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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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2020-07-19 Listening Space 10:22
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Embarrassing and unwanted moods and perceptions can arise and pass through space. They don’t get stuck by the reactions of the personality. We practice to sense space around the body so that we can eventually generate space around mental content.
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2020-07-19 Handling Difficult Feeling 48:26
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The unawakened citta always reacts and tries to interpret what’s happening. Rather than interpret experience, notice the stress building up. Hover over the difficult feeling and equanimity, compassion, goodwill gradually comes in.
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2020-07-19 Reclining Meditation 5:01
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The reclining posture uses the entire length of the body to establish firmness. Open the front of the body to the space around, like a blanket of goodwill covering the body.
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2020-07-18 Q&A 41:50
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Working with feeling foggy in meditation; firmness and openness in walking meditation; relationship between emotions and bodily tension; working with doubt; releasing energy through hands, feet and head; cultivating generosity triggers constriction.
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2020-07-18 Tending to Body Energy 5:04
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Everything that affects us comes into our bodies, so a lot of stress can accumulate. Sympathize with what the body energy requires so it can come out of its pressurized jumbled state.
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2020-07-18 The Open and Unrestricted Heart 41:09
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Attention is generally driven by self-interest, to seek what is pleasant. The possibilities of what one receives are then restricted by the “self program”. Unrestricted means changing the baseline from that of the person to something impersonal that can yet be subjectively experienced – clarity, lovingkindness, letting go. Mindfulness of body acts as a platform for steady open awareness.
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2020-07-18 Walking Meditation: Come Out of the Boundary of Me 8:40
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Instructions for experiencing unrestricted awareness while walking: give attention to the flow of energy from firmness to openness. Notice the restrictions of visual and mental consciousness creeping in, and bring attention back to the rhythmic play of energy.
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2020-07-18 Guided Meditation – Coming out of the Restricted State 33:57
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Coming out of restriction requires examining stuck places with awareness. Guidance is provided to explore the experience the bodily form as it happens.
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2020-07-18 Unrestricted Awareness 37:48
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We try to maintain order in a chaotic world, but our attempts tend to constrict and isolate. Clear the obscurations and restrictions by recognizing what is really causing stress and pressure – it’s not the external conditions but what the mind is making of them.
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2020-07-12 Unravel the Web 42:29
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Our habitual tendencies and conditioning weave a web of saṃsāra that we keep running around on. But we can generate new formulations and programs to steady and calm the mind, get it fit for the work of liberation. Mindfulness of body and breathing, and brahmavihāra cultivation are recommended practices.
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2020-07-11 Open Road – Out of Pressure 38:50
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Citta doesn’t start out liberated. It has to come through ignorance, craving and grasping. We can learn from this, what is the wrong path and what is the right path. The right path gets obscured by feeling and perception. Steady the energies and stay out of the activities of mind – the right path is there, it’s an open road.
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2020-07-10 Refresh Energy through Breathing 29:24
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Refreshing and regenerating energy is a necessary part of our practice to counter tense, constricted and disconnected states. Mindfulness of breathing is a means for toning up. We can go to the energetic bases of these tendencies and clear them.
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2020-07-09 Thinking without a Thinker 34:04
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When full ground is not properly established, thinking creates the thinker. With proper ground, it’s possible to hover over the thought process and listen deeply to the underlying emotional stream. Establish ground using a simple meditation object that the mind can easily access and stabilize on.
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2020-07-08 Commitment to Lightness 38:46
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In our practice we’re looking not so much at what we want but what we want to release ourselves from – clinging. We challenge the compulsiveness of our reactions, to fight or to grab, with a commitment to lightness. We apply ourselves with deliberate, steady, lightness of touch so things can move and release.
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2020-07-07 Foundation for Meditation 43:55
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To relax the activity of the mind, awareness – citta – needs something else to stand on. We set up internal and external foundations that generate the sense of steadiness and stability. This enables us to get perspective and step back from the stream of energies and mind-states that we call ‘myself.’
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2020-07-05 Saturday Public Talk: Āsalha Puja – The Pleasure of Release 49:46
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On Āsalha Puja we commemorate the occasion when the Buddha gave his first teaching on the Four Noble Truths and the Middle Path of Practice. By cultivating this Path, the mind stops looking outside of itself – it finds pleasure in itself.
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2020-07-05 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Guided Meditation – The Content of the Mind 10:09
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Contemplating the mind, not trying to change or explain it, knowing it as just a mental state, a result of causes and conditions. If feeling pressed upon by the mind, pause and widen. Bring attention to the body. Determine the appropriate attitude for settling.
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2020-06-28 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Training in Mutuality-Based Speech Lessens Self-Centeredness 48:16
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Speech, whether internal or external, tends to reinforce and reify the sense of self. Self-awareness, rather than self-referencing, is recommended. Speech has the possibility of helping to prune, clarify, steady – it can help lead to the end of the person. Sutta references: AN4:183; M.58:12
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2020-06-28 Dhamma Stream Guided Meditation - Settling into Shared Space 13:17
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The mind becomes crowded with our thoughts, impressions, plans and worries. But what’s the bit that’s not occupied by all of that? Stability and confidence are available in that space, to meet what is arising.
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2020-06-21 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Nibbidā – Turning Away from Conditioned Consciousness 45:28
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An untrained mind has no choice, it goes straight into dukkha; the trained mind has the possibility to turn away from patterns that the mind creates. The hinge-point is nibbidā – disinterest, disenchantment – to no longer be gripped by the play of the mind. Through this, mental patterns can be acknowledged as they arise but not entered into. Through remaining with dispassionate awareness, liberation can be realized. *Sutta references - AN10:2; SN35:28
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2020-06-21 Dhamma Stream Guided Meditation: Surveying the Movements of Mind and Body 10:05
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Instructions for surveying the movements of mind and body from a wider, detached perspective. See the patterns that arise without fixating on them. Topics can then be approached from a more enlightened perspective.
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2020-06-17 Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Public Talk: Guide to Unrestricted Awareness 1:15:59
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A good teacher (Acariya) encourages and pushes the mind of the disciple away from the changeable world presented by sense-consciousness, to the more fruitful reality that’s centred on Dhamma. In this talk, the principles of this are pointed out, and as exemplified by Ajahn Chah. This talk was offered on Ajahn
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2020-06-14 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Doing the Not-Doing 43:08
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It’s the compulsiveness and repetitiveness of certain actions that creates the sense of a solid self. So we aim for the end of action, for non-doing, and linger there. Keep relaxing and widening awareness without acting. Energy is released from activations – this is the ending of kamma. *Sutta Reference: AN10:81
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2020-06-14 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Guided Meditation – Awareness Has No Boundary 11:04
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Awareness is open – it simply knows and can witness. If we can widen and broaden awareness, we don’t have to get snagged by the circumstances of our “self-package”.
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2020-06-07 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Q&A - Do Your Dharma 42:56
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Reflections given on questions about how to deal with other people, the social order based on human domination, and how to practice with sickness.
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2020-06-07 Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Online Lay Forum: Q&A on Kamma 42:41
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2020-06-07 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Guided Meditation 9:57
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Instructions for widening the reference point, and notice that everything arises within awareness. Practice being with, not in.
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2020-06-07 Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Online Lay Forum: Kamma 17:46
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Kamma – what it is, how it works, and why understanding it is crucial
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2020-06-05 Podcast: If You Won't Create Your Own Life the World Will Create It for You 1:11:33
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2020-05-31 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: The Healing Potential of the Heart 47:47
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Training involves the pause – connect to what’s happening, and use careful attention to deepen into citta. There’s more than just discomfort there – there’s healing potential if one can touch into the healthy spots. *Sutta reference Udāna 4:1
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2020-05-29 Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Uposatha Public Talk: The Foundation for Relinquishment Is Comfort 51:16
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There are many meditation techniques, but fundamental is finding where the mind will settle - what citta finds comfort in. The more energy rests in that and returns to is, energy is consolidated instead of scattered, running out to external forms. This is the principle for clarification, purification, for awakening.
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2020-05-24 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Freeing the Heart from the Whip of ‘Should Be’ 37:55
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Mind (manas) whips the heart with its interpretations of how things should be, thereby stirring up discontent and agitation. Mind can be placed in service of heart (citta) instead. Citta’s awakened response to the conditioned realm is one of empathy. Holding, soothing, steadying – there is the possibility to experience the clarity and calm of the Buddha rather than the misery that mind creates. *Sutta Nipāta: 721, Dhammapada:134, and M.18
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2020-05-17 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Make Your Mind Like Gold 37:49
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The process of purifying gold can help us understand the nature of mind. Clearing out the turbulences and impurities makes way for what is naturally pure and radiant to come forth. Freed from the hindrances, the mind is pliable, luminous, properly fit for work. *Sutta references: AN5:193; AN3:101-102; SN:46:53; AN6:85
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2020-05-10 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Spiritual Friendship As the Basis for Awakening 35:45
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We may feel more isolated than ever, but the truth is that we’re always captive in our sensory prisons. The aim is to liberate and open the heart so that qualities beyond sense consciousness can be realized. Key among the factors needed for liberation is kalyāṇamitta – spiritual friendship. *Sutta reference AN9:3
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2020-05-03 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: The Gift of Vulnerability 32:03
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It’s possible to meet suffering with an open heart. If the heart can open to grief, pain and vulnerability, a new view is possible – one beyond the cycle of birth and death. Keep the heart open to Dhamma, rooted in faith and goodwill. This is the Path to the deathless. *Sutta References: Therīgatha 6:2; Samyutta Nikaya 12:23; Samyutta Nikaya 1:10
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2020-04-26 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: The Way Out of the Flood 35:37
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Mindfulness based on body is the way out of the mind. From here I can witness feeling rather than dive into it. With wisdom we can come to prefer skillful intention rather than seeking good feeling. When intention is skillful conduct, there is no grasping at results. That feels good! And we are free to act without seeking a result, without becoming. *Sutta reference is AN10:58.
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2020-04-19 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: The Skill of Recollection 39:14
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Recollection is not just thinking about things, it’s associated with the quality of careful attention. Encourage the mind to think slowly, touch the heart and abide in wholesome qualities. In daily life we do the external, but embedded in the ground of the heart is where your basis is. *Sutta reference is AN11:11-12.
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2020-04-12 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: The End of Fear 26:17
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We look for safety and stability in a level of experience that cannot provide it, that’s the source of agitation. In meditation we practice the ability to sustain ungrasping attention around a thought, feeling, situation, and particularly unpleasant feeling. The content will constantly shift, but the relationship to them, awareness, can become the source of stability. *Sutta reference is SN2:17.
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2020-04-09 Home Movie from the Kuti: Where and How Are You Going? 35:30
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We can use this experience of lock down to address the routines and standards that support our daily becoming. The mind is pulled further and further wondering what to do, planning what's next. What to do is stop, rest in the body, maintain deep attention. Consider rituals that nuplug and cut the tide of becoming.
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2020-04-05 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Protecting Ourselves and Others 30:08
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By protecting ourselves we protect others. When we protect our own hearts from defensiveness, blame, hostility and stress, we also protect others. We train ourselves through the 4 foundations of mindfulness. *Sutta reference is SN47:19.
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2020-04-03 Home Movie from the Kuti: Dealing with Isolation 38:16
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Even in this experience of physical isolation, we’re not exactly separate – we’re always with something. Practicing with the relational sense, we meet everything as it is rather than trying to change it or fix it. From this broad state of awareness, edges and boundaries soften, and the heart connects with lovingkindness, regardless of physical proximity.
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2020-03-20 Nibbāna – The Taste of Freedom 46:09
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Is it possible that the obstructions we meet are our fiercest teachers? We encounter the places where construction is no longer possible. It’s the last place we want to go, but if we can cultivate skillful means to linger there, we can taste nibbāna in this very life.
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2020-03-16 Acknowledging the Causal Field 20:11
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Using the sound of the bell, we can notice what meanings and reactions are triggered. It all happens within awareness. We can practice tracing our reactions back to their causal roots, aware of the energies that generate compulsive and agitating feelings and activities.
Bosoord Center :  A Whole Life Path: Abiding in Stillness, Engaging with Wisdom
2020-03-16 Guided Meditation – Setting Up a Causal Loop of Goodwill 27:21
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Establish the body in upright grounded presence so other structures can be supported by this central structure. Internally, refrain from instinctual differentiations. Include everything without adding what’s not needed. Resonate goodwill through the realm of awareness.
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2020-03-14 Guided Meditation – Recollecting Buddha 31:02
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The mind needs to resonate many times with something that gives it confidence, assurance, clarity. Buddha represents that. Guidance given to recollect qualities of Buddha, feeling the effects as resonances in the body, lingering to encourage the effects to pervade.
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2020-03-07 The Touch of Empathy 34:15
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What happens when confronted with what we don’t like? Drips of ill will – blame, grudges – build up a crust. Detox is about breaking through that crust. Connecting to the bodily presence, we can touch the hurt of fear, inadequacy and desperation with empathy.
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2020-03-01 Guided Meditation: Listening with the Body 20:27
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The body and mind are not separate. Emotional resonances and residues manifest as an energetic continuum in the body. Cultivating mindfulness of body allows us to touch into this causal field. The body listens, the emotions speak. Energy can then pass through.
Bosoord Center :  A Whole Life Path: Abiding in Stillness, Engaging with Wisdom
2020-02-26 Renewal Means Refrain from Going Back 24:24
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Being comes before doing. Openness needs the protection of Refuge, not the defensiveness of ill-will. Renewal is not a case of planning or trying something new, but of stopping the re-creating of the old self. Citta then renews by itself.
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2020-02-26 Aligning to Direct Experience 11:25
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As phenomena arise, align understanding to direct experience. Clear away inferences such as time and the notion of the body. All phenomena arise within awareness. Extend awareness through breathing. Pervade the body with tonalities of goodwill rather than of ill-will or no will.
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2020-02-25 The Open Way 42:36
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This Path often leads into unknowns, disorientation, places where things don’t fit our normal ways. Meeting these places with strategies doesn’t work, but good qualities of heart leads into a quiet, joyful openness. This supports faith.
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