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Retreat Dharma Talks
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Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020
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2020-01-07 (19 days)
Cittaviveka
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2020-01-07
Citta and the Khandhā
37:17
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The paradigm of practice is discerning skillful from unskillful heart states. We begin to turn away from the states that entangle the heart, and learn to linger in wholesome qualities. Skillful states always carry the mark of freedom.
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2020-01-10
Direct Practice – Feeling, Perception and Saṇkhāra
40:21
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Citta is only touched by feeling and perception. Through not seeing this, not feeling and directly handling it, the whole realm of dukkha gets fabricated. Meet experience directly, with mindfulness and wisdom, and suffering eases up.
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2020-01-11
Saṇkhāra – the Constructor of All
46:24
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Ajahn Sucitto
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We are encouraged to understand saṇkhāra, the programs that take hold of us and result in unskillful states. It is possible to not act on these programs, release some of their pressure, and turn the citta towards skillful states.
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2020-01-11
Anattā Is the Way Out (Evening Public Talk)
52:12
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The unawakened worldly mind seeks to accumulate. It generates a sense of self from holding on. The Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta points to release and letting go. We practice standing back from phenomena, allowing things to move and shift without reacting to them. Just witnessing and awake – this is liberation.
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2020-01-12
Practising with Ground, Space and Rhythm
45:26
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Contact with the world causes citta to lose its sense of ground, space and rhythm. Use of body is recommended as a meditation theme. We practice to carefully meet contact impression, training intention and attention to be for one’s welfare.
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2020-01-13
What Shape Is Your Mind
46:45
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Unskillful saṇkhāras can be undone in the same way they are formed – through perception. Choose particular tones like friendliness and welcome. Introduce them into the body and ask how it feels. Skillful use of perception and attention can sooth and steady the body’s energy.
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2020-01-14
Completing the Inner Conversation
40:51
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Ajahn Sucitto
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We come to Dhamma practice hoping for calm and quiet, but that may be down the track a while. Begin instead with dialogue, listening to the inner chatter with patience and steadiness. As agitated and troubling states are lovingly met, the passion around them fades. We can experience the nibbāna element here and now.
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2020-01-15
Sweeping the Body
44:25
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Something in us – citta – searches for release from suffering. It struggles to rise out of old patterns, which means one has to enter them. Sweeping meditation is a skillful means. It’s not just a physical exercise but an opportunity to clear kamma.
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