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Donate to Ayya Santacitta Ayya Santacitta's Website After being inspired by the presence & teachings of Ajahn Buddhadasa, i ordained 1993 at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, UK. In 2009 i co-founded Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery in the Sierra Foothills of California, where i enjoy creating sanctuary close to nature, practicing in community and bringing wisdom traditions to the environmental movement. -- Select from Ayya Santacitta's 223 talks -- VIEW ALL 2019-08-31 "The Brahmavihara and Anatta" - A practice for our times of transition 2020-06-28 'Bitter Medicine' 2011-05-26 'The Four Heavenly Messengers" 2020-06-08 A Bigger Context (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2011-01-03 A Summary of the Path 2014-05-13 A Template for Experience 2014-05-31 Aligning Ourselves 2016-09-03 Almsgiving 2016 at Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery 2009-03-11 Arising and Passing Away 2013-08-11 Arriving and Settling: A guided meditation 2020-06-06 Becoming Teachable (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2011-06-01 Befriending Uncertainty 2019-05-07 Beginning at the Beginning (Retreat at Spirit rock) 2016-01-02 Being Awareness - Guided Meditation 2012-11-24 Being Benevolence, Intro and Guided Meditation 2018-04-09 Being The Knowing 2020-08-17 Being with Discomfort is a Core-Competency on the Path 2012-12-28 Being With What Is 2017-06-14 Body-Feeling-Mind States (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2015-12-28 Bodycontemplation - Guided Meditation 2009-12-31 Breaking Through 2018-05-05 Building the Raft - Day 1 - (Reflection/Talk) "A Foundation for Insight" 2018-05-05 Building the Raft - Day 1 - Question and Answer period 2019-01-04 Closing Talk with Ven Dhammadipa and Ayya Anandabodhi 2019-11-17 Complete Balance ~ Complete Contact 2013-01-02 Compost and Fertile Ground 2011-01-02 Contemplation of Mind 2019-06-09 Correcting Distortions of Mind 2015-12-28 Counting Our Blessings - Guided Meditation 2019-06-24 Creating a Sense of Urgency through Contemplation of Mortality 2012-08-01 Creative Despair - Learning from Everything 2017-06-15 Death is Inevitable (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2014-05-14 Distraction = Destruction 2020-06-27 Earth Element - Internally and Externally 2012-04-14 Eight Worldly Winds 2015-04-26 Elements and Feelings 2017-01-06 End of Retreat Reflection 2017-05-07 End of Retreat Reflection 2012-04-06 Equanimity 2015-09-26 Equanimity 2015-04-26 Escaping Into Reality 2017-06-17 Escaping into Reality (Spirit Rock Retreat) 2010-06-25 Faith 2016-07-16 Familiarizing Oneself with the Way Things Are 2019-09-20 Feminine Perspectives in Buddhism 2017-05-04 First Foundation of Mindfulness ~ Body 2016-12-28 First Foundation of Mindfulness ~ Bodyparts 2020-06-28 Five Elements & Awareness 2017-06-14 Five Opportunities for Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2018-04-04 Four Postures For Meditation 2019-09-16 Four Supports for Letting Go 2018-09-22 Four Universal Tones of Empathy (The Four Bhramavihara) 2010-12-29 Gateway to Reality 2020-06-07 Getting a Handle on Complexity (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2012-11-09 Gratitude 2015-11-28 Gratitude for the Web of Life - a guided sitting meditation 2019-11-23 Gratitude is not Politeness 2016-12-31 Greetings to the Natural World ~ Words Before All Else 2013-12-07 Growing Up & Waking Up 2009-02-17 Guided Meditation 2012-04-11 Guided Meditation - How We Create Our World 2012-06-22 Habits of Mind 2019-08-16 Harnessing Our Energy to Meet the Moment 2020-06-09 Harvesting the Fruits of Our Practice (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2015-06-20 Heart Opening 2019-08-19 How Does Liberation Come About? 2016-05-14 How to Cultivate Wisdom 2017-12-30 How to Develop Wisdom? 2013-01-01 How We Meet Experience 2014-04-13 How Words Create Our Future 2013-10-11 If it's in the way, it's the Way 2019-06-12 Impermanence & the Five Subjects of Frequent Recollection 2019-08-16 Informed by Experience 2013-12-28 Inner and Outer Renunciation - Guided Meditation 2016-12-30 It Is Possible 2011-07-03 Keep Going, a talk from a daylong called "Why Do I Meditate" 2013-12-29 Knowing Phenomena, Being Awareness - Guided Meditation 2019-08-29 Knowledge & Vision 2013-07-12 Learning from Climate Change 2017-07-22 Loosing Fear of Formations 2017-12-09 Map of the Practice and Q&A 2015-04-27 Maranasati - Mindfulness Of Death 2016-12-31 Maranasati ~ Contemplation of Death 2019-05-09 Meditating on the Seven Factors and Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2019-06-22 Meditation of the Elements & Temporary Liberation of the Mind 2019-12-30 Meditation on the Five Indriya 2014-08-16 Meditation on the Four Elements 2011-12-01 Meeting Life with Lovingkindness 2014-10-04 Meeting What Is 2019-11-10 Metta for Our Times ~ Hopefree & Engaged 2019-11-11 Metta for Our Times ~ Hopefree & Engaged 2019-11-13 Metta for Our Times ~ Hopefree & Engaged 2018-12-29 Metta Immeasurable 2019-08-24 Mindfulness & Clear Comprehension ~ Sati & Sampajanna 2018-04-04 Mindfulness Of Body 2014-05-11 Mother of Wisdom 2015-06-20 Motivation 2014-08-31 Never Turn Away 2016-12-29 No Mud No Lotus 2018-08-25 OKness & the Four Noble Truths 2011-06-01 On Intention or What We Bring to a Situation 2014-07-20 On Meditation 2018-01-01 Open To The Vastness 2017-12-28 Opening Reflection on Simplicity and Letting Go 2020-06-27 Overview of 'The Work' 2013-07-14 Planet Earth as Divine Messenger 2013-09-14 Practicing in Times of Big Changes 2012-04-07 Preparation For Insight 2020-01-03 Put the Fearful Mind in the Cradle of Loving Kindness 2017-06-15 Question & Answer Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2020-01-01 Ready to Give Up for Real? 2020-06-06 Real Beauty of the Nonjudgemental Heart (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2020-07-25 Receiving Blessings 2018-01-04 Reclaiming Our Life 2012-03-01 Reflections on the Outstanding Women in Buddhism Award Ceremony 2014-12-28 Refuge 2010-05-09 Renunciation & Courage 2011-07-08 Renunciation as an Opportunity 2020-07-25 Resiliency Through Opening to What Is 2017-05-27 Responding Versus Reacting 2017-01-03 Resting as Awareness 2011-01-01 Resting in Awareness 2011-07-03 Resting in Awareness - Guided Meditation 2017-01-05 Resting the Monkeymind 2017-01-04 Returning to Simplicity 2018-04-07 Right Action 2018-04-10 Right Concentration/Stability/Collectedness 2019-01-01 Right Effort - Regardless of How Things Work Out or Don't 2018-04-06 Right Speech 2018-12-29 Right Speech as a Mindtraining 2014-12-30 Right Thought 2016-05-13 Samadhi-A Pleasant Abiding Here and Now 2019-01-03 Samma Samadhi - Preparation for Insight 2020-05-17 Samma Sankappa ~ Right Intention 2019-07-27 Sanity and How to Let Go of Distortions 2013-12-30 Seeing in a Bigger Context - Guided Meditation 2019-06-20 Self Compassion 2014-05-13 Self-Secret 2018-04-10 Sense Of Urgency 2019-05-06 Setting the Tone--Getting Started (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2017-05-05 Seven Facets for Cultivating the Mind 2019-06-09 Seven Factors of Awakening & Cultivation of Refuge 2019-06-18 Seven Factors of Awakening ~ an Overview 2014-01-03 Seven Treasures 2016-07-16 Sharing the Blessings of our Practice 2019-08-11 Sincerity of the Heart 2011-09-25 Start Where You Are 2019-06-21 Starving the Hindrances & Feeding the Factors of Awakening 2012-12-29 Staying Open 2014-11-15 Steady In Transition 2013-08-11 Stop Running 2014-01-04 Strive on with Diligence - Guided Meditation 2017-08-13 Taking Refuge in Open Awareness, Taking Refuge in Buddha 2016-05-11 Taking Refuge in the Way Things Are. 2017-08-13 Tapping Into the Power of Refuge 2017-07-23 Taste of Nibbana 2017-06-16 Temporary Liberation of Mind Through the Four Brhamaviharas (Retreat at Spirit … 2019-08-28 Temporary Liberation of the Mind 2016-05-11 The 3 Refuges as Support for Practice 2010-07-18 The Bigger Picture 2019-06-23 The Brahmavihara & Temporary Liberation of the Mind 2013-11-29 The Capacity to Feel 2013-10-13 The Eight Worldly Winds 2019-09-16 The Elements & Being OK with Uncertainty 2013-12-31 The Fire of Transformation 2015-01-03 The Five Aggregates of Clinging 2018-01-01 The Five Aggregates of Clinging 2017-05-05 The Five Hindrances ~ a Template for Waking Up 2014-05-09 The Five Indriya 2019-12-29 The Five Indriya ~ A Simple Roadmap to Liberation 2015-04-25 The Four Elements 2015-12-31 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness - Guided Meditation 2015-08-21 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: An Overview 2020-05-05 The Four Heavenly Messengers & Covid 2013-04-07 The Four Noble Truths 2015-08-22 The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness and the Four Iddhipada 2015-04-29 The Heart-wish and the Four Iddhipada 2012-01-03 The Mind of Non-Grasping 2018-12-28 The Noble Eightfold Path Isn't a Straight Line 2020-07-11 The Path Is Made by Walking 2011-07-01 The Power of Restraint 2012-01-01 The Seven Awakening Factors and Renunciation 2019-06-24 The Seven Factors of Awakening & Temporary Liberation of the Mind 2010-12-31 The Seven Factors of Enlightenment 2020-01-05 The Simile of the Mountain or Good Compost for Evolution 2015-08-22 The Simplicity of the First Three Foundations of Mindfulness 2015-11-28 The Skill of Gratitude 2017-12-29 The Three Characteristics ~ Structure of Experience 2013-05-24 The Three Refuges 2014-05-12 The Transforming Power of The Factors of Awakening 2018-04-11 There In The Middleness 2019-06-24 This Could Be my Last Breath 2012-04-08 Three Characteristics Of Life 2012-07-13 Three Levels of Renunciation 2017-05-20 Three Tenets for a Happy Life 2014-07-19 Transformation of Regret 2017-01-01 Transforming Conventional Tendencies into Supports for Awakening 2016-05-10 Tuning the Instrument of the Body 2013-08-23 Turn Towards It 2019-06-22 Turned Upside Down 2019-09-14 Turning Upright What Had Been Turned Upside Down 2017-06-13 Two Kinds of Truth (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2019-06-08 Untangling the Web of Assumptions 2017-05-10 Vesak Reflection 2019-06-24 Vulnerability & the Liberating Power of the Seven Factors of Awakening 2019-12-08 Vulnerability & Transmission 2017-06-18 We Have a Choice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2019-06-24 What Do You Live For? 2019-08-30 What Does Master Gotama Live For? 2015-12-29 What Is Dukkha? 2012-07-08 What Is Inner Strength? 2020-01-04 What is Panna (Wisdom)? 2018-04-05 What Is Right Thought/Intention? 2013-07-07 What Meditation Can Do For "You" 2013-12-28 What We Bring to Experience 2010-01-10 Who Am I? Guided Meditation 2014-01-01 Wisdom and the Four Hallucinations 2013-09-08 Wisdom or Knowledge? 2011-06-08 Working with Doubt 2012-04-09 Working With Feelings 2018-01-03 Working with the Five Aggregates 2019-08-25 Working with the Hindrances 2012-04-11 World Map Of The Practice 2019-11-10 Metta for Our Times ~ Hopefree & Engaged 29:24 Download Listen Guided Meditation I Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery