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A wise sutta encouraging helping hearts and helping hands
Kāruññaṁyeva upaṭṭhāpetabbaṁ
Anuddayāyeva upaṭṭhāpetabbā
Anukampāyeva upaṭṭhāpetabbā
"Do whatever you can to serve and take care with compassion"
"Do whatever you can to serve and take care with kindness"
"Do whatever you can to serve and take care with empathy"
from Dutiyaāghātapaṭivinayasutta AN 5.162
- shared by AyyaTathālokā
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Dhamma Day 2025 | Invitation to Enter Vassa
Sun, Jul 06
Celebrate Dhamma Day and the entry to Vassa at Dhammadharini Monastery
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Sunday Morning Guided Meditation & Questions
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Every Sunday morning at 9:00 am Pacific Time: Guided Buddhist Meditation & time for questions on Zoom and in-person at Dhammadharini Monastery
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Every Sunday afternoon at 1:00 pm Pacific Time: Read and discuss the teachings of the Buddha. On Zoom and in-person at Dhammadharini Monastery.
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Ayya Sobhana Teachings
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01:50:56
“Escaping the world of sense desire”
Guided meditation, Dhamma reflection and a time for questions, with Ayya Sobhana. Reflecting on the fundamental difference between the Brahma heaven in Buddhist cosmology and the world of sense desire where we mostly live. The heart is untethered from sense desire through boundless loving kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity
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01:51:30
“Generosity and appreciation”
Guided meditation, Dhamma reflection and a time for questions, with Ayya Sobhana. At this time of year, Dhammadharini Sangha is especially engaged in remembering and appreciating the many ways our friends have helped throughout 2024. Let’s listen to some of the Buddha’s teachings about generosity and appreciation. #meditation #guidedmeditation #buddhistmeditation #dhammadharini #bhikkhuni #buddhism #bayarea For information or to register for other live events, please visit: https://www.dhammadharini.net/news-events
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“Dispel the five hindrances with the four divine abidings”
Guided meditation, Dhamma reflection and a time for questions, with Ayya Sobhana. Acknowledging the power and persistence of the five hindrances which prevent deep meditation and weaken wisdom. If mindful awareness is not enough to dispel them, try adding kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity to the mix.
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55:55
“Meditate like the earth …”
With elements meditation, pleasant or unpleasant contacts don’t occupy the mind … until the heart becomes abundant, expansive, limitless, free of enmity and ill will. Guided meditation and a time for questions with Ayya Sobhana
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01:23:45
“Going beyond like and dislike”
This program includes reading and discussion of a sutta from the Pali canon. This week, we discuss “Accompanied by lovingkindness” Mettāsahagatasutta SN 46.54. This sutta should shows the power of the boundless meditations when the meditator abandons five hindrance and cultivates seven factors of awakening.
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01:51:30
“Generosity and appreciation”
Guided meditation, Dhamma reflection and a time for questions, with Ayya Sobhana. At this time of year, Dhammadharini Sangha is especially engaged in remembering and appreciating the many ways our friends have helped throughout 2024. Let’s listen to some of the Buddha’s teachings about generosity and appreciation. #meditation #guidedmeditation #buddhistmeditation #dhammadharini #bhikkhuni #buddhism #bayarea For information or to register for other live events, please visit: https://www.dhammadharini.net/news-events
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37:14
"Kindness is spacious"
Guided meditation, and a time for questions, with Ayya Sobhana.
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01:09:37
“Spreading loving kindness in all directions”
Guided meditation and a time for questions with Ayya Sobhana #meditation #guidedmeditation #buddhistmeditation #dhammadharini #bhikkhuni #buddhism #bayarea For information or to register for other live events, please visit: https://www.dhammadharini.net/news-events
Dhammadharini means "Upholding the Dhamma" in the feminine form
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"According to the Buddha’s teaching, our best chance for enlightenment is not in a heavenly realm, but here in midst of elements and aggregates, within these bodies which age and sicken, among the earth, rain, wind, fire and consciousness elements. We wake up here, not in another ideal place.
This is the ideal place."
— Ayya Tathālokā, Founding Teacher