Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks

• It Is What You Are, Not What You Look Like: Ajahn Chah Memorial

  Wat Pah Pong, monks, nuns, laymen, laywomen, honouring, defining teaching style, parents, frustration, comfortable, fierce, warm-heartedness, relatability, icon, human being, Ajahn Amaro, over-sleeping, eat little, eat more, ideal, idealistic, attentiveness, lost in doubt, ‘I’ve been there’, gift, understandable initial approach, forms, techniques, traditions, bowing, shaking hands, creative approach, vegetarian, fasting, spirit of the spiritual life, heart of hearts, essence, Dhammapada Verses 1, 2, reverse impulse, ascetic practices, lineage, social media, distraction addiction, dismissing forms, conduit, supermarket trolley, Te Awamutu, Judaeo-Christian culture, sin and guilt, comparing, nervous system, pointing, beyond forms.

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• The Special Relevance Of Compassion

  New Year’s Eve, various teachings, Kalama Sutta, relevant, Magadhi, throwing a tantrum, cold-hearted conceptual analysis, Kisa Gotami, totally identified in our heads, approximations, anger, wimpish, ineffectual, transformative power, strength, wisdom, meditation, cultivate compassion, flavour of solitude, nectar of peace, mother, intentional wishing, ‘may I be free from suffering’, contentment, conflated with complacency, abdication, ocean, stillness, turmoil, multidimensional, anger, protection, determinations, spiritual muscles, atrophy, 5 minute meditation on compassion, metta bhavana.

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• Reintegrating Rather Than Relinquishing

  New Moon, Uposatha Day, Dhammapada verse 132, external, internal, happy being, frightened self, foe, right and left hands fighting, festive season, collective insanity, equanimous evaluation, emotionally loaded, judgement, discipled attention, embodied mindfulness, conscious composure, work colleague, neighbour, fear, belly, letting go, relinquishing, vibhavatanha, heart energy, connection, allow, irrational fear, Prodigal Son, welcoming, alienated, not an academic exercise, self-harming, not getting lost in pleasure or pain.

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• Seeing Humility As A Safety Net

  (keywords) (slightly edited version)  Mahamangala Sutta, blessings, auspiciousness, protections, imperturbability, worldly winds, lokadhamma, nivata, humility, self references, false humility, hubris, limited being, our least, overshadowing, wholesome aspirations, betrayed, heart-broken, asking for help, bowing practice, having to be different, creative relationship with practice, psychological safety net, self-regulation, trying too hard, right amount of effort, zeal, striving, enthusiasm, goals, motivating, idealistic, servant, sat nav, clinging, Ajahn Chah, Wat Pah Nanachat, emulate an earthworm, shiny Buddha, impressive qualities, modesty, a smidgen of salt, iodine, oceans warming.

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• Susceptible To Seeing Anew

  (keywords) (slightly edited version)  Skilful means, Ajahn Chah, Everything Is Teachings Us, learning, bored, disillusionment, positive, inherently limited, purification, 5 spiritual faculties, spiritual competence, trust in true principles, law of gravity, consciousness, motivation, preferences, bad food, wound, healing, embodied mindfulness, emotionally literate, disciplined attention, attention span, discernment, casual culture, contentment, addiction, Bhikkhuni Mahapajapati, disillusionment, detachment, dispersal, modesty, contentment, frugality, effort, solitude, one-upmanship, sapling, protection, acorn, oak tree, hurry, natural unfolding, ‘my way’, letting go

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