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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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2022-10-17 Heart-Body-Mental Energies-Purifying-Merging 61:53
The ever-changing nature of experience is fundamental to Buddhist understanding. Learning how to directly apprehend these dynamic energies reveals the deathless.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-16 Q & A 1:11:30
01:25 Can you clarify what you said about agitation over sound and shifting it to get to the displeasure. How do you dissolve the person who is angry?; 18:54 I experience a lot of pain and have a hard time relaxing in daily life; 23:16 I have a hard time softening my eyes in daily busy life; 26:28 What is the difference between citta, mind and consciousness? What moves between life and life?; 38:37 What is pure awareness?; 40:22 Regarding energy, can you say more about how to handle physical blockages and constrictions in the body? What is the place of energy management? Is that on the path to wisdom?; 50:26 I feel trapped in my head. I can’t feel the breathing; 51:34 Restraint of the senses; 54:03 How can I handle deliberate aggression towards me?; 56:37 What’s the difference between citta and dhamma?; 57:50 What is jhana?;
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-16 Reflection on Sangha as Path Enterers 10:11
The Pali description of Sangha as 'those who enter' provides a useful template for practice.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-15 Retreat as a Container for Feeling 52:25
We are vulnerable to the feelings of the memories of our experience. Developing an awareness of the pitfalls of self view, liking and disliking, provides an alternative container for experience.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-15 Empathy and Meeting Negativity - Citta Creates the Self and the World 54:05
The citta is that which is distorted, confused hurting. Identifying it as a location of the center of experience, helps us to steady and purify the citta.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-15 GM - Walking Instructions 5:22
Notice the detail of what happens when you move. Get into the quality of the cohesiveness, the synchronicity of the form.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-15 Arrows and Circles - Shaping Intention 29:52
The mind’s energies and activations may contradict each other but what unifies them is the body's energy, its life force and understanding them is key to meditation and the development of mindfulness.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-15 The Illusory Nature of Objective Reality 59:54
Our interpretation of experience is illusory and subjective. What we sense becomes fixed objects, even the human ones. Awareness allows penetration of the sense of me and offers a gift to the world.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-14 GM - Walking and Movement 3:45
Noticing the key qualities and dynamics.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-14 Understanding Recollection of Buddha Dhamma Sangha 19:33
Chanting is painting an image with sound. What do we mean by Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha? Why are they important? Using the traditional forms wisely.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-14 Settling in-Find Balance and Contentment 50:59
Adjusting to the external space, getting comfortable in yourself, find the place internally where you can be okay with what's happening externally and internally. Focus on this and make much of it, experiencing the body's energy flows.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-14 Reflections on the Heart and Silent Meditation 17:06
We use the body to help the heart open from withdrawn states. What is felt, what is sensed? Linger in that territory and keep noticing.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-14 On Food Offering 7:42
Meal time is an opportunity for mindfulness around making choices and appreciating the act of generosity involved. Physical aspects of offering and receiving.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-14 Guided Standing and Sitting 38:28
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-13 Precepts - Internalizing and highlighting values 35:57
A review of the retreat’s theme. An opportunity to bring ethical concepts, precepts, and concerns to the forefront and to understand and appreciate their heart feelings.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Love is the Breath of Life
2022-10-07 Q&A 40:18
01:32 Where can I get a print copy of your book Breathing Like a Buddha? (also PDF here: https://cdn.amaravati.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/27/Breathing-Like-a-Buddha-Web.pdf); 02:24 How can I contribute some dana to you? (also see here: https://www.cittaviveka.org/online-donations and navigate to Chithurst); 04:04 When you speak of the energy body, is that the embodied sense of self? 06:35 What did you mean when you said “The space within and without the body where mental formations form”? 11:33 Could you speak about the phrases the Buddha uses in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta? 13:12 What causes unskilful behaviour or though to arise and to stop? 20:28 How can I work for the benefit for other people without being fearful of making mistakes and hurting others? 22:42 How can I turn the mind from outside to inside with other people around? 27:51 I experience constant internal discussions, comments and judgements about past events. What do I do with this sense of self? 34:02 How do I follow Ajahn’s suggestion to make resolution and intention without getting into goal-seeking on the other hand?
Cittaviveka 2022 Online Teaching
2022-10-07 GM Quietening and investigating 14:42
Cittaviveka 2022 Online Teaching
2022-09-02 Citta internal-external in balance 28:28
Contemplating citta reveals how its external manifestations are formed – in speech and behaviours from its internal moods and feelings that overwhelm. Taking refuge internally through embodiment supports the contemplation leading to liberation.
Cittaviveka 2022 Online Teaching
2022-09-02 GM 22:26
A combined talk, examining how chanting contributes to external and internal practice, and guided meditation (at 12:15) addressing the framing of the body.
Cittaviveka 2022 Online Teaching
2022-08-12 The moderation of the middle way 38:35
Developing an awareness of mind states and their bodily feelings brings an understanding of the mental and energy bodies, a freedom from the prison of the self and a transformed “doing” energy.
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2022-08-12 GM - The gift of ground 15:31
Receiving the gift of ground to access the body and the breath
Cittaviveka 2022 Online Teaching
2022-07-15 Dhamma Streams Q&A 32:28
04:57 Q1 How to work with jealousy at others’ good fortune. 21:15 Q2 Living through old age, sickness and death is really highlighting my dread of being unreasonable and fitting in with familyWhat to do? 23:33 Q3 How can we use grief after the loss of a loved one? 27:36 Q4 Two similar questions: (a) I have experienced a loss of direction and feel no zest for living and insecurity overwhelms me. (b) Angry thoughts / emotional intensity lead to self admonishment. What can I do?
Cittaviveka 2022 Online Teaching
2022-07-15 Q&A 50:04
04:57 Q1 How to work with jealousy at others’ good fortune. 21:15 Q2 Living through old age, sickness and death is really highlighting my dread of being unreasonable and fitting in with family. What to do? 23:33 Q3 How can we use grief after the loss of a loved one? 27:36 Q4 Two similar questions: (a) I have experienced a loss of direction and feel no zest for living and insecurity overwhelms me. (b) Angry thoughts / emotional intensity lead to self admonishment. What can I do? 32:25 Q5 Can you expand your ideas about the connections between citta and cetena. 37:37 Q6 What is meant by the unconditioned? 42:56 Q7 What are the kasinas? 46:24 Q8 Can you speak about hiriottappa?
Cittaviveka 2022 Online Teaching
2022-07-03 Q&A - How to get out of your head and why 33:05
Questions are précised 00:00 Q1 When the body or place doesn’t seem like a safe place to be, how can we take refuge in the heart? 04:01 Q2 I have been experiencing a flight – fight response recently, triggered perhaps by the pandemic. Everything seems to get trapped in the brain although I have been meditating for years. It seems to be a bit of a fight. Do you have any advice please? 12:39 Q3 The pandemic mode seems to continue and these small text messages are very quick and short and I feel lost, not catching up to the mind states of others. How can we do body practices in this situation? 18:39 Q4 There is so much to worry about these days and it seems almost hopeless sometimes. My meditation helps, but how can I be more consistent with the practice please? 23:31 Q5 I’m a psychologist working with people who have experienced severe trauma. Do you have one or two suggestions as to how I can help other people to clear energies that affect the heart and body? 28:54 Q6 I have relationship issues with my sister over how she treats our mother. I have spoken rather harshly to her about this and she has stopped talking to me. How can I deal with this please?
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2022-07-03 How to get out of your head and why - An online talk requested by Buddhadasa Indapanno Archives, Bangkok 22:23
Incessant thinking is like a vehicle whose wheels have left the ground. Presence can be anchored by mindfulness of the body; this allows the heart safety from agitation and reduces addictive longing for sense stimulation.
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