Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks

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(keywords) (slightly edited version) Christmas Day, generosity, compassion, healing the leper, blind man, women, children, giving gifts, shortbread, 4 Divine Abidings, empathy, karuna, mudita, Ajahn Chah, excruciating, guilt, fear, self doubt, Wat Nanachat, Varapañño, aloneness, lost, self-obsession, kisa gotami, grief, numb, snap out of it, letting go happens, charnel grounds, brains going to burst, skill, wide of the mark, nervous breakdown, Yuhudi Menuhin, virtuoso, Ravi Shankar, trauma, abandoning our own hearts, faith, friends, outshine dark shadows cast by unawareness.

(keywords) (slightly edited version) Christmas Day, generosity, compassion, healing the leper, blind man, women, children, giving gifts, shortbread, 4 Divine Abidings, empathy, karuna, mudita, Ajahn Chah, excruciating, guilt, fear, self doubt, Wat Nanachat, Varapañño, aloneness, lost, self-obsession, kisa gotami, grief, numb, letting go happens, charnel grounds, brains going to burst, skill, wide of the mark, nervous breakdown, Yuhudi Menuhin, virtuoso, Ravi Shankar, trauma, abandoning our own hearts, faith, friends, outshine dark shadows cast by unawareness.

(keywords) (slightly edited version) mindfulness of breathing, working with pain, difficult emotions & other issues, neutral feeling, kneading the dough, investigating the six senses & consciousness, knowing, contentment.

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(keywords) (slightly edited version) My essence, true nature, etymologists, pathetic, misunderstood, approximations, Ajahn Vipassi, sore throat, high as a kite, secure, Christian monk, core level, middling level, surface level, haka, rugby, New Zealander, right view, children, true principles, instilling virtues, go for refuge, Buddho, George Sharp, mano vinnyana datu, ‘the one who knows’, knowingness, selfless, just-knowing awareness, What Is Contemplation, Wat Gor Nork, Q&A session, coarse thinking, thinking in stillness, feeling enquiring, Original Heart-mind, concepts, meditation technique, ‘just-knowing’, contented.

(keywords) (slightly edited version) Monastic retreat, intensification, purification, Dhammapada 239, transformation of carbon dust, self-trust, safety, negative emotions, denied dukkha, dross, 5 spiritual faculties, faith, energy, mindfulness, collectedness, discernment, working out, faith, trust, impaired, belief, akin, mechanisms for avoiding dukkha, gentle, soft, open, distrusting, spurious, damaged goods, pseudo-spiritual, aliveness, intolerably painful, abusing drugs, spiritual friends, kidding ourselves, collectedness, just-so, agility, discernment, humility, failure, potentials.

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(keywords) (slightly edited version) Meditation workshop, worldly work, CV, war, pollution, unawareness, cittabhavana, addiction to distraction, on the blink, old age, sickness, unplug, heart domain, intelligent fear, backlog or denied fear, middle way, spiritual faculties, faith, energy, mindfulness, collectedness, discernment, assertive, yielding, wanting, craving, resolution, good fortune, spiritual companions, gratitude.

(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada verse 2, heart domain, secular materialism, other cultures, tangles, child rearing patterns, trauma of abandonment, unsafe, spiritual education, individual self, denying our hearts, disillusioned, basement, soften, emotional household, hoarder affliction, native sensitivity, wholehearted, affluence, denied dukkha, overwhelmed, Morrinsville, frost, life-blood, middle way, road code, enthusiasm, Ajahn Dukkha, cutting through, seeing through, burning through, nine laps of the lake, cessation of dukkha, edge of overwhelm, reached the edge of perception, sati.