Cross River Meditation Center Podcast

The Nidana Sutta - Ending The Defilements

This is a dhamma talk on the Nidana Sutta. In this sutta the Buddha teaches the importance of being mindful of actions to recognize and abandon the Three Defilements of Greed, Aversion, and Deluded Thinking, all rooted in ignorance of Four Noble Truths.

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The Lakkhana Sutta - Right Actions

This is a dhamma talk on the Lakkhana Sutta. In this sutta the Buddha teaches the importance of Right Action, and by extension, all eight factors of the Eightfold Path.This talk includes Sangha Q&A and discussion and was recorded at Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersey on October 22, 2016. This talk concludes with Metta intentional meditation.

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The Malunkyaputta Sutta - Skillful Questions

This is a dhamma talk on the Malunkyaputta Sutta. In this sutta the Buddha teaches Malunkyaputta what questions are fit to answer and what questions are  distractions from the goal of the dhamma. This talk includes Sangha Q&A and discussion and was recorded at Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersey on October 18, 2016. 

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The Kalama Sutta - How To Know The Dhamma

This is a talk on the Kalama Sutta where ethe Buddha answers a question from the Kalamas regarding how to know a useful Dhamma from other teachings. Related articles by John Haspel to all Dhamma talks are at CrossRiverMeditation.com. If you find benefit from this talk please consider a donation. Peace.

The Saddhamma Sutta - False Dhamma's

This is a dhamma talk on the Saddhamma Suta. In this sutta the Buddha teaches Kassapa how false Dhamma’s arise. This talk includes Sangha Q&A and discussion and was recorded at Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersey on October 11, 2016. Related articles by John Haspel to all Dhamma talks are at CrossRiverMeditation.com. If you find benefit from this talk please consider a donation. Peace.

The Agati Sutta - Not Losing The Way October 12 2016

This is a dhamma talk on the Agati Sutta. In this sutta the Buddha teaches how to not lose the way to constant distractions from the goal of the dhamma.This talk includes Sangha Q&A and discussion and was recorded at Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersey on October 11, 2016. This talk concludes with metta intentional meditation.

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The Rahulavada Sutta - The Buddha Teaches His Son October 8 2016

This is a dhamma talk on the Rahulavada Sutta. In this sutta the Buddha teaches his seven year old son the proper application of mindfulness. This talk includes Sangha Q&A and discussion and was recorded at Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersey on October 8, 2016.

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A Swift Pair Of Messengers - Shamatha-Vipassana Meditation In The Pali Canon

This is a Dhamma talk on the simile of a swift pair of messengers that the Buddha used to teach Shamatha-Vipassana meditation.

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Karma And Rebirth Talk From October 1 2016

This is a Dhamma talk on Karma and Rebirth. Related articles by John Haspel to all Dhamma talks are at CrossRiverMeditation.com. If you find benefit from this talk please consider a donation.

The Sambodhi Sutta - The Wings to Awakening

In The Sambodhi Sutta - The Wings of Self-Awakening the Buddha teaches the importance of admirable friends in supporting self-awakening.

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The Sabbasava Sutta - Ending Mental Fermentations

In the Sabbasava Sutta the Buddha teaches the ending of mental fermentations through appropriate, or refined mindfulness.

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The Buddha Sutta - Rightly Self-Awakening

In the Buddha Sutta the Buddha describes the difference between himself and those that follow the Eightfold Path: “The Tathagata (the Buddha) the rightly self-awakened one is the one who teaches the path previously unknown. His disciples follow the path and afterwards become awakened from the path.

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Rohitassa Sutta - Unlimited Mindfulness

This is a talk on the Rohitassa Sutta. In this sutta the Buddha teaches Rohitassa that he could not achieve awakening by seeking outside of himself.

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The Pali Canon - What the Buddha Taught

This is a talk on the Pali Canon and how the direct teachings of the Buddha have been authentically maintained for 2,600 years.

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The Vitakkasanthana Sutta — The Relaxation of Thoughts

In the Vitakkasanthana Sutta — the sutta on the relaxation of thoughts — the Buddha teaches that the refined mindfulness developed through the Eightfold Path brings a relaxed and peaceful quality of mind.

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Akankha Sutta - Wishes Granted

In the Akankha Sutta - Wishes Granted the Buddha addresses the  assembled sangha on the wish to be helpful to others.  He teaches that having a mind inclined to compassion and wisdom is noble. The Buddha also teaches that developing awakening within The Eightfold Path carries responsibilities of behavior and Dhamma practice. 

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Understanding Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha

This is a talk on understanding the interrelationship between Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha, the three marks of existence.

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Upajjhatthana Sutta Talk - 5 Subjects for Contemplation

In the Upajjhatthana Sutta the Buddha teaches that there are five subjects that should be mindfully considered as part of developing release from clinging. All of the Buddha’s teachings are presented in the context of developing understanding of the first noble truth, “there is dukkha,” and release from the second noble truth, “clinging originates dukkha."

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The Meghiya Sutta - The Buddha Teaches Meghiya

In the Meghiya  Sutta, the Buddha teaches Meghiya five qualities that bring awakening, or full human maturity. Meghiya, having taken refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Buddha’s sangha and living as a monk for a reasonable amount of time, finds himself still troubled by three unwholesome qualities of mind.

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Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Meditation

This is a talk on the concentration factors of the Eightfold Path. 

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Cula Saccaka Sutta - The Buddha Debates Saccaka

In the Cula-Saccaka sutta the Buddha is confronted by Saccaka, a follower of Nigantha Nataputta, the local leader of a Jain sect. Saccaka is accompanied by a group of approximately five hundred Licchavis. The Licchavis were a society ruled by a religious oligarchy. Saccaka was a well respected Jain teacher known for using intense philosophical rhetoric and debate to show his superior knowledge.

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Maha Assapura Sutta - Contemplatives

In the Maha-Assapura Sutta the Buddha teaches the assembled monks and nuns that being known as “contemplatives” and identifying as contemplatives does not fully describe the qualities of one following the Eightfold Path.

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Sankhitta Sutta - A Monks Concise Teaching

The Sankhitta Sutta - A Monk's Concise Teaching recounts the teaching given to a monk who was eager to develop the Buddha’s teaching in seclusion. Notice that the Buddha did not advise the monk that what he was asking was not possible or that he should incorporate practices that are common today but likely a distraction to developing cessation of confusion, delusion, and an unsatisfactory life experience.

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Right Intention - Emptiness Of Clinging

It is the cultivation of moment-to-moment mindfulness of the Eightfold Path that develops release from clinging and a mind of lasting peace. Release from clinging is the condition that the Buddha described as awakened, and a mind of lasting peace is the quality of mind of an awakened human being. 

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The Khema Sutta - Unanswered Questions

This is a dhamma talk on the Khema Sutta, the Sutta on unanswered questions . 

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Guided Metta Intentional Meditation

This is a guided Metta intentional meditation.

Additional information and written instructions are here: Shamatha-Vipassana Meditation Instructions.

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Guided Karaniya Metta Sutta Meditation

This is a guided Metta meditation from the words of the Buddha from the Karaniya Metta Sutta.

Additional information and written instructions are here: Shamatha-Vipassana Meditation Instructions.

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Guided Five Minute Shamatha-Vipassana Meditation

This is a five-minute Shamatha-Vipassana meditation session. Shamatha-Vipassana meditation is the meditation method the Buddha taught to deepen concentration to support the refined mindfulness necessary to integrate the Eightfold Path as the framework for self-awakening.

Additional information and written instructions are here: Shamatha-Vipassana Meditation Instructions.

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

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Guided Ten Minute Shamatha-Vipassana Meditation

This is a ten-minute Shamatha-Vipassana meditation session. Shamatha-Vipassana meditation is the meditation method the Buddha taught to deepen concentration to support the refined mindfulness necessary to integrate the Eightfold Path as the framework for self-awakening.

Additional information and written instructions are here: Shamatha-Vipassana Meditation Instructions.

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

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Guided Fifteen Minute Shamatha-Vipassana Meditation

This is a fifteen-minute Shamatha-Vipassana meditation session. Shamatha-Vipassana meditation is the meditation method the Buddha taught to deepen concentration to support the refined mindfulness necessary to integrate the Eightfold Path as the framework for self-awakening.

Additional information and written instructions are here: Shamatha-Vipassana Meditation Instructions.

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

If you find benefit from this talk please consider a donation: https://becoming-buddha.com/support-john-and-becoming-buddha-com/

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Guided Twenty Minute Shamatha-Vipassana Meditation

This is a twenty-minute Shamatha-Vipassana meditation session. Shamatha-Vipassana meditation is the meditation method the Buddha taught to deepen concentration to support the refined mindfulness necessary to integrate the Eightfold Path as the framework for self-awakening.

Additional information and written instructions are here: Shamatha-Vipassana Meditation Instructions.

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

If you find benefit from this talk please consider a donation: https://becoming-buddha.com/support-john-and-becoming-buddha-com/

Thank You. Peace.

Guided Thirty Minute Shamatha-Vipassana Meditation

This is a thirty-minute Shamatha-Vipassana meditation session. Shamatha-Vipassana meditation is the meditation method the Buddha taught to deepen concentration to support the refined mindfulness necessary to integrate the Eightfold Path as the framework for self-awakening.

Additional information and written instructions are here: Shamatha-Vipassana Meditation Instructions.

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

If you find benefit from this talk please consider a donation: https://becoming-buddha.com/support-john-and-becoming-buddha-com/

Thank You. Peace.

Guided Forty-Five Minute Shamatha-Vipassana Meditation

This is a forty-five-minute Shamatha-Vipassana meditation session. Shamatha-Vipassana meditation is the meditation method the Buddha taught to deepen concentration to support the refined mindfulness necessary to integrate the Eightfold Path as the framework for self-awakening.

Additional information and written instructions are here: Shamatha-Vipassana Meditation Instructions.

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

If you find benefit from this talk please consider a donation: https://becoming-buddha.com/support-john-and-becoming-buddha-com/

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Understanding Fabrications - An Introduction To Shamatha- Vipassana Meditation

The is a recording explaining fabrications and introducing Shamatha-Vipassana meditation and includes an impromptu explanation of what is meant by “calming bodily and mental fabrications” during our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on June 23, 2018.

Complete instructions and recordings of guided meditations are available here: https://becoming-buddha.com/shamatha-vipassana-and-metta-meditation/

 

Seven Factors Of Enlightenment

This is a dhamma talk on the seven factors to be developed that brings enlightenment. 

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The Culavedalla Sutta - Anatta And Self Identification

This is a dhamma talk on The Culavedalla Sutta and the formation of a self-referential ego personality.

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Dependent Origination And Conditioned Mind June 4 2016

This is a talk on Dependent Origination and how conditioned thinking maintains ignorance.

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The Sundari Sutta - Liberation From Restraint

This is a Dhamma talk on the Sundari Sutta, the sutta on te liberation of practicing restraint. Related articles by John Haspel to all Dhamma talks are at CrossRiverMeditation.com. If you find benefit from this talk please consider a donation. Peace.

The Anusota Sutta - Going With The Flow

This is a dhamma talk on the Anusota Sutta and how to avoid following foolish paths. 

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Salattha Sutta - The Two Arrows

The Sallatha Sutta The Two Arrows is a key teaching as it clearly explains what for many is a confusing aspect of the Dhamma. In the teachings on what it means to awaken to The Four Noble Truths. The Buddha states that awakening is “understanding stress and unhappiness, abandoning the cause of stress and unhappiness, experiencing the cessation of stress and unhappiness, and developing the Eightfold Path leading to the cessation of stress and unhappiness.”

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Setting The Wheel Of Truth In Motion - The Buddha's First Teaching

This talk is on the Buddha's first discourse known as the Dhammacakkappavatthana Sutta. This is when the Buddha taught The Four Noble Truths for the first time. A related article is here: The Four Noble Truths

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Wisdom Retreat Talk 8 Closing Right View Five Clinging Aggregates

These are recordings of our Spring 2016 Wisdom 1.0 retreat at Won Dharma Center in Claverack NY.

Information on future retreats is here: https://becoming-buddha.com/becoming-buddha-retreat/

A video of our classes from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersey is available here: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-stream-videos/

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

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Wisdom Retreat Talk 7 Fire Discourse

These are recordings of our Spring 2016 Wisdom 1.0 retreat at Won Dharma Center in Claverack NY.

Information on future retreats is here: https://becoming-buddha.com/becoming-buddha-retreat/

A video of our classes from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersey is available here: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-stream-videos/

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

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Wisdom Retreat Talk 6 Anatta - Not Self

These are recordings of our Spring 2016 Wisdom 1.0 retreat at Won Dharma Center in Claverack NY.

Information on future retreats is here: https://becoming-buddha.com/becoming-buddha-retreat/

A video of our classes from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersey is available here: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-stream-videos/

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

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Wisdom Retreat Talk 5 Four Noble Truths

These are recordings of our Spring 2016 Wisdom 1.0 retreat at Won Dharma Center in Claverack NY.

Information on future retreats is here: https://becoming-buddha.com/becoming-buddha-retreat/

A video of our classes from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersey is available here: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-stream-videos/

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

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Wisdom Retreat Talk 4 Dependent Origination 2

These are recordings of our Spring 2016 Wisdom 1.0 retreat at Won Dharma Center in Claverack NY.

Information on future retreats is here: https://becoming-buddha.com/becoming-buddha-retreat/

A video of our classes from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersey is available here: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-stream-videos/

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

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Wisdom Retreat Talk 3 Dependent Origination 1

These are recordings of our Spring 2016 Wisdom 1.0 retreat at Won Dharma Center in Claverack NY.

Information on future retreats is here: https://becoming-buddha.com/becoming-buddha-retreat/

A video of our classes from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersey is available here: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-stream-videos/

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

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Wisdom Retreat Talk 2 Siddhartha's Life and Awakening

These are recordings of our Spring 2016 Wisdom 1.0 retreat at Won Dharma Center in Claverack NY.

Information on future retreats is here: Becoming Buddha Retreats.

A video of our classes from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersey is available here: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-stream-videos/

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

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Wisdom Retreat Talk 1 Retreat Introduction

These are recordings of our Spring 2016 Wisdom 1.0 retreat at Won Dharma Center in Claverack NY.

Information on future retreats is here: Becoming Buddha Retreats.
A video of our classes from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersey is available here: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-stream-videos/

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

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Mara and Metaphor - Metaphor In The Pali Canon

This is a talk on the use and meaning of metaphor in the Pali Canon.

Related articles by John Haspel to all Dhamma talks are at CrossRiverMeditation.com. If you find benefit from this talk please consider a donation. Peace.