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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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2018-06-28 11 Massaging the Closed Heart 62:11
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Our self tends to get patterned and established by what is familiar and repeated. For most, it means being shaped and formed by negative accumulations that constrict and close the heart. Using the body-mind connection we can massage in the internal body back to life, not through words but through wholesome felt sense perceptions.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-28 10 Standing Meditation: Skillful Use of Perceptions 22:40
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After attuning to the subjective experience of the back, guidance is provided to use perceptions as a means for generating comfort and relaxation.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-27 09 The Craft of Meditation 18:06
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There are various tools and forms for meditation, but most important is our relationship to these: right intention, not too much effort, allowing the natural arising of experience.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-27 08 Careful Attention to the Wilderness of Self 58:54
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Our self can become extremely busy seeking safety and comfort, acceptance and inclusion. Use the body to ground this agitated energy – embodiment is the ground we reflexively seek.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-27 07 Standing Meditation: Include It All 14:01
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Instructions for coming into the bodily sense through ground, upright posture and space.
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2018-06-27 06 Guided Meditation: Holding the Field Beneath Self-View 17:11
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What’s there when self-view is released? Beneath the grip of self-view is the intention to welcome and include it all. Intentionality comes before attention.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-26 05 Dhamma: The Liberation Field 39:05
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What arises in our fields is based on what’s been intended and activated. We become overwhelmed by the persistent activations of control, pressure, separateness. Accessing our Dhamma field gives rise to that which seeks balance, harmony, and that which seeks the welfare of all.
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2018-06-26 04 Entering the Fields with Faith 60:27
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Citta is affected by what we take in from our fields. Generally overwhelmed with afflictive effects, there is a point when we can stop and open in the midst of affliction and bring forth faith. The 5 spiritual faculties then have authority over the 5 sense faculties, imbuing the heart with wholesome qualities.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-26 03 Aspiration: To Train in the Wilderness 36:22
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Ajahn Sucitto compares Dhamma practice to wilderness training – attention is not so driven, and there’s a global awareness. He suggests ways of fortifying and strengthening our practice to meet afflictions of the heart.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-25 02 Guided Meditation: Sitting at the Root of a Tree 26:29
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Instructions to establish a grounded, upright posture for meditation and for using breathing to strengthen energy.
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2018-06-25 01 Heart Offerings 33:36
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The occasion for retreat gives opportunity to establish a field of integrity and make heart offerings by taking precepts, chanting, making offerings to the shrine, and bowing.
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2018-04-30 Closing Comments 11:36
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It’s natural for us to step out of our daily scenarios from time to time and take a break from suffering. Ask: “What’s most important now?” Find the hidden grooves that move towards destinations that don’t exist – permanence, sustained agreeable feeling, being in control – and establish ground in embodied awareness instead.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-30 A suggested exercise 4:41
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Watching a tree or a bush for 30 minutes notice how the object forming tendencies start to wear out and the experience is of something …. unnamed.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-30 Refining One’s Ability to Notice 35:02
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It’s possible for citta to review the 5 aggregates, not be stuck in them. Practice with sustaining a quality of awareness that’s open and receptive to shifting and changing. This awareness can be applied to your world.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-29 The Experience of Consciousness (with 15 min standing) 26:50
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Exploring the experience of consciousness and noting what occurs – through the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind. Includes 15 min standing meditation.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-29 Elements of a Meditation Model 47:52
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Distinguishing dukkha as a characteristic and dukkha as a Noble Truth. Relax – nothing is under control. Acknowledging this is the start of a reset. Rather than meeting experience with pre-formed strategies, pause, expand awareness, and meet experience without jumping to conclusions.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-29 Settling in (with 30 min silence) 24:45
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Opening guidance - As we settle in and incline away from sense contact, our internal experience may seem chaotic. Stability comes from a relationship to this volatile, mundane, unglamorous stuff – one that accepts what arises without rejecting, adopting or adding to it. This relationship is what generates awakened intelligence – the wisdom of “It’s like this now.”
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-29 Walking Meditation (30 min silence) 42:34
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Walking meditation can counter the conditioning of the business model. Walking with nowhere to go, broadening attention to include the whole body, to feel the fluidity and pleasure of bodily ease. [Instructions end 11:28]
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-29 Standing Meditation 27:26
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From an upright, grounded posture, move from the world of sense consciousness into subjectivity of ‘being conscious’. Meet uncomfortable energies with sympathy and support. [22:43] Transition into movement: Re-enter the world of the physical body – an expression of natural intelligence, integrating it into the sense of the world from the inside out.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-28 Moving to a meditation model 39:06
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We practice to come out of the stress and suffering of our workaday ‘Business Model’ by dismantling expectations of comfort and convenience, and of things being reliable. The wise attention that realizes that is itself stable and at ease.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-28 Standing Meditation 23:23
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Guided standing meditation: Spreading energy from the ground through the entire body, we set up conditions for blocked energy to release through the body. [14:30] Conclude standing form, begin gentle body movements.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-28 The Paradigm of Practice 57:26
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The fundamental grooves that get established are expectations that we can make experience reliable, agreeable, and mine. Pursuing these makes us busy, anxious and stressed. But we can move out of them.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-28 Introduction 21:26
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Introductory guided meditation; using controlled breathing; changing the reference point to experiencing the energy body
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-03-04 The Duties of Heedfulness Q&A 33:32
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2018-03-04 The Duties of Heedfulness 50:28
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2018-03-03 Qi Gong and Anapanasati Q&A 55:03
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2018-03-03 Qi Gong and Anapanasati 51:13
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2018-03-01 Q&A Citta, samādhi, livelihood 57:46
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1. What is the difference between citta, mano and viññana; 2. Can you say more about the experience of jhana? Space not content (27:52); 3. (51:44) How can we integrate spiritual practice into worldly life (e.g. in a managerial position)
Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary :  Ajahn Sucitto Dhamma Retreat
2018-03-01 Guided meditation - Wholesome movements from the heart 16:46
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(10 m silence) Intentions move from the heart out into the world. Greed moves from the heart and reaches out; hatred moves from the heart and fights with things. We can us the brahmavihāras to cultivate wholesome movements from the heart that offer, nourish, protect and uplift. This will keep our energy clean and clear of disturbance.
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2018-03-01 An introduction to Dependent Origination 65:08
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A detailed description of each link in dependent origination with advice and encouragement for coming out of the cycle of delusion. Start by working on avijjā, ignorance. Step out of the speed and blur of conditioning that causes pressure. Once stopped, attention can shift, and something else becomes available. Release from pressure is now possible. [57:58] How do you find mental stability? Citta is what is affected. We can use the body to affect citta with signs of ground, stability and space.
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2018-02-28 Sympathetic Resonance 48:43
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That which can be liberated is citta – sometimes translated as mind, heart, awareness. The gateway to citta is feeling. “All dhammas converge on feeling.” But mental feeling is chronically suppressed or ignored because it’s inconvenient. If we enter citta appropriately we have access to that which is deeply agreeable – patience, compassion, goodwill. As a result of this sympathetic resonance, citta can be stimulated to wake up to its own potential. Citta is the only one that can liberate citta.
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2018-02-28 Accept, don't adopt - so wisdom can arise 57:12
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Accepting the presence of experience means we don’t grab onto it or resist it. Body provides a foundation to process experience rather than storing them up. As you wake up to the body’s intelligence, it gets to work. Mind’s work is to sustain appropriate attention – not adopting, not rejecting, patience and goodwill. Wisdom naturally arises.
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2018-02-28 Reflection on kamma 22:36
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There is new kamma (action), and old kamma, the results of previous actions. The process of kamma embeds particular habits and perpetuates a sense of self, setting up the model for the future, ongoing becoming. There is also the ending of this kamma process. Ajahn Sucitto describes several skilful means for such cultivation.
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2018-02-27 Q&A differentiation and discernment, tension, goodwill 46:30
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Questions are paraphrased: 1. Given the stressfulness of differentiation, is choosing what kind of meditation to practice stressful? 2. (11:30) Is the undifferentiated, the signlessness – the same as emptiness? 3. (24:02) Could you repeat what you were saying about relaxing tense muscles 4. (37:25) What does it mean to imbue the heart with loving kindness, “likewise the second, likewise the third and likewise the fourth”? What is the all encompassing world…?
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2018-02-27 Guided mindfulness of breathing 34:51
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Breathing itself trains you, you don’t train it. It trains you to be patient with it, open to it, sensitive to it, stay with it. Balance the doing and allowing, they both have their part to play.
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2018-02-27 Careful Non-differentiation 57:52
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The process of meditation is one of reducing differentiation/proliferation, the movements of the mind towards the pleasant and away from the unpleasant. The body doesn’t proliferate and so can help calm the mind.
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2018-02-26 Maturation of the liberated mind 49:16
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Reading from AN9.3, Ajahn Sucitto reviews the 5 things that lead to maturation of mind to becoming completely liberated. Receiving supportive company runs throughout. It’s not something we do but something we associate with. It involves not the active aspect of energy but the receptive aspect, so we can absorb the skilful, give it time to settle and ripen so wisdom can arise.
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2018-02-26 Standing - Rest comes through balance 24:03
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By carefully establishing connecting with the ground, and lining up the body from the feet up, one begins to sense balance. Muscles can relax. This gives rise to rest and calm.
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2018-02-26 Hold attention steady with a wide visual field 42:39
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For awareness that’s not fully awakened or grounded, there are bound to be reactions, so ideally we place our attention on simple forms that have least reactivity as possible.. Practice with a wide visual field, placing attention on the frame rather than objects within the frame.
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2018-02-26 Energy, its bondage and liberation 60:44
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All living things have energy, it’s our natural vitality, but it gets programmed to be driven, compulsive, and stressful. There is possibility of withdrawing energy from activities that cause suffering, that which we do compulsively.
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2018-02-26 Instruction - conscious attention 20:15
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Attention is a constant thing, so if you don’t place it, it will find its own place, and it will generally place itself into suffering – what could be, should be, things we can’t quite manage. Place it somewhere useful, starting with the body. This is the foundation. [10:03 instructions on breathing and breath energy] With good clear breath energy, mind can establish mindfulness. Careful attention prepares the ground so there’s something suitable to be mindful of. [20:10 begin silent sitting meditation]
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2018-02-25 Initial Instruction - devotion, posture, breathing 56:05
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Rather than getting somewhere or accumulating anything, Dhamma practice is a matter of bringing forth from ourselves in terms of presence, faith and attention. Attention is a matter of the heart, and the heart is very much supported through the body. Mindfulness of body is the frame; with suitable posture the process of breathing can flow through naturally. [40:02 Begin standing instructions]
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2018-02-25 Intro Sasanarakkha: Make your practice extensive, rather than intensive 62:12
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The essence of Buddhist practice is dealing with dukkha, unsatisfactoriness. While on retreat, observing precepts, making determinations and simplicity support our cultivation. So there’s always something you can be cultivating throughout the day. Meditation is just a support to Dhamma, Dhamma is the main thing. Cover it all. [40:36 Guided meditation] Settling practices, settling into space. Begins with feeling ground beneath, upright axis of spine, using wide visual field as a support.
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2018-02-06 Votes of thanks, anumodana and forgiveness 26:43
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Ajahn Sucitto describes the basic condition of being a monk as being in a field of dana. He expresses his appreciation. [Ends 6:53]
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-02-06 Summary - stewarding attention through the widening field of the inner and outer worlds 53:50
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Buddha’s last words were: All sankhāras are impermanent. Keep applying yourselves with vigilance. This closing talk offers a review of kāya-, citta- and vaci-sankhāra, and a simple 3 step process to moderate their energies: 1) Pay attention, 2) Soften, widen, 3) Include it all. These steps can be used in meditation practice as well as in interactions in the world. We will lose presence, but we don’t have to wait until the next retreat to work it out. When you notice the programs running, feel the body, come down into the feet, exhale, where am I?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-02-06 Checking and moderating thought - Guided meditation 61:38
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Settling into sitting meditation, tracing posture and energy up the back and down the front, spherical breathing from abdomen. [Bell at 38:17] [Instructions at 40:27] Invitation to loosen the intensity and congestion of thought - vaci-sankhāra, that which forms thought energy. Rather than not thinking, take time to formulate what to think about and bring heart qualities into that. This is a dhamma practice.
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2018-02-05 Evening Q&A 51:42
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1. Can you please speak about dependent origination; 2.(37:20 What is a skilful way to deal with boredom at work?; 3. (35:47) Question on body meditation; 4. (44:53) Could you talk about death?
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2018-02-05 Evening instructions - letting mindfulness clean the citta (with 35m silence) 6:13
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Before we know how we are or how we’re feeling, we have a sense of here. That’s the basis for whatever is felt and thought. Find what thoughts we are locking around, then opening, breathing - how is that? Is there acceptance of that? It doesn’t mean approving, but there is knowledge of it. This mood, this feeling, is not to be followed. Rather than opening oneself to critical mind, opening oneself through devotional gesture to awareness. This is keeping your citta clean from specks of kharma that can cause irritation and inflammations. [Instructions end 6:25]
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-02-05 AM - The twelve aspects of the Four Noble Truths 63:08
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An explanation of the Four Noble Truths, what keeps us from realizing them, and how to skilfully work to understand and realize each one. This is described as the rich center of the Buddha’s teachings from which everything else emanates. We are encouraged to contemplate the teachings and understand them for ourselves.
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2018-02-04 Evening Q&A 37:55
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1. How would you characterise freedom from sakkayaditthi (personality view)? 2. (18:08) I want to release self-hatred and “not good enough” patterns from an experience with a caregiver in my past that I have been carrying for 14 years. I have had metta towards the memories and the pattern has softened. I want to have metta for the caregiver. Any guidance gratefully received. 3 (32:13) Could you explain further about the body and mind connections?
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