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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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2014-08-31 12 Guided Meditation: Everything Happens within Awareness 4:58
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First inclination is towards that which is for one’s well-being. Attention settles on the body and breathing. Then make a practice of disconnecting and unplugging, not getting interested in other stuff that comes through. Keep asking, what’s appropriate and helpful now?
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant
2014-08-31 11 Aimless Wandering 8:18
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Aimless wandering unplugs compulsion. So move around a moment at a time, aimlessly, following the gentle zig zag of the movement and inclination. Pause when feeling compulsive or hurried. Keep coming back into exploring this amazing here and now.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant
2014-08-31 10 Standing Meditation: There Are No Tyrannies in Space 11:07
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One feature of programs is they cause contraction. When standing, then, it’s helpful to acknowledge space as an experience. In front of you, behind and above you, let the body experience the lack of intrusion and obstruction – space is open and free. There are no tyrannies in space.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant
2014-08-31 09 An Exercise in Awareness 4:27
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On attention and awareness. Attention locates an object, and what we give attention to gets energized. Awareness, when exercised brings opening and cooling. Unhook from attention and let awareness widen and soften. Take in the feel and energy of the subtler qualities of what arises. Not excluding anything, just not hooking onto anything.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant
2014-08-31 08 Guided Meditation: Internal Happiness 30:09
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Meditation offers the opportunity to encourage the body to open into a more steady state of pleasure than is normally attainable through sense contact. This internal happiness has to do with the body’s subtle energy. Guidance is given to sense the subtle body and experience this internal happiness.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant
2014-08-30 07 Steep Yourself in the Good 49:12
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When we experience hostility and ill will, rather than simply acknowledging it, we stick it into ourselves, and begin to assume we’re unwelcome or unworthy. We can use meditation to change the flavor of the heart, steeping it in the qualities of the brahmavihara (goodwill, compassion, gladness, equanimity).
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant
2014-08-30 06 Empathy Unseats the Tyrant Programs 42:56
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Seeking comfort, both physical and psychological, we’ve developed programs to avoid and deflect the experience of irritation. But these are tyrant programs. They can be cleared through the willingness to open and feel without compulsive actions and reactions.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant
2014-08-30 05 Walking Meditation: Coming Out of Stuck States 38:53
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In walking meditation, mental patterns are bound to well up. If you don’t go into decisive action around them, they will fade. Give attention instead to the fluidity of the body while walking. Let things work themselves out; it’s not up to us to claim or reject. Come back to the here of breathing and body; realizations occur in that process.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant
2014-08-30 04 Freeing Ourselves Up to Feel 46:54
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We fall for the tyranny of institutionalized systems and fixed structures because they promise stability and certainty. But there is no empathy in such tyranny. Embodied presence enables empathy. Our own bodies provide the stability we need to be with our mental stuff without reacting. Thus our capacity to be human increases.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant
2014-08-30 03 Activation, Action and Empathy 27:29
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Activation is followed by feeling and action (kamma). The general advice is to give attention to “how I’m feeling” rather than “what I’m going to do about it”. This is a relational approach: not to try to feel a certain kind of feeling, but just know how I’m feeling, how I’m being affected. Empathy is being with the feeling without being triggered, and reactive. This is the practice of kindness, compassion and equanimity – at the most long-term level.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

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