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Introductory Teaching & Guided Meditations - (2009/2015)

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Awareness of impermanence and mindfulness of death helps meditators to weaken and uproot unskillful attachments and ignorance, thus ripening the mind to develop deeper insight, while spurring us on to live good and productive lives.

The readings, talks and meditations presented here help us to become more familiar and comfortable with this challenging yet vital theme. These practices and teachings are intended to assist you to develop insight into liberating truth, and lay a foundation to both live and die with clarity, understanding and peace.

(Ajahn Achalo)

Introductory Teachings & Guided Meditations - (2009/2015)

Section One - Establishing the context

1 - Intro/ How to use this audio compilation - Talk

1. Intro/ How to use audio compilation
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2 - Recollecting Death & cultivating an awareness of impermanence - Talk

2. Recollecting Death, impermanence
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3 - Balancing wisdom with faith and joy Q&A - Talk

3. Balancing wisdom with faith and joy Q&A
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4 - Excerpts from Suttas (Lord Buddha) - Reading

4. Excerpts from Suttas - Reading
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5 - Our Real Home (Ajahn Chah) - Reading

5. Our Real Home (Ajahn Chah) - Reading
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6 - Excerpts from teachings (by Ajahn Anan) - Reading

6. Excerpts from teachings (Ajahn Anan)
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Section Two - Becoming familiar with the theme

7 - Breath Meditation 'Rising and Falling' - Meditation

7. Breath Meditation 'Rising and Falling'
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8 - Recollecting the death of teachers, friends, and loved ones - Meditation

8. Recollecting death of friends or loved ones
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9 - Contemplating the ever-present possibility of death for oneself - Meditation

9. Contemplating the death of oneself
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Section Three - Visualising death scenarios

10 - Dying peacefully from old age (as a lay-practitioner) - Meditation

10. Dying, old age (lay practitioner)
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11 - Dying peacefully from old age (as a monk or nun) - Meditation

11. Dying, old age (monk or nun)
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12 - Dying from cancer at home  (as a lay-practitioner) - Meditation

12. Dying from cancer at home (lay)
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13 - Dying from cancer in the monastery (as a monk or nun) - Meditation

13. Dying from cancer in the monastery
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14 - Dying from fever in the jungle (as a monk) - Meditation

14. Dying from fever, jungle (monk or nun)
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Section Four - Death scenarios continued

15 - Dying in the bathroom (as a lay-practitioner) - Meditation

15. Dying in the bathroom (lay practitioner)
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16 - Dying on the footpath (as a lay-practitioner) - Meditation

16. Dying on the footpath (lay practitioner)
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17 - Dying in a plane (as a monk or nun) - Meditation

17. Dying in a plane (monk or nun)
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18 - Dying on pilgrimage in India (as a monk or nun) - Meditation

18. Dying on pilgrimage (monk or nun)
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19 - Dying in the jungle from snake bite (as a monk) - Meditation

19. Dying in jungle, snake bite (monk/nun)
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Section Five - Dissolution of the body after death

20 - Charnal Ground contemplation - Meditation

20. Charnal Ground contemplation
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Added in 2015

21 - Guided Meditation, consistently mindful of death in this life

21 Guided Meditation mindful of death in this life
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