Wisdom: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min) (Keywords) faith, wisdom, saddha, pannya

Why Respect: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 min) (keywords) Children, disillusionment, beauty, respect, appreciation, psychotherapy, old age, Luang Por Chah.

Beckoning Silence: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min) (keywords) Birthday cards, friendship, community, companionship, monastic life, boredom, T.V., sociability, solitude, excitement, sense stimulus, opinions, anger, beauty, stillness, detachment, right/wrong, dispassion, disappointment, rage, compulsion.

Recovering Crisis Addicts: Aruna Ratanagiri (29 min) (keywords) Newspapers, drama, novels, quadrilogy, movies, wholesomeness, energy, health, entertainment, fixed positions, gossip, body contemplation, road accidents, racing, Olympics, addiction, imagination, certainty, partiality, wisdom, compassion.

The Insulting Truth: Aruna Ratanagiri (29 min) (keywords) Humiliation, anjali, too-much, security, false identity, offended, hurt, symbolic Buddha, bowing, teacher, resistance, dying, indignation, loss, 3 types of Dukkha, disappointment, views, spiritual work, insult, blaming, mindfulness

Giving Thought to Dying: Aruna Ratanagiri (42 min) (keywords) Contention, war, dead, meditation, inspiration, maranasati, bereavement, grief, sadness, funeral, beauty, tears, past lives, Buddhist culture, coffins, view, killing, losing loved ones, denial, ignorance, cancer, not-knowing, samadhi.

Me, Mine, Ours, Comedy or Tragedy: Aruna Ratanagiri (34 min) (keywords) Autism, mistakes, views, assumptions, youtube, intimidation, attachments, possessions, comedy, desensitising, suffering, retreat, intensity, relax, kilesas, formal practice, daily-life practice, arguments, irritation, right questionng.

The World out of Control: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 min) (keywords) Refuge, control, body, exercise, finances, litigation, government, delusion, security, self, atta, drunk, sober, stealing, material possessions, dana, sila, renunciation, heavenly realms, dangers of sense indulgence, re-education, astrology, cultivation, not-self, disciplining attention, proliferation, rage, anxiety, sadness, sitting, trusting, mindfulness, investigation, deep listening, filed of awareness, understanding, precepts, 30 princes, saying no, relaxation, chaos, eternal hell, Zen, not-thinking, past, future, tuning a musical instrument, pain, attention, no-suffering, end of our tether, happiness, retreat.

Relax, Grow, Transform: Aruna Ratanagiri (42 min) (keywords) Meditation, agility, stages, progress, health, skills, fundamental shift, effort, relaxation, passaddhi, contentment, sauna, belly breathing, discernment, confidence, mindfulness, cultivation, concentration, habits, investigation.

Helping Turn the Wheel: Aruna Ratanagiri (35 min) (keywords) Vesakha’s precepts, Asalha puja, vassa, retreat, formal practice, symbols, ritual, conditioning, chores, unfair, resistance, ‘my way’, liking/disliking, aspiration, preferences, attachments, breakfast, chanting, routine, determination.

What to Do with Regret: Aruna Ratanagiri (40 min) (keywords) Here and now, regret, remorse, hiriottapa, shame, autism, guilt, mindfulness, samsara, memories, past, future, dying, sin, change, power, trust, patience, prayer, determination, endurance, aspiration, rituals, logical brain, symbols.

If it Shouldn't Be this Way it Wouldn't Be this Way: Aruna Ratanagiri (31 min) (keywords) Hatred, resistance, acquiescence, drunkenness, passions, peace, Ajahn Chah, surgery, knees, demands, needs, mindfulness, Dhammapada, darkness, light, Visakha, Croatia, stream-entry, personality, grasping, suffering, habits, utopia.