Sayadaw U Jagara’s Dharma Talks

August 28, 2021 Dhamma Vy 178 Views

Born in Canada, Ven. U Jagara was introduced to Buddhist practice in the early 1970’s by Robert Hover, and ordained as a monk under the Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw in Burma in 1979. He spent 15 years in Sri Lanka combining meditation with the study of Buddhist texts and periodically traveled to India where he practiced in intense retreats with S. N. Goenka. For several years he conducted retreats in India, America, Europe and Asia in the S.N. Goenka tradition. Since 1995 U Jagara has trained under the guidance of Pa Auk Sayadaw, the Burmese master renowned for his faithful adherence to the Visuddhimagga as both a practical guide to jhana and a detailed exposition of direct analytical approaches to vipassana. U Jagara assists Pa Auk Sayadaw in the teaching.

2020-01-28 Morning Meditation Instructions 7:40	Download Listen
“Meditation” is done by first acknowledging facts, seeing causes and remedies.
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2020-01-27 The Four Nutrients Of Life 55:20	Download Listen
Based on SN: text on the topic and extracts from Nyanaponika’s booklet, elaboration is made on the four main causes of life, i.e. food, mental volition, contact, and consciousness.
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2020-01-25 Morning Reflections 6:27	Download Listen
Extracts read from “Therigatha – Verses of Freedom” poems by nuns. Translated by Matty Weingast
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2020-01-24 Q&A 54:05	Download Listen
Questions on aspects of Metta/Perception/Jhana, Samatha vs vipassana. Point of view on Pha-Auk method.
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2020-01-21 Morning Instructions. 12:43	Download Listen
“The flight of the eagle”. The trio of Panna, Sati, and Viriya combined in different modes of our meditative practice.
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2020-01-14 Morning Reflections 21:49	Download Listen
Seven bojjhangas starting with Sati. Bring balance. Seeing the body as physical elements and identifying some causes for its manifestation.
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2020-01-13 “What Is Meditation” 56:15	Download Listen
Meditation is described as “sensitivity, intelligence, and adjustment”. Parallels are done with “Sati, Panna, and Viriya” – a trilogy principle seen in MN:117, Mahācattārīsaka Sutta
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2020-01-09 Morning Instructions 9:00	Download Listen
Meditation requires sensitivity and intelligence from the heart. The seven bojjhangas in practice.
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2020-01-08 Metta and the Seven Enlightenment Factors 45:47	Download Listen
The Buddhist practice of Metta needs to be combined with the seven bojjhangas. These seven can relate to different levels of practice, depending on “object” relation. e.g. insight or serenity
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2020-01-07 Morning Instructions 15:21	Download Listen
Adaptation of Thich Nat Hann’s Metta instructions.
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2020-01-06 How Turtles Find Their Way Back Home 47:40	Download Listen
Turtles and magnetic fields. Planes of existence and rebirth. Rahula’s and Buddha’s instructions on four elements and Brahma Vihara, before practicing breath meditation (ānāpāna)
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2018-07-25 The Simile of the Cloth (Majjhima Nikaya) and The Four Noble Truths in short 52:44	Download Listen
Based on that sutta, we see the role of perception (sañña) in how we relate to our experience of the world.
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2018-07-21 Morning Reflection – Meditation on the Four Elements 36:22	Download Listen
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2018-07-20 Morning Reflection 2:17:57	Download Listen
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2018-07-19 Morning Reflection 46:36	Download Listen
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2018-07-14 Morning Refelctions 42:49	Download Listen
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2018-07-13 Object + Objective 39:32	Download Listen
What are your objectives in life? What are the situations, internal and external, that you find yourself involved in, from moment to moment, and how you can do something about it, to some extent. Small objectives finally come to be seen as not separate from the big picture, our Objective.
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2018-07-13 Morning Instructions – Body Scan 44:26	Download Listen
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2018-07-12 Morning Reflection 32:14	Download Listen
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2018-07-11 Q/A Session 58:50	Download Listen
Both Sayadaw U Jagara and Nikki Mirghafori share answers and reflections on pre-written questions: What’s the nutriment for equanimity and doubt? What is the difference between a cause and a condition? Explain anatta — If there is not a self, whose kamma gets reborn? Etc.
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2018-07-02 Practical Causality: Seeing Causes and Conditions Intimately. 52:22	Download Listen
General introduction to the one-month retreat theme together with the 3 modes of mindfulness, adjustable according to circumstances.
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2017-05-28 Day 6 Metta Sit: (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 26:54	Download Listen
Genetic-Temperature-Conditioned=Metta=Warm-up!
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2017-05-28 Day 6 Morning Instructions: SN: “The Lump of Foam” and the 5 aggregates as bubbles, etc. (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:33	Download Listen
Includes Q&A
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2017-05-27 Perception as Conditioned and as Conditionee (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:52	Download Listen
Sanna (pere arise together with feeling (vedana) and is a “marker” of sign and a “recognition” of the mark (sign). It can be used to protect/develop and understand mind’s dynamic. What is needed for a beginner = mindfulness of the body.
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2017-05-26 Day 4: Metta Sit with Guidance (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 7:41	Download Listen
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2017-05-26 Day 4: Instructions: : “Love God, no Needs” (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:34	Download Listen
4 Elements and eating meditation instructions
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2017-05-25 From “Let Go” to “Let’s Go”: Provided we know where we are (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:54	Download Listen
Inquiry has to start with acknowledging where we are now, then further discernment will tell us a bit more about the why. Based on the morning instructions on the 4 Elements we come to know more about the dynamics of our life, i.e. the body and mind and the whole universe.
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2017-05-24 Day 2: Metta sit with Guidance: Related to Examining Reality (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 26:55	Download Listen
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2017-05-24 Day 2: Instructions and Sitting: Approaches to Our Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 40:15	Download Listen
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2017-05-23 Realities and How We Come to See Them (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:01	Download Listen
Based on the quality of our life (mind included), we come to see things in a clearer perspective. (An: 11,2 Cetana Sutta)
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2017-03-30 Commitment to Awakening 34:42	Download Listen
What are you committed to? Where is your path leading? This talk uses the Simile of the Heartwood to reflect upon various attainments and corruptions of insight that can occur through the practice. Minor attainments can support our path, but they may also become attachments if we become enchanted with them, allow them to stall our progress, or if we become negligent. We can nurture a deep aspiration without falling into traps of self-doubt, conceit, envy, or discouragement. We can aim for the ultimate goal, the liberating potential, of this path.
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2017-03-29 Q&A 1:18:33	Download Listen
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2017-03-28 No Title 16:41	Download Listen
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2017-03-27 Balancing the practice 21:56	Download Listen
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2017-03-26 Q & A 1:25:23

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2017-03-26 Guided Meditation on the Body 68:17	Download Listen
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2017-03-22 No Title 5:13	Download Listen
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2017-03-21 Rahulovada Sutta and the Simile of the Ocean 51:27	Download Listen
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2017-03-20 Listening to the Mind 6:37	Download Listen
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2017-03-16 Observation and Adjustment 9:15	Download Listen
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2017-03-15 Q&A 1:29:33

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2017-03-15 Pana – Wisdom 8:37

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2017-03-14 What is Happening 10:43

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2017-03-14 What is Happening (PDF)

2017-03-13 Object and Objective 60:03

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2017-03-10 Simile of the Wheel: Observation and Adjustment 10:54	Download Listen
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2017-03-08 Meditation Overview 14:29	Download Listen
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2017-03-07 Why is the Path a Multi-lane Highway? 50:15

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2017-03-05 Possibilities for Practicing Metta 22:00

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2017-03-04 Why Metta Practice? 58:57	Download Listen
Various reasons describing the advantages of loving– kindness explained
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2017-03-04 Clear Comprehension and Working with Thoughts 18:38	Download Listen
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2017-03-03 Mindfulness and Clear Comprehension – Mode 2 62:28	Download Listen
General explanations related to “sati-sampajanna”(M. and C. C.) As a basic mode of being in the world, with the world.
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2017-03-02 Introduction to the Gradual Training 1:11:28	Download Listen
The “why” of a gradual training and a general explanation of the chants, especially with the first mode of mindfulness as protecting and guarding.
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2017-03-01 All Handouts from Retreat – pdf file attached 0:00

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Charts from FR Retreat with U Jagara by U Jagara (PDF)

2016-06-19 Time/Kala 63:09	Download Listen
Various aspects of the manifestation and reality of the time, in life etc.
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2016-06-18 Meditation instructions on Metta 55:10	Download Listen
A brief description “process versus content” – Followed by a few questions
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2016-06-17 Attempt to describe reality 67:53	Download Listen
Clearing the mind from obstacles brings you to a clarity that makes you understand the games of perception
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2016-06-15 Approaches to meditation 53:33	Download Listen
The way we approach life will determine much the outcome… same with meditation practice. How to adopt the proper distance towards objects and situations
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2016-06-14 Notes and Transcripts from Retreat – pdf file attached 0:00	(Recording not available)
These are notes and transcripts of teachings by Sayadaw U Jagara during this retreat.
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2015-06-23 Wise Attention 46:29	Download Listen
Wise attention deals with how we are directing our mind. We have the ability to choose what we think about, and how we pay attention. Wise attention can be divided into two parts. First, it deals with guarding the mind, so we can maintain a balanced mind, and protect the mind from various kinds of defilement such as the five hindrances. Second, wise attention encompasses the development of our mind, which starts with improving the quality of our observation. This improvement then leads to understanding, clarity and wisdom.
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2015-03-13 How New Discoveries Are Made 48:39	Download Listen
The purpose of tranquility (samatha) and of insight. The way we look at things can give us new perspective and deeper knowledge of them.
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2015-03-10 Medicine, Diet and the Five Hinderances 1:11:53	Download Listen
Origin of herbal medicine and similar causal principles applied to dealing with mental unbalance and more, especially, the five hinderances
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2015-03-06 Approach to Meditation seen From Danta Bhumi Sutta, MN: 125 65:38	Download Listen
MN:125 dealing with renunciation, virtue, sense control, mindfulness, the hindrances and entry to satipatthana by insight. Followed by tranquility. A variant of the gradual training
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2015-03-04 Q&A 48:07	Download Listen
Detailed explanation of “guarding the sense-door” as given in previous talk, with three methods
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2015-03-02 General Introduction 52:32	Download Listen
Introduction of the theme: Gradual Training and Causal Principle
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2011-12-10 Deep Happiness by Venerable U Jagara and Shaila Catherine – Guided Meditation on Loving-Kindness 29:22	Download Listen
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2011-12-10 Deep Happiness by Venerable U Jagara and Shaila Catherine 10:47	Download Listen
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2011-11-29 Seven Factors of Enlightenment 37:16	Download Listen
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2011-10-29 Crossing The Flood Like A Polynesia Seafaring Canoe 1:21:36	Download Listen
Comparing Polynesian navigation traditional system with the spiritual path taught by the Buddha.
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2011-10-26 Questions And Answers 1:30:23	Download Listen
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2011-10-22 Emptiness / Sunnata 66:38	Download Listen
Attempt to describe the concept of emptiness Sunnata
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2011-10-19 Questions And Answers 1:20:06	Download Listen
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2011-10-17 Causal Relationship – continued 1:27:57	Download Listen
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2011-10-15 Brief Explanation of the 24 Paccaya (causal relationship) 1:39:19	Download Listen
Found in the Patthana (Abhidhamma)
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2011-10-12 Questions And Answers 1:16:12	Download Listen
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2011-10-08 “Face The Will” 1:17:42	Download Listen
Are we free? Can we be free? The five aggregates seen in the Samyutta, as empty, unsubstantial and ephemeral. (Anicca, Dukka, Anatta) To be or not to be: Let it be: Act without an agent.
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2011-10-05 Questions and Answers 1:10:23	Download Listen
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2011-10-01 What and Why = Defining Mind and Matter Plus Their Causes 1:11:53	Download Listen
An attempt to bring basic insight knowledge under our eyes by brief textual quotations.
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2011-09-28 Questions and Answers 58:08	Download Listen
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2011-09-24 Understanding How One Thing Leads To Another 1:45:26	Download Listen
From body contemplation one can know the mind. Extracts from the “Exposition Of Elements” (MN – 140) and Bahudhatu sutta.
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2011-09-21 Questions and Answers 64:17	Download Listen
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2011-09-17 Reading of a Sutta on the elements and questions and answers 62:28	Download Listen
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2011-09-14 Questions and Answers 60:47	Download Listen
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2011-09-10 Attitude/Perspective 1:14:16	Download Listen
How to change and enhance the quality of our mind with samadhi. How this will give us different views and angles to see life. How as a result, our attitude to life may change.
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2011-09-07 Questions & Answers 1:30:24	Download Listen
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2011-09-03 Altitude / Perspective 1:12:54	Download Listen
How to change and enhance the quality of our mind with samadhi. How this will give us different views and angles to see life. How as a result, our attitude to life may change.
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2011-08-31 Questions & Answers 69:23	Download Listen
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2011-08-27 Different different types of sensations that arise in the body 1:11:52	Download Listen
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2011-08-24 Questions and Answers 67:52	Download Listen
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2011-08-20 Planes of Existence. How do we see the universe – Why we are here? 67:36	Download Listen
Burmese story about the map of the world and a map of the planes of existence
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2011-08-17 Questions and Answers 1:17:26	Download Listen
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2011-08-13 “Catch The Mind” 1:22:52	Download Listen
The mind is like a painting hung on a hook on the wall. It depends on an object in order to arise. Identify which object your mind entertains, look at that mind and understand its creator (Hook, painting , painter)
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2011-08-10 Questions and Answers 66:16	Download Listen
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2011-08-06 Cross The Atlantic 66:00	Download Listen
With or without jhana, put your practice together and achieve your goal. Be willing to take risks…
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2011-08-03 Questions and Answers 61:24	Download Listen
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2011-07-30 Orientation Of Purpose 68:26	Download Listen
Development of the four roads, basis for success (or spiritual power)
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2011-07-27 Questions and Answers 1:27:35	Download Listen
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2011-07-23 Purpose, goal and how to balance the practice. 1:16:57	Download Listen
What is your aim in life? Find out! How to reach it? Balance body and mind. Simile of Bath Attendant describing experience experiences of 1st jhana explained
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2011-07-20 Questions and Answers 63:14	Download Listen
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2011-07-16 Good Friendship and How To Calm Down The Thinking Mind. 65:50	Download Listen
Friendship is necessary in life for the support of psychological and educational growth. It can equal the Dhamma or eight fold path. How to make our mind our friend, tentative exploration owith ” Vitaka SanThona Sutta” MN -19 + MN -20
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2011-07-13 Questions And Answers 62:45	Download Listen
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2011-07-09 Gradual Training 1:14:16	Download Listen
Tentative elaboration of the gradual Training found in the suttas. Starting with Sila and Samadhi and sub-divisions. Simple description of guarding the sense doors. Full understanding and the five hindrances.
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2011-07-02 Brief Introduction 30:06	Download Listen
How we can use a tradition and learn something from it. Reminder that the Buddha’s teaching refers to “The Gradual Training”
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2008-11-18 Independence And Freedom, Q&A – part 2 14:07	Download Listen
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2008-10-18 Independence And Freedom, Q&A – part 1 1:19:37	Download Listen
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2008-10-11 Do It Now 1:48:01

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2008-10-04 “Mickey Mouse” with Q&A – part 1 1:19:55	Download Listen
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2008-10-04 “Mickey Mouse” with Q&A – part 2 15:43	Download Listen
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2008-09-27 Simile Of The Elephant’s Foot Print with Q&A #2 26:37	Download Listen
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2008-09-27 Simile Of The Elephant’s Foot Print with Q&A #1 1:19:31	Download Listen
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2008-09-20 Meditation Practice with Q&A 31:34	Download Listen
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2008-09-20 Meditation Practice Annd Q&A – part 1 1:17:34	Download Listen
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2008-09-13 Four Elements with Q&A 1:19:54	Download Listen
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2008-09-06 Four Elements with Q&A 1:19:40	Download Listen
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2008-08-30 Jhana Skills with Q&A #2 16:31	Download Listen
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2008-08-30 Jhana Skills with Q&A #1 1:18:55	Download Listen
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2008-08-23 Practice And Theory with Q&A – part 2 25:31	Download Listen
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2008-08-23 Practice And Theory with Q&A – part 1 68:22	Download Listen
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2008-08-16 Why We Practice – part 2 30:04	Download Listen
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2008-08-16 Why We Practice – part 1 1:19:57	Download Listen
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2008-08-16 Why We Practice with Q&A – part 2 30:04	Download Listen
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2008-08-09 What Path To Take? with Q&A – part 2 15:19	Download Listen
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2008-08-09 What Path To Take? with Q&A – part 1 1:19:46	Download Listen
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