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Retreat Dharma Talks
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Clearing the Floods
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2021-05-01 (2 days)
London Insight Meditation
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2021-05-01
Introduction – Establishing Wise Deep Attention
19:14
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| The floods of sense consciousness and delusion take us away from a place where we might feel stable, assured, comfortable. We experience a loss of autonomy and receptivity. We can use the quality of wise deep attention (yoniso manasikāra) to turn attention to the source of our actions and our being. The roots are found in the domain of body and mind. |
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2021-05-01
Guided Meditation – Foundational Practice
28:44
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Beginning with a review of the terms mind, heart, body, consciousness, attention and awareness, this guided meditation takes us through their workings. Wise deep attention (yoniso manasikāra) keeps bringing us back to what’s important now. |
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2021-05-01
Standing Meditation – The Body Is Intelligent
18:56
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Standing meditation compels full body awareness – one gets the sense that the body is intelligent. Once establishing a suitable stance and posture, give attention to how breathing feels in the body. Then, ‘What’s important now?’ |
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2021-05-01
Q&A1
47:28
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Help with hard-wired anger; how to think about ground, space and rhythm in a non-conceptual way; citta seems like a toddler; how to disengage from deep patterns of negativity; how to respond to boredom; is it recommended to thoroughly achieve samatha before moving on to vipassana; how to respond to deep pain in the heart; question about impermanence. |
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2021-05-02
Precepts and Resolution
26:23
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| It’s very helpful to start the day with resolution: What can I say no to? What can I say yes to? Using the precepts as a frame, generate boundaries that will moderate energies and help you remain firm and grounded in the face of the floods. |
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2021-05-02
Standing Meditation – Open Energy
34:00
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| The standing posture provides a simple process whereby energies can be balanced, soothed and steadied. Opening channels of the body so breathing can flow through, an open energy – light, spacious, repelling obstruction – becomes available. |
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2021-05-02
Open Mind Open Heart Open Body
24:50
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Open mind and open heart require open receptivity – listening without taking on, accepting without adopting. This requires the quiet power of embodiment – acknowledgement – which isn’t doing anything other than acknowledging. Things then shift and pass on their own. |
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2021-05-02
Direct Practice: Exploring Future and Past
17:06
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Practice with bringing up notions of future, past, other people and myself and the relationships between them. Receive what is activated in the body and mind without adopting them. Open to the feelings and movements that arise. |
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