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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.
2024-06-25 Q&A 38:29
00:07 Q1 You use the term energy more than I have heard it used in dhamma discussions. Can you say why it is important? 10:03 Q2 Where would you place craving for stability within the three types of tanha? 16:23 Q3 You said that citta arises from name and form. Can you say more about how and why? 26:37 Q4 How do you think one might continue to cultivate citta as we age and with Alzheimers, dementia etc.? 31:18 Q5 Regarding medically assisted suicide, doesn’t it break the first precept? 36:35 Q6 What are some useful practices for going to sleep?
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance
2024-06-25 Aging out of self and into the deatlless 41:57
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance
2024-06-25 Voice and chanting guidance (4) 22:38
In this retreat Ajahn offered a series of guidance on voice production and resonant chanting.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance
2024-06-23 The four establishments of sati 48:44
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance
2024-06-22 The Tatagata is the escape from the tangles 53:42
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance
2024-06-22 Voice and chanting guidance (3) 31:11
In this retreat Ajahn offered a series of guidance on voice production and resonant chanting.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance
2024-06-21 Q&A 48:53
00:00 Ajahn’s comments about retreat. 01:44 Q1 Could you offer any practice suggestions around eating? 10:55 Q2 How does designation consciousness relate to perception? 18:02 Q3 One is aware of feelings and the teaching on dependent origination. Is it possible to slow down the craving and the clinging that ensues? 24:49 Q4 How does one stay and not jump? 27:46 Q5 Is the citta a sankara? Is the purpose of practice to calm and purify the citta, which seems away of caring for life, or to uproot it and all of the khandhas which has to me a flavour of rejecting life. 37:59 Q6 I struggle with the first noble truth. Spending time with my daughter is certainly transient and structured by I-making. Buddhism says this is dukkha and seeks to change my relationship to experience or its qualities. But to me its value is intrinsic and undeniable. 42:39 Q7 Can one attain liberation or enlightenment without the knowledge of the path leading to it? What's the relationship between knowledge and wisdom?
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance
2024-06-21 Touching the citta's formations 49:33
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance
2024-06-21 Guided voice and chanting (2) 29:10
Ajahn instructs on voice and breath issues and leads chanting of a refuge mantra.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance
2024-06-20 Q&A 46:12
00:16 Q1 I believe you said to not do concentration practices but rather to see if the breath could go deeper or have more calm. Isn't that a form of concentration? And aren't the brahma vihara a form of concentration practice? 18:26 Q2 If attention is a sankara can you suggest how one might let go of it? 29:02 Q3 Regarding the anapanadsati sutta, is it sequential? Must one follow the tetrads in order? 3818 Q4 A person relates some of their meditation experiences and asks if this is a wise reflection.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

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