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2013-10-02 Internalizing Morality 55:00
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
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Over the years of practice we work with the precepts in a number of ways—using resolve and restraint, becoming acquainted with our karmic patterns and feeling the consequences of these, and strengthening skillful states by noticing what it feels like to do good, to behave well.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  Integrated Study & Practice Program Week 1 - 13/14ISPP1

2013-09-30 Faith: Obstacles and Supports 56:07
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
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We confront many obstacles in practice—our karmic conditioning, cultural conditioning, and resistance to the realities of anicca, dukkha, anatta. In order to surmount these obstacles, anyone who wishes to progress along the path, must act on faith and the factors that support that.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  Integrated Study & Practice Program Week 1 - 13/14ISPP1

2013-02-14 The Asavas: Avoiding and Removing 49:35
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
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This talk is part of a five part series on the Sabbasava Sutta (MN2), one of the most important and practical suttas in the Pali Canon. It summarizes our deeply entrenched patterns of delusion and suffering and the methods by which these are managed and overcome.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  Bhavana Program: Understanding the Asavas

2013-02-14 The Asavas: Enduring (brief reflection and reading) 11:29
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
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This talk is part of a five part series on the Sabbasava Sutta (MN2), one of the most important and practical suttas in the Pali Canon. It summarizes our deeply entrenched patterns of delusion and suffering and the methods by which these are managed and overcome.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  Bhavana Program: Understanding the Asavas

2013-02-13 The Asavas: Restraining and Using 48:00
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
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This talk is part of a five part series on the Sabbasava Sutta (MN2), one of the most important and practical suttas in the Pali Canon. It summarizes our deeply entrenched patterns of delusion and suffering and the methods by which these are managed and overcome.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  Bhavana Program: Understanding the Asavas

2013-02-12 The Asavas: Seeing and Developing 52:20
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
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This talk is part of a five part series on the Sabbasava Sutta (MN2), one of the most important and practical suttas in the Pali Canon. It summarizes our deeply entrenched patterns of delusion and suffering and the methods by which these are managed and overcome.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  Bhavana Program: Understanding the Asavas

2013-02-11 Seeing The Asavas 62:09
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
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The Sabbasava Sutta, Majjhima Nikaya 2 (All the Taints), deals with the eradication of the three taints: desire for sensual pleasure, desire for being, and ignorance. The taints are defilements brought about and strengthened by unwise attention. The seven methods are: Seeing, Restraining, Using, Enduring, Avoiding, Removing and Developing. This talk begins a five part series on this sutta. It addresses Seeing.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  Bhavana Program: Understanding the Asavas

2009-06-07 Understanding the Practice of Generosity 49:48
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
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The talk includes stories about learning generosity through giving to monks and nuns during the daily dawn walk (pindapad) in Thailand … that is, eeing how this opens a logjam in the heart and one experiences the sheer joy of giving. This talk also outlines and gives examples of the different kinds of giving as listed in AN 8.31 and 8.33.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  Integrated Study and Practice Program II, 2009-2010, Study Retreat 1

1998-04-28 The quarrelsome monks of Kosambi (frame story containing Jataka #72 -- the virtuous elephant king and another Jataka). 48:25
Margo McLoughlin
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