Dharma Talks
given at Metta Forest Monastery
2004-01-01
Developing Your Potential
15:52
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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The simple things we already have in the present can be put together in such a way that they can lead to true happiness. We don’t have to go searching outside. All we need is to develop what’s right here. |
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The Present Moment
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2004-01-01
The Present Moment
67:03
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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Reality is threatening when we try to live in our stories and preconceived notions. But when the mind is free of the falsity of delusion, things that are real pose no danger to the mind. |
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2004-01-01
Get Real
15:46
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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Reality is threatening when we try to live in our stories and preconceived notions. But when the mind is free of the falsity of delusion, things that are real pose no danger to the mind. |
Metta Forest Monastery
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The Present Moment
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2004-01-01
Right Now
13:21
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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What you’re doing right now is very important—a principle that applies to any “right now,” because what you’re doing right now is always shaping “right now” as well as the future. |
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The Present Moment
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2004-01-01
Just This Breath
10:28
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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In one breath you’ve got everything you need for the practice, so be fully aware right here, and the fullness of your awareness will develop over time without your having to pace yourself or to plan ahead. |
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The Present Moment
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2004-01-01
Shaping Your Life
11:30
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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As meditators, we can easily slip into the attitude that we’re like people watching T.V.—passive consumers, watching a reality that’s ready-made—but that’s not what’s really going on. We’ve always active, always shaping things, even when we seem to be perfectly still. The purpose of the meditation is to be more careful about our intentions, more alert about how we’re shaping things. |
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The Present Moment
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2003-12-18
Introduction To Breath Meditation
10:22
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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Learn how to enjoy keeping the mind with the breath. If you spend time with the breath, you get sensitive not only to the breath, but also to what the mind is doing in the present moment and to the way it causes unnecessary suffering for itself. |
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Exploring The Breath
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2003-12-18
Getting To Know The Breath
9:07
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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We live with the breath, and yet we don’t know it, and as a result don’t get as much out of it as we could. The breath can provide food, clothing, shelter, and medicine for the mind if you take the time to get to know it well. |
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Exploring The Breath
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2003-12-18
Insight From The Breath
13:42
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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The type of insight that’s going to make a difference in the mind has to come from the mind’s being solidly based. So, until your mindfulness of the breath is really solid, this is where you want to focus all your efforts. |
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Exploring The Breath
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2003-12-18
Exploring The Breath
1:13:17
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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Learn how to enjoy keeping the mind with the breath. If you spend time with the breath, you get sensitive not only to the breath, but also to what the mind is doing in the present moment and to the way it causes unnecessary suffering for itself. |
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2003-12-18
Introduction To Breath Meditation
10:22
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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Learn how to enjoy keeping the mind with the breath. If you spend time with the breath, you get sensitive not only to the breath, but also to what the mind is doing in the present moment and to the way it causes unnecessary suffering for itself. |
Metta Forest Monastery
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Exploring The Breath
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2003-12-18
Getting To Know The Breath
9:07
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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We live with the breath, and yet we don’t know it, and as a result don’t get as much out of it as we could. The breath can provide food, clothing, shelter, and medicine for the mind if you take the time to get to know it well. |
Metta Forest Monastery
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Exploring The Breath
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2003-12-18
Insight From The Breath
13:42
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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The type of insight that’s going to make a difference in the mind has to come from the mind’s being solidly based. So, until your mindfulness of the breath is really solid, this is where you want to focus all your efforts. |
Metta Forest Monastery
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Exploring The Breath
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2004-03-21
Why The Breath
14:39
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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The breath is like a mirror for the mind. When there’s greed, anger, delusion, they’ll show up in the breath. And you find that not only does the breath reflect the mind, but you can use the breath to have a positive effect on the mind as well. |
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Exploring The Breath
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2004-03-21
The Breath's Potential
15:58
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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The mind is like an animal: that if it hasn’t been trained it’s difficult to live with. Once we train it, though, it stops creating so much suffering for itself. So we begin by staying in one place with something really simple: the breath. |
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Exploring The Breath
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2003-11-16
Outside The Box
1:13:06
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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2003-11-30
Outside The Box: Changing Your Mind
15:25
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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Your promise to yourself to follow the path and your willingness to look very, very carefully at events in the mind is what allows for growth in the practice. In spite of the teachings on impermanence, there are certain unskillful habits that can be dropped for good. (Date estimated) THBH_C9.02 |
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Outside The Box
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2003-12-14
Outside The Box: Shifting Your Paradigm
17:42
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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The mind’s filing system—its set of labels for fitting things into pre-set molds before filing them away—is often a major cause of trouble. Meditation involves changing the system in two ways: thinking your way into a new way of seeing things, and looking more carefully at the raw data of experience. (Date estimated) THBH_C9.03 |
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Outside The Box
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2004-01-13
Outside The Box: The Four Bases Of Success
22:16
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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If you’re the type of person who takes pride in doing a job well, you’ve got many of the psychological attitudes you need to meditate well. Meditation done with properly focused desire, persistence, intentness, sensitivity, powers of analysis, and imagination opens up all kinds of possibilities. THBH_C9.04 |
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