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1988-05-13 Tomorrow is Saturday? 65:13
Ajahn Sucitto
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1988-05-12 Something About Freedom 1:13:32
Ajahn Sucitto
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1988-05-12 Perspectives on the Mind 43:39
Ajahn Sucitto
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1988-05-11 The Contemplative View 48:28
Ajahn Sucitto
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Trust in the contemplative view and life simplifies by itself. Contemplation channels our ways of recognizing and knowing things so the awakening mind begins to cultivate wisdom. Then we can recognize why we experience suffering and put an end to it.
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1988-05-10 Peril of View 1:10:00
Ajahn Sucitto
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1988-05-10 Nature of Unsatisfactoriness 45:30
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1988-05-09 Awakening to the Way Things Are 63:27
Ajahn Sucitto
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We were all born with the capacity to be aware – this is the reflective mind. It has to be cultivated or it becomes distorted. Mindfulness of body and breathing helps slow the mind down so it can reflect, recognize that experience is conditioned, arising dependent upon circumstance. When mind awakens to the way things actually are, one touches the deathless.
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1988-05-09 The Path of Direct Experience 59:24
Ajahn Sucitto
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Thought is an abstraction – we step back from experience and form an idea, opinion, judgment. This Path steers away from thought, and inclines towards direct, felt experienced. Enter experience and work from within the doubt, confusion, aggression with a clear, pure Buddha mind, not the thinking mind. With this unification of mind there is the end of suffering.
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1988-05-08 Morning Instructions and Talk 1:38:52
Ajahn Sucitto
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1988-05-07 Why meditate? 1:13:12
Ajahn Sucitto
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The phrase “the way it is” offers a snapshot of the changing experience of the mind as it considers basic questions of existence. Meditation offers a way to be with body feelings and reveals the steady and tranquil energy there. Meditation also reveals the compelling and default practice of the mind that is always identifying a “self” which creates anxiety, nervousness, trying too hard and judgements. Seeing this default mind process we see the Buddha’s concept of “suffering” and this leads in turn to comfort and confidence with understanding the statement “the way it is”. We can recall the Buddha said that nibanna is in fact realizable here and now, in this life. exact date uncertain
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