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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.
2024-12-14 GM 20:08
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
2024-11-24 Connecting inner and outer through parami 37:03
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
2024-11-24 Guided Meditation 21:10
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
2024-11-03 Kathina talk - What is all this for? 43:56
The great assembly of lay women, laymen, monks and nuns comes together at Kathina. Kathina is a celebration of this great assembly; and the purpose of the assembly is to encourage cooperation and bring the light of Dhamma in the world.
Cittaviveka CBM 2024 Talks
2024-10-27 Sovereignity as a Dhamma practice 45:48
Offered at the kathina at Tisarana Buddhist Monastery in Perth, Canada
On the road
2024-10-21 Q&A 1:16:28
00:29 Q1 Could you talk about working with distraction? 07:27 Q2 Karma and the end of karma. 27:48 Q3 What carries on [when we die]?What doesn’t carry on? 33:52 Q4 Could you recommend a book or a source that discusses this [the phases of transition]? 45:36 Q5 What is the difference between awareness and consciousness? 50:42 Q6 So when we say: ‘Be the knowing’, that is resting in awareness? 51:40 Q7 Could you speak about how you got on this path?
On the road
2024-10-20 Fire unbound 44:23
Citta freed is warm and bright (Offered in Bethany, near Toronto.)
On the road
2024-10-05 Q&A 21:13
The original questions were live. They have been précised and read by a third person. Q1 A woman asks: I have a sister who's in a care home and lives far away. She's younger than I and I feel a degree of responsibility and want to help her. It's been discovered there's been some theft from her bank account which she has control over. The police and care home staff are involved. So the teaching on activation seems very appropriate for me. I'm noticing that my activation to get involved seems to take me over is getting really difficult to handle. What can you repeat or recommend? 03:02 Q2 I find as I practice more and more, I am less willing to deal with worldly things like money, focusing on the future. There's also a sense of contentment with the way things are. How can I go about my practice as this unfolds? 05:51 Q3 My question is similar to the previous one, finding opportunities to reflect internally rather than be wrapped up in work and everything. These opportunities exist and have improved but they seem to be fewer than I would like. How can I incorporate this with having to live my everyday life? I feel I can't leave everything and just go like the Buddha did and I don't seem satisfied with my current situation. Anything else you can offer? 10:19 Q4 Regarding the kandhas, did the Buddha or could you recommend any dedicated formal practice in this area? 15:39 Q5 I've recently extricated myself from a 5-year relationship which was very difficult for me. It seems like when we extricate ourselves from an arrangement like this it seems like it's become just a dream. All the entanglement and energy put into it and then it just ... ends. I'm asking myself 'Was there ever any love, any care?' And it seems very shocking and it seems like the whole of life is like that. Part of me wants to reach out and say: 'Did you care?' But it's over and that seems pointless. Could you say something about that please?
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
2024-10-05 Citta and the aggregates 1:26:51
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
2024-10-05 GM 20:11
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
2024-08-31 Q&A 43:18
Questions are précised: 01:17 Q1 You mentioned during meditation to start with breathing out. I noticed in my own practice that I don't fully breathe out. In fact breathing out intentionally is more exhausting. How can I be more balanced? 12:27 Q2 I have a mental pattern with deep roots, obsessing over details like the entomology of words that arises when I get panicked or upset. This seems to give me some respite from the panic. Can you offer any advice? 19:02 Q3 I feel both sense of fatigue and desire for connection. I'm confused about how to be with this desire because my mind tells me I should go out and connect with other people. But this isn't the point of meditation is it? How can I understand this tension between internal and external needs in this case? 25:03 Q4 In the last retreat I would wake up not knowing who I am and dream about somebody stabbing my heart. These feelings returned when I went back to domestic duties. In my dreams I am lost. How can I move past this black hole? 30:02 Q5 For me it's very difficult to be mindful every minute every second of my daily life. I do my best. It's easier on retreat or in a monastery. Can you comment? 36:17 Q6 The state of becoming entails grasping and craving then suffering. How can one abide in non becoming?
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
2024-08-03 On intention 29:42
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
2024-08-03 Cultivating the energy of breathing 17:24
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
2024-07-19 Fortunate heart energies 47:47
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)
2024-07-07 Doing, not-doing – entering causality 35:10
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
2024-07-07 GM - Tuning into the stream of good will. 14:26
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
2024-06-27 Q&A 51:10
00:08 Q1 You mentioned we should all contemplate/ meditate on death every day. How does one do that? 21:10 Q2 What to do when the ease of well-being and kindness of metta morph into profound awareness of suffering in the world and the lives of loved ones? 37:34 Q3 You wrote in ‘Breathing like a Buddha’ that “Full liberation therefore is equated with breaking the compulsive link between name and form". You mentioned this here as well. Can you re-explain please?
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance
2024-06-27 GM - Using recollection. 40:12
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance
2024-06-27 Daily alignments 55:23
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance
2024-06-27 Voice and chanting guidance (5) 34:37
In this retreat Ajahn offered a series of guidance on voice production and resonant chanting.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance
2024-06-25 Q&A 38:29
00:07 Q1 You use the term energy more than I have heard it used in dhamma discussions. Can you say why it is important? 10:03 Q2 Where would you place craving for stability within the three types of tanha? 16:23 Q3 You said that citta arises from name and form. Can you say more about how and why? 26:37 Q4 How do you think one might continue to cultivate citta as we age and with Alzheimers, dementia etc.? 31:18 Q5 Regarding medically assisted suicide, doesn’t it break the first precept? 36:35 Q6 What are some useful practices for going to sleep?
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance
2024-06-25 Aging out of self and into the deatlless 41:57
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance
2024-06-25 Voice and chanting guidance (4) 22:38
In this retreat Ajahn offered a series of guidance on voice production and resonant chanting.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance
2024-06-24 Receptivity towards the manifest and the non-manifest 50:26
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance
2024-06-23 The four establishments of sati 48:44
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

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