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Thanissara's Dharma Talks at Gaia House
Thanissara
Thanissara, from London, was a nun for 12 years in the tradition of Ajahn Chah and has taught internationally for over 30 years. She is co-founder of Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat, South Africa, Sacred Mountain Sangha, California, and Chattanooga Insight, Tennessee. She has an MA in Mindfulness Psychotherapy Practice from the Karuna Institute UK and is co-author of Listening to the Heart, A Contemplative Guide to Engaged Buddhism, author of Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth, and several books of poetry. She is a member of the Teacher Council at Spirit Rock and co-guiding teacher of Sacred Mountain Sangha.
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2016-08-15 Compassion - A Vital Motivation for Our Times 55:37
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Beyond self obsession. Cultivating heart within the relational field. Supporting a sustainable world. A deadly situation turned around by the power of compassion.
Gaia House :  From Separation to Seamless Reality
2016-08-13 Deconstructing the House of Self 58:01
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A teaching for an open mind: The Four Noble Truths. Practice within four domains of experience to free the mind. Realization of the unconditioned, peace, nibbana.
Gaia House :  From Separation to Seamless Reality
2016-08-11 Difficulty as Opportunity 46:16
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Calm as ground for insight. Disturbance is the path. What hinders can awaken. Emptying reactivity to painful feeling.
Gaia House :  From Separation to Seamless Reality
2016-08-09 Empty Hands 48:51
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Cultivating path activity. Samadhi, inner refuge. First Foundation of Mindfulness. Putting down the burden.
Gaia House :  From Separation to Seamless Reality
2016-08-08 Beginning Retreat - Return to the Ground of Being 64:14
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This talk also includes Kittisaro.
Gaia House :  From Separation to Seamless Reality
2012-09-28 Placing the Personal Self 30:56
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Take everything back to the mind - being a self - working our patterns
Gaia House :  Touching the Earth
2012-09-27 A Burning World 56:14
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Beyond thought - Prajna Paramita - The Heart Sutra - Mind Set Free - A burning world - Bodhisattva heart.
Gaia House :  Touching the Earth
2012-09-25 Carried by Dharma 48:22
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Refuge in Dharma - Awakening; both immediate and gradual - simple steps Mula Sutta
Gaia House :  Touching the Earth
2009-06-11 Questions & Answers 63:52
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with Kittisaro, Thanissara
Gaia House :  The Wings of Awakening
2009-06-11 Chanting 39:40
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Gaia House :  Wings of Awakening

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