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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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2018-04-30 A suggested exercise 4:41
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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2018-04-29 Settling in (with 30 min silence) 24:45
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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
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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]
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2018-04-29 Standing Meditation 27:26
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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
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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
2018-04-28 Standing Meditation 23:23
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Guided standing meditation: Spreading energy from the ground through the entire body, we set up conditions for blocked energy to release through the body. [14:30] Conclude standing form, begin gentle body movements.
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2018-04-28 The Paradigm of Practice 57:26
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The fundamental grooves that get established are expectations that we can make experience reliable, agreeable, and mine. Pursuing these makes us busy, anxious and stressed. But we can move out of them.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-28 Introduction 21:26
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Introductory guided meditation; using controlled breathing; changing the reference point to experiencing the energy body
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-03-04 The Duties of Heedfulness Q&A 33:32
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2018-03-04 The Duties of Heedfulness 50:28
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2018-03-03 Qi Gong and Anapanasati Q&A 55:03
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2018-03-03 Qi Gong and Anapanasati 51:13
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2018-03-01 Q&A Citta, samādhi, livelihood 57:46
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1. What is the difference between citta, mano and viññana; 2. Can you say more about the experience of jhana? Space not content (27:52); 3. (51:44) How can we integrate spiritual practice into worldly life (e.g. in a managerial position)
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2018-03-01 Guided meditation - Wholesome movements from the heart 16:46
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(10 m silence) Intentions move from the heart out into the world. Greed moves from the heart and reaches out; hatred moves from the heart and fights with things. We can us the brahmavihāras to cultivate wholesome movements from the heart that offer, nourish, protect and uplift. This will keep our energy clean and clear of disturbance.
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2018-03-01 An introduction to Dependent Origination 65:08
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A detailed description of each link in dependent origination with advice and encouragement for coming out of the cycle of delusion. Start by working on avijjā, ignorance. Step out of the speed and blur of conditioning that causes pressure. Once stopped, attention can shift, and something else becomes available. Release from pressure is now possible. [57:58] How do you find mental stability? Citta is what is affected. We can use the body to affect citta with signs of ground, stability and space.
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2018-02-28 Sympathetic Resonance 48:43
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That which can be liberated is citta – sometimes translated as mind, heart, awareness. The gateway to citta is feeling. “All dhammas converge on feeling.” But mental feeling is chronically suppressed or ignored because it’s inconvenient. If we enter citta appropriately we have access to that which is deeply agreeable – patience, compassion, goodwill. As a result of this sympathetic resonance, citta can be stimulated to wake up to its own potential. Citta is the only one that can liberate citta.
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2018-02-28 Accept, don't adopt - so wisdom can arise 57:12
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Accepting the presence of experience means we don’t grab onto it or resist it. Body provides a foundation to process experience rather than storing them up. As you wake up to the body’s intelligence, it gets to work. Mind’s work is to sustain appropriate attention – not adopting, not rejecting, patience and goodwill. Wisdom naturally arises.
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2018-02-28 Reflection on kamma 22:36
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There is new kamma (action), and old kamma, the results of previous actions. The process of kamma embeds particular habits and perpetuates a sense of self, setting up the model for the future, ongoing becoming. There is also the ending of this kamma process. Ajahn Sucitto describes several skilful means for such cultivation.
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2018-02-27 Q&A differentiation and discernment, tension, goodwill 46:30
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Questions are paraphrased: 1. Given the stressfulness of differentiation, is choosing what kind of meditation to practice stressful? 2. (11:30) Is the undifferentiated, the signlessness – the same as emptiness? 3. (24:02) Could you repeat what you were saying about relaxing tense muscles 4. (37:25) What does it mean to imbue the heart with loving kindness, “likewise the second, likewise the third and likewise the fourth”? What is the all encompassing world…?
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2018-02-27 Guided mindfulness of breathing 34:51
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Breathing itself trains you, you don’t train it. It trains you to be patient with it, open to it, sensitive to it, stay with it. Balance the doing and allowing, they both have their part to play.
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2018-02-27 Careful Non-differentiation 57:52
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The process of meditation is one of reducing differentiation/proliferation, the movements of the mind towards the pleasant and away from the unpleasant. The body doesn’t proliferate and so can help calm the mind.
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2018-02-26 Maturation of the liberated mind 49:16
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Reading from AN9.3, Ajahn Sucitto reviews the 5 things that lead to maturation of mind to becoming completely liberated. Receiving supportive company runs throughout. It’s not something we do but something we associate with. It involves not the active aspect of energy but the receptive aspect, so we can absorb the skilful, give it time to settle and ripen so wisdom can arise.
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2018-02-26 Standing - Rest comes through balance 24:03
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By carefully establishing connecting with the ground, and lining up the body from the feet up, one begins to sense balance. Muscles can relax. This gives rise to rest and calm.
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2018-02-26 Hold attention steady with a wide visual field 42:39
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For awareness that’s not fully awakened or grounded, there are bound to be reactions, so ideally we place our attention on simple forms that have least reactivity as possible.. Practice with a wide visual field, placing attention on the frame rather than objects within the frame.
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2018-02-26 Energy, its bondage and liberation 60:44
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All living things have energy, it’s our natural vitality, but it gets programmed to be driven, compulsive, and stressful. There is possibility of withdrawing energy from activities that cause suffering, that which we do compulsively.
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2018-02-26 Instruction - conscious attention 20:15
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Attention is a constant thing, so if you don’t place it, it will find its own place, and it will generally place itself into suffering – what could be, should be, things we can’t quite manage. Place it somewhere useful, starting with the body. This is the foundation. [10:03 instructions on breathing and breath energy] With good clear breath energy, mind can establish mindfulness. Careful attention prepares the ground so there’s something suitable to be mindful of. [20:10 begin silent sitting meditation]
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2018-02-25 Initial Instruction - devotion, posture, breathing 56:05
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Rather than getting somewhere or accumulating anything, Dhamma practice is a matter of bringing forth from ourselves in terms of presence, faith and attention. Attention is a matter of the heart, and the heart is very much supported through the body. Mindfulness of body is the frame; with suitable posture the process of breathing can flow through naturally. [40:02 Begin standing instructions]
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2018-02-25 Intro Sasanarakkha: Make your practice extensive, rather than intensive 62:12
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The essence of Buddhist practice is dealing with dukkha, unsatisfactoriness. While on retreat, observing precepts, making determinations and simplicity support our cultivation. So there’s always something you can be cultivating throughout the day. Meditation is just a support to Dhamma, Dhamma is the main thing. Cover it all. [40:36 Guided meditation] Settling practices, settling into space. Begins with feeling ground beneath, upright axis of spine, using wide visual field as a support.
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2018-02-06 Votes of thanks, anumodana and forgiveness 26:43
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Ajahn Sucitto describes the basic condition of being a monk as being in a field of dana. He expresses his appreciation. [Ends 6:53]
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2018-02-06 Summary - stewarding attention through the widening field of the inner and outer worlds 53:50
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Buddha’s last words were: All sankhāras are impermanent. Keep applying yourselves with vigilance. This closing talk offers a review of kāya-, citta- and vaci-sankhāra, and a simple 3 step process to moderate their energies: 1) Pay attention, 2) Soften, widen, 3) Include it all. These steps can be used in meditation practice as well as in interactions in the world. We will lose presence, but we don’t have to wait until the next retreat to work it out. When you notice the programs running, feel the body, come down into the feet, exhale, where am I?
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2018-02-06 Checking and moderating thought - Guided meditation 61:38
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Settling into sitting meditation, tracing posture and energy up the back and down the front, spherical breathing from abdomen. [Bell at 38:17] [Instructions at 40:27] Invitation to loosen the intensity and congestion of thought - vaci-sankhāra, that which forms thought energy. Rather than not thinking, take time to formulate what to think about and bring heart qualities into that. This is a dhamma practice.
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2018-02-05 Evening Q&A 51:42
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1. Can you please speak about dependent origination; 2.(37:20 What is a skilful way to deal with boredom at work?; 3. (35:47) Question on body meditation; 4. (44:53) Could you talk about death?
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2018-02-05 Evening instructions - letting mindfulness clean the citta (with 35m silence) 6:13
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Before we know how we are or how we’re feeling, we have a sense of here. That’s the basis for whatever is felt and thought. Find what thoughts we are locking around, then opening, breathing - how is that? Is there acceptance of that? It doesn’t mean approving, but there is knowledge of it. This mood, this feeling, is not to be followed. Rather than opening oneself to critical mind, opening oneself through devotional gesture to awareness. This is keeping your citta clean from specks of kharma that can cause irritation and inflammations. [Instructions end 6:25]
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2018-02-05 AM - The twelve aspects of the Four Noble Truths 63:08
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An explanation of the Four Noble Truths, what keeps us from realizing them, and how to skilfully work to understand and realize each one. This is described as the rich center of the Buddha’s teachings from which everything else emanates. We are encouraged to contemplate the teachings and understand them for ourselves.
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2018-02-04 Evening Q&A 37:55
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1. How would you characterise freedom from sakkayaditthi (personality view)? 2. (18:08) I want to release self-hatred and “not good enough” patterns from an experience with a caregiver in my past that I have been carrying for 14 years. I have had metta towards the memories and the pattern has softened. I want to have metta for the caregiver. Any guidance gratefully received. 3 (32:13) Could you explain further about the body and mind connections?
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2018-02-04 AM - The movement and the mover 49:12
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What is it that moves us? In the business model, getting things done is generally what drives us. It’s not about appreciation the quality of experience, it’s about arriving at an end result. That root perception gets embedded. The nature of kamma is that the root quality of the intention will appear in the action and also appear in the result. Still the mind, and separate out mental intention from body energy. Mental intention sets up the aim, then let the body follow through with action.
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2018-02-04 Aimless walking (instruction with 30 minute silence) 3:43
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How is walking when there is nowhere particular to go and you want to know how this whole thing operates together? An encouraged skilful means is aimless walking. Frequent pauses to check energies and perceptions, come back into the feet and legs, how does it feel to be in this body now? [Instructions end 3:38]
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2018-02-04 AM - Cultivate in accordance with ‘sappaya’: what is suitable and fitting - 20m meditation 33:01
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In meditation we can be confronted with inertia or pushing hindrances. Recommendation is to use physical enactment of energy - bowing, chanting -so you’re not gliding along but rising up into the occasion. Cultivate with a sense of sappāya, that which is appropriate, comfortable, manageable. Finding a frame of reference that can support moving against hindrances with patience and opening. This must be a fundamental aim in meditation. [Instructions end 12:43]
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2018-02-03 AM - the first 3 fetters 51:45
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2018-02-02 Evening Q&A 47:22
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1. Could you say more about the citta? 2. (6:47) I believe you suggested this (the conditions for the citta to understand) is where things have to be undone. Could you explain this please? 3. (31:10) Could you talk about “the patience that crosses over”? 4. (44:00) If you know someone who is very dishonest and a Buddhist, what is the most appropriate way to interact?
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2018-02-02 AM - Container not content - a frame for emptying 40:36
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A lot of the Buddhist approach is in not doing - relaxing, softening, and relinquishing harmful and unskilful inclinations. Establish a firm foundation from which to let go. Don’t get fascinated by content, just establish the frame of reference. Everything is “yes” in terms of its existence, but “no” in terms of getting activated by it. Just acknowledging and letting go, recognizing there’s an alternative, and the energy of the activation shifts by itself and discharges.
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2018-02-01 Evening Q&A 62:18
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1. Further comments on spherical experience of the breath and the experience of the body; 2. (19:43) What is the role of metta bhavana in practice?; 3. (47:32) If the body energy and breath have settled should one proactively introduce an object or wait for an object to present itself?; 4. (48:44) Is it important to be grounded all the time? What about the arupa jhāna non-grounded states?; 5. (51:38) Could you say more about the citta?; 6. (51:53) Can you speak about stream entry and how it arises?
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2018-02-01 Knowing the aggregates needs a comfortable heart 57:05
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“What is greater, the water in the ocean or the tears shed in this faring on?” We cling to the aggregates, tearfully in search of something stable, permanent, comfortable. But it hasn’t happened. However, subjectivity - that which seeks comfort - is itself a source of comfort and stability. It’s called the citta and depends on itself - doesn’t depend on the aggregates. What needs to be undone is not the aggregate but the clinging to it. So we find a way to maintain presence with these aggregates in all their moving and changing. We use embodiment to bring a heft to awareness, to bring a sense of presence.
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2018-02-01 AM - Assessing rather than judging our practice 67:04
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The thing to assess is where the dukkha is, the stress, pressure, longing. Find your refuge place. First attend to where your strengths are, where your ease, humour and resources are, and be nourished there. Don’t let yourself get pulled into your struggle until you’re ready for it. Aspiration, recollection and assessment are necessary prologues to direct application. [Instructions end 23:55] [Begins again 59:15] Sensing how it feels to come back into the group form after a period of individual practice. Sharing blessings and receiving them.
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2018-01-31 Evening Q&A 49:26
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1. Is aspiration (not the chanda type) the same as becoming? How can we not make aspiration into bhava tanha (craving for becoming); 2. (12:30) How do we have skillful mindfulness or more effective awareness of sensations? I find my mindfulness is rather superficial; 3. (18:25) How can we abstain from killing living creatures when doing daily duties? For example finding ants in what needs to be swept in the kitchen; 4. (25:22) Is it possible to be aware and work fast at the same time - like in the kitchen? 5. (43:10) Please talk about spiritual by-pass and how to avoid it, especially as it relates to the idea of not self.
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2018-01-31 AM - Sati sampajañña A hold that knows how to flex 43:21
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In meditation practice we need to moderate the meditator. Influenced by the business model, attention can be rigid. Wisdom, which we all have access to, is sensitive and flexible in its mode of attention, helping us find the right touch to meet experience.
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2018-01-31 Guided Meditation - Saying Yes to what arises 5:16
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Use the word “yes” to meet whatever is occurring. Without agitation or resistance, without results or trying to change anything. A reference point begins to form, there’s willingness and openness that has its own stature. Use sympathetic resonance with whatever arises.
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2018-01-30 Evening 30 min Meditation - Mindfulness and full knowing 43:56
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Sati-sampajañña, mindfulness and full knowing, are the basis of mindfulness. These are the holding and handling in meditation. Sati is the foundation for samadhi (unification), sampajañña is the foundation for pañña (wisdom). Sense of ground is generally the necessary starting point. [Instructions end 9:52]
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2018-01-30 Evening Q&A 57:52
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1. I am not able to get the breath at the nostrils. What should I do?; 2 (19:20) Could you discuss body energy more?; 3. (46:17) How can I deal with my many mental proliferations in mindful daily life, in interacting with the surrounding environment and other people? 4. (53:54) Have you been introduced to tantric Theravada practice? 5. (57:05) Is it useful to develop psychic skills?
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2018-01-30 Evening Meditation - A caring inquiry: what is helpful, now? 9:54
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Consider what is useful to focus on for this meditation period. What is a suitable meal for citta to dine on? What gives a natural sense of vitality? What gives a sense of good heart? [Instructions end 9:52]
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2018-01-30 AM - The natural source of good will is awareness 48:25
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We struggle against the uncertainty and unsatisfactoriness of the phenomenal world. Wisdom lets us know: I can be aware of all of this rather than resist it - I can pause, reflect and determine an appropriate response. As awareness arises the response (not a reaction) is goodwill.
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2018-01-30 AM - Working Directly with the citta 22:07
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Puja means to praise or offer the heart to that which is worthy. It’s a going forth of citta from the habits. Citta is not in the head, it’s not a thought. It’s much more direct. Citta gets obscured, but we can clear this by staying with awareness, breathing through blocks, and sustaining the bodily presence. The body gives awareness a foundation; an open heart gives awareness the willingness to be with this process.
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2018-01-29 Evening Q&A 44:55
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1. Is this a vipassana retreat? 2. (12:15) How to train mind to have energy to overcome mental dullness?
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2018-01-29 Evening Talk - A brief guideline on grounding presence 44:17
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Find your anchor, that core quality of stability. What is suggested is a spinal, upright sense that goes down into the ground. Take your stand there to repel the forces of Mara. [Instructions end 7:09]
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2018-01-29 PM - Entering the bodily field 35:35
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Body can be experienced in multiple ways - physical, perceptual, somatic, and energetic. In this light, body is an experience rather than a thing. It plays out in meditation. It’s important to establish a more accurate body, clear of perceptual taints and distortions, biases and kammic impositions.
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2018-01-29 AM - Detox - clearing the ‘Business Model’ 52:52
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Conditioning of the business model - performance, achievement, self-criticism - drives us up into our head. Purification of the unskilful, of self-hood, is possible. It’s accomplished through awareness and energy. Balancing yin (receptive) and yang (driving) energies in the body resets our system, easing the compulsive self that has been formed personally and energetically.
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2018-01-29 AM - Puja - Dhamma as collective presence and resolve 20:33
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Puja invites the total participation of body, voice and mind. It allows a group to come together in harmony. It invites skilful recollections of wholesome qualities. Before the familiar “me” energy takes over, puja helps set up a different context of presence, one that is purifying, steadying and clearing.
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2018-01-28 Evening - Opening talk - The foundation retreat - cultivation of Dhamma 45:47
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Laying the groundwork for retreat, yogis are encouraged to stay in touch with qualities of mindfulness, persistence and right energy. Such steady practice fortifies the citta, rather than the thinking mind, as the source of stability in an inherently unstable world. 30:35 Guided Meditation: Guidance for getting grounded, establishing safety in the space around, making the space you’re sitting in your refuge.
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2018-01-28 Morning Public Talk - Q&A 36:12
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1. Can a stream enterer lose contact with the Dhamma? 2. (1:47) Can non-Buddhists become stream enterers? 3. (12:12) Should we observe defilements or cultivate wisdom to get rid of them? 4. (21:17) Should we as lay people work to get rid of mental dukkha? 5. (26:04) What is the difference between causes and conditions? 6. (29:09) How do we know “what’s needed now”?
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2018-01-28 Morning Public Talk - Careful attention arrests dukkha 43:59
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The world pulls us out with the promise of security in external things, but there’s only one place suffering stops. It’s in the release of mental activations. Using careful attention, yoniso manasikāra, we meet the causes and conditions of dukkha by noticing how we’re being affected by the world. This is how we can be free from the world while living in the world.
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2017-12-31 Closing Ceremony - Parting Words and Sharing of Merit 15:14
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After retreat we return to a world of duties and responsibilities. Don’t forget your duty to the Buddha who gave us Dhamma, the way out of suffering. Integrate your life in terms of the 8-fold path. Give particular attention to speech. Pause and consider, place something carefully with a mind of goodwill for someone else to hear.
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2017-12-31 Closing Ceremony - Asking Forgiveness 7:46
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2017-12-31 Morning Chanting (English) 11:15
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2017-12-30 Evening Talk - Taking the Practice Home 33:28
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As retreat comes to an end, consider the cooperative boundaries that allow Dhamma to flourish. Establish reasonable boundaries related to behavior, moral integrity, restraint. Remember that bhāvanā is more than meditation, cultivate throughout the day. Restore the source of energy, know its boundaries.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-30 Morning - Wisdom Covers It All 47:43
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Wisdom makes life more manageable, more fun. We can find how we’re generating stress by knowing feeling: “all dhammas converge on feeling.” Trace activations to their roots, identify the feeling, widen to the place where it isn’t. There is a wider domain to feeling, an end to experiencing feeling, both pleasant and unpleasant.
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2017-12-29 Evening Talk: Wisdom of release 17:15
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The 10 Fold Path has to do with the development of release. Sometimes we don’t want things to arise, but they can’t be released otherwise. This is a piece of your kamma, the piece that has to be known, felt, opened to and carefully handled. Then it can dissolve.
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2017-12-29 Morning - Respect Brings Warmth 48:16
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Respect means allowing things to be as they are. We developing respect towards others in community and towards ourselves, our body. Practice by tuning into the subjective sense. This heart intention is naturally holistic, inclusive.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-29 Morning Puja (with 30 min meditation) 54:17
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The beauty of chanting is you feel it in your heart and body, giving words another dimension. It’s not just the abstract chattering of an isolated head that doesn’t feel what it’s talking about.
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2017-12-28 Evening Talk Bhavana 33:15
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Bhāvanā is a cultivation of heart and mind, right motivation and right view. It’s understanding the process of dhammas, not getting involved in content, knowing what’s taking me into my habits. This brings a sense of strength, groundedness and self-respect.
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2017-12-28 Morning Instructions- Unification 54:11
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Agitation is a result of favoring and opposing experience. Meditation is about bringing body, heart and mind together to meet experience without favoring or opposing. Hindrances can be cleared from this unified place.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-27 Evening Talk with Sharing and Aspirations Chant: Purification is the aim 1:10:02
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Energy is affected by intention. If we approach meditation with an intense need to calm and find a focus, we probably won’t be able to. This very aim affects our breathing and sense of ease. Make the aim about purification, letting things be how they are without getting intense about it.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-27 Standing Meditation: Awaken the body’s intelligence 25:21
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The body can self-reference. It knows when it’s in balance, what upright is, and can relax what’s not needed. When the physical form becomes comfortable, bring attention to the bodily mood. Mind can pick up tones of firm, open, confident from the body.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-27 Morning Instructions - Using the Day for Cultivation 45:42
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Formal meditation is helpful, but we need to cultivate careful attention throughout the day. Use mind skilfully to bond attention in the body. Notice the body’s own intelligence. Attention becomes less like a scientist, more like a healer – the good friend.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-27 Morning Puja - Finding and Using Our Inner Temple 20:21
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Puja gives the occasion for meaningful ritual. We can lift up and direct recollections to brighten and soothe the dull, agitated heart. That good heart becomes your refuge and guide.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-26 Morning Instructions: Awakening to Reality 49:37
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Reality is the witnessing and getting perspective on the changeability and relativity of existence. Begin to recognize kamma (causes and effects) and where it goes, and the “me” package.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-25 Revisiting Walking Instructions: Inner dialogue of the body 7:57
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The soles of the feet are incredibly sensitive, like receptors. Notice when the foot comes to the ground, the sole wakes up: this is firm, this is reliable, space around me. Walking like this is agreeable. (file edit 2023)
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
In collection: A Moving Balance
2017-12-25 The Khandha, me and Existence 60:22
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The Buddha’s teaching is aimed at liberation from suffering – the way out is through complete abandonment of clinging. Basic remedy is to pause – this is just an organic system operating, there’s nothing wrong with you. It’s not personal. Don’t follow the message of mind consciousness, follow the direct experience of the body.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-25 Standing Meditation Instruction: Feeling the body in the body 21:39
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Experience the body as a unity rather than parts.. Find balance and release tension into that steady space.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-24 Skilful Use of Puja 29:53
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Open the heart, connect to the field of practice started by the Buddha 2500 years ago. Tune in to the sense of lineage and connection. This gives rise to inspiration, faith, gratitude.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-24 Morning Puja (English) 13:08
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Ajahn leads the group chanting
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-23 Suitable Themes - Crystalizing the 1st Noble Truth 39:57
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Most of the time you might realize that you can’t meditate! This is why we have to go back to the beginning, not just once but repeatedly. Maintaining the field of awareness without getting involved with content is the beginning. Acceptance without adopting.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-23 Standing Instructions: Listening to the earth with the soles of the feet 13:02
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Listening to the earth through the soles of the feet asks attention to be more attentive, receptive.. [6:35] Walking Instructions: Notice the intention to move first. How is the body going to walk?
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-23 Nourishment and Natural Repose 59:57
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Shifting gears from the fast paced speed of the world we’re invited to take up nutriment for careful attention – yoniso manasikara – to dispel hindrances. Widening the focus of attention and mindfulness of the whole body allows mindfulness and concentration to naturally develop.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-22 Meditation Instructions: 3 languages of Dhamma – mind, heart & body 40:39
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Learn to tune into these 3 languages that are happening all the time, but we don’t hear them. Mind language (thought) overwhelms and corrupts; learn the language of the heart and body.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-22 Respect to the Shrine and 8 Precepts 13:25
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Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-22 Introduction: Orientation that takes us through birth, aging & death 21:09
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Finding true orientation often begins with disorientation from the known. We look for orientation that can take us through birth, aging and death when everything is always changing. It’s Dhamma, the unconditioned, no need to hold on. That’s the ultimate security.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-09-17 08 Relational Experience I Am 43:25
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The sense of 'the other' is always a part of our experience, it's what consciousness does. Rather than giving attention to the other, practice with recognizing what the other signifies and what it activates in me.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-17 07 Guided Meditation – Sensing the Body in Layers 40:29
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In standing posture, begin with sensing the whole form – what’s around that and what’s in that. Body can be sensed in layers, starting with a basic sense of presence to the most primary level of “I am”, the sense of being a distinct object.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-17 06 Staying in Touch with the “I” before the “Am” 52:07
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Many of us are susceptible to certain perceptual signals that communicate codes of obligation and pressure. Citta becomes secondary to these signals and we lose our sense of wholeness, balance and presence. The advice is to pause and check in with the subjective sense, the “I” before the “am”. As you come into wholeness its energies can change, and we can stop going back to our “I am” habits.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-16 05 Guided Meditation – Ground as a Reference Point 26:34
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Beginning with standing position, take time to sense the space around that is non-intrusive, safe. Strengthening from the ground up, through the arch of the foot, and sending signals down, rooting. When you do feel centered you can maintain a center – that’s the most important thing.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-16 04 Sense of Self 19:39
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The sense of orientation is a requirement, and it brings up the sense of self. It generates relationally, in response to objects, others, memories, etc. Generally that “me” sense is a set of mental impressions, not something fixed or solid. In relational context, the theme then is to maintain a sense of presence, establish primary reference, and use the body to get a feeling for that.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-16 03 Standing Meditation – Whole Presence & Balance 23:11
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Standing posture is in between sitting and walking. Standing immediately asks for whole presence and balance. These are great reference points – losing these throws us into structures of identification. [Walking instructions begin 18:37] Sustain sense of embodied presence. Notice tendencies to engage with eyes, pull with head, lose parts of the body. The whole body walks as space opens around your body.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-16 02 Guided Meditation – 3 Reference Points: Presence, Whole, Balance 29:32
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Guidance to sense into the 3 reference points, something the body knows but mind doesn’t. Amplify the sense of here-ness, lessen the sense of place and time. A here that’s always here, lessening engagement with what’s not always here. Best done in the experience of body.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-16 01 Self Is an Addition to What’s Already Here 21:36
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The fundamental unit of existence is “me” and we try to fill in this existence, “myself”, the center that orients my actions. The mind creates entities, fixed objects. In meditation we can see they’re not fixed at all, just resonances.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-07-30 18: Closing Talk – You Never Go Back, You Always Go Forward 4:27
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The time to close retreat also means time to open boundaries. Retreat ends, but your awareness doesn’t. Always move forward in a way that keeps you alive and progressing.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2017-07-30 17: Qigong Exercises 2 32:33
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Sensing space around; waterfall; standing like a tree; string puppet; separating earth and sky; standing in the ocean
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2017-07-30 16: An Embodied Truth 21:27
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Bodily feeling is an accurate read out of mental formations. It helps us detect kammic effects that arise and move us to action. Embodiment gives a way of discharging. The mind jumps over things that the body doesn’t.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

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