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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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2022-11-20 Suffusion With the Divine Abidings 9:54
Includes a 6 min introduction of its significance. A video version is available here: https://youtu.be/GkFvLoQhB8g
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Mapping the Territory: New Light on the Satipatthana
2022-11-20 Understanding puja 21:08
Puja is a form of praising and honouring. It is the nimitta of the citta, flavoured with a sense of lineage and gratitude.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Mapping the Territory: New Light on the Satipatthana
2022-11-19 Q&A 55:14
00:00 Can you speak more about compassion / karuna?; 05:06 How does equanimity support compassion?; 15:32 Is there such a thing as displaced compassion?; 22:26 Please say more about walking meditation and the breath; 23:36 Please speak more about the internal process of sila and dana; 39:40 What is the role of kamma in the interplay of right view and right intention? 48:34 Are nimittas important?
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Mapping the Territory: New Light on the Satipatthana
2022-11-19 The heart is a circle 43:15
As a metaphor, a circle provides a necessary sense of coherence and boundary where you can enter and establish an abiding place for practice in all body postures.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Mapping the Territory: New Light on the Satipatthana
2022-11-19 Significance of puja 12:15
Puja and retreat structure allow energy to settle, be contained and the heart can bring forth what is meaningful in the present moment. Lingering there, sati allows access to the power of the heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Mapping the Territory: New Light on the Satipatthana
2022-11-18 Ignorance 25:15
Our ignorance of citta's nature allows craving for objects to arise, diverting the citta towards sense objects, rather than finding and resting in itself. Awareness is key to noticing and understanding this.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Mapping the Territory: New Light on the Satipatthana
2022-11-18 Entering the field of skills and virtues 54:09
Skilful use of fields – of precepts, skills, virtues, relaxing the sense of self and releasing the citta from it.
Cittaviveka 2022 Online Teaching
2022-11-18 GM – Standing 22:34
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Mapping the Territory: New Light on the Satipatthana
2022-11-17 Entering into and resonating with dhamma 51:01
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Mapping the Territory: New Light on the Satipatthana
2022-11-17 Kalyana – the tone of the Dhamma 54:56
In a collaborative practice with others, we relax our individualities. It sets the view, tone and energy through which we can understand and purify our own kamma.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Mapping the Territory: New Light on the Satipatthana
2022-11-16 GM - Inner and Outer Body 30:28
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Mapping the Territory: New Light on the Satipatthana
2022-11-16 Fulfil Ethical Sense and Aspiration 39:09
Training precepts provide ancient themes for spiritual development, establishing boundaries of restraint. They are guardians of the world creating happiness for yourself and others.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Mapping the Territory: New Light on the Satipatthana
2022-11-01 A heartfelt frame of reference 40:13
Offering presence, offering support to our gathering includes both hard work and joyful activities. We preserve skilful states of mind by remembering the big picture - supporting an oasis of trust, peace and virtue.
Cittaviveka CBM 2022 Talks
2022-10-21 Explanation of Refuges and Precepts 11:45
Refuge is refuge in balance and harmony, what we have in common, rather than the individual. The precepts are a voluntary taking on of training rules for mindfulness.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-21 Closing Talk - Mindfulness of Ethical Sensitivity 56:56
Recollecting, stabilizing and spreading awareness over ethical sensitivity allows action in stillness and stillness in action. Thinking is just the breath of the brain, arising and passing. Pausing to find the still point.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-20 GM - Brahma Vihara is Meeting what Arises 10:17
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-20 Q & A 66:53
Q1 OO:04 Does kamma in its wider implication presume the concept of rebirth? Q2 17:09 Doesn’t the need for goal orientedness in life work against practice? Q3 21:34 During meditation can I approach a personal issue that requires attention? Q4 26:17 Is it possible to be fully present with an open heart? Could you explain that please? Q5 29:35 Does slow mean mindful? Isn’t it intention that’s important? Q6 33:58 Could you talk more about annata and self please? Q7 20:14 Q8 Why does standing meditation seem more effective than sitting? Is there a time or situation where standing is recommended over other postures? Q9 43:58 How can I give back living more than I take living in Switzerland? Q10 45:22 In developing samadhi, is it possible to have periods where we have to refocus more on bodily sensations and drop the external? Q11 48:19 How can we reflect on God and Christ in dhamma practice? Q12 51:09 Restlessness is my most frequent hindrance. How do I deal with it? Q13 52:19 I contemplate death daily and often get a heavy heart about being separated from my two children. How can I come to peace with that? Q14 57:38 Could you do a brief summary of your top five wisdoms? Q15 1:03:52 If QiGong is so relaxing and low energy why do I sweat?
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-20 Bearing Presence in Relationship to Self 63:42
Practice means moving out and returning repeatedly, discovering the end of the world – our kammic predicament - that must be experienced internally, “in this very body”.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-19 Right View - Motivation Strengthens the Heart 60:19
Recognizing the primary importance of the internal domain is essential for right view. Unlike other species we can cultivate love and wisdom, to benefit all creatures coming after us.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-19 Meditation on Mindful Awareness of Breathing 50:55
Meditation instructions are often interpreted as paying pointed attention. But wide attention allows energy and mind to decompress. Cultivating a cool awareness of the body is the key to this.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-18 GM - Brahma Viharas 20:06
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-18 Q & A 1:12:27
Q1 00:12 Can you say more about stream entry. What is it? Q2 19:26 Are open awareness and presence the same? Is citta who we essentially are? Q3 22:39 I find staying with the breath difficult and more conducive to sleepiness than to gratefulness. What can I do? Q4 26:59 I fight sloth and torpor that seems to be due to self inflicted isolation. Q5 31:10 Can you say more about QiGong? Why do you do this rather than yoga asanas? Q6 36:37 What is the optimal time of day to practice? Q7 38:04 A 74 year old relative is developing dementia and Altzheimers. What is happening to the mind here? Could a practice be developed in this case? Q8 46:01 How do we meet feelings of fear? Or unwanted sexual attention? Q9 47:46 How can I meet the pain caused by my father who died when I was nine? I’d like to forgive him. Q10 51:08 Can you speak more about relational field and the experience of being a human among human beings? Q11 1:04:10 What is the difference between sankara and latent tendencies?
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-18 GM - Walking Suggestions 2:55
Get a sense of this skin bag moving through space. Where do the internal and external meet? How does the body organize itself as it moves?
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-18 Meeting - Test of Actualization 57:25
Learning to meet experiences we like and don't like. What meets? Cultivating space for the meetings provides understanding of our cravings and the arising of faith in our dhamma potential.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-17 Entering Non-Event 52:08
We need tools to travel in the internal body- mind domain. Developing mindfulness allows us to witness the settling and the arising of samadhi, noticing the non-events in between the events.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life

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