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What meditation really is by Jon Kabat Zinn

Video:
https://youtu.be/Of28RwVtQvw

Jon Kabat-Zinn, a pioneer of scientific research on meditation, defines meditation as "living life as if it really mattered".

0:00 What meditation really is
1:02 The calling of meditation
2:35 One moment to live

#whatismeditation #jonkabatzinn #mindfulness

1 year ago | [YT] | 14

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This Sacred Journey by Pema Chodron

Video:
https://youtu.be/dokYBVrWLdM

For over forty years, Pema Chödrön has embraced our faults, our fears, and our failings, reflecting them back to us with compassion, insight, and the possibility of freedom. And now, she is tackling the most challenging and universal source of fear: death and dying.

As she entered the ninth decade of her life, Pema Chödrön spent a year in solitary retreat working deeply with traditional Tibetan Buddhist teachings on death, including teachings on the bardos from The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

#PemaChodron #SacredJourney #TibetanBuddhistTeachings

2 years ago | [YT] | 29

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Ledi Sayadaw: Meditation Master and Scholar

Venerable Ledi Sayadaw was a highly developed and respected monk in Burma, both in pariyatti (intellectual/ scriptural knowledge) and in patipatti (practice/ meditation). He lived from 1846 to 1923.

He is also known as the first monk there to teach Vipassana meditation to lay persons (people who are not monks). One of his leading students was a lay farmer Saya Thetgi, who the Sayadaw instructed to also teach others. One of his students was Sayagyi U Ba Khin, the great lay teacher of S.N. Goenka. Following is an introduction to Ledi Sayadaw and this biography by Goenka.

Book: Short Biography of Ledi Sayadaw
audiobuddha.org/short-biography-of-ledi-sayadaw/

Book: Requisites of Enlightenment by Ledi Sayadaw
audiobuddha.org/ledi-sayadaw-the-requisites-of-enl…

Video: Ledi Sayadaw – Great Burmese Buddhist Meditation Teacher and Scholar
https://youtu.be/RiAByZbZIsc

Video: The Birth of Insight: Ledi Sayadaw talked by Erik Braun
https://youtu.be/5SFzm5dNMdc

#ledisayadaw #meditationmaster #Buddhistmonk

2 years ago | [YT] | 16

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A Taste of Freedom by Ajahn Chah (100th anniversary edition)
by Ajahn Chah / 2018 / English

Book:
audiobuddha.org/a-taste-of-freedom-by-ajahn-chah/

This book is part of a set of 6 titles reprinted to commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of Ajahn Chah, made available for free distribution on 17th June 2018.

The Middle Way Within

Given in the Northeastern dialect to an assembly of monks and laypeople in 1970.

The teaching of Buddhism is about giving up evil and practising good. Then, when evil is given up and goodness is established, we must let go of both good and evil. We have already heard enough about wholesome and unwholesome conditions to understand something about them, so I would like to talk about the Middle Way, that is, the path to transcend both of those things.

All the Dhamma talks and teachings of the Buddha have one aim – to show the way out of suffering to those who have not yet escaped. The teachings are for the purpose of giving us the right understanding. If we don’t understand rightly, then we can’t arrive at peace.

When all the Buddhas became enlightened and gave their first teachings, they pointed out these two extremes – indulgence in pleasure and indulgence in pain. These two types of infatuation are the opposite poles between which those who indulge in sense pleasures must fluctuate, never arriving at peace. They are the paths which spin around in samsāra.

2 years ago | [YT] | 67

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Mind is foremost treasure in the whole World | Ajahn Mun: Thai Forest Master

shorts audio:
youtube.com/shorts/8sLz_hkFHis


"Of all the many things that people value and care for in the world, a person’s mind is the most precious.

In fact, the mind is the foremost treasure in the whole world, so be sure to look after it well.

To realize the mind’s true nature is to realize Dhamma.

Understanding the mind is the same as understanding Dhamma.

Once the mind is known, then Dhamma in its entirety is known.

Arriving at the truth about one’s mind is the attainment of Nibbãna.

Clearly, the mind is a priceless possession that should never be overlooked."
- Ajahn Mun

Book: Ajahn Mun Thera – Spiritual Biography
audiobuddha.org/ajahn-mun-thera-spiritual-biograph…

#AjahnMun #Mind #ThaiForestMaster

2 years ago | [YT] | 80

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Only when the mind is still | Jiddu Krishnamurti
Narrated by: Jack Kornfield

Audio:
youtube.com/shorts/tWTQPLkYsvw

“Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#Krishnamurti #True #JackKornfield

2 years ago | [YT] | 41

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The Guest House by Rumi

Audio:
youtube.com/shorts/52mHq612oEQ

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
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A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

2 years ago | [YT] | 60

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The Benefits of Meditation by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Video:
https://youtu.be/q1KwzpMH-BY

Jon Kabat-Zinn, a pioneer of scientific research on meditation, lists the positive effects that meditation can have on the mind and body.

#Meditation #JonKabatZinn #mindfulness

2 years ago | [YT] | 22

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12 Principles of Forgiveness by Jack Kornfield

Video:
https://youtu.be/qt9fZU1lWvY

Jack Kornfield explains the principles that are integral to the process of forgiving, according to Buddhist philosophy.

#Forgiveness #Principles #JackKornfield

2 years ago | [YT] | 17

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Joseph Goldstein - Buddhism: The Essential Points

Video:
https://youtu.be/9xQqYplYhXg


#JosephGoldstein #Buddhism #principle

2 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 17