Showing posts with label Steve Armstrong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steve Armstrong. Show all posts

Friday, 20 October 2017

The Parami of Generosity by Steve Armstrong

Steve Armstrong has studied the dhamma and practiced insight meditation since 1975. He served for many years at the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts as Executive Director, Board member and senior teacher of the annual three month retreat. As a monk in Burma for 5 years, under the guidance of the late Sayadaw U Pandita, he undertook intensive, silent practice of insight and lovingkindness meditations and in Australia, he studied the Buddhist psychology (abhidhamma) with Sayadaw U Zagara. He continues his practice under the guidance of Sayadaw U Tejaniya at the Shwe Oo Min Meditation Centre in Rangoon. Steve is a co-founding teacher of the Vipassana Metta Foundation’s dharma sanctuary on Maui. He has been leading meditation retreats internationally since 1990, presenting the core teachings of the Buddha; and offering a variety of Buddhist mindfulness practices, encouraging cultivation of insightful awareness, and liberating understanding in all life activities.



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Saturday, 25 August 2012

A Special Monk & Monastic Memories by Steve Armstrong

This Thursday featured a double bill of two shorter talks by Steve Armstrong. In both he talks of his time as a monk in Burma and of some of the inspirational monks that he met there.

A Special Monk



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Monastic Memories



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Friday, 9 March 2012

Beauty of Energy by Steve Armstrong

In this dharma talk, part of a non-residential retreat series on "Qualities of a Beautiful Mind," Steve
Armstrong focuses on one of the ten paramis: beauty. Steve discusses how an awakened mind is marked by energy, used to benefit one's own life and the lives of others.




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Monday, 2 May 2011

Taking the Refuges as Practice by Steve Armstrong

Here's a fascinating take on taking the three refuges by Steve Armstrong.



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Saturday, 1 May 2010

Here's one of my favourite talks, "The four Noble Truths" by Steve Armstrong