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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.
2018-06-25 01 Heart Offerings 33:36
The occasion for retreat gives opportunity to establish a field of integrity and make heart offerings by taking precepts, chanting, making offerings to the shrine, and bowing.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-04-30 Closing Comments 11:36
It’s natural for us to step out of our daily scenarios from time to time and take a break from suffering. Ask: “What’s most important now?” Find the hidden grooves that move towards destinations that don’t exist – permanence, sustained agreeable feeling, being in control – and establish ground in embodied awareness instead.
London Insight Meditation Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-30 A suggested exercise 4:41
Watching a tree or a bush for 30 minutes notice how the object forming tendencies start to wear out and the experience is of something …. unnamed.
London Insight Meditation Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-30 Refining One’s Ability to Notice 35:02
It’s possible for citta to review the 5 aggregates, not be stuck in them. Practice with sustaining a quality of awareness that’s open and receptive to shifting and changing. This awareness can be applied to your world.
London Insight Meditation Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-29 The Experience of Consciousness (with 15 min standing) 26:50
Exploring the experience of consciousness and noting what occurs – through the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind. Includes 15 min standing meditation.
London Insight Meditation Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-29 Elements of a Meditation Model 47:52
Distinguishing dukkha as a characteristic and dukkha as a Noble Truth. Relax – nothing is under control. Acknowledging this is the start of a reset. Rather than meeting experience with pre-formed strategies, pause, expand awareness, and meet experience without jumping to conclusions.
London Insight Meditation Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-29 Settling in (with 30 min silence) 24:45
Opening guidance - As we settle in and incline away from sense contact, our internal experience may seem chaotic. Stability comes from a relationship to this volatile, mundane, unglamorous stuff – one that accepts what arises without rejecting, adopting or adding to it. This relationship is what generates awakened intelligence – the wisdom of “It’s like this now.”
London Insight Meditation Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-29 Walking Meditation (30 min silence) 42:34
Walking meditation can counter the conditioning of the business model. Walking with nowhere to go, broadening attention to include the whole body, to feel the fluidity and pleasure of bodily ease. [Instructions end 11:28]
London Insight Meditation Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-29 Standing Meditation 27:26
From an upright, grounded posture, move from the world of sense consciousness into subjectivity of ‘being conscious’. Meet uncomfortable energies with sympathy and support. [22:43] Transition into movement: Re-enter the world of the physical body – an expression of natural intelligence, integrating it into the sense of the world from the inside out.
London Insight Meditation Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-28 Moving to a meditation model 39:06
We practice to come out of the stress and suffering of our workaday ‘Business Model’ by dismantling expectations of comfort and convenience, and of things being reliable. The wise attention that realizes that is itself stable and at ease.
London Insight Meditation Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality

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