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Tan Aamarasiri 2024 05 03 Allow thoughts/phenomena to arise & pass away on their own

Tan Amarasiri speaks about reflection and transition from the monks recent three month retreat. He found a note in a book that said "what is not the practice?" he reflects on his experience of unwholesome layers falling away and draws upon Ajahn Jayasaro's analogy of the story of questioning Michelangelo's process of sculpting a prancing horse: the parts that are not the prancing horse, fall away.

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Ajahn Cunda 2023 0804 There is no other place to be happy but now

Ajahn Cunda speaks to the challenge in keeping to attitudes. We want to do something about dissatisfaction, or an obstruction, we want it to be differently. Ajahn Cunda mentions how remembering LP Liem and Ajahn Chah's examples is helpful to him. He mentions the irony of Buddhism is there no other possible place to be happy but now, the future is unknown. Yet we have the potential ( through training) to realize, recognize and understand there is just this moment, this experience. There is no other place to be happy but now.

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Bhante Rahula 2022 01 21 Four Foundations of Mindfulness and Guided Meditation

Bhante Rahula answers meditation questions about Right View by encouraging first the development of mindfulness of the body, mindfulness of feelings, and mindfulness of mind. With increased concentration using mindfulness then mindfulness of Dhamma and Right View and Dhamma Vipassana can be understood. He speaks to about restlessness, how his day is structured and ends leading a guided meditation.

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