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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.
2016-12-08 Establishing ‘the Temple’ through Puja & reflection 26:30
Puja, reflections and evening chanting in English
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-12-07 Four basis of clinging 60:25
Clinging is a mechanism that generates a sense of self. It is conditioned by craving and can be noticed and released in terms of: sense pleasure, becoming, systems and customs, and notions of self.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-12-06 Relationships & Differentiation 63:30
Experience manifests in terms of ‘fields’. Opening and holding a field (such as the bodily field) with mindfulness brings harmony. Conflicts can be relaxed, self-positions abandoned. This is also a model for relationships with other people.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-12-05 Q & A 67:17
Dependant origination; bramavihara; strengthening citta; how to deal with a quiet mind; how to deal with obsessive thinking; right speech.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-12-05 Reflective meditation on gladdening and steadying the heart 52:18
A guided series of themes based to bring to mind and dwell upon, to support a skillful mental basis.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-12-04 Meeting the Problem 40:16
Rather than immediately thinking, or trying to think of a solution, it’s more skillful to refer to embodiment and establish dispassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-12-03 Chanting Fire Sermon 12:16
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-12-03 Samadhi – absorbing the sweet spot 49:52
In mindfulness, body teaches us what mindfulness is. When we steadily incline towards sensitive simplicity and getting comfortable – and absorb that, the result is samadhi.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-12-01 Waves and Fields - no self 46:41
Dhammas are wave-like qualia rather than things. They are conditionally arisen. With dispassionate mindfulness they can subside. They need not define or belong to anyone.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-12-01 Faith: sustained wonder 16:12
Open to the field of experience; avoid conclusions sustain presence.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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