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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.
2011-10-08 It All Comes Back To Awareness 39:30
Awareness is one of the fundamental properties of mind. The practice of meditation is just bearing witness to what affects mind with a quality of primary openness. Bearing with experience and, rather than referring it to reactions or views or opinions, referring it awareness.
Cittaviveka Vassa Group Retreat
2011-10-07 Mindfulness Of The Body 33:07
Mindfulness means looking more carefully. As we sustain attention on an object, we can begin to discern how we get caught and how we get free. Body as a foundation for mindfulness can mean mindfulness of breathing in and out, the elements, walking up and down, the unattractive parts, or contemplating a dead body. A review of several of these practices is given.
Cittaviveka Vassa Group Retreat
2011-10-06 Viriya - Resources And Applications 23:04
A reflection on the faculty of energy and how to apply it skillfully. Energy for investigation that leads to wisdom, energy for devotion and aspiration that uplifts the heart, energy for mindfulness of body that results in calm and insight.
Cittaviveka Vassa Group Retreat
2011-10-05 The Five Spiritual Faculties 28:32
These 5 faculties when cultivated and developed merge in the deathless. Faith, energy, concentration, mindfulness, wisdom. These are faculties we all have, but they may be poorly developed. Guidance is given for how to touch into these and strengthen them.
Cittaviveka Vassa Group Retreat
2011-10-01 Refer It To Awareness 47:18
One particular faculty of mind is ability of step back and review the noise of the mind. It’s an amazingly remedial quality, to be able to hold our doubts and difficulties in this way. You don’t get an answer, but you get a result. The deconstruction of suffering, of stress.
Cittaviveka Vassa Group Retreat
2011-09-27 1 Group Study - Samadhi and Natural Mind 62:53
Cittaviveka Five Day Study Retreat
2011-09-27 2 Closing Session 26:03
Cittaviveka Five Day Study Retreat
2011-09-26 1 Group Study - Internal and External 62:03
Cittaviveka Five Day Study Retreat
2011-09-26 2 Group Study - Satipatthana and The Cook 62:00
Cittaviveka Five Day Study Retreat
2011-09-26 3 Evening Talk - Introspective But Not Isolationist 51:29
Cittaviveka Five Day Study Retreat

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