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
The Timelessness of Awareness
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2013 (Fourteenth Talk). How to use the creations of the mind skillfuly and access which thinking is helpful and which is not.… Read the rest
Big Sunglasses With Eye Balls Falling Out of Your Head
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2013 (Fifteenth Talk). Ajahn Viradhammo encourages us to relax our eyes during meditation, explaining a couple ways we can do this, and leading a guided meditation to support this practice.… Read the rest
True Self-Help
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2013 (Eighth Talk). Ajahn Viradhammo speaks about Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Liem, analysing several readings to better understand enlightenment experiences and the process of how we suffer.… Read the rest