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Jessica reads from a sutta and gives guidance on right speech in the modern world.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Jessica reflects at Sunday Sila on addressing fears as expectationsPortland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Jessica reflects on the lessons she learns from being in nature in her garden and from being around others who are skillful.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Sakula reflects on how her fears interfere with her wishes and wants and gives thoughts on how to move away from fear to kindness. A community member expresses gratitude for kindnesses.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Heather leads Sunday Sila to reflect on how to be embodied in the world in the Dhamma and how to live in a meaningful way, responding rather than reacting.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Matthew leads Sunday Sila to reflect on delusion, the most neglected of the three afflictions, and how it leads us to misperceive reliability, true happiness, and self.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Jessica reflects on the sutta and how it helps her stay balanced in daily life.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Luang Por Pasanno address Sunday Sila on Zoom. He reflects on sila, trust, the five precepts, volitions, kamma, and refining our relationship to our actions, speech and mind. He discusses how dana and sila lay the foundation for creating a good relationship with ourselves and others, confidence and well-being, and working toward the end of sufferin…

Luang Por addresses Sunday Sila with brief guidance on meditation.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Luang Por Pasanno and Ajahn Karunadhammo reflect on what it means to have a place to gather as a community with spiritual friends. They offer a special blessing chant for this special occasion.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

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Luang Por Pasanno and visiting monastics chant a blessing after the meal offering.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Luang Por answers questions on meditation topics and skills, cultivating the mind, and grief. He touches on various mind objects, appropriate kinds of thinking, happiness, illuminating the mind, grief, and compassion.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Luang Por Pasanno addresses those present and on Zoom for the Annual Celebration on creating the conditions for wise reflection (yoniso manasikara), skillful reflection, skillful attention, drawing close to good friends, and creating community.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

After precepts and still meditation, Luang Por Pasanno gives instruction for walking meditation.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Visiting Retired Abbess Gyokuko Carlson reflects on themes of fatherhood, change, the magical transformation of meditation and its power to undo knots, like stinking fish, within us. She encourages the acceptance of our humanity, body and mind, as part of our practice.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Jessica encourages turning the mind toward the Dhamma and true awareness of how things really are, rather than how things were in the past or how we fear they are. She reminds us we are held by the Dhamma, the community, and our friends. She encourages realizing that others might not feel safe and to act with compassion by holding others where they…

Sakula considers the present moment, what now is, how stories and becoming take us out of the moment and are the source of suffering.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Debbie Stamp, a lay teacher and resident of Abhayagiri Monastery for 23 years, addresses Sunday Sila. She reflects on a year of changes in her life, some that we have all faced and some specific to her life. She reflects on adapting.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Sakula reflects on a retreat with Luang Por Sucitto and his teaching on wholesomeness. She shares readings from Buddhadhamma by Phra Prayudh Payutto. Beautiful in the beginning, beautiful in the middle, beautiful in the end.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Jessica compares the framework of poetry to living in response to conditions within the Dhamma as taught in the Ajahn Chah lineage.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

To celebrate Mother’s Day, Sakula draws on Luang Por Pasanno’s teaching and a story from her life with her own mother. She draws the arc of a life’s relationship healed with the Dhamma.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Sakula leads Sunday Sila with some in person attendees for the first time in a while. She reflects on welcoming changes in our lives according to the practice, recognizing impermanence and uncertainty.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Sakula addresses Sunday Sila. She reflects on how to let the teachings into the heart based on teaching by Luang Por Pasanno on mindfulness and compassion.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Guest lay teacher Cittasubha addresses Sunday Sila, reflecting on the presence of the Buddha’s teachings everywhere. We grow by receiving teachings and then reflecting on them. She shares how to listen to Dhamma with the help of Ajahn Munindo.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Jessica asks what it would be like if instead of asking, “How are you?” we were to ask, “What are you reflecting on lately?” How can we understand one another through the lens of wise reflection, yonisomanasikara? A story of reflecting with children.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Jessica Swanson addresses Sunday Sila. How do we move through life on the path in the Dhamma interdependently?Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Jessica Swanson leads Sunday Sila online. She reflects on why she is drawn to the Thai Forest tradition of Theravada Buddhism and what makes it special.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Sakula discusses the benefits of the practice of recognizing when we naturally feel goodness and intentionally feeling goodness. She reflects on the suffering of being entangled in our fears and ways of dealing with our triggers.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Sakula reflects on the need for a strong community to hold goodness and generosity for one another. She reviews AN 4.31, a teaching on the Four Wheels.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

For Sunday Sila, Jessica reflects on the path, suffering, grief, and love after the death of her family cat.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Ayya continues the study of the Highest Blessings, Mangala sutta, using multiple translations and takes more questions. The days closes with a chance to chant the sutta with fresh understanding.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Ayya begins the study of the Mangala Sutta, The Highest Blessings (Snp2-4). Using multiple translations, she elucidate these instructions for living a blameless life, free of remorse.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

During the daylong event Ayya guided the group in meditation in preparation for study. The meditation is presented in its entirety.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Ayya Santussika met online with Portland Friends of the Dhamma and practitioners from all over the Western Hemisphere. The day opened with an introduction and the taking of the five precepts.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Sakula explores how to be truthful to oneself, open up, be present with others in a skillful way, and experience the joy in the moments of eternity. She addresses the Sunday Sila gathering online.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Sakula leads Sunday Sila and responds to a line in Ajahn Munindo’s book. She provides encouragement for coping with our turbulent times by creating space, avoiding our patterned reactions, being present with our feelings, and finding a skillful response.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Ayya Medhanandi continues with the daylong session of the Ever Present Refuge. Death may serve as a reminder of impermanence as well as an encouragement to learn the Dhamma and find the unconditioned.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Ayya Medhanandi begins by asking those assembled what is the most pressing issue now. She leads us to seeing the wisdom of being present in the moment as a refuge from the worldly winds and suffering. While she recognized that there has been great suffering this past year, she pointed out that suffering, in fact, allows us to learn the Dhamma. Our …

Ayya Medhanandi teaches Portland Friends of the Dhamma for the first time in a daylong session. The theme was Ever Present Refuge. In this recording she introduces the precepts as the foundation for building happiness.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Ajahn Thanissaro (Geoff) visited Portland Friends of the Dhamma by Zoom for his 19th annual teaching session. His topic was “Response to Change.” The study guide is found here. The topics ranged from change in general to grief, all with a focus on specific skills for this challenging 2020 year.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

In the afternoon session of Ajahn Thanissaro’s 19th annual visit, this time online due to the pandemic, the theme of “Response to Change” continues. The focus remains on the suttas and developing skills, the response. The study guide is found here.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Sakula leads Sunday Sila and reflects on training the mind to go where we want, to be skillful, and to guide the heart.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Jessica Swanson leads Sunday Sila at the Center with some in person and some online. She reflects on what we bring to meditation, developing beneficial mind states as a gift to ourselves and others, and fearlessness – abhaya-dana.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Ayya Santussikā gives the afternoon talk of our daylong session with her on Directing the Mind, Cooling the Heart. Breath, Brahma Viharas, and suttas inform the instruction. Guidance for daily life is given. The talk is followed by a long, rich question and answer session.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

In this guided meditation from the morning of our daylong session with Ayya Santussika titled Directing the Mind, Cooling the Heart the foundation is laid for the afternoon’s teaching. Careful practice instruction is given grounded in the Buddha’s teaching.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Once we disengage from defilements, trust and discerning can follow more easily. Trust can bring relief. In the space of this relief we can discern an opportunity for good karma. So how do we disengage? Sakula reflects on the process of finding the constriction in the body and ceasing to feed it.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Sakula reflects on impermanence, uncertainty, and feeding the hindrances and our fears. with life at home.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu

Sakula reflects on pain in an online Sunday Sila during the Covid-19 pandemic.Portland Friends of the Dhamma tarafından oluşturuldu