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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.
2023-12-10 Q&A 49:03
00:00 Q1 When we're doing sitting meditation are we to be mindful of feelings inside the whole body as we breathe in and out? When anybody sensations or pain arises are we to contemplate them with loving kindness? 10:55 Q2 Is it okay to use the mantra Bhudo for sitting meditation? 11:58 Q3 Are there different realities of truth? For example historical, scientific, personal? Ultimate reality? Everything is what it should be, no good no bad. 17:07 Q4 How can the dhamma help two people in a relationship resolve an indiscretion of the moral code? How does the dhamma guide one to accept responsibility for actions that harm another? 20:23 Q5 Citta - is it a harmony between the brain and the heart? Does it include all levels of consciousness? 31:36 Q6 At the point of death what do we do when we're overwhelmed with pain? If the mind is too weak to maintain equanimity? What happens if one dies totally consumed by pain? 41:09 Q7 Could QiGong help me to be more balanced in body and mind?
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  Finding Your True Ground - Awareness as a Refuge
2023-12-10 Guided Sitting Meditation 16:42
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  Finding Your True Ground - Awareness as a Refuge
2023-12-09 The main theme of breath meditation 54:49
Description pending
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  Finding Your True Ground - Awareness as a Refuge
2023-12-09 The nature of mind 57:18
On retreat we experience the mental restlessness resulting from sense restraint. “Stopping my mind” is not an effective strategy to handle it. Instead, look for a place of harmony with what the mind is doing. Some standing meditation at the end
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  Finding Your True Ground - Awareness as a Refuge
2023-12-09 Standing Instructions 16:43
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  Finding Your True Ground - Awareness as a Refuge
2023-12-08 Some chanting basics 21:40
Bringing up a sound through the body, we listen and harmonize with others. The citta seeks that harmony to feel comfortable in its environment.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  Finding Your True Ground - Awareness as a Refuge
2023-12-01 Q&A 50:36
Questions are précised: 00:10 Q1 Can you clarify the analogy of dhammas you gave using the orange. 07:16 Q2 Can you speak more about the desires tanha and chanda? 21:46 Q3 Regarding breath meditation, should one focus on breathing sensations rather than the subtle body? 27:51 Q4 When the mind becomes unified, do I stay and let go of the breathing as the mind unifies, or should I watch the breathing in the background? 32:46 Q5 Sometimes I reach an awareness that feels so alien that I pull back. 34:09 Q6 How does one forgive oneself and handle regrets? 42:14 Q6 When helping others how do we decide when to stop helping? 44:24 Q7 How can we handle feeling inferior? What leads to the sense of unworthiness? 49:34 Q8 My body has pain in every position and it’s hard to meditate. What can you suggest?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Training for Life
2023-11-30 Q&A 45:01
Questions are précised: 00:00 Q1 Can you please distinguish between citta anupassana and dhamma anupassana. Which frame of reference should one apply to such contemplation? 28:43 Q2 During mindfulness of breathing, I find vichara (sensing and evaluating) to be an issue. How can I strengthen vichara? 35:47 Q3 I am a project manager, and there is a lot of planning and decision making. Is this a sankara? How to do so wisely and skillfully?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Training for Life
2023-11-28 Q&A 47:06
Questions are précised - 00:22 Q1 How to practice mindfulness of death? 16:27 Q2 We take in the world through the five senses. If we do not hear or see any news does that mean things, like the war in Gaza, are not really happening? 28:07 Q3 How do we know whether a kalyanamitta (spiritual friend) is trustworthy? 29:44 Q4 I get tension and constrictions in the chest and other places. I often get frustrated with this. Perhaps I am too preoccupied with it? 37:23 Q5 I am eager to understand imbalances – like jealousy and comparison - and to break through them quickly. What is your advice? 44:01 Q6 How can one influence or talk to other people about other views, like politics for example?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Training for Life
2023-11-27 Managing feeling and sankhara 53:16
Vedana/ feeling is a primary source of intelligence, where things first impact. By knowing what penetrates and moves you, you can understand the mainspring of motivations and reflexes.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Training for Life
2023-11-26 Q&A 66:30
00:13 Q1 Sense restraint and diligence in daily life: I'm motivated to practice when there's suffering, when life is fine I slacken off and indulge in sense pleasures. Please advise. 28: 14 Q2 Questions on sleepiness: How to deal with sleepiness on waking up in the morning? I take a lot of caffeine to avoid sleepiness. Is there an alternative? How can I be mindful all the time? 40:46 Q3 When I sit the body collapses and the energy required to straighten the body makes it hard to feel relax. Any advice? 44:44 Q4 I have a compulsive need to feel liked and even try and force people to like me. What can I do? 52:55 Q5 Nama rupa vinayana (name form and consciousness). Can you explain more about this please?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Training for Life
2023-11-26 Feeling 53:46
The teachings reiterate cultivating the knowing of contact – that Is, what is felt internally, externally and as the internal and external worlds meet.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Training for Life
2023-11-26 Puja - Path of Fulfilment 23:47
Moving into a new day, puja creates openness and sanctuary, recollecting the meaning of ‘Buddha’.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Training for Life
2023-11-25 Puja - entering the blessed 28:39
Puja/ honouring the sacred creates conditions for awakening. The group effort adds enormously, focusing on values and liberation, offering the opportunity to share an ongoing and ancient transmission.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Training for Life
2023-11-24 Training for Life 34:54
A retreat is a training for life. It’s simple but hinges on careful sustained attention on useful frames of reference. What is worth giving prolonged attention to?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Training for Life
2023-11-06 Left brain, right brain balance 48:58
Dhamma teaching is never completed because it has to be right at the right time. It points to something; it never describes or defines. This allows the mind to decompress and get free from the conditioning forces of data and the pressure to make things happen.
Cittaviveka 2023 Dhamma Talks
2023-11-05 Liberation depends on you 32:23
When the citta is out of touch with Dhamma, reactive tendencies arise and we start responding to the designating and naming that the mind creates, thereby destroying the freshness of our experience.
Cittaviveka 2023 Online Dhamma Streams
2023-11-05 GM - Moving from Reactiveness to Responsiveness 18:06
Excellent resource in the current news environment
Cittaviveka 2023 Online Dhamma Streams
2023-10-28 You're as good as you can be – right now (but things change} 53:24
On retreat we can develop a frame of reference which becomes a reliable way of filtering – not controlling – experience. Retreat structure, silence and participation are key ingredients.
Cittaviveka Replenish and release: servicing the heart
2023-10-27 Beyond personality into empathy 48:47
Steady the citta by replenishing it with good food. These include the fruits of friendliness, goodwill, ethical sensitivity, stability, and a steady resolve. These become a drip feed.
Cittaviveka Replenish and release: servicing the heart
2023-10-26 Signs and the signless 46:32
Signs / nimittas are significant. Ajahn examines what is meant by these words.
Cittaviveka Replenish and release: servicing the heart
2023-10-24 Integrity as a basis for mindfulness 53:41
With integrity as a basis for mindfulness, we can go beyond calming down in sports, the office or even the army. Through meditation we see there is something deeper in the heart that needs to be unpacked.
Cittaviveka Replenish and release: servicing the heart
2023-10-23 The effort to check proliferation 49:32
Effort: taking an overview, we can recognize the first effort is to generate right view, to note the conditionalities in which we find ourselves. We see which ones lead to stress, and which allow it to cease.
Cittaviveka Replenish and release: servicing the heart
2023-10-23 The temple of release 49:10
We use retreat to learn how to soften and loosen the worldly ways of stimulation and action, and to enter the space and silence of our temple.
Cittaviveka Replenish and release: servicing the heart
2023-10-22 GM - Replenishing energy and resetting attitude 63:32
Teachings from the last week of the vassa. Description pending.
Cittaviveka 2023 Dhamma Talks

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