Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Fifteenth talk). The difference between intellectual cleverness and knowledge versus a contemplative exploration of experience with the teachings of the Buddha.… Read the rest
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Seventeenth talk). Awareness with any condition: no matter what conditions arise, we use awareness to understand our changing experience. Thus we are not trapped by conditions. When we stay with the open heart, we understand the true meaning of love. We can do this by exploring how we use the brahmaviharas without using the brahmaviharas.… Read the rest
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Sixteenth talk). The meaning of renunciation and how to follow a moral life while living in community.… Read the rest
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Eighteenth talk). Ajahn gives an example of being criticized and then compulsively reacting. We try to see this sort of patterning and our craft is to work on this habit with the intention to observe arising phenomena rather than hating ourselves for having certain experiences. We can do this by seeing conditionality correctly: when there is this, there is that. When we do this, we are not getting lost in the history of losing the plot, nor carrying it around. We can therefore be available to our changing experience without judging it nor thinking of it as permanent.… Read the rest
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Twelfth talk). Using body awareness to deal with obsessive thoughts about imagery-exploring the subtlety of feeling tones in the body.… Read the rest
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Thirteenth talk). How to bring up disinterest in the stories we tell ourselves when we are experiencing strong emotions. By staying in the present moment and using body awareness we deal with our stories by saying to ourselves: “I’m not interested.” Ultimately this needs to come from a strong disinterest in sense experience so that we move away from the desire mind. Otherwise we are not available or in the present moment.… Read the rest
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Fourteenth talk). We need to be aware of the worldly qualities of the mind to understand them. We do this by emphasizing the perception and awareness of change. The rest of the talk focuses on how to deal with stress.… Read the rest
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Ninth talk). Choosing not to suffer when the mind tries to suffer. And being available to others.… Read the rest
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Tenth talk). Changing our perception of our awareness of the body. Striking a balance between energy and effort. And examining the spacious quality of the body.… Read the rest
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Eleventh talk). Disenchantment with the stream of consciousness and how dispassion works with the sense realm.… Read the rest
