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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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2020-10-10 Concluding Remarks – Continuity of Practice 3:39
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Where things fall apart is where the connections break, when we spin off into our distracted thinking and proliferating thoughts. Spend time lingering in the heart sense, staying connected and present with that. Stay with the body in daily activities, taking regular pause moments.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Guided Meditation – Suffusing Goodwill 23:12
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One transformative insight that arises from practice is the way you develop and store up goodness is by sharing it. The untrained mind thinks it’s by storing it up. Guidance is provided generate qualities of heart and extend them across a wide span.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Q&A 26:35
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Working with past traumas; relationship between meditation and right livelihood; clarification around embodied presence; please elaborate on contracted and anxious modes; sequence of the 4 elements – earth, air, fire, water; recollecting teachers and use of Buddho in meditation; clarify the meaning of purification or cleaning of citta.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Guided Meditation – Breathing and Body 30:06
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Guidance for establishing a suitable posture and attitude for meditation. Sustain attention on breathing – a moving sign is easier to stay with than a static sign. Use it along with supportive heart energy to help blocked places to unfreeze and dissolve.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Redesigning Our Energy 29:39
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The energy we use to think about things and get things done is conditioned – it can put us in conflict when we want to be comfortable and kind but keep getting caught up in irritation and defeat. This energy can be purified. Change the mental approach and repel distractions. Beautiful qualities arise on their own.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Standing Meditation – Body as a Unity 21:11
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After establishing a firm and comfortable posture, expand awareness across each dimension of the body. The details become less, the whole body becomes a unity in harmony. In this state hindrances and discomforts have much less possibility to occur.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Guided Standing Meditation – Grounding through Standing 23:24
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Hindrances take us away from ground. Groundedness is an absolute requirement for skillful cultivation. Standing posture gives access to feet touching the ground to create a firm and steady foundation.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Staving off Hindrances 15:02
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Meditation is about penetrating the roots of mental behavior. The primary doing is to settle and clear distracting influences so the mind becomes unified in purpose. A happy, firm mind leaves less traction for hindrances to take hold.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Meet Dukkha from a Collected Center 21:24
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Dukkha is a natural part of our experience. When internalized it manifests as constricting and disjointed somatic states. When met from a clear and settled center, our responses can be guided by harmony and wisdom.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Welcome, advice on online retreats, guided meditation 20:05
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With a heartful attitude, set aside what is not necessary and make a continued deliberate practice around your Dhamma aspirations. Tuning into embodiment with interest and sensitivity, we can locate the missing piece, where harmonization of the mental and somatic domains occurs.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-04 Dhamma Stream Q&A 1:28:46
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How does citta relate to consciousness; is citta involved with rebirth; how to practice with non-attachment; the role of cetana (intention), sankappa (attitude) and chanda (motivation) in citta cultivation; how much jhāna is needed for stream entry; where does motivation for practice/career/relationship come from; what does attachment to rights and rituals, sīlabbata-parāmāsa, mean; clarify body energies and energy flows; question about prayer; advice about life termination.
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2020-10-01 Work Unconditionally with Conditions that Arise 38:33
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Practice is a whole life path. The conditions that arise and our reactions to them can all act as reference points for purification and practice. Careful cultivation of the conditioned is an aspect of the unconditioned and leads to the unconditioned.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat
2020-09-30 Maturing from Renunciation to Relinquishment 32:18
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Citta needs something to settle on, to feel comfortable in. Use mindfulness to form a frame around what’s helpful and skillful and absorb into that. Citta begins to understand the agitation that both pleasure and displeasure cause, and can see something more fulfilling in the bareness of mind.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat
2020-09-29 Release from Psychological Conditioning 38:23
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The aim of Dhamma cultivation is penetration and purification of saṇkhārā – the conditioning forces. Everything else is to support that. Mindfulness of body provides a steady and pleasant foundation, samādhi acts as a refuge from sensory input. Mind then has the power to resist, moderate and release from these conditioning forces.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat
2020-09-28 Making the Right Choice 39:09
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Mindfulness can be thought of as a boundary setter. It’s used to discern what to stay with and deepen into, and what to avoid and stay out of. Instructions are given for how to apply this to ānāpānasati, mindfulness of breathing.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat
2020-09-27 Mindfulness the Purifier 36:10
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The function of mindfulness is to purify. It means we have to understand what purity is – what qualities cause problems, stress and contamination, an which are bright, fortifying and calming. Right view and right attitude inform the careful attention that leads to purification.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat
2020-09-26 Right domain - the indriya 41:21
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In Dhamma practice we aim to establish positive roots that can nourish our everyday actions and behaviors. We train in setting aside what is unskillful and causes stress, and lingering in and strengthening factors for awakening. The 5 indriya offer a beneficial domain for such cultivation.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat
2020-09-20 Cessation of Outflows Is the Release of Citta 44:57
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The unawakened citta is always taking things in, seeking security from them. True security has not yet been found. Through developing meditation and samādhi, it’s possible to unlink from the flowing out towards objects and ideas. Citta can find true security in itself.
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2020-09-20 Guided Meditation on the Sense of I 17:02
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The sense of ‘I’ is crucial for understanding citta. Guidance is provided to access the direct experience of body, then tune into the fundamental sensitivity and receptivity of citta.
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2020-09-13 Guiding and Guarding–the indriya 33:55
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The person gets very entrained to follow circumstances, caught in a cycle of creating, worrying, planning, hoping. In meditation, it’s possible to witness the person rather than constantly re-create it. Start by establishing certain transpersonal/universal qualities of the 5 indriya.
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2020-09-13 Guided Meditation - Basic Luminosity of Citta 11:02
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Establish strong mindfulness that can act as a frame for shifting states of mind. Go easy on the mental content letting it all pass through. Aware of a basic luminosity, or vibrancy, assess what is needed to encourage citta – goodwill, patience, dispassion.
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2020-09-06 Q&A – Desire, Hatred, Deathless and Boundaries 44:45
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How to manage inconvenient feelings of attraction; reacting impulsively towards sexual desire and hatred; working with boredom and drowsiness; how does one turn towards the deathless; is nibbana “a ground of being”; what does the use of “internal and external” mean?
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2020-09-06 Guided Meditation – Arrive at the Basis 10:57
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Citta has its own basic clarity and sanity. Practice to establish citta on its own ground, where there is no suffering. This is the upright citta, the foundation for all the virtues leading to awakening.
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2020-08-30 Citta as Embodied 42:10
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The untrained citta runs out and becomes fixated by its own constructions, the primary construction being the sense of self. Citta can be trained to contain itself in awareness of body, distancing it from the abstractions of the mind. This is a very peaceful place to be.
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2020-08-30 Guided Meditation – Letting Citta Freely Flow 9:56
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Realize that it’s possible to divert one’s normal preoccupations and thought patterns, and come instead into the sense of penetrating to the roots of it all. Collecting energy into this state of being conscious, being aware, lets citta flow freely, unconstricted by our habitual grasping of form.
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2020-08-23 Citta as Conjurer and Healer 38:56
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We don’t so much experience phenomena, but the citta affected by phenomena. The sense of “I am” keeps us fascinated and hypnotized by the resulting feelings and reactions. The process of purification is to clear citta of defilements and hinderances. Cultivation of samadhi and suffusion of wholesome qualities are means for purification and healing.
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2020-08-16 Guided Meditation – The Process of Centering 12:28
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In meditation we try to establish a clear center from which to look at the various inputs and outputs happening in the mind. This process of centering is done through direct experience of body. The wholeness of body gives rise to a simple, centering effect.
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2020-08-16 Settle Citta through Relationship 39:23
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Meditation is a relational experience. There’s the knowing that you’re being affected and how you respond to that. Relate to what arises with dispassion, calm, sensitivity and openness. In this relationship we learn all the skills of wisdom, compassion, clarity and non-clinging. This is nibānna here and now.
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2020-07-19 Conditions for Learning and Penetration 20:19
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The process of assimilating the teachings takes time. Mindfulness of body and breathing calm and settle the citta, allowing it to unbind from its complexities. Citta becomes attentive, receptive and subtler – able to learn.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness
2020-07-19 The Pervasiveness of Citta 8:19
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When citta is released from its obstructions, its nature is to saturate clarity and well-being into whatever it comes into contact with. It’s not something you do, it’s something that happens when the unskillful and stressful are released.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness
2020-07-19 Cultivating Tolerant and Kindly Space 38:49
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The theme of restraint in Dhamma practice helps keep energy collected rather than running out. This moderating of saṇkhārā is how one begins to turn away from the aggregates, from the assumptions and habitual grasping that cause suffering. A more flexible and beautiful state becomes available to meet what arises.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness
2020-07-19 Q&A 67:04
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Clarifying what is citta; what is felt sense; focusing as an alternative to meditation; is citta the same as self; stuck energy in neck and head; causes and conditions and personal responsibility; unbinding vs. education of citta; how to accept our history; advice for approach to conflict; working with separation and loss; how to practice with space around myself; anatta
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2020-07-19 Accepting without Adopting 5:12
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Exploring the experience of transitioning between postures, notice the space and what arises within it. What counts is not what arises but how your awareness responds without resisting, contracting or adopting.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness
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.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness
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.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness
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.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness
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.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness
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.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness
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.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness
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.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness
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.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness
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.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2020 Opening Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery
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.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2020 Opening Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery
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.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2020 Opening Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery
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.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2020 Opening Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery
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.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2020 Opening Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery
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.’
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2020 Opening Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery
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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