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Dharma Talks
2021-06-02 Suffusion with the Divine Abidings Chanting (English) 9:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-06-02 Guided Meditation – Be the Seer 8:42
Ajahn Sucitto
Keeping the focus of eye consciousness still and soft, aware of the one who sees. This seer doesn’t speak, it just sees. Notice when mind consciousness begins chattering – nothing to talk about, there’s just the seer.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-06-02 Puja - Heart Consciousness 38:41
Ajahn Sucitto
Puja is a time of heart, time to check in and find its basis. Images and resonances of virtue, truth, awakening, integrity provide resource and refreshment, and establish intention for how to engage with the sense world. Align sense consciousness to heart consciousness instead of the other way around.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-06-02 Guided Meditation - Breath Energy 42:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-06-01 The Dharma and Memorial Day 30:42
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2021-06-01 Goodwill 38:04
Ajahn Sucitto
The practice of recollecting and extending goodwill establishes stability of heart. Bring to mind your allies, warming the heart in response to the inferred hostility it experiences. Repel the ill-will knowing there is something beautiful here to be protected.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-06-01 Heart and Mind in Harmony Retreat - Day 2 - Metta 47:37
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz Heart and Mind in Harmony

2021-06-01 Extending Heart 14:07
Ajahn Sucitto
Practice with the gradual extension of the heart. Extend it in terms of goodwill. Include difficult places without withdrawal of warmth, regard or empathy. Without shutting down, allow things to be as they are. Remain open, extend from the center.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-06-01 Suffusion with the Divine Abidings Chanting (Pāli) 3:55
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-06-01 Day 3 Q&A2 47:34
Ajahn Sucitto
Relationship between manas and citta; excessive sexual images; what is the subtle body; breath as prana/breath of life; heart qualities that shift perception to vitality; opening energy centers; does energy discharge in standing meditation; working with psychological and emotional pain; resentment and anger arise when practicing at home; unlearning addiction to the clock.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-06-01 Guided Meditation - Clearing the Body 15:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Beginning at the abdomen – the center of the body, the energy center – use a combination of awareness and breathing to open, relax and release areas of the body.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-06-01 The Three-fold Flood 53:02
Ajahn Sucitto
The floods that wash over citta – floods of sensuality, kamma and unknowing – make it unstable, causing it to constantly search outside of itself for an anchor. The training is for citta to sit back in itself – remain embodied and use the tools within its range to gain strength and weaken the underlying programs.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-06-01 Puja - The Sacred 30:09
Ajahn Sucitto
In puja we align ourselves to the sacred. It gives our hearts a sense of purpose. Recollection of values and virtues are uplifted and sustained, giving rise to sappurisa – a person of integrity whose actions are for the welfare of all.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-06-01 Morning Chanting, 5 Subjects for Frequent Recollection 8:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-06-01 Day 3 Q&A1 42:27
Ajahn Sucitto
How do I know if I have stream entry; how is fasting a benefit for practice; is body contemplation needed, how often; how to live with someone who lacks integrity; sāti and samādhi; experience of rapture during meditation; difficult to see dukkha in sense pleasures; observing eight precepts; keeping ‘not eating after noon’ based on which time zone; issue of entitlement; receiving guidance from a teacher; understanding causes and conditions for clarity.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-31 Feeling Creates the Person 24:23
Ajahn Sucitto
The effect of feeling, agreeable or disagreeable, touches the citta. The practice is not to contract around the resonance, don’t grab the feeling. It’s the clinging reflex that creates the person. Maintain open stable presence – go bigger and wider than the activations – and the grasping lessens.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-31 Steering Thought 24:32
Ajahn Sucitto
We need to train and tame thought so we can use it carefully for inquiry and investigation. Steering away from the conceived, find out how citta is being affected. Supported by embodiment and qualities of goodwill and compassion, the tamed, trained thinking mind gives rise to insight – it’s a liberator.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-31 Day 2 Q&A 48:50
Ajahn Sucitto
What is practicing directly; differences between sāti sampajañña and sātipañña; meandering/curious attention when practicing; how important is jhāna; help working with our habits and blind spots; how to work with the inner critic; when to address things internally or externally with regards to other people.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-31 Every Good Blessing 0:48
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
The Ayyas recorded a short blessing for all of us.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-05-31 Guided Meditation – Core Stability of Body 60:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Body’s somatic intelligence is receptive to signals – suggest signals of safety, space, freedom. Settle more deeply into the core stability of the body, where it’s not mediating with internal or external phenomena – restful, like a tree.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-31 Heart Mind Harmony retreat - Day 1.3 - Dhamma talk 17:31
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz Heart and Mind in Harmony

2021-05-31 Heart Mind Harmony - Day 1.1 - Retreat theme 6:34
Kim Allen
Opening of a 6-day retreat on the Simile of the Cloth (MN 7).
Insight Santa Cruz Heart and Mind in Harmony

2021-05-31 Heart Mind Harmony retreat - Day 1.2 - Guided med and short talk 37:46
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz Heart and Mind in Harmony

2021-05-31 Know One’s Range 52:33
Ajahn Sucitto
Realization can’t be taught, but it can be induced. Stable in one’s presence – open, listening, attentive – one comes to know one’s own range, the place where your potentials can properly unfold without getting tangled and without overreaching. Absorb into this steady place to begin clearing the floods.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-31 Guided Meditation - Recollection 27:10
Ajahn Sucitto
With recollection, we drop meanings into the heart and listen. It’s how we come to know experience directly. Recollections of Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha help frame up our meditation and cultivation – how to act, what to put aside, what to say no to, what to say yes to, and how to do that in a measured way.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-31 Puja – The Path to Here and Now 11:31
Ajahn Sucitto
In this practice we are gently peeling back the layers of time and identity to come into something much more sensitive. The act of puja is a sign for citta. Praising and recollecting in both meaning and enactment mark the path of the here and now.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Chanting - Suffusion with the Divine Abidings (Pāli) 4:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Sharing Heart 10:26
Ajahn Sucitto
Once an open stability has been established, we can work from this basis, engaging decisively from the place of giving. Bringing the quality of a giving heart to mind, allow yourself to be touched and feel moved. Continue practicing with the resonances of the brahmaviharā.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 1:30:52
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2021-05-30 Stillness in the Midst of the Winds 61:30
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2021-05-30 05 talk: spiritual friendship 8:59
Jill Shepherd
A short intro exploring the challenges and rewards of spiritual friendship as the foundation of sangha or community
Auckland Insight Meditation one-day celebration of Vesak and the Auckland Insight community

2021-05-30 Returning to the Web of Life 49:18
Ayya Santacitta
Talk & guided meditation on the Six Elements
Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group

2021-05-30 03 talk: Heavenly Messengers 16:14
Jill Shepherd
Looking at the legend of the Four Heavenly Messengers, and finding parallels in the context of our own lives
Auckland Insight Meditation one-day celebration of Vesak and the Auckland Insight community

2021-05-30 Paramis: Valuing Non-harming - Meditation 41:34
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-05-30 Paramis: Valuing Non-harming - Talk 33:58
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-05-30 02 talk: short introduction to celebrating Vesak 11:02
Jill Shepherd
Exploring ways of celebrating Vesak and the Auckland Insight community
Auckland Insight Meditation one-day celebration of Vesak and the Auckland Insight community

2021-05-30 01 meditation: cultivating mudita as a foundation for the day's practice 15:25
Jill Shepherd
orienting to appreciation and gratitude as a foundation for this day of celebration
Auckland Insight Meditation one-day celebration of Vesak and the Auckland Insight community

2021-05-30 Guided Meditation – Open Stability 23:17
Ajahn Sucitto
In meditation we’re resetting the dynamic movement of mental and physical energies with open energy. Using body as a guide, resonate the sense of balance and stability throughout. Let mindfulness deepen and maintain a wide-open energy that is receptive.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Refuge Mantra Chanting 1:31
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Guided Meditation – Rhythm and Energy of Breathing 42:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Deal with the compulsions of becoming by tackling energy in the body. Thoughtful breathing becomes comfortable and soothing. Its rhythm moderates the floods, diffusing stressful energies and psychologies. Heart and body draw close in the enjoyment. From this place of samādhi you can stand back from the most fundamental flood of becoming.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Day 1 Q&A 44:47
Ajahn Sucitto
Can we chant just in the heart, without sound; Buddhism’s view on healing with energy; how to work with various energy blocks and imbalances; feeling disoriented when letting go of a topic and giving attention to body energies; what importance to give to thought; how does one cultivate absorption, to be with intense emotions; when only eating before noon does hunger become an object of meditation.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Guided Meditation – Body Energy Fields 23:25
Ajahn Sucitto
In standing, sitting and free movement postures, exercise an attitude of goodwill, sympathy and encouragement to invite body channels to open. Energies know what to do – body wants to wants to arrive at wholeness.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Establishing Firm Ground 42:33
Ajahn Sucitto
To stand against the tide of the floods we need firm ground. Established first in the body, mental/heart energies pick up the same theme of stability and core presence. This is the process of samatha – calming, stabilizing, giving one firm ground.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Precepts – A Way to Cross the Floods 47:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Determining to keep precepts is a way to cross the floods. They help check and restrain urges of gratification, malice and escapism. Coming from a place of ethics and mutuality naturally gives rise to pleasant states of being, giving us an orientation we want to remain with rather than following the immediate pull of inclination.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Chanting - Recollection of the Triple Gem 5:26
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Puja and Chanting 48:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Puja means honor or praise. It’s an important gesture to cultivate – the sense of rising up to something beautiful, something worthy. Making offerings, bowing, chanting and meditating are steadying and calming acts that massage the energies of body, heart and mind.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-29 Attitude, Non-Self, and the Story of Venerable Channa 22:09
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-05-29 Lightly Guided Meditation 30:49
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-05-29 Empowerment of Desire and Aspiration 1:19:55
Nathan Glyde
An exploration of the Iddhipāda (Bases of Power) as part of our noble path. Seeing them more in the light of empowerment of our deepest aspirations or most wholesome desires. A guided meditation and Dharma Talk, with time for questions: for privacy, only the teachers voice is on the recording.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - May 2021

2021-05-29 Q&A 36:05
Ajahn Sucitto
Please explain why you got the COVID vaccine as I am hesitant; can meditation help with IBS; can’t exhale completely because in breath rushes in; does it matter if formal practice/meditation is less; is manas an impediment to citta or can it be used beneficially; how to get over the pain of divorce; how to ask someone to leave a community due to ethical reasons; when desire is abandoned how is avijja eliminated; elaborate on terms samādhi, atammayatā, nibānna.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

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