Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks

Divine Dilemmas: Aruna Ratanagiri (24 min) (keywords) Doing and not-doing meditation, compassion.

Christmas Message: Aruna Ratanagiri (38 min) (keywords) Giving, receiving, selflessness, letting go.

Understanding Is a Wonderful Thing: Aruna Ratanagiri (34 min) (keywords) Rules, letting go, alcohol, smoking, engendering peace; New Year; Consumption (Eating/Drinking/Smoking); Consumerism; the 227 Vinaya rules.

In Search of Happiness: Aruna Ratanagiri (27 min) (keywords) Meditation, retreat, limitation, frustration, entertainment, food, pleasure, suffer, pain, discernment, lasting happiness, condition, meditate, study, anger, passions, perspective, unhappy, restraint, energy, distraction, greed, quiet, contemplative, delusion, reality, moral, beyond, awareness, initial understanding.

Lucky Turtle: Aruna Ratanagiri (21 min)

This Is Practice: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min)

The Worlds We Create: Aruna Ratanagiri (34 min)

Remarkably Lovely Cooperation: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min)

Cultivating Refuges and Precepts: Aruna Ratanagiri (50 min)

According with Change: Aruna Ratanagiri (26 min) (keywords) Papers, change, practice, truth, peaceful, fragrance, stimulus, question, spiritual life, happy, safe, secure, Buddhist teachings, concept, Dhamma, belief, disappointment, feeling, true, teacher, grasp, cling, introduction, impermanent, idea, changing, predicament, suffering, resisting, predictable, culture shock, unfamiliar, Thailand, Wat Nanachat, Ajahn Chah, forest, city, noise, silence, monks, sick, busy, preferences, agility, flow, integrity, morality, help, attitude, confusion, together.

Agility of Attention: Aruna Ratanagiri (35 min) (keywords) Meditation, letting go, change, clinging, grasp, feelings, Ajahn Chah, agility, resistance, precepts, inspiration, trust, peaceful, suffering, creative, mind, relationship, heart, sheep, watchfulness, technique, religion, effort, complex, attention, passion, conversation, cautious, body, head, heart, obsession, sound of silence, investigate, thoughts, pleasure, pain, fantasies, energy, meditation object, worry, anger, inquiry, energy, body posture, awareness, kamma, preparation, work, investigate.

Cultivating Radiant Equanimity: Aruna Ratanagiri (43 min) (keywords) Practice, Christmas, holidays, human beings, confusion, equanimity, death, mortal, funeral, life, perspective, help, energy, marana sati, reality, feeling, meditation, equanimity, compassion, kamma, detachment, loving-kindness, monks, Buddha, good-looking, reaction, values, morality, mindful, slaves, relationships, prejudice, Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Tate, preferences, consistent, intensity, retreat, silence, harmony, friends, traffic, discernment, enlightenment, realization, will, greedy, willingness, love, receive, fault, limited, obstructed, wisdom, teachings, angry.

Forgiveness Is Possible: Aruna Ratanagiri (40 min) (keywords) Trust, betrayal, reality, suffering, ill-will, cruelty, mindfulness, anger, abuse, responsibility, enemy, Buddha, hindrances, simile, heart, memory, resentment, thoughts, nourish, restrain, mind, well-being, world, friendship, tranquility, reflect, hate, desire, retreat, loving-kindness, energy, revenge, happy, compassion, Dalai Lama, monk, torture, prison, mind, ignorance, suffer, moral.

The Ending of all Problems: Aruna Ratanagiri (20 min)

The Seat of Compassion: Aruna Ratanagiri (39 min)

Wise Forebearance: Aruna Ratanagiri (21 min)

Alone Together: Aruna Ratanagiri (25 min) (keywords) Right effort, relationships, daily-life, personality tendencies, lifestyle choice, kamma, accumulations, meeting limitations, unobstructed relationship, investigating suffering, avoidance, commitment, monks, nuns, loneliness, aloneness, spiritual community, deepening, willingness, sensuality, indulgence, possibility, mindful doubting, becoming, cults, learning to relax, trust, allowing uncertainty, evangelical fundamentalists, certainty, fear, fixed position, rigidity, benefit of knowing we don't know.

How to Remember Heart Matters: Aruna Ratanagiri (35 min) (keywords) Important, distraction, shopping, conscious, committed, sacrifice, peace, ritual, chanting, symbol, puja, bowing, energy, still, quiet, responsible, attention, multitasking, values, family, obligation, resentment, problems, fear, lonely, mindfulness, gratitude, patience.

In the Image of Ourselves: Aruna Ratanagiri (25 min) (keywords) story, image, robe, painful, energy, ashamed, ego, function, nature, fascination, conflicts, suffer, neurotic, understanding, meditation, thinking, drama, self-obsession, contented, happy, fear, delusion, letting go, crazy, conceit, heart, undivided, transformation

Preparing for Death: (Aruna Ratanagiri 28 min) (keywords) Samsara, reincarnation, rebirth, aging, distraction, dying, 'going with it', loss, choice, fear, worry, strategy, mindfulness, unobstructed awareness, accurate receptivity, judgment-free awareness, rebelliousness, here and now, refuges, realms of existence, celestial, human, hungry ghosts, animal, hell, doubt, closest approximation to reality, myths, humility.