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Ajahn Sucitto's Dharma Talks
Ajahn Sucitto
As a monk, I bring a strong commitment, along with the renunciate flavor, to the classic Buddhist teachings. I play with ideas, with humor and a current way of expressing the teachings, but I don't dilute them.
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2026-01-01 Q&A 52:36
00:34 Q1 I've recently run across "meditation teachers" who claim that some other creative activities that they're involved in are better than meditation. What can you say about this? 20:56 Q2 I'm not good with emotional language like spiritual poetry but have a longing for the divine. What can you say about this? 22:54 Q3 I'm already seeking some professional help for trauma but I'd like to hear your thoughts on the Buddhist way to heal trauma. 26:22 Q4 How can you not make letting go into another sankara project? How can we let go of concepts like achieving stream entry? 35:42 Q5 I've heard a teacher say when the mind is quiet and we experience things as they are, the self and the observing or knowing mind will distinctly be two separate entities. Can you speak to this please? 44:06 Q6 I find myself alone and isolated. There are no Buddhist centres near me nor do I have a group of family or friends I can share with. I meditate and go for long walks but the need to be a part of the community is a longing and I feel sometimes I have no meaning in my life and I panic. What is your advice?
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2026-01-01 Answering the unanswerable: use your presence 16:22
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2025-12-18 Taking the kalyana environment with you 10:24
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  BUBS Silent Retreat
2025-12-18 Q&A 29:48
Q1 How can we reconcile joy and dispassion? How are nipita and virago supposed to feel? 11:55 Q2 Are the 16 steps of vipassana meditation the result of calmness meditation, or is it a wise directing of attention as a goal? 17:59 Q3 You mentioned to notice the space between the in and out breath and the out and in breath. When I do that my breath seems to get more shallow and I feel a threat and start coughing. 22:32 Q4 Something seems to keep kicking in the breathing process. What should I do? 23:18 Q5 How to be less demanding, to maintain the highest quality to do well, but less demanding, e.g of expectations of others?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  BUBS Silent Retreat
2025-12-18 Peaceful, sublime 50:33
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  BUBS Silent Retreat
2025-12-16 Q&A 33:15
00:10 Q1 Can you say something about handling concerns about people quarreling, people sick, family members? 08:40 Q2 I get a vibration in my body that progresses up through the body. It produces a peaceful and equanimous feeling. Why is this happening and what should I do next? 13:27 Q3 I get warmed when I engage in standing meditation. What's happening? 13:43 Q4 During one meditation when one attains full concentration and calmness, how does one feel in mind? What does one hear? What is the colour when one closes one's eyes? Do we still feel breathing? What's happening? 16:16 Q5 When I sit I get a sudden jolt. Is this sloth and torpor. 16:41 Q6 Why does thinking about revenge although unwholesome, feel good?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  BUBS Silent Retreat
2025-12-16 Extending out of the tangle 49:13
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  BUBS Silent Retreat
2025-12-15 Letting the dog off the leash - a guide to the acceptance of 'me' 57:31
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  BUBS Silent Retreat
2025-12-15 Q&A 38:46
Q1 In the case of someone who doesn't take the three refugees or five precepts but is a good person and does no harm, can they become an arahant? 02:35 Q2 Can you elaborate on your comment 'pain is impersonal'? 23:43 Q3 It's said it's needed to straighten one's view and establish one's virtue before cultivating santipatthana what are the signposts to look after? 30:47 Q4 when doing walking meditation my eyes tend to lock on to visual objects in front of me. And when sitting, even with the eyes closed, my eyes seem to strain and look internally and I feel tired and tense how do I de-focus my eyes? 34:54 Q5 during city meditation my body moves forwards and backwards. What should I do? 36:55 Q6 I've been going through my diaries in order to discard them. Some entries bring up things I forgot and some are strongly disturbing. I meditate on these but is it wise to carry on this process? I'm not ready to throw the diaries without going through them.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  BUBS Silent Retreat
2025-12-14 Q&A 57:43
00:00 Q1 How does anapanasati fulfill satipatthana and how does satipatthana fulfill the bojjhanga? 05:27 Q2 Do we intentionally steady the sankhara or do they settle themselves? 14:59 Q3 How do I develop the maha-citta / the great heart? 22:40 Q4 When sitting inside and close the eyes I feel confined. However if I sit outside, I close my eyes and enjoy it. Am I attaching or not? 28:40 Q5 How can I use the sound of silence as my meditation object? 32:18 Q6 I feel a density or solidity in the head. How can I dissolve this? 49:57 Q7 Can you relate the breach of precepts to karma? 53:07 Q8 I am currently learning a type of QiGong which strictly prohibits eating meat and I feel better. But Buddhism allows me to eat meat. What should I do?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  BUBS Silent Retreat
2025-12-14 Forgiveness, gratitude and equanimity 61:35
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  BUBS Silent Retreat
2025-12-13 Q&A 43:09
Q1 When I meditate my mind is calm I can hear the breathing but at the same time my mind is also thinking about outstanding matters. I can't seem to prevent the pressure or momentum to think about myself or unfinished tasks. What should I do? 34:32 Q2 How do we develop equanimity?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  BUBS Silent Retreat
2025-12-13 Q&A 45:56
00:23 Q1 How do we define a real state of meditation? Is it merely focus and concentration? Should we do samatha first or vipassana or both combined? 23:39 Q2 During walking meditation do we still observe breathing at the nostrils or radiating metta? 28:17 Q3 Is it okay to use the mantra Budho for walking meditation and during daily life activities? 29:32 Q4 I have committed some mistakes in the past, one which lost me a dear old friend and another one which causes me huge embarrassment every time I think about it. I feel a huge degree of sense of remorse and given the opportunity I would not do it again. What can I do to overcome this?... [and] During meditation my emotions are triggered. Should I come back to the breath or feel the emotion in the body? 37:22 Q5 How can I note intentions especially during meal time? There are so many of them! 40:27 Q6 What's the rationale behind not reading during a retreat? 42:29 Q7 When a person we love is doing harmful things, not correct practice despite your advice, they don't listen, how do I practice dhamma to avoid disappointment and sadness. 44:19 Q8 When it's in meditation my head naturally tilts upward. At this point the connection between the spine and the neck clicks. How to avoid it?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  BUBS Silent Retreat
2025-12-13 Forgiveness gives release 60:21
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  BUBS Silent Retreat
2025-12-12 An occasion for the hearth's growth 59:32
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  BUBS Silent Retreat
2025-12-12 GM - Standing 31:25
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2025-12-04 Closing advice - Return to the noble comfort 30:23
Closing advice - Return to the noble comfort
Nera Nara Retreat Centre :  Pak Chong Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2025-12-03 Q&A 44:07
00:06 Q1 Several questions about meditation experience. Posture, disappearance of part of the body, whether it's worthwhile. 10:33 Q2 When I got up from reclining my sitting didn't feel very good. 12:07 Q3 Can you say something about addictive behaviours and desires? 14:30 Q4 Can you differentiate cultivation, practice and contemplation? 17:06 Q5 Could you expand on the analogy that Buddhist practice and the self was like a murmur of sparrows or shoal of fish swimming together. 29:51 Q6 Is citta also annica, dukkha, anatta? What is the origin of citta? 33:20 Q7 How do we know we're progressing? 34:23 Q8 Is Luangta Maha Bua's 'buddho' mantra which he apparently used to sit for a full 10 hours overnight, a little bit too forceful and willful? 37:27 Q9 This retreat has helped me to practice citta viveka. In my normal life it seems the world is coming at me. And sometimes I feel the heart will burst out of my chest which produces more anxiety. Do I have to quit my job!? 42:41 Q10 Somebody was giving a talk on secular Buddhism and I was to introduce them, but I don't really support the idea of secular Buddhism. How might I have handled this?
Nera Nara Retreat Centre :  Pak Chong Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2025-12-03 Kamma is volition, the law of citta 51:22
Nera Nara Retreat Centre :  Pak Chong Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2025-12-03 GM 7:49
Nera Nara Retreat Centre :  Pak Chong Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2025-12-02 Q&A 52:34
0:00 Q1 What is the purpose of meditation? 19:14 Q2 I've been practicing for a long time, but recently feel I've reached a plateau with no further progress. Can you advise? 29:53 Q3 [Am I on the right track] when I reach a certain level of samadhi and contemplate the truth, like impermanence? Will wisdom come by itself? 32:02 Q4 In order to practice the parami, do we dwell on each part of them one by one? I'm not aiming for buddhahood, so do I still have to do this parami stuff? 42:25 Q5 Does avijja mostly refer to the illusion of selfhood? 42:49 Q6 Can the viveka /stepping back from anger and aversion gradually chip away at them to complete elimination?
Nera Nara Retreat Centre :  Pak Chong Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2025-12-02 Being comfortable with what’s skillful 50:05
Nera Nara Retreat Centre :  Pak Chong Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2025-12-02 Contemplating the beauty of admirable qualities 7:15
Nera Nara Retreat Centre :  Pak Chong Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2025-12-01 Q&A 50:15
00:00 Q1 After a few years of meditation and keeping precepts the mind starts to dwell in beautiful states. The mind still struggles taking mind states as me. Can you provide some guidance? 09:00 Q2 Is pitti only felt in the body. I don't often get the sensations in the body however I do get a light mind and a smile. 12:28 Q3 The thinking mind is the builder isn't it? The house builder talked about in the suttas? 24:29 Q4 Where is citta? 25:48 Q5 If we can be aware of the body, mind and citta, what is it that watches them? Is it awareness or consciousness that is apart from them? 36:51 Q6 In the Sanyutta Nikaya, the collected sayings 46:54 says the cultivation of the heart's release through metta is beauty. How do you understand this? 42:56 Q7 I've noticed some people seem to have absolutely no empathy or sense of shame or concern for consequences. But I understand the sense of shame etc called hiri and otappa are supposed to be innate in all of us. Why are they absent in some people? 45:11 Q8 What is it referred to in the homage to the sangha, the four pairs, the 8 kinds of noble beings?
Nera Nara Retreat Centre :  Pak Chong Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2025-12-01 Harmonizing citta and body leads to samadhi 53:11
Nera Nara Retreat Centre :  Pak Chong Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2025-11-30 Q&A 41:56
Questions précised: 00:23 Q1 Can you give me some advice on self forgiveness? I can easily forgive others but not myself. 15:58 Q2 I don't usually experience deep samadhi but in the past few days there's much stillness in the sitting and the body feels heavy and grounded. Is this the right direction? 19:45 Q3 in order to develop sati we should come out of thoughts or thinking. Isn't that attempt just more thinking? 31:15 Q4 Generally speaking is there a difference in Buddhist approach to emotional psychological pain and physical pain? 40:44 Q5 Can you explain the difference between citta and mind?
Nera Nara Retreat Centre :  Pak Chong Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2025-11-30 Slowing down to comfort 56:40
Nera Nara Retreat Centre :  Pak Chong Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2025-11-30 GM - Meeting and greeting the morning body 38:34
Nera Nara Retreat Centre :  Pak Chong Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2025-11-29 Viveka 13:19
Nera Nara Retreat Centre :  Pak Chong Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2025-11-29 Q&A 34:57
00:07 Q1 There is body contemplation and contemplation of death. Can I contemplate things such as my work, my relationships with a fear of failing? How do I do it? 20:28 Q2 You mentioned during Qigong making a circle with the arms and concentrating within the ring. I found this very helpful to calm the mind. Is there something similar to help calm the mind during sitting or standing meditation? 29:40 Q3 You said the world begins and ends in the body. I'm rather used to hearing that the mind is the source of everything. Can you clarify this please?
Nera Nara Retreat Centre :  Pak Chong Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2025-11-29 The path to sati 50:20
Nera Nara Retreat Centre :  Pak Chong Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2025-11-28 Mantra - Metta Karuna Mudita Upekkha 11:40
Nera Nara Retreat Centre :  Pak Chong Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2025-11-28 GM Standing 17:47
Nera Nara Retreat Centre :  Pak Chong Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2025-11-28 Opening talk - Living on retreat 24:20
Nera Nara Retreat Centre :  Pak Chong Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2025-10-26 Refuge – evoking and resonating safety 47:04
Moulin de Chaves The Mind Writes, the Heart Sings
2025-10-25 Parami - Opening out of the 'me' bag 53:14
Moulin de Chaves The Mind Writes, the Heart Sings
2025-10-24 Guided standing meditation 35:03
Moulin de Chaves The Mind Writes, the Heart Sings
2025-10-24 Ritual - forms that empty 51:14
Moulin de Chaves The Mind Writes, the Heart Sings
2025-10-23 Finding the heart's voice 42:55
Moulin de Chaves The Mind Writes, the Heart Sings
2025-10-23 Entering and benefitting from space 25:59
Moulin de Chaves The Mind Writes, the Heart Sings
2025-10-22 Q&A 43:11
Q1 In sitting meditation I have much less distraction but I feel a sense of torpor. Where does this come from and how can I deal with it? 07:10 Q2 I spend the majority of my life trying to ignore my difficult emotions. Since I began meditation I’ve tried to welcome them all but they take a lot of space. Will it be like this the rest of my life? [A similar one:] I find myself in a deep groove of negativity which is hard to shift. After a couple of decades of practice I am embarrassed by this and find myself more and more isolated from family and friends. [A similar one:] I was bullied as a young teenager which destroyed my self-esteem. How can I secure my heart? 17:20 Q3 Can you explain the difference between citta and consciousness? [A similar one:] How can citta be experienced best? Is it only through phenomena? Can citta be satisfied by internal content and does this help to ease the thirst for sensual gratification? 28:18 Q4 I find it very difficult to do chanting because of difficulty with my throat feeling clogged. 30:20 Q5 My son has had long covid for 4 years and started getting panic attacks. Can you comment please. 33:30 Q5 My question is about violence – not just corporeal violence but also including gossip, jealousy etc. Can you speak to these please?
Moulin de Chaves The Mind Writes, the Heart Sings
2025-10-22 Kalyana 55:12
Moulin de Chaves The Mind Writes, the Heart Sings
2025-10-21 Q&A 41:07
Q1 I couldn't keep up with this morning's talk. Could you talk about the meaning of kalyana? Q2 04:20 What can we doing instead of getting rid of stuff that bothers us? 09:49 Q3 my inner tyrant has been very active. What is it and how can I deal with it? 14:32 Q4 What does "sitting with emotions" mean more concretely? It feels a bit abstract. 22:26 Q5 Is there something like embodied thinking? In other words, how to reflect upon my meditation when words are sankaras? 25:33 Q6 How to create a more permanent sense feeling of safety in the body? 29:28 Q7 My mother has dementia and refuses to acknowledge her situation. She recently fell and broke her hip. My father is struggling to maintain himself, trying to do the best he can. I'm deeply touched by this situation. How can I best integrate this into my practice? 40:20 Q8 Sometimes in QiGong practice I feel a little nauseous. Can you comment please?
Moulin de Chaves The Mind Writes, the Heart Sings
2025-10-20 Q&A 35:30
Q1 How can I differentiate whether it's the ghost that's speaking or the thing that I should work harder on. I feel that if I work a little harder I can be a little better. How should I know it's time to stop ... and where to go? Q2 16:18 if done with love can accomplishment make the heart sing? Q3 17:50 How do I stop longing for emotional connection with a partner and of one of my children? I practice with letting go of the wanting but sometimes the longing arises and it's painful. Q4 25:38 Can you explain again the flow of the air on the in-breath. Q5 33:01 could you say something more about walking. When I'm doing it I'm stiff, rigid and can't get the swing.
Moulin de Chaves The Mind Writes, the Heart Sings
2025-10-20 Guided standing meditation 4:08
Moulin de Chaves The Mind Writes, the Heart Sings
2025-10-20 Walking meditation 9:24
Moulin de Chaves The Mind Writes, the Heart Sings
2025-10-20 Introduction - Mind writes and heart sings 54:11
Moulin de Chaves The Mind Writes, the Heart Sings
2025-10-06 A steady plane in a see-saw world 44:09
Within the world of praise and blame gain and loss, one’s balance grows. This plane of accomplishment neither binds to, nor rejects social and personal systems and customs, but uses them with kindness and integrity. As the heart sustains this, layers of one’s unconscious grasping are revealed and released.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa
2025-10-05 Goodwill is food for the heart 45:15
When handled contemplatively, the energy of goodwill feeds, repairs and strengthens the heart. It can govern our speech and convert our mental attitudes from those of the competitive world. It can also be taken in to clear the residues that these worldly habits have established; anxiety, performance drive and self-criticism.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa
2025-10-04 Extinguishing, cooling, release 49:40
Through a steady inclining towards release from personal habits, the root clinging of 'me' is exposed. Training challenges this, and with dispassionate perseverance, there can be a surprising release from the 'me bag'.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

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