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Dharma Talks given at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
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2017-04-01 Q&A Part I 48:53
Ajahn Sucitto
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Caring for aging parents; celestial realm as metaphor or actuality; those who are spontaneously reborn; sacrifice; when I know I’m not observing precepts perfectly; meditation practice feels flat; advice for caregivers in medical field; breaking through feeling bleak about the world; subjective nature of the sacred
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-04-01 Generating a Meaningful World 63:11
Ajahn Sucitto
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Presentation of the multi-layered, holistic, vertical cosmos of the suttas as compared to our flat world that only extends geographically. One can move up and down the cosmos through one’s own actions – giving, ethics, renunciation, clearing the mind of the hindrances and developing deep meditation. One learns to make things sacred; sacred meaning everything is valued, has its place and is treated with respect. A study of the Kutadanta Sutta (D5.29) as an example of how the Buddha taught engagement and movement along this vertical/immaterial domain
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-04-01 Guided Meditation - If You Don’t Generate a World, Somebody Else’s Will Generate You 9:51
Ajahn Sucitto
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In meditation we practice bringing up what is pertinent, worthy of development, leading inwards. We bring things to mind that generate a locus of meaning, that generate our world. This is where we reclaim potency, value and meaning. Rather than be overwhelmed by a meaningless world we have the potential to generate a meaning world here now.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-03-31 Retreat Intro: The Gradual Path 19:59
Ajahn Sucitto
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The gradual path is the essence of the Buddha’s presentation. It starts with qualities we already know – generosity, morality and renunciation. Rather than starting with meditation while sitting on the cushion, this is the movement that begins to be properly cultivated and groomed in meditation. Then our work is much more internal, to clear the mind of the 5 hindrances.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-03-31 Guided Meditation - Offering Ourselves Dhamma Dāna 13:16
Ajahn Sucitto
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As we enter the field of practice, we have the opportunity to clear the desktop and deepen into our receptivity. We offer ourselves Dhamma dāna: the gift of time, space, permission and resources to deepen within this very embodied mind. We acknowledge what arises and lay aside what can be laid aside.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2016-12-06 Hindrances 1:10:13
Jay Michaelson
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Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  Jhāna and Insight

2016-12-04 When Harry Met Sariputta - Opening Talk 1:12:47
Jay Michaelson
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Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  Jhāna and Insight

2016-10-23 Equanimity: Poise in Life 49:39
Oren Jay Sofer
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Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  The Path of Wise Speech: Living the Teachings

2016-10-22 Right View: How are You Looking at Things? 48:41
Oren Jay Sofer
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An exploration of the teachings on Right View, and how we can use them to examine the assumptions and ideas we have in our relationships and speech.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  The Path of Wise Speech: Living the Teachings

2016-10-22 Guided Meditation: Grounding and Opening 32:19
Oren Jay Sofer
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Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  The Path of Wise Speech: Living the Teachings

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