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TALKS, LED MEDITATIONS and LED REFLECTIONS on AUDIO CDs
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Mandala of Meditation Series on the WBO System of Meditation
Brahma Vihara Meditation Series 2005
Four Talks on Nagarjuna's "Lines Written to Tara" 2006
Emptiness and the Great Compassion Series 2006
Six Element Practice 2006
New Year Retreat 2006
Ratnasuri leading Pujas 2005
International Sangha Gathering 2005
Mandala of Meditation Series on the WBO System of
Meditation
Recorded on retreat at Taraloka in 2005, 2006 & 2007
ON POSITIVE EMOTION
Eight Talks on the Seven Point Mind Training: from the Alchemy of
Happiness retreat, January 2007
| track 1: | Introduction to the Seven Point Mind Training | Parami |
| track 2: | Verse One: Preliminaries - Four Mind turnings | Dhammadinna |
| track 3: | Verse Two: Training in the Two Bodhicittas | Parami |
| track 4: | Verse Three: Take the Adverse Conditions Onto the Path | Dhammadinna |
| track 5: | Verse Four: The Five Powers | Parami |
| track 6: | Verse Five: Measures of Success | Dhammadinna |
| track 7: | Verse Six: The Commitments | Parami |
| track 8: | Verse Seven: The Precepts | Dhammadinna |
You can order all eight talks as MP3 files on one CD for £10.
Each talk is also available on a normal audio CD, one talk per audio CD, for £6 each.
ON SPIRITUAL REBIRTH
From the Awakening Heart retreat, November 2005, for women who have
asked for ordination. Background information about the three myths is
in Madhyamavani Issue Ten.
The led meditation assumes familiarity with the Brahma Viharas and with the Going for Refuge and Prostration practice.
1. "The Awakening Heart ~ We Know What You've Studied, but What Have You Seen?"
by Kulaprabha
| track 1: | Using the Three Myths |
| track 2: | Acknowledging the Situation |
| track 3: | Individual Liberation |
| track 4: | Two Questions |
| track 5: | Samvega and Pasada |
| track 6: | Faith as Path |
| track 7: | Faith as Surrender |
| track 8: | Faith as Emergence |
| track 9: | Beyond the Games of the Ego |
2. Tong-len practice, version one: led by Kulaprabha
| track 1: | Introduction to the Practice |
| track 2: | Calling on Metta |
| track 3: | Evoking the Refuge Tree |
| track 4: | Going for Refuge |
| track 5: | Giving and Taking |
| track 6: | Dedication |
3. Tong-len practice, version two: led by Kulaprabha
| track 1: | Further Introduction to the Practice |
| track 2: | Calling on Metta |
| track 3: | Evoking the Refuge Tree |
| track 4: | Going for Refuge |
| track 5: | Giving and Taking |
| track 6: | Dedication |
From the Beauty of Becoming Retreat, February 2006
1. Introduction to Spiritual Rebirth by Parami
| track 1: | Our System of Meditation in the WBO |
| track 2: | Integration and Metta as Supports to Spiritual Practice |
| track 3: | Mythic Dimension of the System |
| track 4: | The Relationship Between Spiritual Death and Spiritual Rebirth |
| track 5: | Spiritual Bardo and Bodhicitta |
| track 6: | The Myth and Ritual of Ordination |
| track 7: | Birth into Spiritual Community - Marrying the Dakini |
| track 8: | The Dakini as Gatekeeper |
2. Heartbeat of the Bodhicittaa by Parami
| track 1: | Introduction |
| track 2: | Compassion |
| track 3: | Exchange of Self and Other |
| track 4: | Arising of the Bodhicitta |
| track 5: | The Place of Bodhicitta in the Order |
| track 6: | Being in the Service of the Bodhicitta |
3. Tong-len practice led by Parami
| track 1: | Introduction |
| track 2: | Maitri mantra |
| track 3: | Led Practice |
| track 4: | Transference of Merit |
4. What a Mess by Vajragita
| track 1: | Introduction |
| track 2: | Dukkha |
| track 3: | Pleasant and Unpleasant Feeling |
| track 4: | Unconditioned Joy |
| track 5: | Compassion |
| track 6: | In Accord with Reality |
| track 7: | Unbiased Gateway |
5. Tara Saves the Day: Talk and Puja by Shubhavyuha
| Talk and personal reflections: | |
| track 1: | Introduction |
| track 2: | Root Sadhana |
| track 3: | Green Tara Emerging |
| track 4: | Prayer to Tara |
| track 5: | Green Tara Mantra |
| track 6: | Tara by Moonlight |
| track 7: | Image of Tara |
| Puja: | |
| track 8: | Puja in call and response |
6. Meeting Padmasambhava: Talk and Puja by Vajragita
| track 1: | Talk |
| track 2: | Introduction to Puja |
| Puja: | |
| track 3: | Going for Refuge |
| track 4: | Generating Bodhicitta |
| track 5: | Invocation |
| track 6: | Devotion and Mantra |
| track 7: | Prostration |
| track 8: | Entreaty |
| track 9: | Mantra |
7. Sadhana as a Way of Life Parami
| track 1: | The Term "Sadhana" |
| track 2: | Chosen By - Not Choosing |
| track 3: | The Bond of Samaya |
| track 4: | A Reflective and Visual Practice |
| track 5: | In the Ordination Ceremony and Beyond |
| track 6: | As a Mandala of Practice |
Brahma Vihara Meditation Series
Recorded on retreat at Taraloka, July and November 2005
All CDs led through by
Kulaprabha
1. Talk: Brahma Viharas and the Key Moment
| track 1: | What Are the Brahma Viharas? |
| track 2: | The Sphere of Concern of Meditation |
| track 3: | How to Begin? |
| track 4: | The Key Moment |
| track 5: | Hard to put into Practice ~ Why? |
| track 6: | Reflections from Brahma Vihara retreats |
| track 7: | Who benefits? Apart from me? Who could? |
2. Introduction to Brahma Viharas and Led Reflections
| track 1: | Introduction 1 |
| track 2: | Introduction 2 |
| track 3: | Metta / Loving Kindness Exercise |
| track 4: | Upekkha / Equanimity Exercise |
3. Karuna Bhavana / Compassion: Led Meditations and Reflections
| track 1: | Introduction |
| track 2: | Self |
| track 3: | Suffering Person |
| track 4: | Friend |
| track 5: | Neutral Person |
| track 6: | Difficult Person |
| track 7: | All Beings |
4. Mudita Bhavana / Sympathetic Joy, Gladness: Led Meditations and Reflections
| track 1: | Introduction & Poem - The White Hare by Kenneth White |
| track 2: | Reading: "The Yogi's Joy" by Milarepa |
| track 3: | Self |
| track 4: | Boon Companion |
| track 5: | Friend |
| track 6: | Neutral Person |
| track 7: | Difficult Person |
| track 8: | All Beings |
| track 9: | Poem - The Moment by Kathleen Raine |
5. Upekkha Bhavana / Equanimity: Two Led Meditations
| track 1: | Introduction |
| Upekkha Bhavana, Version 1 | |
| track 2: | Self |
| track 3: | Neutral Person |
| track 4: | Friend |
| track 5: | Difficult Person |
| track 6: | All Beings |
| Upekkha Bhavana, Version 2 | |
| track 7: | Self |
| track 8: | Neutral Person |
| track 9: | Friend |
| track 10: | Difficult Person |
| track 11: | All Beings |
Four Talks on Nagarjuna's "Lines Written
to Tara"
Connecting with Compassion retreat, November 2006
Talks by Kulaprabha
CD 1
| talk 1: | The Single Face of the Chief Lady |
| talk 2: | Her Two Hands are the Two Truths |
CD 2
| talk 3: | Her Right Hand in the Gift-Bestowing Gesture |
| talk 4: | The Abandonment of All Defects of Mara |
Emptiness and the Great Compassion Series
Night Lily Garden of the Midnight Way retreat, April 2006
All CDs led through by Kulaprabha
1. On the Hymn to Perfect Wisdom (from the Perfection of Wisdom
in 8,000 Lines)
| track 1: | Hymn to Perfect Wisdom |
| track 2: | Source of Light |
| track 3: | Obscurations and Wrong Views |
| track 4: | Wings of Enlightenment |
| track 5: | May Fear and Distress be Forgiven |
| track 6: | Mysterious Dharmas |
| track 7: | Holding no Dharmas |
2. Reflections on the Elements
| track 1: | Elements of a Leaf |
| track 2: | Elements of the Flowing Self |
3. Reflection on the five Skandhas
| track 1: | Introduction |
| track 2: | Reading |
| track 3: | Form |
| track 4: | Feeling |
| track 5: | Perception |
| track 6: | Impulse |
| track 7: | Consciousness |
| track 8: | Reading |
4. Blue sky Reflection
| track 1: | Introduction |
| track 2: | Blue sky Reflection |
Order Meditation Retreat on the Six Element Practice,
March 2006
All CDs led through by Kulaprabha
1. The Six Element Practice
| track 1: | Poem - The Moment - by Kathleen Raine |
| track 2: | Earth |
| track 3: | Water |
| track 4: | Fire |
| track 5: | Air |
| track 6: | Space |
| track 7: | Consciousness |
2. The Six Element Practice - extras
Alternative led through Consciousness stage (based on Dhatuvibhanga sutta)
| track 1: | Version 1 |
| track 2: | Version 2 |
Brief Talks
| track 3: | The Practice in our System of Meditation |
| track 4: | Why do the Practice? |
| track 5: | Effects of the Practice |
| track 6: | Suggested Approach to the Practice |
| track 7: | Reading ~ Nagarjuna on "self " |
Poems
| track 8: | Compassion and the Void | |
| track 9: | High Blue Day on Scalpay | Kenneth White |
| track 10: | Life is King | Sangharaksita |
| track 11: | Rock | Kathleen Raine |
| track 12: | Three Things | |
| track 13: | True Nature | Han Shan |
| track 11: | The Poet Answers the Accuser | Kathleen Raine |
New Year Retreat 2006
The Thread of our Lives led by Taravandana
| track 1: | Poem and Questions |
| track 2: | What is this Thread? |
| track 3: | Intention and Continuity of Purpose |
| track 4: | Clarifying our Intention |
| track 5: | Reflecting on our Year |
| track 6: | Personal Reflections |
| track 7: | Developing Faith |
Ratnasuri leading Pujas, November 2005
Amitabha Puja
| track 1: | Introduction |
| track 2: | Reading |
| track 3: | Worship and Amitabha mantra |
| track 4: | Going for Refuge |
| track 5: | Bodhicitta Aspiration |
| track 6: | Praise |
| tracks 7 & 8: | Entreaty and Reading |
| track 9: | Heart Sutra and Amitabha mantra |
| track 10: | Dedication |
Tara Puja
| tracks 11 & 12: | Invocation and Reading |
| track 13: | Worship and Sakyamuni mantra |
| track 14: | Salutation |
| track 15: | Going for Refuge |
| track 16: | Tara mantra and Confession |
| tracks 17 & 18: | Rejoicing in Merit and Entreaty |
| tracks 19 & 20: | Reading and Heart Sutra |
| track 21: | Transference of Merit |
| tracks 22 & 23: | Tara mantra and Final mantras |
International Sangha Gathering, Taraloka 2005
1. Enlightenment as Heart, Life as Whole by Saddhanandi
| track 1: | Introduction |
| track 2: | Part 1 |
| track 3: | Part 2 |
| track 4: | Part 3 |
| track 5: | Part 4 |
2. We have a huge barrel of wine and no cups by Vajradarshini
| track 1: | Introduction |
| track 2: | Part 1 |
| track 3: | Part 2 |
| track 4: | Part 3 |
| track 5: | Part 4 |
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