Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks

Clearing the Basement: Aruna Ratanagiri (47 min) (keywords) Body posture, six points of awareness, effort, scriptures, attainments, patience, humility, emotions, asking questions, feeling freely, regret, disappointment, extreme sport, compensation, junk food, wanting, feeling lacking, anger, fear, desire, mindful, enemy, real relationship, investigation, true self, recognizing enlightenment, Meister Eckhart, introspection, meditation, meeting ourselves, patience, seeing God, denied desires, right wanting.

It Feels Good to Be Mindful: Aruna Ratanagiri (41 min) (keywords) Meetings, community issues, complexity, sati, recollection, concentration, regret, seeing consequences, learning from suffering, relief, conflict, tax, dilemma, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, meditation, anxiety, anticipation, beginning again, fear, attachments, reactivity/dhamma contemplation, recollection of the Buddha.

In the Shade of the Bodhi Tree: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min) (keywords) Samatha, Vipassana, techniques, IMS, Gaia House, U Ba Kin, Goenka, Mahasi Sayadaw, limitations of strategies, Ajahn Chah, Zen, Zazen, right view, self/not-self, relationships, deepening, friendship, sacrifice, formal practice, reading the heart/mind, will, focus, fantasy, memories, inquiry, meditation, space, light, sense consciousness, awareness, understanding, happy mind, integrated inquiry, difficult questions.

Reality Dialogue: Aruna Ratanagiri (31 min) (keywords) Dhamma talks and Dhamma discussions, Mahamangala Sutta, listening to teachings, blessings, dialogue, moon-day observance, dedicating sacred time, putting time aside, regularity, inner world, groups, email correspondence programme, attention, inflation, dependency, student/teacher relationship, sharing questions, Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Thate, intimidation, conscious ability, projection, inadequacy, charisma, skillful mean, friendship, suffering, solitude, dreams, strength, encouraging and respecting our questions.

There Is Something We Can Do About It: Aruna Ratanagiri (36 min) (keywords) Truth, mindfulness, thoughts, practice, clear comprehension, sati, sampajana, energy, endurance, peaceful, delusion, insight, spiritual faculties, cultivation, speech, heedless, work, analysis, compulsive, suffering, death, agile, strength, meditation object, concentration, watchfulness, hungry ghost, posture, doubt, children, feeling, insight, ignorance.

The Bigger Picture: Aruna Ratanagiri (37 min) (keywords) Buddhist beliefs, faith, wisdom, mindfulness, contentment, inspiration, naivety, impermanence, energy, desire, grasping, new dimension, intelligence, restraint, Ajahn Chah, balance, compassion, lost in grieving, pain, evil, indignation, enemy, sensitive awareness, equanimity.

Goodness Has Unavoidable Consequences: Aruna Ratanagiri (28 min) (keywords) Dying, intensity, peace, anger, choice, greed, pain, a good life, senses, guilt, self-hatred, gratitude, illness, intolerable, universal loving-kindness, preference, ideals, passions, liking/disliking.

Monastic Training: Aruna Ratanagiri (54 min) (keywords) Talk to new monks, clarification, meditation, lifestyle, communal living, traveling, Asia, monastery, Ajahn Thate, interaction, sensory world, character training, Ajahn Chah, insight, anagarika, samanera, bhikkhu, stages of training, commitment, renunciation, robe wearing, participation, pressure, precepts, responsibility, navaka, patimokkha rule, integration, restraint, internalizing principles, samana sañña, renunciate culture, support, majjhima, thera, aligning with Dhamma, cultivating willingness, authority, convention, harmony, honesty, insight, integrity, tolerance, prejudice, Thailand, body, patience, passion, resentment, abuse, structures, dutanga practices, trust, assumptions, idealism, arrogance, stubbornness, conceit, loneliness, aloneness, intimacy, helpful expectations, time away, contentment.

Not too Special: Aruna Ratanagiri (34 min) (keywords) Simplicity, silence, deepening, perspective.

Prayerful Practice: Aruna Ratanagiri (47 min) (keywords) Creative effort, trusting relationship.

Please Put your own Mask on First: Aruna Ratanagiri (44 min) (keywords) Healthy self-interest, kamma.

We Are More than our Feelings: Aruna Ratanagiri (39 min) (keywords) What is sati, daily-life practice.

Enlightened Personality: Aruna Ratanagiri (53 min) (keywords) Serving , arahants, psychology, boredom.

A Deciple of Reality: Aruna Ratanagiri (61 min) (keywords) Endurance, griefless, discipleship, creativity, precepts.

Not Forgetting the Point of Practice: Aruna Ratanagiri (35 min) (keywords) Form and spirit, technique, precepts.

Am I Ready: Aruna Ratanagiri (35 min) (keywords) Entering retreat, restraint, right preparation.

Just Leave It Over There: Aruna Ratanagiri (46 min) (keywords) New Year ritual, forgiveness, renewal, aspiration.

Prepared for the Journey: Aruna Ratanagiri (73 min) (keywords) Mountain climbing, mistakes, goodness.

Impossible Paradox: Aruna Ratanagiri (50 min) (keywords) 4 Foundations, body posture, 32 parts, social action.

Frustration and the Religious Life: Aruna Ratanagiri (32 min) (keywords) Mountain climbing, mistakes, goodness.