This Is the Way It Is Now
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Seventh talk). Using awareness of the thinking process and changing experiences to overcome the hindrances: greed, drowsiness, and doubt.… Read the rest
The Difficulty of Duvet Practice
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Eighth talk). How to use Right thought to deal with hindrances or any obstruction that comes up in practice, especially the difficulty of duvet practice.… Read the rest
The Nixon Button
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Fourth talk). How certain conditions can cause us to be stirred up easily and how to be aware of these conditions.… Read the rest
Using Uncertainty
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Fifth talk). How Ajahn Chah encouraged his students to see through the lens of uncertainty.… Read the rest
Cold Comfort
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Sixth talk). How we can be aware of uncomfortable cold sensations by using the perception of change.… Read the rest
Knowing Skillful and Unskillful Thought
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (First talk). Ajahn introduces the retreat and encourages the retreatants to learn right-thinking: knowing the mind as different from the mood of the mind, examining skillful and unskillful thought and the results of both, as well as using inner monitoring and taking responsibility for the mind by not projecting outward.… Read the rest
Sustaining the Awakened Mind
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Second talk). Noticing and sustaining the awakened mind and generating discernment through all of the hindrances.… Read the rest
Reflecting on Character
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Third talk). The differences between personality, character, and self view and how kamma relates to this.… Read the rest
Perception of Time
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2013 (Twelfth Talk). Ajahn Viradhammo explains the timeless quality of awareness and that all conditions, all objects are ultimately pointing to this reference of and refuge in awareness. Experiences, time, subject, object, space: all of it is happening in awareness.… Read the rest
The Body is in Awareness
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Residential Non-Retreat 2013 (Thirteenth Talk). We can use the teaching on anattā (not-self) to clearly see our attachment to the body. As an exercise, try sitting and thinking: “The body is in awareness.”… Read the rest