During the daylong event Ayya guided the group in meditation in preparation for study. The meditation is presented in its entirety.
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Ayya Santussika: Highest Blessings – Precepts Feb 7 2021 055
Ayya Santussika met online with Portland Friends of the Dhamma and practitioners from all over the Western Hemisphere. The day opened with an introduction and the taking of the five precepts.
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Sakula: Eternity’s Sunrise January 31 2021 054
Sakula explores how to be truthful to oneself, open up, be present with others in a skillful way, and experience the joy in the moments of eternity. She addresses the Sunday Sila gathering online.
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Sakula: We Are Not Obliged to React, Jan 17 2021 053
Sakula leads Sunday Sila and responds to a line in Ajahn Munindo’s book. She provides encouragement for coping with our turbulent times by creating space, avoiding our patterned reactions, being present with our feelings, and finding a skillful response.
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Ayya Medhanandi: Ever Present Refuge: The Value of Death, Jan 3 2021 052
Ayya Medhanandi continues with the daylong session of the Ever Present Refuge. Death may serve as a reminder of impermanence as well as an encouragement to learn the Dhamma and find the unconditioned.
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Ayya Medhanandi: Ever Present Refuge: The Nimitta of Suffering, Jan 3 2021 051
Ayya Medhanandi begins by asking those assembled what is the most pressing issue now. She leads us to seeing the wisdom of being present in the moment as a refuge from the worldly winds and suffering. While she recognized that there has been great suffering this past year, she pointed out that suffering, in fact, allows us to learn the Dhamma. Our true home is the place within us unperturbed by the conditioned.
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Ayya Medhanandi: Ever Present Refuge: The Basis for Our Happiness Jan 3 2021 050
Ayya Medhanandi teaches Portland Friends of the Dhamma for the first time in a daylong session. The theme was Ever Present Refuge. In this recording she introduces the precepts as the foundation for building happiness.
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