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Dharma Talks
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2025-06-07
Q and A
43:32
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Ajahn Sucitto
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01 06 Q1 I don't have any particular devotional practice. Is this like a Brahmavihara practice? 01:41 Q2 Regarding the relationship between citta and yoni as in yoniso manasikara, I relate to citta on a moment to moment basis. Yoni seems to be a seat of integrated wisdom. 20:15 Q3 Can you explain about metta practice. 27:31 Q4 Someone said resentment and aversion are natural conditions of the mind. They're not self and when seen as not self, they disappear. Can you comment please? 34:17 Q5 I would like to know if the inner tyrant is considered wrong view.
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Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
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2025-06-07
A simple short refuge mantra is offered
3:20
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Buddhaṃ me jīvitaṃ yāva nibbānaṃ saranaṃ gacchāmi
Dhammaṃ me jīvitaṃ yāva nibbānaṃ saranaṃ gacchāmi
Sanghaṃ me jīvitaṃ yāva nibbānaṃ saranaṃ gacchāami
{To the Buddha I go for refuge living my life to realize nibbana
To the Dhamma I go for refuge living my life to realize nibbana
To the Sangha I go for refuge living my life to realize nibbana}
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Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
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2025-05-30
Embodied awareness and the 'me bag'.
60:30
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Ajahn Sucitto
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A talk given at the Insight Meditation Center of Western Mass with QnA.
Questions are précised: Q1 33:26 You were talking about the inner and outer skin. It seems this inner skin creates suffering. How do we start to be able to deal with this?Q2 37:34 Those words: Open, allow, let go are such a release. But something can happen that scares me, fear of annihilation. How do you practice with the insecurity of monastic life without being scared? Q3 42:03 In moving from control, do you go through indifference? Q4 43:50 Would you mind speaking about qualities of willfulness, striving, urgency, rigidity around meditation and holding attention in the body and that urgency. Q5 52:10 I feel very uplifted being so close to a monastic. Could you say something about the challenges and the fruits of being in robes for so long?
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Insight Retreat Center
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2025-04-19
Holistic Awareness and Right Livelihood
42:02
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Mental consciousness experiences in terms of points and lines, holistic awareness is the mode the body uses for its maintenance, health and balance. This is what we cultivate in meditation, so that the heart attunes to it and is also well-maintained, healthy and liberated from stress. Right livelihood is a matter of sustaining this kind of awareness in terms of duties, collaboration and the welfare of others. These clear mental hindrances and restrictions and bring joy into our daily lives.
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Cittaviveka
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2025-04-05
Dhamma transmission is based on a mutual openness
38:05
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Ajahn Sucitto
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A review of the Channa Sutta (S.22:90) in which Bhikkhu Channa receives Dhamma through being open and welcomed - despite his bad reputation. The teaching he receives from Ven. Ananda points to the openness beyond affirmation or denial of conditioned existence. This instructs us to handle our intentions, interpretations and perspectives carefully without fixation.
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Cittaviveka
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2025-03-24
Light on desire
52:54
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Ajahn Sucitto
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This is a desire realm - we have desire. We’re not trying to eliminate it, but train it. Where it goes wrong is where desire becomes craving, when it’s shrouded by ignorance. I don’t create craving, craving creates me. Take the me out of it, and there’s the possibility to view things differently. Moments, thoughts, objects, so intensely configured, begin to lose their hard edges. There is a stilling, a chance to clear one’s residues.
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Cittaviveka
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End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat
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2025-03-23
Light on effort, an oar in the stream
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Ajahn Sucitto
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With effort, citta is the main thing. It’s both the heart quality from where intention streams and that which harvests the results. Then one knows where to best apply energy and how that’s done. Practise the application of effort to mindfulness of breathing, acknowledging and moderating the tools being used and the material they’re being applied to. When you practise rightly, there will be fortunate results.
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Cittaviveka
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End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat
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