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Ayya Santussika's Dharma Talks
Ayya Santussika
Ayya Santussika, in residence at Karuna Buddhist Vihara (Compassion Monastery), spent five years as an anagarika (eight-precept nun), then ordained as a samaneri (ten-precept nun) in 2010 and as a bhikkhuni (311 rules) in 2012 at Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara in Los Angeles.
2020-03-28 Present with suffering discussion 1:28:30
Karuna Buddhist Vihara
2020-03-28 Noble Truths meditation 25:29
Karuna Buddhist Vihara
2020-03-21 Dhamma discussion - Using change to develop wisdom 1:24:26
Karuna Buddhist Vihara
2020-03-21 Breath/Divine Abidings meditation 29:38
Karuna Buddhist Vihara
2019-09-03 The Joy that leads to Enlightenment 37:35
Ayya Santussika describes the Six Recollections taught by the Buddha and how they may benefit our meditation and practice.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
2019-02-05 Engaged Brahmaviharas 48:55
Ayya Santussika presents the first talk in a speaker series on The Engaged Buddhist. Here she speaks on the role that each of the four Brahmaviharas play to help and guide us in our engaged actions, whatever they be, to promote wholesome and beneficial outcomes. She discusses lovingkindness, joy in the good fortune of others, compassion and equanimity as well as the near and far enemies of these qualities.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Engaged Buddhism
2019-02-05 Meditating on the Brahmaviharas 29:05
A guided meditation on practicing the Brahmaviharas.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Engaged Buddhism
2019-02-05 Engaged Buddhism 3:44:38
with Ayya Santussika, Bill Kostura and Phil Goodwin, Jennifer Dungan, Oren Jay Sofer
Meditation instructions are sometimes misinterpreted to imply that one should disengage from activity and suspend all judgment. Buddhist advice on “letting go” can be misunderstood to suggest that problems in the world can or should be ignored. Yet the Pali canon shows that the Buddha taught practical social and economic remedies, and urged monks to travel so they could benefit the largest number of people. Thích Nhất Hạnh coined the term “engaged Buddhism” to describe efforts to respond to the suffering in his country during the Vietnam war, work he saw as part of meditation and mindfulness practice rather than something apart from it. In this series, some local “engaged Buddhists” will share how they personally apply Buddhist wisdom to engage with the suffering around us, in areas such as social action, prison ministry, and environmentalism.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
2017-10-16 Brahma Viharas (guided meditation) 44:17
Insight Meditation Center
2017-10-16 Shame, Guilt, and Regret (Dhamma talk) 40:36
Insight Meditation Center

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