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2021-05-30 Day 1 Q&A 44:47
Ajahn Sucitto
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Puja and Chanting 48:13
Ajahn Sucitto
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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
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Karuna Buddhist Vihara

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

2021-05-29 Empowerment of Desire and Aspiration 1:19:55
Nathan Glyde
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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
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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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