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2024-03-30 The ongoing focus for cultivation is ‘me’ 52:02
Ajahn Sucitto
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The compulsive shaping and drives of the citta are held by grasping – an involuntary reflex that can be mastered through careful cultivation. As the end of this grasping and shaping is the sense of self, that sense of ‘me’ ‘I am this’ is the ongoing focus of our Dhamma practice.
Cittaviveka :  Step-by-Step: the Upwards Flow

2024-03-29 Dhamma practice shapes the Citta into a more fulfilling state 47:35
Ajahn Sucitto
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The emphasis on virtue, beyond keeping rules, customs and procedures, is to bring about harmony. It enables us to establish a fluent relationship that isn’t domineering nor indifferent, clearing of heart from destructive tendencies. It’s the tonality of careful attention in what we do. Not seeking results, but just bringing forth harmony, beauty, purity in our daily lives. (Sutta reference SN 46:1)
Cittaviveka :  Step-by-Step: the Upwards Flow

2024-03-28 Development without Becoming 49:57
Ajahn Sucitto
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Our general mode follows a track called becoming. It’s a track that keeps moving, flavoured with craving that never arrives at satisfaction. The Buddha presented a more natural way – step-by-step, chart the course, with friendliness and purity of intention. Mindfulness of body and contemplative thought (vitaka-vicara) support a wider, wholistic mode. Use the process to adjust your world, so you’re not driven and pushed by it.
Cittaviveka :  Step-by-Step: the Upwards Flow

2024-03-27 The flow to liberation: Feeding the Citta 44:01
Ajahn Sucitto
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The flow to liberation isn’t a flash in the pan miracle, but a gradual, step-by-step process. Begin with the 4 establishments of mindfulness. When held carefully, steadily, with patience, the enlightenment factors develop. It can’t be done out of will power. Rather, nourishment for the process are restraint, mindfulness and careful attention. (Sutta reference AN 10:61)
Cittaviveka :  Step-by-Step: the Upwards Flow

2024-03-26 Ethical Responsibility Leads to Concentration and Release 44:17
Ajahn Sucitto
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Liberation is always a step-by-step process. Each stage flows into the next. It’s a natural process, according to Dhamma. Start on the right track, with virtue – relational sensitivity. Acting in this way gives rise to gladness, then concentration, leading to liberation. (Sutta reference AN 10:2)
Cittaviveka :  Step-by-Step: the Upwards Flow

2024-03-25 The Circular Process: Right View, Right Mindfulness and Right Effort 42:34
Ajahn Sucitto
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Three key factors of the Noble Eightfold Path circle around and support each other: Right View, which scans to see which skilful qualities need to be developed; Right Mindfulness, which sustains attention on this development; and Right Effort, which provides the energy to complete the transformation.
Cittaviveka :  Step-by-Step: the Upwards Flow

2024-03-24 Eight Steps in Mindfulness Training 19:54
Ajahn Sucitto
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2024-03-17 Right view and intention are the basis for the satipatthāna 37:08
Ajahn Sucitto
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2024-03-06 Harmony and forgiveness 48:26
Ajahn Sucitto
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Consider the deep learning or openness that has been experienced. What has found its way to the exit? This allows a regaining of the awakened centre.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre

2024-03-05 Insight breaks up grasping 39:33
Ajahn Sucitto
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The centre has no name but is harmonious, unsqueezed and released from (often unrecognized) clinging.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre

2024-03-05 Re-gaining the centre 50:11
Ajahn Sucitto
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Practice establishes a wholeness, a container where we can settle and witness the suffering, those random, sometimes painful stresses we call “ours”.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre

2024-03-05 Training the citta is your best bet 37:11
Ajahn Sucitto
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The teachings are not philosophies, abstract concoctions or attitudes. They point to direct signals of the citta with no position to stand on.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre

2024-03-04 Concentration without concentrating 48:13
Ajahn Sucitto
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Ajahn explains how it is that the Buddha didn’t tell us to concentrate, but he did recommend concentration.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre

2024-03-03 Citta is a crucial experience 35:53
Ajahn Sucitto
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The ‘I am’, the sense of me is the citta - receiving, reacting. Using the four foundations allows it to be resplendent and happy.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre

2024-03-03 The heart is a growing baby 49:31
Ajahn Sucitto
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We often feel driven, controlled by forces, social and otherwise that we don’t even know. Cultivation happens with careful application.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre

2024-03-02 GM – Steadying attention, stepping back, lifting the heart 16:01
Ajahn Sucitto
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre

2024-03-02 GM - Standing 12:01
Ajahn Sucitto
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Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre

2024-03-02 Gathering what's helpful. 19:49
Ajahn Sucitto
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Attention is a natural faculty but developing the wisdom of what to focus on and how to focus, allows cultivation of meaning in the heart.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre

2024-03-02 Retreat - an authentic and encompassing space 42:10
Ajahn Sucitto
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We practice sensing the whole before we can find the centre. The Buddha taught that all forms of wisdom find their fruition in mindfulness of the body.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre

2024-03-01 Determining the centre we want to regain 40:51
Ajahn Sucitto
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In a retreat we become very fundamental, putting things aside.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre

2024-02-25 The empty field 30:28
Ajahn Sucitto
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Here volition stops and we can examine what normally clogs the heart. We discard the endlines and deadlines. Observe conditionality without becoming.
Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat :  Cultivating the Empty Field

2024-02-25 Q&A 16:02
Ajahn Sucitto
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Q1 This person says that they are very sensitive and that things like traffic signs, noises, imperfections and the bustle of reality disturbs them. Do you have any advice? Q2 01:23 Could you comment on aging, sickness and death. Most of my friends and myself are in their late 70s or 80s and want to be more skilled in working with different stages and pain so as to be as prepared as possible for the dying phase.
Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat :  Cultivating the Empty Field

2024-02-25 Practicing with direct experience 39:04
Ajahn Sucitto
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Examining direct experience we go deeply, beyond the constructions, finding in the heart that which is worthy of praise and emulation. This generates sangha, a living teaching.
Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat :  Cultivating the Empty Field

2024-02-24 Right effort is fulfilling effort with 20 min GM 34:53
Ajahn Sucitto
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Notice the potency of unskillful language and how it can seem to squeeze us and create limitations in the mind.
Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat :  Cultivating the Empty Field

2024-02-24 The satipatthāna 47:33
Ajahn Sucitto
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The framework of body, feeling, heart, and phenomena arising is helpful and can be continued throughout the day.
Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat :  Cultivating the Empty Field

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