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2023-08-08 Wisdom opens dukkha 37:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Wisdom is a liberator that is supported by the sense of a stable center that develops with samadhi.
Cittaviveka 2023 CBM Vassa Talks - Week 1

2023-08-07 Finding one's centre – view, virtue, mindfulness, concentration 54:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Retreat is a renunciant experience recommended by the Buddha. Through this we can clarify and collect our centre.
Cittaviveka 2023 CBM Vassa Talks - Week 1

2023-08-06 Intentions that span the cosmos 55:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Our ability to contemplate provides enormous potential to get perspective on the changingness of the forms that characterise experience.
Cittaviveka 2023 CBM Vassa Talks - Week 1

2023-08-05 View from the Heart brings Right Purpose 51:22
Ajahn Sucitto
The faith that there IS a way out is an important component of our practice, leading to a directly known heart-realization of the truth of the constant flux of experience.
Cittaviveka 2023 CBM Vassa Talks - Week 1

2023-08-04 Sweetness, danger, escape in terms of the khandha 52:03
Ajahn Sucitto
The relative harmony of the diverse forms and energies that arise on retreat give one a sense of personal wholeness and support shared benefits.
Cittaviveka 2023 CBM Vassa Talks - Week 1

2023-08-03 Realization-existence as wave 48:47
Ajahn Sucitto
Gathering and collecting into one pointedness takes time for settling. A retreat invites us; it leads us to gain purpose and engenders faith and skilful effort.
Cittaviveka 2023 CBM Vassa Talks - Week 1

2023-08-01 Grasping grips our world 60:06
Ajahn Sucitto
The Buddha’s teaching is crucial and profound for the world. It points to the clinging and owning that disfigures our world – and how to give that up.
Cittaviveka

2023-07-30 Q&A 33:41
Ajahn Sucitto
00:42 Q1 How can one protect one’s axis/ centre after a retreat is over? 11:55 In daily life my system gets stuck in a previous experience with someone. Although they have left, the turmoil is still there and I feel stuck.
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2023-07-30 Guided Meditation 17:26
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2023-07-20 Closing comments - value of the five precepts 13:21
Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
We are always in the centre of our lives, always present, always here.
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-20 Noticing the mobile and animate signal of the body 25:22
Ajahn Sucitto
We use our attention as if it’s a bird finding a place to land and find stable ground.
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2023-07-19 Q&A 41:31
Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
Questions are précised; one live question (Q3) was précised and read into the file: 00:08 Q1 Could you say a few words about dealing with traumatic memories or body memories. 13:47 Q2 I fear that I am not able to connect with non-self. Can you say more about non-self. 20:27 Q3 When I was sitting my timer went off and there was a vague voice that was encouraging and reassuring me that whatever issues I face can be resolved. I find this very exciting. What do you think is happening here?28:34 Q4 If a part of our being nature gets accessed by a higher paced energy, can sati and a slower mode of being lead to loosing access to sides of our being?
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-19 Extending the potency of the retreat experience 50:18
Ajahn Sucitto
Take responsibility for your life. What is it about? What's needed? Remember to enter the presence of your entire body, and wait for things to be revealed.
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-18 Q&A 57:29
Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
Questions are précised: 00:00 Q1 What do you mean by “re-wilding your mind”? 19:59 Q2 What’s the relation between pitti, sukka and chi. 25:05 Q3 Which comes first after sense contact, sannya (impression/ perception) or vedena (the feeling)? 28:00 Q4 Does the third sattipatana (the establishments of mindfulness) only include citta of mano / manus? 34:21 (LB) Q5 How to contemplate the “gunky” parts of the body – the organs that get diseased etc. 41:35 Q6 I have a sense of the experience of annica like a connection to dynamism. Impermanence has a very time bound quality to it. 42:31 Q7 How can one develop one’s yoniso manisakara to keep attention turned inwards?
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2023-07-18 Sharing value in the realm of value 64:34
Ajahn Sucitto
Unplugging our normal drivers and moving into retreat can be an uncomfortable experience. Use it as an occasion to strengthen presence through embodiment.
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2023-07-18 Connecting inside and outside 51:14
Ajahn Sucitto
The day starts with a sense of decisive engagement but confusion frequently masks this and we get run by external conditions. Breathing is an animate centre that allows perspective.
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-17 GM - Whole Body Standing 61:44
Ajahn Sucitto
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2023-07-17 GM - Knowing the senses 40:31
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-16 Using the potency of retreat 29:56
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn reviews some of the teachings during the retreat so far and urges us to use our potency as individuals.
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-15 GM - An end of the day practice 2:26
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-15 Q&A 14:42
Ajahn Sucitto
00:05 Before encountered the dhamma I always thought that problems required solutions. You say they need spaciousness, openness and patience. What then is the place for mental strategies and solutions.
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-15 Realizing what is affected and touched 56:08
Ajahn Sucitto
There is a heart place that experiences reverberations and exasperation. It seems that this is me. Keep asking: What and where is this me?
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-14 Q&A 48:38
Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
00:05 Q1 (AS) You talked about protection during the QiGong. How does protection happen without closure? 09:39 Q2 (LB) Could you explain how the citta can cleanse sankaras? 17:05 (AS response). 36:04 Q3 (AS) Given that I struggle to maintain focus even on a narrow object, it’s very hard to bring the whole body into awareness . Any hints? 45:02 (LB response).
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-14 Attending to the fragmented cosmos 61:59
Ajahn Sucitto
Self and other, life and death, body and mind are some of the basic fragmentations causing stress. Practice allows a healing wisdom to arise.
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-13 Guided Standing Meditation 17:38
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

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