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Ajahn Sucitto's Dharma Talks
Ajahn Sucitto
As a monk, I bring a strong commitment, along with the renunciate flavor, to the classic Buddhist teachings. I play with ideas, with humor and a current way of expressing the teachings, but I don't dilute them.
2018-11-10 07 Intention - a Property of Citta 31:53
Meditation practice instructs us to sustain harmonious relationship with our minds, bodies and the world – to not be dominating, not to grasp or push away, but to be present. Sometimes an open accepting awareness, rather than a focus on a particular object, is the proper mode. When mental and body energies are in sync there’s a sense of harmony and unification. This is samādhi.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2018-11-10 06 Walking Instructions: Human Bodies Walk Like This 12:46
Our walking gets programmed by the drives of the mind. Whatever affects the mind affects the nervous system of the body – the body shows us the effects of our thinking. Walking meditation can return us to the natural quality of the body, so the mind can relax.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: A Moving Balance
2018-11-09 05 The Wisdom Faculty 52:10
The search for happiness, security and steadiness binds us in a tangle of stressful and unsatisfactory experiences – because we’re looking in the wrong place. Wisdom/discernment helps us detangle and discern what to set aside and what is worth bearing in mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2018-11-08 04 Calm and Discernment Work in Tandem 20:02
Discernment helps filter from the amalgam of experience what’s skillful now. Having picked up what is skillful one lingers in it, dwells in it, sustains it. This is calming. So skim off stressful habits of “trying to make it work”, “getting on to the next”. Use the body to learn what the mind is happy to linger in.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2018-11-08 03 Regaining Our Natural Intelligence 37:28
In meditation both the topic and the manner in which we attend can help train our mode of mental engagement. Shifting from stressful tendencies of “making it happen” and “getting it right”, come back to the natural body. This living system is the source for a steady, safe and easeful state.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2018-11-07 02 Going for Refuge - Reorientation of Citta 58:37
What is it that we need to take Refuge from? The poisons of greed, hatred and delusion that mask themselves and corrupt our hearts and minds. This requires reorienting from worldly ways and orienting around what has value and meaning, that which you can trust: virtue, embodiment, nature and other people.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2018-11-07 01 Setting up the Relational Context of Dhamma 22:24
Four compass points to orient around while on retreat: how you relate to the earth, to other people, to your body and to the sacred; an explanation of pūjā – recollections and making offerings, as with the offering of food.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2018-10-15 21 Day 6 Closing talk: The Smallest Unit in the Cosmos is Two 32:38
When we reflect on the nature of fields, we notice everything is a duality. How we relate in this twosome is the practice. Unskillful latent tendencies are revealed in relationship, giving us an opportunity to clear them. Kalyāṇamitta (spiritual friendship) is essential. It’s only others that can show us what we don’t see in ourselves.
New York Insight Meditation Center Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2018-10-14 20 Day 5 Evening Puja: Wilderness Training 25:00
We struggle for certainty and clarity, but the true orientation of Dhamma is disorientation from old maps, thereby allowing forms to arise and change with disengaged attention. Then we’re much more alert and agile. This is wilderness training.
New York Insight Meditation Center Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2018-10-14 19 Day 5 Morning Instructions: Maps that Dispel Differentiation 53:22
The Buddha expounded Dhamma using various maps. The map of the khandhā and dependent origination provide means for understanding and responding to experience without the sense of a fixed self. Meeting and relating to phenomena in the body, free from aversion and resistance, you don’t have to like it, just accept it. This is the way out of suffering.
New York Insight Meditation Center Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

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