Ayya Santacitta: Distortions of Perception VI ~ Vulnerability Understood Is Totally Necessary for Transformation

(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This talk was given at East Bay Dhamma in Berkeley on July 11, 2026. It covers Dhammapada verses 157-166 on the Self.

(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center) When news of the world is challenging and there is uncertainty for everyone, letting reality in can feel impossible or scary. Yet Buddhist practices are designed to support exactly this, though maybe not all at once. Supported by each other and those who have gone before, bolstered by an innate determination to be free, we practice skills and arts of goodness. Compassionate ethics protects ourselves and others. Meditation turns awareness toward direct experience, open to its textures. Things might start to shift a bit. One practitioner may sense honesty and compassion growing as they admit some limitation. Another might see space for choice where they hadn’t imagined choice was even possible. There are lots of possibilities.

(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection on the 4th Vipallasa & Guided Meditation including a poem by Mary Oliver | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene IV | Online Wednesday-Morning

(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Parayana Vihara)

(Gaia House) A meditation, reflection, and (just the) responses to questions on the theme of interdependence, it's relationship to interconnection, the fundamental importance of intentions and reflection in awakening, and what really brings happiness.

(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk, comments, questions and responses was offered on July 4th, 2026 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - 33:46 DHAMMA TALK 33:46 - 1:12:27 COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES

(Auckland Insight Meditation)