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Retreat Dharma Talks at Gaia House

Unrestricted Awareness

A 10 day retreat with Ajahn Sucitto (AS files) and Laura Bridgman (LB files)

2023-07-11 (10 days) Gaia House

  
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2023-07-11 ‘Welcome to Gaia’ guided meditation on the interconnected cosmos. 29:15
Ajahn Sucitto
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The initial disorientation of entering a retreat is useful. It reveals how familiarity breeds stagnation, blinding us to the deeper reality and vitality of being alive.
2023-07-11 Opening Session and Meditation (LB) 20:14
Laura Bridgman
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Formalizing our relationship to values of harmlessness, trustworthiness and respect in retreat, can remind us of what matters and let us land into a softer heart.
2023-07-12 Responding to the call of spirit, of faith 60:20
Ajahn Sucitto
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We use our practice for understanding the direct and intimate experience. This experience cannot be predicted, imposed or demanded, but it arises, offering itself for our careful attention.
2023-07-12 Alms and Food Offering 7:48
Laura Bridgman
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Ajahn Laura describes the form, process and dynamic of offering alms.
2023-07-12 Raising up with puja 10:09
Ajahn Sucitto
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We use puja to exercise and develop our heart quality of honouring and respecting.
2023-07-12 The clinging khandas 35:55
Laura Bridgman
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Arriving and adjusting to the retreat provides an example of the fixities and rigidities challenging us from settling. These are actually the khandas.
2023-07-13 Finding stability through the aggregates 61:46
Ajahn Sucitto
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Understanding the aggregates allows us to see our world is a tangled web of conditions that needs untangling not tearing.
2023-07-13 Guided Meditation 18:31
Ajahn Sucitto
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2023-07-13 Guided Standing Meditation 17:38
Ajahn Sucitto
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2023-07-13 Intention - Guided Meditation 19:19
Laura Bridgman
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