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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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2023-04-09 Puja for lifting the heart 13:20
The poetic nature of puja allows one to enter, touch the mind and know it directly.
Vimutti Buddhist Monestary :  Vimutti Retreat
2023-04-08 Q&A 48:38
00:08 1. The word restraint brings up a lot of aversion in me. I feel as if it's an imposition on me. It is asking me to give up a known pleasure that can be felt now, or soon, for an unknown pleasure on the path that I may get to experience. It just doesn't add up. How do you see restraint? 06:33 2. You said something about how right views and virtue put the body and the mind in position that leads to right concentration and insight. I think I missed some steps. Can you clarify please? 15:24 3. I'm a bit of a perfectionist and struggle with doubt from time to time what is the nature of doubt? How can I work with it? 22:50 4. Questions about energy: a) You spoke about energy and awareness being open as opposed to closed. I have a hard time visualizing this as energy and awareness are all contained within the body. b) What's the relationship between steadiness in the flow of energy in the body and mind? c) How to turn to qualities in the bodies such as steadiness that support these same qualities in the citta? 37:56 5. What is it to be receptive? It seems receptivity also includes a skillful way of evaluating things too. Perhaps the other end of receptivity is being a doormat? 43:04 6. In walking meditation I'm learning to trust my feet to lead me to adapt to uneven terrain. However my left side gets tense. I find a reluctance to be at ease. 46:58 7. Regarding the subjects for frequent recollection, could you elaborate on the idea that the wise could find fault with my conduct.
Vimutti Buddhist Monestary :  Vimutti Retreat
2023-04-08 Walking meditation- how does a body walk? 4:52
Vimutti Buddhist Monestary :  Vimutti Retreat
2023-04-08 Right View on Meditation 27:03
When virtue is straight one’s view is straight, you establish mindfulness, realizing that what you do, think and say has significance. Exercising attention, awareness and intention, we develop a sense of embodiment, stabilizing attention on it.
Vimutti Buddhist Monestary :  Vimutti Retreat
2023-04-08 Guided meditation - Awareness and attention 13:24
Vimutti Buddhist Monestary :  Vimutti Retreat
2023-04-07 Guided standing and sitting meditation 47:09
Sitting starts at 19:40
Vimutti Buddhist Monestary :  Vimutti Retreat
2023-04-07 Precepts for happiness 16:04
Precepts are a vehicle for happiness and comfort for the heart – supporting that which can be liberated.
Vimutti Buddhist Monestary :  Vimutti Retreat
2023-03-23 Awareness and inquiry 27:47
Using a retreat for internal strengthening / cleaning, starts with an inventory of where we are and what's happening. It's a deep caring for oneself and one's experience. (Offered at ATBA.)
Vimutti Buddhist Monestary
2023-03-12 Learning from subtle body experience 30:05
The subtle body or energy body is a layer of experience we can explore. It's not esoteric, it's a normal part of life we can learn from. (Recorded during Ajahn's New Zealand trip)
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
2023-03-12 GM 19:36
Recorded during Ajahn's New Zealand trip
Cittaviveka 2023 Online Dhamma Streams
2023-03-11 Spiritual Intelligence 31:46
The open state is unrushed, receptive to all the six senses. It receives them with a basic intelligence that stays intact and responds.
Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand
2023-03-11 Q&A at Kihikihi Meditation Center 58:52
00:18 Q1 When experiencing feelings and emotions is it part of the practice just to experience the suffering?07:59 Q2 When dealing with powerful emotions, is the foundation that you speak of built from continuous practice, being real? 17:15 Q3 If self enquiry is to bring us to a place of open heatedness, why do we carry these stories with us? How has that come about, that is has become so important to us? 33:43 Q4 Do you think that as you go on the path that you can experience suffering more? Because you are more aware of it? 46:34 Q5 How do you develop the level of understanding and insight that you have? 52:36 Q6 How can we find the balance between intentionally cultivating skillful qualities and accepting or allowing them to emerge?
Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand
2023-03-05 Get on the right track 54:44
In taking refuge we seek an environment where we feel we can find ourselves, be safe and grow. How can we operate in or even transform our relationship to the toxicity of the world?
Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand
2023-03-01 The Way of Balance 35:18
We discover a sense of purpose in considering the notion of path. But the path does not lead to a place, it is the end of places.
Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand
2023-02-12 Q&A 39:38
From New Zealand - 02:19 Q1 What is the difference between heedfulness and mindfulness? 10:24 Q2 I often hear the words: “Your dukka is not personal”. There seems so much behind this but it seems this does not heal the situation in the moment. What can you say about this please? 22:37 Q3 I have a chronic illness which comes on suddenly and affects many parts of my body. I carry a lot of fear about getting sick. It affects my breathing. Can I use something other than the breath in calming myself? 27:10 Q4 I’d like a better understanding of papancha / proliferation please. 33:39 Q5 Sometimes I feel unsure of how to go about connecting with others. How can I get my social needs met without being demanding on others?
Cittaviveka 2023 Dhamma Talks
2023-02-12 Guided Meditation 18:03
From New Zealand
Cittaviveka 2023 Online Dhamma Streams
2023-02-10 Forgiveness 45:50
Balancing effort and purifying kamma. Learn to be with what is uncomfortable, including personal mistakes. Cultivating the noble heart requires forgiveness. (at ATBA in Auckland)
Vimutti Buddhist Monestary
2023-01-16 Ajahn Chah's Dhamma Culture 60:10
How to stay at ease in the world as it is.
Cittaviveka 2023 Dhamma Talks
2023-01-15 Body, heart and awareness 26:06
How do we get to what the Buddha called, the end of the world? Ajahn points to a practice of exploring the internal / subtle body and its relationship to mental serenity.
Cittaviveka 2023 Online Dhamma Streams
2023-01-15 Guided Meditation - Aspects of Puja 23:07
Cittaviveka 2023 Online Dhamma Streams
2023-01-13 Follow the Feeling: the Open Road 50:43
Practice is a matter of carefully noticing and moderating feeling.
Cittaviveka 2023 Dhamma Talks
2023-01-12 Through tedium to liberation 47:30
Persistent mindfulness through changing conditions reveals portals to liberation: Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta.
Cittaviveka 2023 Dhamma Talks
2023-01-11 Skilful deactivation 55:32
How to withdraw energy from the mind - and why.
Cittaviveka 2023 Dhamma Talks
2023-01-10 The world hangs on 52:06
...(And is released from) three threads.
Cittaviveka 2023 Dhamma Talks
2023-01-09 Watch for this sign 57:35
How to steadily warm rather than get fried.
Cittaviveka 2023 Dhamma Talks

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