Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks Aruna Ratanagiri

(keywords) (slightly edited version) 90th birthday, gratitude, 50 years ago, visa, Wat Bovorn, Samanera Dhammiko, Wat Saket, commitment and ease, balance, daring spirit, against the current, ‘my way’, floating alms-bowl, gratification, overly heroically, goal, transformation, transmuting, openness and honesty, pontifications, ex cathedra, challenges, scriptures, nanny’s room, rose quartz Buddha image, granary, idealism, respect for tradition, tried and tested, new and improved, changing robes, trust, changing dates of rainy season retreat, form and spirit, renovating Chithurst House, losing the spirit, translating, Sound of Silence, listening, social media, main-lining bhava tanha, identity in thinking, AI, according with changes, skill, gratitude.

(keywords) (slightly edited version) Requesting bhikkhu precepts, robes, chanting, anagarika, Dhammapada 348, letting go of past future present, free from clinging, form, spirit, ochre robe, training, spiritual community, money, shelter, security, reputation, finding identity, supermarket trolley, bowing, magic ritual, selfless wisdom and compassion, self-centredness, Vakkali, perfect lotus, books, 8-Fold Path, extremes, Middle Way, pain, lost, scholars, shaking hands, harmlessness, selfless open-hearted awareness, emotions, having and not-having, knowing is the freedom, emotional sensitivity, emotional literacy, the work.

(keywords) (slightly edited version) Quiet contemplation, wisdom teachings, Ajahn Chah, wrong thinking, attitude, stories, nun, practical wisdom, study, suttamayapannya, wisdom from hearing, cintamayapannya, wisdom from mental analysis, bhavanamayapannya, wisdom from cultivation, frustration, funerals, chanting, intuition, humility, unexpected breakthrough, kalama sutta, greed, hatred, delusion, abandoning unwholesomeness, good friends, creative in practice, fun, aliveness.

(keywords) (slightly edited version) Restless, unsettled, asking yourself a question, gratify, aim, listening from the heart, ears in your chest, Ajahn Chah, tape recorder, conscious relationship, dreaming, afraid to feel, contracted denial, breathing exercise, chanting, no judgement, cookies and ice-cream, kama tanha, bhava tanha, vibhava tanha, wholesome desire, deluded desire, sense treat, the vortex of wanting, augmented reality, virtual reality, adding something extra, accumulated denied dukkha, Four Noble Truths, controlling, debts, craving for becoming, wanting to be certain, wisdom, wanting virtuous, fear of uncertainty, backlog, craving for getting rid or, not wanting to exist, wanting to get enlightened, welcome, into the light of day, Liberation, assumptions, feeling whole, smoking, addiction, the story of gratification is a complete con, reintegrating, reject heart energy, alienated from our own hearts, seeing through the con.

(keywords) (slightly edited version) Christian monk, prayer, induction and instruction, catch a cold, Ajahn Chah in US, pariyatti, Nimbin, do's and don’ts, discipline attention, walking meditation, there’s just-knowing, calm, changed the course of my life, possibilities, 1970’s, questioning, initial inspiration, identity, forms, intoxicated by outer appearance, Vakkali, overly enamoured, sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches and mental impressions, false identity, wound on your forehead, approximation, restless, virtuous struggle, synthetic security, daring, taking risks, precepts, spiritual companions, letting go of the initial good feeling, downloading an app.

(keywords) (edited version) Q: "Are we still identifying as the activity taking place in our hearts and minds, or are we remembering our refuge in the Buddha, in just-knowing awareness?" Dhammapada Reflections, framing experience, victims of suffering, Ajahn Thate, refuge, content, context, Awakened beings, sites, sounds, liking and disliking, formal meditation, becoming the worldling, identified as the thinking mind, desire and craving, semantics, doubt, looking at the finger, heart of awareness, not-knowing, addicted to certitude, rung of the ladder, faith, fear of unsure, synthetic security, moral precepts, intentional composure, indriyasamvara, gradually, beginning again..