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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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2021-05-31 Puja – The Path to Here and Now 11:31
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In this practice we are gently peeling back the layers of time and identity to come into something much more sensitive. The act of puja is a sign for citta. Praising and recollecting in both meaning and enactment mark the path of the here and now.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-30 Chanting - Suffusion with the Divine Abidings (Pāli) 4:57
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Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-30 Sharing Heart 10:26
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Once an open stability has been established, we can work from this basis, engaging decisively from the place of giving. Bringing the quality of a giving heart to mind, allow yourself to be touched and feel moved. Continue practicing with the resonances of the brahmaviharā.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-30 Guided Meditation – Open Stability 23:17
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In meditation we’re resetting the dynamic movement of mental and physical energies with open energy. Using body as a guide, resonate the sense of balance and stability throughout. Let mindfulness deepen and maintain a wide-open energy that is receptive.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-30 Refuge Mantra Chanting 1:31
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Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-30 Guided Meditation – Rhythm and Energy of Breathing 42:57
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Deal with the compulsions of becoming by tackling energy in the body. Thoughtful breathing becomes comfortable and soothing. Its rhythm moderates the floods, diffusing stressful energies and psychologies. Heart and body draw close in the enjoyment. From this place of samādhi you can stand back from the most fundamental flood of becoming.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-30 Day 1 Q&A 44:47
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Can we chant just in the heart, without sound; Buddhism’s view on healing with energy; how to work with various energy blocks and imbalances; feeling disoriented when letting go of a topic and giving attention to body energies; what importance to give to thought; how does one cultivate absorption, to be with intense emotions; when only eating before noon does hunger become an object of meditation.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-30 Guided Meditation – Body Energy Fields 23:25
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In standing, sitting and free movement postures, exercise an attitude of goodwill, sympathy and encouragement to invite body channels to open. Energies know what to do – body wants to wants to arrive at wholeness.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-30 Establishing Firm Ground 42:33
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To stand against the tide of the floods we need firm ground. Established first in the body, mental/heart energies pick up the same theme of stability and core presence. This is the process of samatha – calming, stabilizing, giving one firm ground.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-30 Precepts – A Way to Cross the Floods 47:21
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Determining to keep precepts is a way to cross the floods. They help check and restrain urges of gratification, malice and escapism. Coming from a place of ethics and mutuality naturally gives rise to pleasant states of being, giving us an orientation we want to remain with rather than following the immediate pull of inclination.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-30 Chanting - Recollection of the Triple Gem 5:26
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Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-30 Puja and Chanting 48:13
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Puja means honor or praise. It’s an important gesture to cultivate – the sense of rising up to something beautiful, something worthy. Making offerings, bowing, chanting and meditating are steadying and calming acts that massage the energies of body, heart and mind.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-29 Q&A 36:05
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Please explain why you got the COVID vaccine as I am hesitant; can meditation help with IBS; can’t exhale completely because in breath rushes in; does it matter if formal practice/meditation is less; is manas an impediment to citta or can it be used beneficially; how to get over the pain of divorce; how to ask someone to leave a community due to ethical reasons; when desire is abandoned how is avijja eliminated; elaborate on terms samādhi, atammayatā, nibānna.
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2021-05-29 Guided Meditation - Fountain of Feeling 17:29
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The cycle of saṃsara develops from feeling. Perceptions then form that stimulate particular actions that can be stirring, disturbing, exciting. Investigate these from the stillness and stability of presence. What’s needed?
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2021-05-26 Going Forth to the Place of Realization 54:54
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Mind is always searching – in the personal, social and sensory realms – for solidity and satisfaction. But to find this, we must go forth – set aside the virtual world that we compulsively create and come into presence. This is the place of realization, where we meet what arises with the compassion, goodwill and discernment of the heart.
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2021-05-22 The Power of Presence 38:16
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We seek steadiness and happiness from that which is inherently changing and unsteady – the constructed notions of future, past, myself and others. Withdraw from the tangle, acknowledge without getting involved. When you collect your heart with presence and acknowledge the tangle and the stress, there’s empathy rather than agitation. Good qualities naturally arise from that stable empathetic basis.
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2021-05-22 Guided Meditation - Return to the Basis of Citta 13:33
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Encourage attention to find its way back through the tangle, back to the basis of citta. Sentient, present, withdrawn from the mental landscapes and the personal scenarios. Fully dwelt in, lingered in, citta, in its basis, is happy.
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2021-05-19 Guided Meditation - Realization of Anicca 45:40
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The realization of changeability can be transformational and liberating. When we deepen into presence, we can review the contents of the mind with spaciousness – without identifying with anything, without creating a self. With this quality of relinquishment, wonderful dhammas arise – spaciousness, clarity compassion – the ending of suffering.
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2021-05-15 Enrich Citta to Heal the Person 35:46
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Citta’s awakening intelligence is in its capacity to know and be touched. Rather than trying to change or complain about our situations, embrace the human condition with the qualities of pure citta and let that do the work. Citta is the most important thing – it’s what suffers, what leads and directs us, and what gets liberated.
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2021-05-15 Guided Meditation - Chanting is Your Dhamma Footprint 12:17
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Chanting is like a subtle yoga. It uses your whole body in a non-straining way. We bring something forth into the world with our voices, and we open awareness to what’s around us, to the persistent flow of mental and emotional arisings. Don’t try to change anything, but receive it all with a kindly devotional heart.
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2021-05-11 Converting Difficulty into Skilful States 61:12
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Cultivation, bhavana, can be described as the desire to bring forth skilful qualities. It’s an eager, inspired willingness to receive every situation that arises, and know what is needed to turn it into a skilful state. The old historical person begins to fade out, transformed by the deepened and strengthened resolve of the heart.
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2021-05-08 Unshakable Deliverance of Mind 31:41
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Mind always has some purpose to it. The aim is to keep refining that, keep it from becoming corrupted. Sustain inner awareness and disengagement. The unshakable deliverance of mind is the ultimate goal, not shaken by the circumstances of life, aging, sickness and death. (Sutta reference: MN 29)
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2021-05-08 Guided Meditation - Trust the Simplicity of Body Breathing 12:12
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Instructions to establish an upright, open and relaxed posture, following the natural expanding and subsiding of breathing. This allows the internal aspect of the body to become more apparent. Train the mind to relax its preoccupations and return to the simplicity of body breathing.
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2021-05-02 Noble Birth 14:11
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With the recognition of the ending of this session, consider birth: what we’ve been through is receding, nothing new yet has begun, and we’re not going back to the same old thing. Birth is arising into that which we’re not yet entirely clear about. Nourish the potency of arising with mental qualities of goodwill, compassion, celebration and equanimity.
London Insight Meditation :  Clearing the Floods
2021-05-02 Q&A2 45:41
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Where is the experience of bodily energies found in the suttas; what is the source of Ajahn’s ‘forensic precision’; how to us somatic presence with the 3rd and 4th foundations of mindfulness; please help with insomnia; experiencing resistance to standing meditation; grief and pain experienced with ‘Future and Past’ exercise; how to deepen into the ‘neither/nor’ space; is samādhi developed by sustaining sati; how to deal with overactive citta; how did you deal with the fear of death when being robbed in India?
London Insight Meditation :  Clearing the Floods

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