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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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2008-11-09 Healing Through Awareness 35:34
Amaravati Monastery November 2008
2008-11-09 Taking A Drive Down The Road Of Self 68:09
Amaravati Monastery November 2008
2008-11-10 Embracing Fear 41:46
Amaravati Monastery November 2008
2008-11-10 Q&A - Presence Of Heart - Sati Is Always Thoughtful 60:16
Amaravati Monastery November 2008
2008-11-11 Space Thought And Sheep Dogs 36:37
Amaravati Monastery November 2008
2008-11-11 Q&A - Vitakka - Vicara And Self-View 58:43
Amaravati Monastery November 2008
2008-11-12 Teaching Dhamma 1:10:24
Amaravati Monastery November 2008
2008-11-13 Feeling Perception And Mind-States 45:36
Amaravati Monastery November 2008
2008-11-14 Freedom Is A Tuna Fish Sandwich 48:52
Amaravati Monastery November 2008
2008-11-14 Q&A - Feel Comfortable 1:12:07
Amaravati Monastery November 2008
2008-11-15 Last Afternoon 48:19
Amaravati Monastery November 2008
2008-11-15 Sharing Feelings 5:21
Amaravati Monastery November 2008
2008-11-16 Time To Take Leave 12:25
Amaravati Monastery November 2008
2007-11-16 Introduction 28:36
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
2007-11-17 Why Did You Come On Retreat 39:51
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
2007-11-17 Meeting Our Experience - Holding Awareness 37:25
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
2007-11-17 Firming Up Through Positive Breathing 29:52
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
2007-11-18 Belonging To The Dhamma 50:10
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
2007-11-19 Standing Meditation 18:03
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
2007-11-19 Breathing Through The Basement 26:27
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
2007-11-19 Spirit; Samadhi; Living The Dhamma with Q&A 46:52
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
2007-11-20 Metta To Others As To Myself 23:52
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
2007-11-21 Process Of Fullness 39:31
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
2007-11-21 Meeting Sankharas 47:01
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
2007-11-22 Ending Of Programs 42:04
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
2007-11-22 Developing The Big Heart 55:01
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
2007-11-20 Walking In Benevolence 18:34
Walking meditation can be difficult because the mind doesn’t feel concentrated, or it can feel oppressive just walking back and forth. But being with the movement of the body, it’s possible to come out of our protective and stiff states, and enjoy the carefree fluidity.
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
In collection: A Moving Balance
2007-11-23 Guided Metta Meditation 40:57
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
2007-11-23 Sexual Desire - Meditation In Relationship 50:15
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
2007-11-24 The Gift Of Dhamma 45:43
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
2007-11-25 Internalizing The Retreat 40:00
Amaravati Monastery November 2007
2008-05-08 Relaxing Into The Deathless 59:28
Primary awareness is not fully liberated but can be released through relinquishing the will to be. This is explained from different perspectives
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat
2008-05-06 Morning Instructions 8:30 AM 61:25
Personality view and suffering
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat
2008-05-08 Clear And Release: Samatha And Vipassana 26:16
Samatha and vipassana work together to reveal a clear awareness. This is to be liberated through sustained inquiry.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat
2008-05-10 Morning Instructions 8:30 AM 64:22
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat
2008-05-10 Evening Dharma Talk - Energy, View, Samatha/Vipassana 1:11:48
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat
2008-05-11 Universal Well Being Chant And Closing Talk 38:04
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat
2008-05-08 Evening Dharma Talk - Questions And Answers 1:18:57
On Karma, awareness and practice in daily life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat
2008-05-05 Early Morning Meditation 62:49
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2008-05-04 Meditation On Purifying Attention 58:46
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2008-05-05 Include It All, The Development Of Love - Morning Meditation 8:30 AM 58:43
On the need to include all of one’s kamma in the practice. This is a form of sacred love.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat
2008-05-03 Meditation On Body Alignment And Energy - 5:30 AM 67:25
A guided meditation on centering in the body, cultivating attention, and awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat
2008-05-04 Meditation On Purifying Attention - Morning Meditation 5:30 AM 58:46
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat
2008-05-05 Early Morning Guided Meditation 5:30 AM 62:49
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat
2008-05-07 Morning Meditation 8:30 AM 62:37
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat
2008-05-02 Introduction To The Sacred 44:09
The sacred as the “deathless”: the path as how we enter it. The vision of mutuality which includes morality and compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat
2008-05-03 Attention, Meeting And Including It All - Morning Meditation 8:30 AM 41:43
Explanation of the meditative process in three modes – attending, meeting what arises, including one’s karma.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat
2008-05-05 Questions And Answers #1 - Evening Dharma Talk 7:30 PM 66:58
On self-aversion, on the distinction between mindfulness and insight and on the development of samadi.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat
2008-05-05 Morning Meditation 8:30 AM Sucitto 5-5-08 58:43
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2008-05-03 Balancing The Indriya - Evening Dharma Talk 53:52
The five indriya: faith, persistence, mindfulness, concentration, and discernment merge in the Deathless where they correctly balance each other.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat
2008-05-04 Being And Behavior - Morning Meditation 8:30 AM 51:48
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat
1995-03-21 Wise Use Of Mindfulness 51:06
reflecting on the qualities of wise attention
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1995-03-18 Three Kinds Of Dukkha: The Value Of Zero 55:40
understanding the manifestations of Dukkha: change-ability, conditionability, physical and emotional pain
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1995-03-19 Brahma Viharas-Morning Instruction 55:07
Bringing kindness and clarity to the emotional side of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1995-03-25 Wise Use Of Conventions 1:20:10
exploring "structures" in the world which help support our practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-03-06 Four Kinds Of Letting Go 42:58
the balance between letting go and one-pointedness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-03-07 Establishing Vitality 61:51
the requirement of energy for meditation can be developed through meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1995-03-23 Suffering And The Cessation Of Suffering 62:16
understanding the wisdom of dukkha
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-03-05 Faith, Relinquishment, Commitment 64:00
these three factors sustain the unity of retreat.; they take us out of ourselves
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1990-04-02 A Billion Calpas (Aeons) Of Bliss Are Not Enough 62:52
learning how our perceptions prevent us from experiencing life just as it is
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-03-07 Anapanasati - The First Tetrad 43:07
a brief overview of the path of breath meditation, with details on the opening phases.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-03-07 Awareness And Right Reference 68:49
shifting the references- from desirability, substantiality and self to emptiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-03-08 Awareness: Sublime Disobedience 36:12
awareness does not follow orders; letting go comes around naturally through accessing conducive perceptions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-03-08 Questions And Answers 57:43
questions on the hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-03-12 Attachment 1:12:12
attachment (clinging or feeling) even to Dhamma, is suffering and is the binding factor of self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-03-13 Release Through Self 40:58
release occurs through tuning up the self and letting Kamma be felt in awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1990-04-03 Refuge From Worry 60:03
fulfilling our human potential by keeping the practice light and flowing
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-03-09 Anapanasati: Transformation Of The Breath 49:19
mind and breath mutually change from separate entities into energy and feeling.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-03-09 Shifting The Boundaries 69:15
perceptions of change dislodges the mind from object-dependence; brahma vihara extends the scope of relationship.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-03-10 Anapanasati: The Fourth Tetrad - Realization 52:04
Vipassana (on looking) and samatha (setting) conform to give realization at every stage of the path.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-03-11 Anapanasati: Release Of The Mind 47:19
through the contemplative process, awareness is progressively released from unwholesome to wholesome karma
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1990-04-03 Cultivating Freedom Through Difficulties 61:00
cultivating the ground of our mind so that the seed of the Dharma may sprout
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2002-04-20 Tonality As The Key To Awakening 60:55
Overview of the process of awakening of which meditation forms a part - not the whole. All awakening processes are accompanied by a wholesome tonality.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind
2002-04-25 Timeliness 66:52
Embodied time - a sense of timeliness - is a useful reference; by relaxing into it, we move out of hyper and hypo states and return to grounded awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind
2002-04-28 Closing Guided Meditation: Sharing Awareness 43:37
Guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind
2002-04-21 Layers Of Conditionality 1:10:28
Our experience of identity can be classified on terms of bodily, emotive, cognitive processes/structures. The cognitive layer especially gets distorted with compulsions and judgements.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind
2002-04-22 The Ground Of Relative Emptiness 68:28
This ground is empty of hindrances, the underlying ground of the enlightenment factors. It is accessible through samatha practice, vipassana practice, or just in being present.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind
2002-04-22 It's Good To Be Home 64:13
Presence, being totally here, is a shared and sharing experience. Before committing to the “doingness” of meditation, check in with the “here-ness.” It is the underlying home of awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind
2002-04-23 Body - Posture - Breathing 46:37
Instructions on establishing the posture for full and easeful breathing. Instructions on maintaining awareness through breathing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind
2002-04-25 Emptiness - It's Just This 66:40
Distilling the salient forms that are settling. Handling material. The ground of relative emptiness—”it’s just this.” Kamma formations, self, the making much of “do, do, do” and emptying that. Pleasure and protection, taking what you need. Subjectivity as opposed to self. Panic—do we have the spaciousness to learn?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind
2002-05-08 Unseating The Inner Tyrant 60:07
Wholesome path factors and the obstacle to realizing them—the “inner tyrant” of critical mindset. The dwelling on suffering, rather than upon the cessation, and means of unseating this from the mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
1994-03-12 Lifting The Heart From Habit 62:54
trusting the buoyancy of the mind
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1990-04-07 Freedom 60:49
what does it mean to be free?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1990-04-07 Metta - The Radiant Mind 50:25
Cultivating lovingkindness and non-aversion.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
In collection: Force Of Metta
1990-04-07 Sacred 1:13:24
grounding our practice in the precepts
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1990-04-07 Kindness And Mindfulness Are Not Separate 54:22
attending to mindfulness so that we may learn to be kind...even to our own unkindness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1990-04-07 Liberation From The Determinants Of Self View 62:22
letting go of the watcher
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-03-11 Samadhi Is Pure Enjoyment 47:42
Samadhi, a Pali word, means meditative absorption or a state of concentration. This talk is an exploration of samadhi as the art of refined enjoyment. Approaching our meditation with receptivity, we carefully collect our attention for the full enjoyment of the present moment. This kind of attention is enjoyable and light, balanced and at ease.
2005-04-28 Cleansing The Heart Of Impression 1:19:21
Contact brings impressions into the heart, which gets retrained at an involuntary level and affect our immediate response to life in terms of fear, mistrust, desire. There are ways of clearing this—the result is joy.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2005-04-29 Meditation Processes 57:32
Finding a base in the present and releasing into the flow of experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2005-04-30 How, Not What - Life As Rhythm 36:35
Grasping experiences life as "things." This brings stress. To handle radical insubstantiality, we attune to rhythm, energy—breathing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2002-04-24 The Rapturous Ground Of Being 63:14
Describes the “ground of being” as the enlightenment factors. Rapture is a key to the support and uplift of this ground.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Embodied Mind
2005-04-22 Overview Of Embodied Mind 65:33
"Citta" - The center of awareness extends through thinking, emotion, and somatic senses. Dhamma practice covers all these.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2005-06-05 Unseating The Inner Tyrant 62:08
Overcoming inner self-criticism.
New York Insight Meditation Center
2005-04-23 Breathing, Body, Speech, & Mind 69:43
Embodying the mind - mindfulness of body - counteracts the effects of "loss" (ignorance). Loss is loss of presence - accompanied by either tightening or collapsing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2005-04-23 Recollection Of Death And Of Buddha 50:53
Recollection connects the thinking mind and heart and generates felt values for inspiration, clarity, and blessing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2005-04-24 Breathing - The Kamma Of Meditation 49:34
Meditation as a way of purifying Kamma - brings clarity, assurance, and good heart in a simple, intimate way.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2005-04-24 Non-Attachment Is Presence, Not Absence 54:30
Non-attachment is not to be confused with avoidance, spacing out, losing connection to what is happening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2005-04-25 Embodied Language - The Elements 53:29
Grasping affects the way we conceive experience: "Head Language," "Body Language." Body language is freer from reactions, assumptions, interpretations.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2005-04-25 Embodiment: Handling Dukkha 61:26
By spreading awareness through the "field" of the body, we can establish a ground to limit, curtail and discharge the Dukkha of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

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