Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks Aruna Ratanagiri

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(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) Q: "How can we know for ourselves that we are firmly on the right path of practice?" Not sure, letting go, security, relationship with desire, longing, stress, subtlety, greed renunciation, afraid, look directly, ‘who wants’, complacent, Mara, Ajahn Chah, nothing to be afraid of, conscious relationship with wanting, discontented, hunger, a feeling enquiring, conceptual intelligence, emotional intelligence, intuitive intelligence, balanced awareness, ‘aligning meditation’, aligning head, heart and belly.

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(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.