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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2019-12-22
The Only Resolution Is Letting Go
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Ajahn Sucitto
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We live in an options culture, we’re used to getting our own way. We repeatedly give in to rāga, passions. Not the passions of liking things, but of feeling deeply stirred and agitated. In Dhamma practice, rather than adjusting the world to suit us, we adjust citta to form a harmonious, non-attached relationship to phenomena. This is how we develop pāramī.
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Uttama Bodhi Vihara
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2019-12-21
Q&A 3
69:00
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Body scanning; stuck areas; mental proliferation; ‘commander’ and ‘do-er’ aspects of mind; appropriate objects of meditation; thoughts that arise during ānāpānasati; dealing with hinderances; restlessness
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Uttama Bodhi Vihara
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2019-12-20
Comments on Walking
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Ajahn Sucitto
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We’re so conditioned to keep moving on to the next, the mind has already moved on before the foot has completed its step. Practice as if there’s no next. Tune into the fluid, easy movement of the whole body. Let the mind settle into samādhi.
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Uttama Bodhi Vihara
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2019-12-19
Freedom of an "Open Heart"
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Kate Munding
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This talk explores some questions of an "open heart." Can we bring both into our awareness the question, "is it possible to open further?" Where it is a stretch to feel compassionate and unguarded, is forgiveness needed, is self-care and healing needed? Do we always recognize the easy-open freedom of a heart that is fully available and unhindered? Do we take those states and the people connected to those states for granted?
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2019-12-19
Guided Meditation – Body Sweeping
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Guided meditations can help in terms of timing, to demonstrate just how slow a process meditation is. Generally, the object of meditation is simple, it’s the handling of it that’s the skill. Body sweeping develops receptivity of the body. One cultivates tonal qualities of receptivity and care.
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Uttama Bodhi Vihara
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2019-12-19
The Five Aggregates
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The aggregates work together to create the phenomenological world. But citta isn’t affected by this world of sense data, it’s affected by kamma – various unresolved memories, feelings and conditioned phenomena. Tend to the point of saṇkhāra to replace reactive habits, soothing the heart and releasing the grip of kamma.
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Uttama Bodhi Vihara
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2019-12-19
Progressive Dispassion
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Ajahn Sucitto
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In meditation we repeatedly return to qualities that calm the citta. When we relate to phenomena in a reassuring, steadying way, citta experiences dispassion. There’s a progressive withdrawal from phenomena because citta begins to sense itself as stable, satisfying and valuable. It has no more purpose in going out. This is the maturation process.
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Uttama Bodhi Vihara
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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