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שיחות דהרמה והנחיות מדיטציה שניתנו בריטריטים וראיונות עם מורים וחברים לדרך Dharma talks and Meditation Instructions given on retreats and Interviews with teachers and friends on the path
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Lila interviewed Christopher Titmuss for several years, on different themes and topics relevant to awakening in our life.
Christopher Titmuss, a senior meditation and Dharma teacher in the west, a former Buddhist monk in Thailand and India, offers Dharma teachings addressing the wide variety of issues in daily life including mindfulness, meditation, communication and wise action.
Lila and Christopher are long term friends and were teaching together since 2004, including in this MTTC course (Mindfulness teacher training course).
EXTRACTS FROM THE INTERVIEW MTTC course, October 21, 2017 Germany
21.10.2017 MTTC Germany
The interview begins with conditions in centers in the west and east, (5 min)
Dharma has an outreach to reach to all, without exception.
Christopher reveals how he is working inwardly with negativity and blame being thrown at him the distinction between praise and appreciation and much more.
2 things: one is resilience: I have done enough impermanence practice to help with that…)
While listening the thought arises – this is what the person is telling me today. This might change.
The second thing is that I have to expect reaction. It comes with the role.
I make a distinction between praise and appreciation.
Praise is the wish to impress, saying kind words to others to build somebody up in order to get something I return. It might be recognition, wanting some approval, some extra agenda going with it.
Appreciative joy is free, because its Divine, from self interest.
What tells you the difference?
I smell it… with praise there tend to be a little exaggerate.
With blame – I search for the point of truth in it.
I don’t recall adopting the view – oh, it's just your projection on me. It's just your problem, not mine. I feel uncomfortable when teachers or anybody with authority makes that claim.
When there is something in it -
Do you ever get hurt or offended? Hurt sounds too strong… I'll feel plenty of unpleasant sensations…
The training over decades - The immediacy of the response – everything is around posture: physical posture and psychological posture, presence, eye to eye contact, Keeping the hands very still, checking for relaxation in the whole of the body. Though it feels unpleasant, but keeping present in front of it, in front of the other. The problem in the hearing is that its contracting, and my inner one liner – if I get upset or angry, I just handed my inner experience on a plate to somebody. I just refuse to do it!
The physical presence is remarkable for defusing. If I start to lose it feeling start coming up here and there, and then the voice… I might hurry from here to sit. Stop, have a minute of silence. In the silence, I'm really just feeling back down. Feeling back down, feeling deep, out of the field of thinking. Feeling the inside quite deep down of the body, that seems to be outside of the world of mind and thoughts and concepts.
Just for a minute, and then there is a readiness to speak or to go to the next thing.
Silence is the foundation of a healthy or appropriate communication.
In a conversation like that, generally speaking, I don’t start of the sentences with the 'I' language. To go into the 'I' language tends to sound defensive. It feels defensive. So rather than trying to explain, I find it easier and more effective to find one or two points and ask the group – O.K., in what way can we implement this? The group feels included and the person feels to a degree that they have been heard, simply because I haven't taken any notice of the blame factor running around in the person voice. And when we then come to some fresh understanding then turning to the person and asking – are you O.K. with this? And they always say yes. So it didn’t get into a dispute, and it would tend to if I was speaking about how I felt and what I was trying to do.
When I'm asked directly – then I have to speak directly. But If I don’t feel it’s a real necessity I don’t enter into the I language unless I think it is the best communication.
The combination of mindfulness and Samadhi really make a big difference. I'm incredibly dedicated to them. I really think it's an extraordinary way of the being that we can really give total attention to the other without forgetting the one who is attentive. The 50- 50 along with the feeling of liking and being interested in people, and lots and lots of practice, especially in the use of the ears – to really really listen – the words, the tone, the attitude, the intimations, the utterances, the subtleties, the grossness, the generalizations, the insights, all these is coming over and in real presence, as much as I can offer, and out of that things stand out. The Buzz words stand out actually quit loud for me, and the insights will stand out, or the confusion of the mind will stand out, and then – I go there. So keeping presence and interest and bringing all the other factors that we have – from the ethics to the spiritual to the happiness to the dukkha to the understanding to the dependent arising of the avijjya paccaya samskara (ignorance conditioned reaction formations): it's all there, the support we all have, and can turn to it, and use it for the exploration, for the inquiry.
Of course it needs interest and it needs energy, but they tend to come, with a few other factors.
The importance of Samadhi (starts min.27)
It's one of the questions because It gains a little extra urgency, simply because all the way our concentration on things gets fragmented through all the entertainments. Its having its impact. The Samadhi is a big factor in having the capacity to act.
The meditation retreats with returning of the attention on the object, successive moments of attention mindfulness upon the object is the development of Samadhi.
In daily life - areas of interest that worth concentrating on. like painting a picture or listening to music, but really making it a meditation. It tends to be a weak link. Because of the working environment, that is so demanding on concentration, it can be infecting the concentration with stress and worry and agitation. But if the mode of the being is relaxed, settled, collected, composed upon the particular, with contentment and happiness there will be much less need to want to get away from it. The primary reason for people to take time off work is stress related.
Mindfulness needs concentration; it needs a meditation on the object.
Its Sila, Samadhi Panna, not Sila, Sati Panna… The monasteries, of course they emphasized mindfulness, but mostly Samadhi.
People would say, oh, you practice to get somewhere, trying to get liberated, trying to get free. Because if you practice you still having to do something. Of course I don’t buy that position. For myself, it’s a great freedom to practice. It’s a confirmation of freedom. One is free to practice, to explore, to develop heart and mind, free to appreciate there is no limits to their potential. Those who think practice is only means and goal oriented haven't understood it's an expression of a liberation, not an abstraction to it.
The same happened with Roshi, Leonard Cohens teacher, and with Punja. (meditation without trying to get somewhere…).
One got to be free in all directions, therefor free to practice. people who rubbish it, are a little bit in danger of getting stuck with some old views, habits and patterns, which they might need to work on but it will get in the way if they think practice abstracts freedom. Thinking the same old way is much more abstraction.
There is tradition where the teaching communication is much more with the regular sustained way with the formless. Others like us use the form and love the formless, and we move between the two.
That sense of being with the rhythms of life and some outcomes and some consequences but is seems kind of small change to the bigger sense. You and I come here, we have the privilege of offering this program, there is the wish of course that it will be insightful and beneficial, the consequences of it help to develop agents of change, but there is some sense of knowing that we are not in control of all of that, we are just offering something, making something available, and maybe out it it something will flow and we know that our freedom is these expressions and we expressing it and let the wind will take it as it will.
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Lila interviewed Christopher Titmuss for several years, on different themes and topics relevant to awakening in our life.
Christopher Titmuss, a senior meditation and Dharma teacher in the west, a former Buddhist monk in Thailand and India, offers Dharma teachings addressing the wide variety of issues in daily life including mindfulness, meditation, communication and wise action.
Lila and Christopher are long term friends and were teaching together since 2004, including in this MTTC course (Mindfulness teacher training course).
EXTRACTS FROM THE INTERVIEW MTTC course, September 2017 Germany
If we look a little deeper, it a metaphysic: its that overall single concept
Imposed upon the actual dependent arising.
But there are reference in the text – the Buddha speaks about the connection of mind with other minds
Something is flowing that is so refined, and I get some conformations in one way or another.
My eyes and ears are too gross to such sensitivity
When we are more sensitive, receptive, the deeper we are the world becomes magical. the world opens its secrets up
The invisible becomes much more visible; The un-manifest becomes much more manifests. so the world is much richer because of the depth and there is much more feeling of synchronicity. spontaneity and events weaving together which n could never in zillion years plan.
The quiet happiness and freedom is the conformation of the infinite
Infinite and freedom are two words of the same event
Life is so free it allows such diversities – all the diversity is a statement of how free life is
And since its so free we are belonging to it – we are a confirmation of its freedom
life is bigger than that (unity, connectivity etc) – recognize the disconnect,
the wish to have everything beautiful is a prejudice view point!
Q: When the heart is closed what would help us to realizes the deep?
A: not to talk (with the other person) about that which is closed down. Talk about something totally different. Totally unexpected. For self practice – to walk up and down till the energy is changed.
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Lila interviewed Christopher Titmuss for several years, on different themes and topics relevant to awakening in our life.
Christopher Titmuss, a senior meditation and Dharma teacher in the west, a former Buddhist monk in Thailand and India, offers Dharma teachings addressing the wide variety of issues in daily life including mindfulness, meditation, communication and wise action.
Lila and Christopher are long term friends and were teaching together since 2004, including in this MTTC course (Mindfulness teacher training course).
EXTRACTS FROM THE INTERVIEW MTTC course, June 2017 Germany
On becoming a Dharma teacher – criteria? Not exactly. Something else runs the show.
The primary interest is to give support for teachers to express their understanding in their way which is supportive to people. I'm not concerned if they use the language of the form (Silla, Samadhi, Pannya) or not, they need a person outside of themselves to tell them – you can do it.
I wanted to ask you about the next generation and how do you see your Role as a teacher, how do you chose.
Q - When you give teaching, what is for you the primary intention?
A - Liberation. That’s the thread that runs through. The liberation from the stuff, the freedom to be, the freedom to act. Something that is simultaneously transcendent but immanent, but close. That consistently what I wish to get across so It realized or understood
But not to make it into a criteria in any way. In teacher meetings people discussed qualities that makes a teacher. But I never participated. Why list all this, and who has got it perfect anyway? … In the last analysis, in a way, the sangha decides a teacher. You and I and others can give support, but if that person hasn’t got the dedication in and outside of retreat - they'll fade.
I opt for a general sense of potential that this person can flower in and with the role, given the right guidance and support from one who has done it for years. These can bring something deeper out if the person.
One of the most common things I hear from teachers is that how challenging it is to find the words around ultimate truth. I say to people – at least try to put in a sentence or two about where it's all going: Nibhana, liberation, the truth, the unconditioned, call it what you like. Keep it alive inside yourself as well as with the others.
If I sense the basics are there – Ethics, lifestyle, which is respectful to the earth – living modestly. A real love of the dharma, a sense of practices, connection and support with others- sangha, the India, Thailand, Burmese, experience. That itself is speaking to me. I'm not too concerned with the personality of the individual. And because of dependent arising – giving them more nourishment.
Looking back at your generation of teachers, when you were in your early 30 late 20, you didn’t have much experience with all these. But there was something else. Most of them couldn’t even tell me what the 4 noble truths are (laughter)… and saying all kind of things like "you create your own reality… and still do (laughter). I'll respond, but not as a criteria.
With the group of the MTTC I'm cutting the corners. I think the planet is chronic self doubt
What would be your advise for someone who would like to be a dharma teacher?
(21.48 min– starts a new topic )- what's your advice – what should people do to get the transcendent more immanent? A – the combination of retreats, coupled with the transcendent on a retreat, in the dialogue, in the listening, is the best climate possible.
3 kinds of teachers that I'm totally fine with:
one, is good with all the basics: sila- Samadhi-panna, methods and techniques, loving kindness meditation, mindfulness, 8 fold path etc. they teach on retreats and its totally fine. I encourage some people to do that.
Second kind of teacher has more to offer – could be jhanas, insight, more understanding of the psychology of people – deeper.
Third kind of teacher – a certain consistency with the ultimate.
There are overlapping and sometimes a gradual shift.
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Lila interviewed Christopher Titmuss for several years, on different themes and topics relevant to awakening in our life.
Christopher Titmuss, a senior meditation and Dharma teacher in the west, a former Buddhist monk in Thailand and India, offers Dharma teachings addressing the wide variety of issues in daily life including mindfulness, meditation, communication and wise action.
Lila and Christopher are long term friends and were teaching together since 2004, including in this MTTC course (Mindfulness teacher training course).
EXTRACTS FROM THE INTERVIEW MTTC course, June 2017 Germany
Meditation advise – there has to be a point when the meditator lose interest in focusing the mind upon an object of meditation. That is no longer a priority. Moving from the form to the formless. Receptivity that allows something to move in consciousness to provide insights and realization and takes the power out of the world to have dominancy over one life.
Emptiness - It makes everything else possible…
Its not that I have something that others don’t have. Its knowing it that makes all the difference… life and death rest in something that is not life and is not death…
Knowing is the end of movement
We live under a spell of movement: of doing. It’s a spell of the consciousness
When the spell finishes and is over with, the sense of something genuine and real which all this rests in, manifests, reveals, confirms.
A seeing and a knowing that is e quite comfortable with duality and non duality
Freedom is freedom – 3 manifestations of freedom - freedom from the problematic, freedom to be, - and these 2 leads to the freedom to act.
What motivates you?
The life so far had sustained itself in real sense of being fulfilled
Q- What is your deepest wish?
A- The full awakening of human beings and flowing along with that, make all these teachings applicable
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Lila interviewed Christopher Titmuss for several years, on different themes and topics relevant to awakening in our life.
Christopher Titmuss, a senior meditation and Dharma teacher in the west, a former Buddhist monk in Thailand and India, offers Dharma teachings addressing the wide variety of issues in daily life including mindfulness, meditation, communication and wise action.
Lila and Christopher are long term friends and were teaching together since 2004, including in this MTTC course (Mindfulness teacher training course).
EXTRACTS FROM THE INTERVIEW MTTC course, June 2017 Germany
Christopher is talking about his first steps in teachings, and about his first meditative experiences as well as various spiritual experiences from early childhood. "God is always with me". That sense haven't changed. Always been there. Only with gaps of days at maximum. I was always a happy child.
About God – that which I can rest in, rely upon and is always available.
It’s the quiet unshakable sustained sense that one is resting in something bigger then oneself, which I referred to as god, and I can refer to as reality or infinite or eternity.
Entering the monastery, I can't remember looking for something, but more the interest in this human being. Something was moving and exploring, and it just had to be that way…
There is very little suffering in my life. As long as the receptivity is there, I can hear theirs without too much getting in the way.
Not experiencing major suffering is due entirely to the resting in God. The resting in somehow gives enough space to put perspective on the little events. And that perspective is the saving grace from God. The resting generates a natural freedom which in turn generate curiosity. The word Infinite is important to me. I want to express it through exploration. There is no limit to the exploration. Outwardly, form, practices, ways of teaching, infinitely different kinds of ways of meditation, of working on myself, infinite opportunity and that gives a lot of vitality.
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Lila Interviews Aviram and Yorit, an Israeli couple who have created Sadhana forest - a huge re-forested area and community in Auroville, South India. Their life mission is compassion through action. The aim to work together towards a more compassionate world in a practical and down to earth way. To be part of a transformation of a piece of land and via that - transformation of so many lives.
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Instruction given on a retreat in Israel, April 6, 2015
The practice of Metta - loving kindness, or deep friendship. Metta is one of the four divine qualities of the heart-mind and is one of the most important qualities to cultivate on the path to freedom.
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Talk given in an MTTC course (Mindfulness Teachers Training Course), September 2017, Israel.
The journey of finding our inner authority –The journey of the Buddha and our life journey – What am I going to do with ?my life"? How to work with the negative voices inside of us. The practice of "No junk thoughts" – as an act of love.
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Talk given in a Vipassana and Yoga retreat, June 2019, Germany
About The difference between comfort and comfortable, the role of kindness, Compassion as fierce love: our response-ability. Every act we take matters. we are welcome to meet difficult situations with a warm heart and clear mind.
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
מדיטציה קצרה של 3.5 דקות והנחיות מקיפות לתרגול מדיטציה בישיבה, וגם בהליכה ובשכיבה, כולל שאלות ותשובות בנושא מה זו מדיטציה ואיך מתרגלים
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
חלק ב' של שיחה שניתנה במסגרת סופ"ש למתרגלים ותיקים בנושא ויפאסנה ואי-שניות, מאי 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
חלק א' של שיחה שניתנה במסגרת סופ"ש למתרגלים ותיקים בנושא ויפאסנה ואי-שניות, מאי 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
.הקלטה של ערב בתובנה בנושא מצב האדם ומצב העולם, לאור משבר האקלים הגדול שפוקד את כדור הארץ
הערב התקיים ביוני 2019 בתל אביב, והוא כולל שיחה בנושא, שאלות ותשובות.
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
2018 מתוך ריטריט סופש בתובנה בנושא, דצמבר
הלימוד והתרגול מצביעים על הרעיון שאנחנו לא הגוף שלנו, הרגשות שלנו, המחשבות שלנו, ועם זאת, אנחנו לא נפרדים מכל אלה. אז מי אנחנו באמת? על ידי הבנה של מה אנחנו לא, אנחנו פוסעים על הנתיב של חקירה עצמית, שלוקח אותנו ישירות אל עבר החופש.
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Thursday Nov 30, 2017
Wednesday Nov 29, 2017
Sunday Nov 26, 2017
Sunday Nov 26, 2017
Talk given on the Mindfulness Teacher Training Course in Germany, October 2017
Wednesday Nov 22, 2017
Wednesday Nov 22, 2017
Wednesday Nov 22, 2017
Talk given on the Mindfulness Teacher Training Course in Germany, October 2017
Wednesday Nov 22, 2017
Saturday Nov 18, 2017