A guided contemplation for discerning the six sense bases as peripheral phenomena shaping your experience, revealing their anicca nature.

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A discussion aimed at gaining direct insight into the principle of "Dependent Origination" or "Simultaneous Presence."

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Delusion is a self-imposed blindness and an active process of distraction—a continuous effort to redirect one's attention away from the uncomfortable truths that self-awareness will reveal.

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Revisiting the Metta practice...

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The knowledge of your breath.

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Seeing the connection between unrestrained behaviour and your mind's liability to anxiety

An older talk of ours, that addresses many of the questions we've been receiving recently...

What is consciousness? What is mind?

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The defilements can only sully one's life through the conscious choice to engage with them. By learning to withstand these impurities through the middle way of right endurance, one discovers "an island that no flood can overwhelm."

- This is an excerpt from one of our old talks. It's a practical exploration of where true responsibility lies, emphasizing the essential practice of monitoring our motivations and consciously choosing not to act on detrimental intentions.