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Retreat Dharma Talks

Body, Heart and Mind: Embodying Citta

2016-04-23 (8 days) Padmasambhava Peace Institute

  
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2016-04-23 Opening Remarks: The Texture of the Precepts Includes Respect, Sensitivity and Care 1:16:41
Ajahn Sucitto
The group format of the retreat requires care because we can't help but enter each other's presence. Precepts offer boundaries that catalyze quality of heart and sensitivity to how we negatively impact ourselves and others.
2016-04-24 AM Puja: Puja Makes Way for the Unspoken 13:43
Ajahn Sucitto
The instinctive tuning in and atmospherics of puja help the person to stand behind what's going on and tune in to the timeless conversation of the sacred.
2016-04-24 AM Dhamma Talk: Resonance between Citta and Body 33:38
Ajahn Sucitto
In the embodied state body and mind are not separate. The somatic sense, or internal sense, is a mirror of what's happening to citta. This sense is more accurate than thoughts – which tend towards an abstraction that diverts awareness from unpleasant feeling.
2016-04-24 Remarks on Walking Meditation 13:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Without pushing forward, without having a goal, experience the motion and flow of walking. Allow citta to pick up the embodied signal in movement – and come home.
2016-04-24 Evening Dhamma Talk: Releasing the Qualities of the Boundless Heart through Embodiment 56:54
Ajahn Sucitto
The great heart's natural response to pain and suffering is compassion and equanimity, released by directly handling experience through embodiment. Without the natural ground of embodiment there is a tendency towards differentiation and forming abstractions about self and other that create separation.
2016-04-25 AM Puja: Puja - Celebration of What Is Given 31:59
Ajahn Sucitto
The textures of puja offer the opportunity to gladden and brighten the heart so that lovingness and empathy come forth.
2016-04-25 AM Dhamma Talk: The Mudra of Attention 42:29
Ajahn Sucitto
Accessing the gift within takes a particular kind of attention that is light and sustained, like an open hand. This is the attention that ripens into mindfulness and deepens into samadhi; from this wisdom can arise.
2016-04-25 Evening Q&A 54:51
Ajahn Sucitto
Wise Attention; Striving; Renunciation
2016-04-26 AM Puja: 5 Subjects for Frequent Recollection 34:56
Ajahn Sucitto
The practice of recollections brings a sense of immediacy, heightening attentiveness and focusing the mind. With each recollection ask, "How is the mind being affected?" The embodied response to this is a means for breaking old habits and releasing kamma.
2016-04-26 AM Dhamma Talk: Mindfulness of Breathing 48:44
Ajahn Sucitto
Our inability to stay with unpleasant feelings causes us to dissociate and split off. Attention to breathing provides the anchor to stabilize volatile emotions and creates an agreeable abiding that paves the way towards unification (samadhi).
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