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2021-06-02 Healing, Forgiveness and Blessing 17:17
Ajahn Sucitto
It’s very important to share the heart, share the blessings with all that arises. One should do this regularly. Let go of the image, let go of the person – don’t dismiss it, relate to it, witnessing with sympathy, extending the heart. Lingering in the steady open presence, get familiar with it, feeling it, resting in it.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-06-02 Dependent Arising 5:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindstates, feelings, perceptions are moving, shifting – there’s no single coherent entity in that, yet there’s awareness of that. Maintaining simple open presence, bring your body into harmony, bring your heart into harmony, and the view becomes clear: this is dependent arising.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-06-02 Day 4 Q&A2 50:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Shifts of energy and bodily effects: verbal vs. non-verbal insights; distinction between flood (ogha) and outflow (āsava); how to prepare for aging and death; with things that matter when and how to speak up and when to refrain from speech and actions; self and other/regret/family.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

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

2021-06-02 The Power of Love 41:31
Ajahn Sucitto
The power of lovingkindness is it can nourish and fortify the heart so doesn’t get crushed by the floods. This gives us a platform for life where all phenomena, even the most painful and difficult, can be witnessed and held. It’s just kammic forces playing themselves out – don’t get stuck in that.
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 Day 4 Q&A1 49:13
Ajahn Sucitto
How to relate to afflictive states; thoughts of unwholesome acts arise in meditation; how can I feel safety in my brown body when there is external racism; is the movement of citta saṇkhāra the same as cetana; feels like body grows bigger while meditating; body cells are asking for more oxygen; how to direct energy to peripheral parts of body; remaining with awareness mind while noticing absence of ‘I’; self-consciousness, fear making a mistake and being judged; affected by family’s trauma like citta is haunted.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

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

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