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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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2018-01-29 Evening Q&A 44:55
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1. Is this a vipassana retreat? 2. (12:15) How to train mind to have energy to overcome mental dullness?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-29 Evening Talk - A brief guideline on grounding presence 44:17
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Find your anchor, that core quality of stability. What is suggested is a spinal, upright sense that goes down into the ground. Take your stand there to repel the forces of Mara. [Instructions end 7:09]
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-29 PM - Entering the bodily field 35:35
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Body can be experienced in multiple ways - physical, perceptual, somatic, and energetic. In this light, body is an experience rather than a thing. It plays out in meditation. It’s important to establish a more accurate body, clear of perceptual taints and distortions, biases and kammic impositions.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-29 AM - Detox - clearing the ‘Business Model’ 52:52
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Conditioning of the business model - performance, achievement, self-criticism - drives us up into our head. Purification of the unskilful, of self-hood, is possible. It’s accomplished through awareness and energy. Balancing yin (receptive) and yang (driving) energies in the body resets our system, easing the compulsive self that has been formed personally and energetically.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-29 AM - Puja - Dhamma as collective presence and resolve 20:33
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Puja invites the total participation of body, voice and mind. It allows a group to come together in harmony. It invites skilful recollections of wholesome qualities. Before the familiar “me” energy takes over, puja helps set up a different context of presence, one that is purifying, steadying and clearing.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-28 Evening - Opening talk - The foundation retreat - cultivation of Dhamma 45:47
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Laying the groundwork for retreat, yogis are encouraged to stay in touch with qualities of mindfulness, persistence and right energy. Such steady practice fortifies the citta, rather than the thinking mind, as the source of stability in an inherently unstable world. 30:35 Guided Meditation: Guidance for getting grounded, establishing safety in the space around, making the space you’re sitting in your refuge.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-28 Morning Public Talk - Q&A 36:12
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1. Can a stream enterer lose contact with the Dhamma? 2. (1:47) Can non-Buddhists become stream enterers? 3. (12:12) Should we observe defilements or cultivate wisdom to get rid of them? 4. (21:17) Should we as lay people work to get rid of mental dukkha? 5. (26:04) What is the difference between causes and conditions? 6. (29:09) How do we know “what’s needed now”?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-28 Morning Public Talk - Careful attention arrests dukkha 43:59
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The world pulls us out with the promise of security in external things, but there’s only one place suffering stops. It’s in the release of mental activations. Using careful attention, yoniso manasikāra, we meet the causes and conditions of dukkha by noticing how we’re being affected by the world. This is how we can be free from the world while living in the world.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2017-12-31 Closing Ceremony - Parting Words and Sharing of Merit 15:14
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After retreat we return to a world of duties and responsibilities. Don’t forget your duty to the Buddha who gave us Dhamma, the way out of suffering. Integrate your life in terms of the 8-fold path. Give particular attention to speech. Pause and consider, place something carefully with a mind of goodwill for someone else to hear.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-31 Closing Ceremony - Asking Forgiveness 7:46
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Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-31 Morning Chanting (English) 11:15
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Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-30 Evening Talk - Taking the Practice Home 33:28
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As retreat comes to an end, consider the cooperative boundaries that allow Dhamma to flourish. Establish reasonable boundaries related to behavior, moral integrity, restraint. Remember that bhāvanā is more than meditation, cultivate throughout the day. Restore the source of energy, know its boundaries.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-30 Morning - Wisdom Covers It All 47:43
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Wisdom makes life more manageable, more fun. We can find how we’re generating stress by knowing feeling: “all dhammas converge on feeling.” Trace activations to their roots, identify the feeling, widen to the place where it isn’t. There is a wider domain to feeling, an end to experiencing feeling, both pleasant and unpleasant.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-29 Evening Talk: Wisdom of release 17:15
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The 10 Fold Path has to do with the development of release. Sometimes we don’t want things to arise, but they can’t be released otherwise. This is a piece of your kamma, the piece that has to be known, felt, opened to and carefully handled. Then it can dissolve.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-29 Morning - Respect Brings Warmth 48:16
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Respect means allowing things to be as they are. We developing respect towards others in community and towards ourselves, our body. Practice by tuning into the subjective sense. This heart intention is naturally holistic, inclusive.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-29 Morning Puja (with 30 min meditation) 54:17
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The beauty of chanting is you feel it in your heart and body, giving words another dimension. It’s not just the abstract chattering of an isolated head that doesn’t feel what it’s talking about.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-28 Evening Talk Bhavana 33:15
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Bhāvanā is a cultivation of heart and mind, right motivation and right view. It’s understanding the process of dhammas, not getting involved in content, knowing what’s taking me into my habits. This brings a sense of strength, groundedness and self-respect.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-28 Morning Instructions- Unification 54:11
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Agitation is a result of favoring and opposing experience. Meditation is about bringing body, heart and mind together to meet experience without favoring or opposing. Hindrances can be cleared from this unified place.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-27 Evening Talk with Sharing and Aspirations Chant: Purification is the aim 1:10:02
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Energy is affected by intention. If we approach meditation with an intense need to calm and find a focus, we probably won’t be able to. This very aim affects our breathing and sense of ease. Make the aim about purification, letting things be how they are without getting intense about it.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-27 Standing Meditation: Awaken the body’s intelligence 25:21
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The body can self-reference. It knows when it’s in balance, what upright is, and can relax what’s not needed. When the physical form becomes comfortable, bring attention to the bodily mood. Mind can pick up tones of firm, open, confident from the body.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-27 Morning Instructions - Using the Day for Cultivation 45:42
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Formal meditation is helpful, but we need to cultivate careful attention throughout the day. Use mind skilfully to bond attention in the body. Notice the body’s own intelligence. Attention becomes less like a scientist, more like a healer – the good friend.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-27 Morning Puja - Finding and Using Our Inner Temple 20:21
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Puja gives the occasion for meaningful ritual. We can lift up and direct recollections to brighten and soothe the dull, agitated heart. That good heart becomes your refuge and guide.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-26 Morning Instructions: Awakening to Reality 49:37
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Reality is the witnessing and getting perspective on the changeability and relativity of existence. Begin to recognize kamma (causes and effects) and where it goes, and the “me” package.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-25 Revisiting Walking Instructions: Inner dialogue of the body 7:57
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The soles of the feet are incredibly sensitive, like receptors. Notice when the foot comes to the ground, the sole wakes up: this is firm, this is reliable, space around me. Walking like this is agreeable. (file edit 2023)
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
In collection: A Moving Balance
2017-12-25 The Khandha, me and Existence 60:22
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The Buddha’s teaching is aimed at liberation from suffering – the way out is through complete abandonment of clinging. Basic remedy is to pause – this is just an organic system operating, there’s nothing wrong with you. It’s not personal. Don’t follow the message of mind consciousness, follow the direct experience of the body.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-25 Standing Meditation Instruction: Feeling the body in the body 21:39
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Experience the body as a unity rather than parts.. Find balance and release tension into that steady space.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-24 Skilful Use of Puja 29:53
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Open the heart, connect to the field of practice started by the Buddha 2500 years ago. Tune in to the sense of lineage and connection. This gives rise to inspiration, faith, gratitude.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-24 Morning Puja (English) 13:08
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Ajahn leads the group chanting
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-23 Suitable Themes - Crystalizing the 1st Noble Truth 39:57
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Most of the time you might realize that you can’t meditate! This is why we have to go back to the beginning, not just once but repeatedly. Maintaining the field of awareness without getting involved with content is the beginning. Acceptance without adopting.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-23 Standing Instructions: Listening to the earth with the soles of the feet 13:02
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Listening to the earth through the soles of the feet asks attention to be more attentive, receptive.. [6:35] Walking Instructions: Notice the intention to move first. How is the body going to walk?
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-23 Nourishment and Natural Repose 59:57
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Shifting gears from the fast paced speed of the world we’re invited to take up nutriment for careful attention – yoniso manasikara – to dispel hindrances. Widening the focus of attention and mindfulness of the whole body allows mindfulness and concentration to naturally develop.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-22 Meditation Instructions: 3 languages of Dhamma – mind, heart & body 40:39
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Learn to tune into these 3 languages that are happening all the time, but we don’t hear them. Mind language (thought) overwhelms and corrupts; learn the language of the heart and body.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-22 Respect to the Shrine and 8 Precepts 13:25
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2017-12-22 Introduction: Orientation that takes us through birth, aging & death 21:09
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Finding true orientation often begins with disorientation from the known. We look for orientation that can take us through birth, aging and death when everything is always changing. It’s Dhamma, the unconditioned, no need to hold on. That’s the ultimate security.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-09-17 08 Relational Experience I Am 43:25
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The sense of 'the other' is always a part of our experience, it's what consciousness does. Rather than giving attention to the other, practice with recognizing what the other signifies and what it activates in me.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-17 07 Guided Meditation – Sensing the Body in Layers 40:29
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In standing posture, begin with sensing the whole form – what’s around that and what’s in that. Body can be sensed in layers, starting with a basic sense of presence to the most primary level of “I am”, the sense of being a distinct object.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-17 06 Staying in Touch with the “I” before the “Am” 52:07
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Many of us are susceptible to certain perceptual signals that communicate codes of obligation and pressure. Citta becomes secondary to these signals and we lose our sense of wholeness, balance and presence. The advice is to pause and check in with the subjective sense, the “I” before the “am”. As you come into wholeness its energies can change, and we can stop going back to our “I am” habits.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-16 05 Guided Meditation – Ground as a Reference Point 26:34
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Beginning with standing position, take time to sense the space around that is non-intrusive, safe. Strengthening from the ground up, through the arch of the foot, and sending signals down, rooting. When you do feel centered you can maintain a center – that’s the most important thing.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-16 04 Sense of Self 19:39
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The sense of orientation is a requirement, and it brings up the sense of self. It generates relationally, in response to objects, others, memories, etc. Generally that “me” sense is a set of mental impressions, not something fixed or solid. In relational context, the theme then is to maintain a sense of presence, establish primary reference, and use the body to get a feeling for that.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-16 03 Standing Meditation – Whole Presence & Balance 23:11
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Standing posture is in between sitting and walking. Standing immediately asks for whole presence and balance. These are great reference points – losing these throws us into structures of identification. [Walking instructions begin 18:37] Sustain sense of embodied presence. Notice tendencies to engage with eyes, pull with head, lose parts of the body. The whole body walks as space opens around your body.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-16 02 Guided Meditation – 3 Reference Points: Presence, Whole, Balance 29:32
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Guidance to sense into the 3 reference points, something the body knows but mind doesn’t. Amplify the sense of here-ness, lessen the sense of place and time. A here that’s always here, lessening engagement with what’s not always here. Best done in the experience of body.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-16 01 Self Is an Addition to What’s Already Here 21:36
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The fundamental unit of existence is “me” and we try to fill in this existence, “myself”, the center that orients my actions. The mind creates entities, fixed objects. In meditation we can see they’re not fixed at all, just resonances.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-07-30 18: Closing Talk – You Never Go Back, You Always Go Forward 4:27
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The time to close retreat also means time to open boundaries. Retreat ends, but your awareness doesn’t. Always move forward in a way that keeps you alive and progressing.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2017-07-30 17: Qigong Exercises 2 32:33
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Sensing space around; waterfall; standing like a tree; string puppet; separating earth and sky; standing in the ocean
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2017-07-30 16: An Embodied Truth 21:27
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Bodily feeling is an accurate read out of mental formations. It helps us detect kammic effects that arise and move us to action. Embodiment gives a way of discharging. The mind jumps over things that the body doesn’t.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2017-07-29 13: The Aim of One-pointedness 28:01
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One-pointedness, ekaggata, is a later development. The first aim is to get settled, to meet and dispel crankiness, negativity, craving. One-pointedness arrives after these are dispelled.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2017-07-29 12: Mind Doesn’t Know How to Discharge – Body Does 68:55
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In embodiment exercises there are two qualities to emphasize: energy and the body. The basis of energy is this body. Embodiment exercises can help us cultivate the ability to redirect energy from the thinking mind by referring to the body.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2017-07-29 11: Walking Meditation 4:14
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First establish bodily presence. Notice how the leg lifts and moves. Keep the eyes soft. Experience the wave-like motion - it feels good! Allow what’s been difficult or closed to arise and walk it out.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2017-07-29 10: Standing Meditation 2: You Can’t Let Go Without Support 8:22
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Establish support through feet and legs. Process of letting go can seep upwards through the body. Breathing acts as stabilizing quality.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2017-07-29 09: Q&A: Am I Wasting My Opportunity Staying As a Lay Person? 45:09
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Ajahn Sucitto responds to this question by first reframing it – rather than thinking: here’s the real world, how can I fit my practice into that? Consider: here’s the real practice, what kind of world can I operate in from that place? The reality that’s available to us all, regardless of place or position as monastic or lay person, is refuge. And the real refuge is in your presence. Be a refuge unto yourself.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

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