Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks

Our Inner Community: Aruna Ratanagiri (36 min) (keywords) Praise and criticism, faith, imperturbability,, blessings, insult, blame, doubt, inner and outer community, refuge, my way, silence, intensity, delusion, preferences, cause and effect, fighting, authority, clinging, griefless, realiation.

Happiness Unlimited: Aruna Ratanagiri (52 min) (keywords) Confidence, sects, disrobe, happiness, pleasure, joy, vesakha puja, flow, death, responsibility, doubt, sensitivity, compassion, freedom, realization, understanding, middle way, right view, clear seeing, panic, breathing, trapped, fighting, resentment, no resistance, surrender, drowning, trust in the Buddha, anger, indignation, Burma, skillfulness, snakebites, boundaries, religion, philosophy, eightfold path, Ulysses, sirens, commitment, meditation, beauty, perspective, timing, concentration, Bhojanga garden, investigation, watchfulness.

One Step at a Time: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min) (keywords) Samanera, ordination, bhikkhu, video, happiness, gladness, selflessness, patience, Aung San Suu Kyi, beauty, kindness, money, pollution, blame, balance, driftwood, disappointment, pain, loneliness, loss, understanding, compassion, renunciation, restraint, indescribable beauty, mindfulness, joy, death, reputation, meditation retreat, samana, unshakable peace.

What about Rituals: Aruna Ratanagiri (46 min) (keywords) Technology, puja, Vesakha puja, patimokkha, training, purification, arahant, discomfort, bowing, ego, change, anjali, power, getting it wrong, Maori, reception, war, hongi, greetings, silabbata-paramasa, idols, skilful means, identity.

Reaction, Regret, Renewal: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 min) (keywords) Reactivity, sin, heedlessness, gardening, bhojanga, failure, suffering, bowing, teacher, disappointment, revenge, resentment, regret, remorse, guilt, memories, stealing, evil, condemning, parents, children, suicide, renewal, forgiveness.

Contentment Is not the Goal it Is the Way: Aruna Ratanagiri (29 min) (keywords) Discontentment, inherent contentment, chaos, frustration, habits, awareness, drugs, refuge, bowing, symbols, bodhi tree, wheel, responsibility, conscious relationship, strength, faith, riots, choice, meditation, criticism, complaining.

What Is the P.A.T.H.: Aruna Ratanagiri (47 min) (keywords) patience, frustration, concrete cancer, plastic, pollution, world, senses, 3 signs, freedom, safety, awareness, emotions, thinking, philosophy, concepts, true identity, virtual-self, skilful-means, 84,000 dhamma doors, whole body/mind

Appreciative Awareness: Aruna Ratanagiri (46 min) (keywords) not-self, dogma, nibbana, practice, awareness, mindfulness, techniques, becoming, theistic religion, doubts, appreciation, language, poetry, clear comprehension, sati-sampajannya, scriptures, viriya, energy, laziness, attachments, timidity, self-disparagement, depression, balance, infatuation, falling in love, disrobing, rituals, anumodana, dhamma talk, Ram Dass, dilemma, agility, anger, grief, trauma, letting go, criticism, cultivation, silence, space.

Death and Keeping the Practice Constant: Aruna Ratanagiri (40 min) (keywords) Consistancy, clinging, recollection of death, inevitablility, undeterminded time of death, denial, enlightenment, frineds, health, vipasanna, beauty/ugliness, liberating energy, right perspective, forgiveness, wasting time, prioritising.

Body Sweeping: Aruna Ratanagiri (48 min)

The Five Hindrances: Aruna Ratanagiri (60 min)

Stop Running after It: Aruna Ratanagiri (53 min)

G.O.D.S. to Believe in: Aruna Ratanagiri (60 min) (keywords) Relevance, distractions, gratitude, gladness, metta, karuna, disappointment, contentment, offering, inadequacy, inner wealth, meditation, struggle, serving, mastering, duties, obligations, Burma, letting go, death, fear, myths, religion.

Cultivating Selfless Action: Aruna Ratanagiri (43 min) (keywords) Imbalance, passivity, precepts, no judgment, awe, cessation, right speech, right action, Jesus, trust, skiful means, patience, competitiveness, right time and place, personal limitations.

Practicing under Pressure: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min) (keywords) Measuring practice, barometer, burdens, family, money, aging, beginning again, anxiety, depression, contentment, confidence, doubt, medical, pressure, confusion, advice, mindfulness, opinions, letting go, faith, love, views, injustice.

Going Without: Aruna Ratanagiri (26 min) (keywords) Insult, religious tolerance, dying, enemies, modesty, frugality, kassapa, sotapana, letting go, intimidation, renunciation, creativity, conceit.

Tis But: Aruna Ratanagiri (45 min) (keywords) Mental illness, depression, modesty, frugality, jhana, parajika, sanghadisesa, communication.

Essence of Buddhist Training: Aruna Ratanagiri (39 min) (keywords) Feelings, inner tyrant, compassion, passion, creativity, betrayal, habits.

Manners Maketh the Man: Aruna Ratanagiri (39 min) (keywords) Homosexuality, change, stability, respect, dispute, schism, harmony, community.

Embracing the Tragedy of Burma: Aruna Ratanagiri (41 min) (keywords) Technology, media, happiness, fear, indignation, doubt, metta.