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Wonderful & Marvelous: Recollection of the Buddha

https://seanfeitoakes.com/talks/20190507-meditation-recollection-of-buddha.m4aSubscribe: RSS | MoreIn honor of Vesak, coming up this year on May 19, a series of talks on the Buddha themself, interwoven with some discussion of the traditional verses of praise we chant in our Refuge & Precepts Pūja. We’ll use as a framework this month a strange and beautiful sutta known as “Wonderful and Marvelous,” (Acchariya-abbhūta Sutta, MN […]

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Seeking the Deathless: chanting & stories of the Buddha for Vesak 2018

https://seanfeitoakes.com/talks/20180529-Satsang-vesak-Buddha-heavenly-messengers.m4aSubscribe: RSS | MoreVesak is the celebration of the Buddha’s birth, liberation, and death, falling this year on the late May full moon. We took a break from the social justice series we’re in the middle of to chant and hear stories remembering the life and insight of Siddhartha Gotama (mostly from the Lalitavistara Sūtra), who became the Buddha of

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Theravada Refuge & Precepts Pūjā

https://audio.seanfeitoakes.stream/2020/20200403-Chant-RefugePreceptsPuja-solo.mp3Subscribe: RSS | MoreEvery week at Satsang, we do a short chanting ceremony called a pūjā, or devotional ritual. We chant a few ancient verses in Pāli, the language of the early Buddhist texts. These verses are excerpts from a longer  sequence of chants done daily in Theravāda monasteries, emphasizing the basic lay (non-monastic) practices of going for refuge and the

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