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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Finding a Balance Within Letting go and Engaging.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Finding a Balance Within Letting go and Engaging.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Finding a Balance Within Letting go and Engaging.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Steps on Anapanasati: Mindfulness of Breath

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Kuan Yin Compassion Ceremony

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Contemplation of form & emptiness. Everything is sacred. Emptiness facilitates resonant response. Undivided non-dual nature of reality.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Contemplating what never changes. The indestructible heart. Mind the Gap. Radical reflection, returning to the root, where all things merge. Kuan Yin's meditation method.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Calm and Insight; contemplating supports for samadhi (unification of heart). Vitakka (directed thought), vicara (exploring, receptive attention), piti (joy), sukha (ease). Guided Meditation through 16 steps of Anapanasati Sutta.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The revelatory power of contemplating change, unreliability, and not self. What robs the heart of well being? Recognizing hindrances as teachers. Letting go.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) First Day. Overview of Path: Sila (Virtuous Restraint), Samadhi (Collectedness), Panna (Wisdom). Patience and kindness in cultivating mindfulness of breathing. Buddho - Sacred word and moderating thought.

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Thanissara joins Raghu to discuss social action, unconscious racism, and the mystery of the collective bardo, before guiding a breathwork meditation.Thanissara, formerly a Buddhist nun for 12 years, has been teaching meditation retreats alongside her partner Kittisaro since 1992. Together they founded Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat in South Africa and co-authored Listening to the Heart, A Contemplative Guide to Engaged Buddhism. She is also author of Time To Stand Up, A Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth, and several poetry books. Thanissara and Kittisaro recently launched Sacred Mountain Sangha, a California based Non Profit that hosts the Dharmapala Training, a two year, seven module training. Keep up to date with her offerings at dharmagiri.org and sacredmountiansangha.org

How can we have the clarity of mind and freedom of heart to deal wisely with the difficulties we face, such as climate crisis?  Host, Marlena Willis, talks with Buddhist teachers, Thanissaro and Kittisaro, about their journey to engaged Buddhism and how meditation practice can give us tools to make positive change in our world. Kittisaro, from Chattanooga TN, is a Rhodes Scholar and was a monk for 15 years in the Thai Forest School of Ajahn Chah. He also practices Chinese Chan and Pure Land informed by Master Hua, and has co-authored, with Thanissara, Listening to the Heart, A Contemplative Journey to Engaged Buddhism.       Thanissara, from London UK, spent 12 years as a Buddhist nun of the Thai Forest School. She has an MA in Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy Practice, and has written several books, including poetry books. Her latest book is Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth.         Kittisaro & Thanissara have taught Dharma and meditation internationally for 35 years and together co-founded two Non Profits, Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat in South Africa in 2000 and Sacred Mountain Sangha in California in 2017. They run a two-year training focusing on “Depth Dharma for Our Times”, and are currently on the Spirit Rock Teacher Council.   The post A Contemplative journey to engaged Buddhism appeared first on KPFA.

Kittisaro graduated from Princeton as a Rhodes Scholar and went on to Oxford before going to Thailand to ordain with Ajahn Chah in 1976. He was a monk for 15 years. Thanissara started Buddhist practice in 1975, decided to ordain after meeting Ajahn Chah and spent 12 years as a Buddhist nun. They had known each other for years when they fell in love in 1991. They decided to leave the order so they could be together and were married the following year. They have gone on to become co-founders of Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat in South Africa and co-authors of Listening to the Heart: A Contemplative Guide to Engaged Buddhism. They are Guiding Teachers of Sacred Mountain Sangha, on the Spirit Rock Teacher Council, and are Core Teachers at Insight Meditation Society. In a wide ranging interview, they discuss their practice and how their monastic lives have prepared them for their life in a relationship. Plug Zone Website: http://sacredmountainsangha.org/ Books Listening to the Heart: A Contemplative Journey to Engaged Buddhism: https://www.amazon.com/Listening-Heart-Contemplative-Journey-Buddhism/dp/1583948392 Time to Stand Up: An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth -- The Buddha's Life and Message through Feminine Eyes https://www.amazon.com/Time-Stand-Up-Buddhist-Manifesto/dp/158394916X Have a question for Dan? Leave us a voicemail: 646-883-8326

Author and teacher Thanissara joins Raghu for a conversation about the waking up together and breaking our karmic patterns.Thanissara, author of Time To Stand Up, A Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth, was a Buddhist nun for 12 years. She has been teaching meditation retreats with her partner Kittisaro since 1992. Together they founded Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat in 2000 in South Africa and co-authored Listening to the Heart, A Contemplative Guide to Engaged Buddhism.

Kittisaro and Thanissara have been married since 1992. They spent 7 years as guiding teachers of the Buddhist Retreat Centre KwaZulu S. Africa and then went on to found Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat on the border of Lesotho and South … Continue reading →

From Chatanooga and London to the forest monasteries of Thailand, this couple articulates their clear-as-a-bell vision of credible liberation. Can the grit of suffering become a pearl of consciousness? K & T delight R & D with some R & R from ordinary mind and light up the podcast. They also display pragmatic activist consciousness in their wise words about nurturing Mother Earth.