How does the mind work? Often we don't understand, and we create problems for ourselves and others. But it IS possible to develop wisdom and to be free! In Buddhism it is done by developing samatha and vipassana.

Samatha is the emotional approach, having a genuine emotional engagement or emotional wholeness. The benefit is obvious: You feel good, it is nice to be happy, so you keep meditating, maybe even for the rest of your life. This leads to a life of reflection and growth, taking responsibility of yourselves. It also create a place of safety, you have found this place where you can be peaceful, happy and loving and caring, stability and clarity.

Vipassana is seeing clearly, for example by reflecting on your meditation, cause and effect, investigation of three characteristics in the six senses or the five aggregates - either through direct experience or inference. This leads to stages of awakening, wisdom and freedom.

This is why we are teaching, we believe that anybody can realize wisdom, and engage with the teachings in a sincere way. Step by step, we move from darkness to light, ignorance to knowledge, from suffering to freedom.

This teaching was given during a retreat at Venabu in October 2024:
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Jhana has become popular, but often dumbed down. So then it helps to have an overview of how aspects of the path fits together. 

Jhana means oneness and illumination, and is described as having five factors: applied and sustained application (vitakka, vicara), rapture or uplift (piti), pleasure (sukha) and unification of consciousness (ekaggata). And the coming together of all this factors is jhana. 

And each person has the potential to realise these stages of meditation, they represent the very end and summit of the eight fold path, and is also the foundation for deep insights.

This teaching was given during a retreat at Venabu in October 2024:
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When coming to a retreat, you give up a lot for a few days − there is maybe a desire or a longing for freedom. And just that is the first of 'The four bases of mental power' (iddhi pada), this wish or longing for freedom and a spiritual development − and maybe the most important supporting factor for this desire is mental pleasure, which is really important to develop. 

The second factor is energy, so to keep going and not giving up. The third factor is mind or heart or consciousness, a clear mind which can deliver answers. And the last factor is investigation or inquiry, this ability to see what is going on, what changes and why - and as your peace of mind deepens, so will the investigation deepens into insights. 

These are factors which we can focus on, to give our meditation practise a boost − this enthusiasm, energy, clarity of mind and inquiring wanting to understand.

This teaching was given during a retreat at Venabu in October 2024:
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This talk is about the process the Buddha went through learning to meditate, starting with an experiences he had as a child, which teachers he met and learned from and how he was conditioned by other schools. Then later on, how the Buddha stayed with the sramanas doing all kinds of ascetic practises, which the Buddha found as a waste of time.

And finally, when he had been searching out all the best teachers of his time, and not finding them good enough, he started to develop his meditation alone, finding inspiration from his childhood experiences − not following a path but finding out himself. 

And we have all this texts today explaining what problems the Buddha had, how he struggled and how he found his way. So this is a beautiful story about perseverance, not giving up, and finding your way yourself. 

This teaching was given during a retreat at Venabu in October 2024:
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Metta meditation is the practice to develop the mind in such a way that this feeling of metta, this most exalted of human potentials, becomes a reality. And when this feeling starts to spark, which sages in the past has described as transcendence or divinity, than that is inside you! And it has been there all along − it is like coming home − and it it is there for everybody.

This talk is actually four different talks combined into one, each talk given in regards to the four people you spread metta to: metta for our self, mette for the loved person, metta for the neutral person and metta for the disliked person.

This teaching was given during a retreat at Venabu in October 2024:
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Mindfulness is not really meditation, but can be used as a type of meditation where we simply are aware of what is happening in your body and mind.

You start to notice what is happening: thoughts, feelings, sensations, memories, ideas, desires - and spaces between them. The aim to get a place where we are resonable equanimous, as a preperation for other types of meditation.

Just remember that ethical behavior is the fundation of any meditation, just beeing a good person.

This teaching was given during a retreat at Venabu in October 2024:
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After a retreat, how can we continue our practice, how can we transfer our skills to our daily lives? At this retreat at Venabu a whole toolkit was given: right approach to mediation, what happiness and suffering is, learning to be mindful and developing wholesome qualities, the importance of joy and how it is aroused, and wisdom - what it is and how it is developed.

In our daily life we must protect the seed we have planted, and remove the weeds. Keeping the soil moist by virtue - which actually is a beautiful and fun training leading to a blameless bliss. Trying to keep up the daily practice of meditation. Trying to read the original teaching of the Buddha, remembering that patience is the highest spiritual quality. Also - try associate with the wise, they will keep your inspiration up!

In the end of this talk (35:02), there is a finishing off guided loving kindness meditation.

This teaching was given at Venabu 2024:
https://dnbf.org/en/2024/04/venabu-retreat-2024/ 

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Ajahn Nitho describes in this talk what wisdom is according to the teaching of the Buddha. He also reads out a short parable describing when wisdom will arrise in a person − independent of gender, body or ethnicity. He continues with a longer descriptions of the various stages of meditation, all the way into deep meditation or jhana, because that is the needed level of meditation for deep wisdom and enlightenment to arrise. In short - a meditation and wisdom journey of ever increasing happiness, mindfulness, clarity, wisdom and freedom. 

This teaching was given at Venabu 2024:
https://dnbf.org/en/2024/04/venabu-retreat-2024/

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This talk is about loving kindness − what it is, how it affects our mind, different ways of doing loving kindness meditation, and how it connects to deep meditation and awakening. 

This teaching was given at Venabu 2024:
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In this talk, Venerable Canda talks about guarding the sense doors, and the hindrances that arise in relation to the sensory world, with the goal to create clarity of mind. She talks about the sense bases, and how contact creates feelings in body and mind − pleasant or not − resulting in craving or ill will. Seeing that this process is conditioned, not substantial, reduces the reactivity and the creation of suffering. She gives examples, and refer to stories both from contemporary teachers and the original teachings of the Buddha.

This teaching was given at Venabu 2024:
https://dnbf.org/en/2024/04/venabu-retreat-2024/

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