Noirin’s Teachings

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70th Birthday Reflection: Text,  Talk read by Therese Caherty

Short Essays / Tips:

  1. Satipanya Porridge
  2. The "Ouch" that hurt.
  3. Coming down to earth
  4. Extending the limits of good-will
  5. Metta for a Cold Heart
  6. The Fourth Noble Truth
  7. Struggling with Anatta
  8. Temporary Ordination
  9. Retreating and Re-engaging
  10. Homeward Bound
  11. All in the Mind
  12. Summer meadows
  13. As Winter Approaches
  14. 2020 Lockdown Christmas 
  15. Exiting Lockdown
  16. Mindfulness meets metta
  17. Everyday Mindfulness
  18. Healing the Mind-Body Relationship
  19. Nibanna is Close at Hand!

The following essays were written in the year or so after Noirin underwent surgery for throat cancer which took away her voice:

  1. Greeting the Devadutta
  2. Laryngectomy
  3. Stumbling towards Gratitude
  4. Mid-winter Darkness
  5. Teaching with an Electro-larynx: The Oval Age-Old Bath???

The following essays centre around climate change and a paper describing six ethical maxims we need to develop to be able to cope with the assocated social and environmental collapse:

  1. Full Catastrophe Ethics
  2. First Maxim: Work Hard to Grasp the Imensity
  3. Second Maxim: Cultivate Radical Hope
  4. Third Maxim: Draw a Line in the Sand - a. Ethics in the face of conflict
  5. Third Maxim: Draw a line in the Sand - b. Working mindfully with red lines
  6. Fourth Maxim: Appreciate the Amazing and Unique Upportunity - a: From Suffering to Faith to Gladness.
  7. Fourth Maxim: Appreciate the Amazing and Unique Opportunity - b. From Dukkha to Insight and Beyond.
  8. Fifth Maxim: Train the Mind and Body

Meditation Guidance:

  1. Vipassana Instructions

Talks a. Pre-laryngectomy Recordings:

  1. The First Noble truth - Impermanence and Unsatisfactoriness
  2. The First noble truth - Not-Self and Unsatisfactoriness
  3. The Second Noble Truth - The Cause of Unsatisfactoriness
  4. The Third Noble Truth - The End of Unsatisfactoriness
  5. The Fourth Noble Truth - The Path Leading to the End of Unsatisfactoriness

Talks b. Post-laryngectomy - Talks Recorded by Friends:

Retreat Talks - a.  Short Retreat (5 days)

  1. Introduction to the Mahasi Meditation Practice - read by Finola O'Siochru
  2. Hindrances and Factors of Enlightenment - read by Marie Caroll
  3. 1st, 2nd & 3rd Noble Truths: Dukkha, its Cause & Cessation - read by Therese Caherty
  4. 4th Noble Truth: Eightfold Path in Daily Life - read by Therese Caherty

Retreat Talks - b. Longer Retreats, up to 4 Weeks:

  1. Introduction to the Mahasi Meditation Practice - read by Finola O'Siochru
  2. The Hindrances - read by Finola O'Siochru
  3. The Factors of Enlightenment - read by Finola O'Siochru
  4. First Noble Truth: There is Dukkha - read by Finola O'Siochru
  5. Second and Third Nobe Truths: Cause and Cessation of Dukkh - read by Finola O'Siochru
  6. Fourth Noble Truth: The Path to the End of Dukkha - read by Finola O'Siochru
  7. Foundations for Mindfulness (Satipatthana Sutta) - read by Finola O'Siochru
  8. Attachment: The Five Khanda - read by Finola O'Siochru
  9. Divine Abiding: a. Equanimity - read by Biddy O'Connell
  10. Divine Abiding: b. Goodwill, Metta - read by Biddy O'Connell
  11. Divine Abiding, c. Compassion - read by Biddy O'Connell
  12. Divine Abiding, d. Appreciative Joy, Mudita - read by Therese Caherty
  13. Sense Contact - The Six Sense Spheres - read by Finola O'Siochru
  14. Spiritual Faculties - read by Finola O'Siochru
  15. Mindfulness of Breathing - read by Finola O'Siochru
  16. Destruction of Craving a. Tracing back to the origin of Dukkha - read by Finola O'Siochru
  17. Destruction of Craving b. Examining each link in the chain - read by Finola O'Siochru
  18. Two Kinds of Thought - read by Finola O'Siochru
  19. Removal of Distracting Thoughts - read by Finola O'Siochru
  20. In the Seeing, only the seeing ... (Bahiya Sutta) - read by Finola O'Siochru
  21. Greed, Hatred and Delusion as Foundations for Mindfulness - read by Finola O'Siochru
  22. Exalted, Unexalted and other Mindstates as Foundations for Mindfulness - read by Finola O'Siochru
  23. Building a Raft to Cross the Floods of Sensuality and Views - read by Finola O'Siochru
  24. Building a Raft to Cross the Floods of Becoming and Ignorance - read by Finola O'Siochru
  25. Beset by Perceptions (Honeyball Sutta) - read by Finola O'Siochru
  26. The Buddha's Death (Parinibbana Sutta) - read by Finola O'Siochru

Full Moon Talks - Read by Margaret Groome:

2022 Oct 09  Identity and Not-Self. Our self-knowledge is limited and so we suffer when we identify with our roles, opinions, apprearance etc. Working with such suffering awakens joy in the Buddha's teaching of Not-Self. Talk read by Margaret Groome     Video     Stream/Download

2023 Oct 29 The Spiral Path How to dig ourselves out of misery and spiral towards freedom. Talk read by Margaret Groome. Video   Stream / Download audio

2024 October 13  Is the Buddha a Humanist? Humanism values inquiry over religious beliefs, human potential rather than divine intervention. Does the Buddha fit in?
Talk read by Margaret Groome Script                     Stream/Download mp3