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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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2020-10-25 Guided Meditation - Widening the Heart 26:14
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Instructions for sustaining a wide, soft awareness that includes it all. Aware of the background, aware of the details, the stillness, the movement – let things be as they are. Let citta learn from its own fluidity.
Teach na Tuisceana :  Teach na Tuisceana Weekend Retreat (*pronounced Tjuck na Tooshana)
2020-10-24 Walking Meditation – The Pleasant Fluidity of Walking 9:07
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Approach walking meditation like swimming, feeling the body moving through space. There’s a swing, a pleasant fluidity. Hold any concerns that arise in your embodiment, giving the heart a foundation to listen from. It will eventually speak for itself.
Teach na Tuisceana :  Teach na Tuisceana Weekend Retreat (*pronounced Tjuck na Tooshana)
2020-10-24 Guided Meditation – Open Body, Open Heart 29:57
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Guidance for moving from the anatomical body to sensing into the energy body. Switch off what isn’t needed, step attention back and listen. As one opens the body, one opens the heart. This is the basis for wisdom.
Teach na Tuisceana :  Teach na Tuisceana Weekend Retreat (*pronounced Tjuck na Tooshana)
2020-10-24 The Doing and Non-Doing of Meditation 20:08
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Meditation has two aspects: the limiting of mental activity and the staying on track with the heart. Resolution and mindfulness of body act as supports. Use embodied energy to restrain ‘doingness’, and to clear and fortify the heart so that wisdom can arise.
Teach na Tuisceana :  Teach na Tuisceana Weekend Retreat (*pronounced Tjuck na Tooshana)
2020-10-18 Kathina as the Occasion for Social Harmony 32:39
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This event of Kathina encapsulates the skillful qualities associated with social harmony and cohesion – qualities of generosity and sharing, precepts and virtue, gentle speech and service. Recollecting the goodness of such actions, the heart grows and is strengthened.
Cittaviveka
2020-10-11 Energy of Sharing 21:55
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A shift in energy affords an opportunity to reform in accordance with Dhamma rather than personal history. The power of love is an energy we can be formed in, and the more widely it’s shared out, the richer and grander we become.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-11 Q&A 35:13
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Advice for young people experiencing panic attacks, lack of motivation, depression; how to locate tension and contraction in the body; feeling restless about others’ difficulties and wanting to share Dhamma; working with disconnects in society; working with external sounds in meditation; how to get more steadiness in meditation when body is so uncomfortable.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-11 Recollecting Faith 15:02
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We use embodiment as a holding frame to bring heart and mind together. Energy is the meeting point. Recollect your faith – why you do this practice – to uplift and fortify energy. This provides some ballast from being knocked around by the world.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-11 Walking Meditation – Soothing Tension 12:45
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The mobility of walking helps soothe feelings of tension and aggression. The loose and the strong aspects as you walk create a feedback loop to circulate energy. A comfortable collectedness of energy can result.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-11 Q&A 36:28
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How does release come about; working with regret/results of unskillful actions; how to sense into spine and other internal body parts; how to hold good heartedness towards seemingly evil behaviors; wanting to meet aggression with aggression; working with drowsiness; waning interest in events around me.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-11 Guided Meditation - Letting Go of Mental Complexities 35:14
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After setting up the posture, allow the breathing. Let it educate your mindfulness. Step out of the anatomy of body and into the energy body. Steadily wiping out the visual impression, just feel what you feel.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-11 The Gold Star of Heart Tones – Equanimity 40:26
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Liberation is expressed as both liberation of citta and liberation of wisdom. As the heart is soothed and relaxed, the roots of behavior can be penetrated, distractions and defilements discarded. The result is a heart tone which is serene and comfortable with all that arises.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Concluding Remarks – Continuity of Practice 3:39
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Where things fall apart is where the connections break, when we spin off into our distracted thinking and proliferating thoughts. Spend time lingering in the heart sense, staying connected and present with that. Stay with the body in daily activities, taking regular pause moments.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Guided Meditation – Suffusing Goodwill 23:12
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One transformative insight that arises from practice is the way you develop and store up goodness is by sharing it. The untrained mind thinks it’s by storing it up. Guidance is provided generate qualities of heart and extend them across a wide span.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Q&A 26:35
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Working with past traumas; relationship between meditation and right livelihood; clarification around embodied presence; please elaborate on contracted and anxious modes; sequence of the 4 elements – earth, air, fire, water; recollecting teachers and use of Buddho in meditation; clarify the meaning of purification or cleaning of citta.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Guided Meditation – Breathing and Body 30:06
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Guidance for establishing a suitable posture and attitude for meditation. Sustain attention on breathing – a moving sign is easier to stay with than a static sign. Use it along with supportive heart energy to help blocked places to unfreeze and dissolve.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Redesigning Our Energy 29:39
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The energy we use to think about things and get things done is conditioned – it can put us in conflict when we want to be comfortable and kind but keep getting caught up in irritation and defeat. This energy can be purified. Change the mental approach and repel distractions. Beautiful qualities arise on their own.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Standing Meditation – Body as a Unity 21:11
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After establishing a firm and comfortable posture, expand awareness across each dimension of the body. The details become less, the whole body becomes a unity in harmony. In this state hindrances and discomforts have much less possibility to occur.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Guided Standing Meditation – Grounding through Standing 23:24
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Hindrances take us away from ground. Groundedness is an absolute requirement for skillful cultivation. Standing posture gives access to feet touching the ground to create a firm and steady foundation.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Staving off Hindrances 15:02
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Meditation is about penetrating the roots of mental behavior. The primary doing is to settle and clear distracting influences so the mind becomes unified in purpose. A happy, firm mind leaves less traction for hindrances to take hold.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Meet Dukkha from a Collected Center 21:24
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Dukkha is a natural part of our experience. When internalized it manifests as constricting and disjointed somatic states. When met from a clear and settled center, our responses can be guided by harmony and wisdom.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-10 Welcome, advice on online retreats, guided meditation 20:05
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With a heartful attitude, set aside what is not necessary and make a continued deliberate practice around your Dhamma aspirations. Tuning into embodiment with interest and sensitivity, we can locate the missing piece, where harmonization of the mental and somatic domains occurs.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece
2020-10-04 Dhamma Stream Q&A 1:28:46
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How does citta relate to consciousness; is citta involved with rebirth; how to practice with non-attachment; the role of cetana (intention), sankappa (attitude) and chanda (motivation) in citta cultivation; how much jhāna is needed for stream entry; where does motivation for practice/career/relationship come from; what does attachment to rights and rituals, sīlabbata-parāmāsa, mean; clarify body energies and energy flows; question about prayer; advice about life termination.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
2020-10-01 Work Unconditionally with Conditions that Arise 38:33
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Practice is a whole life path. The conditions that arise and our reactions to them can all act as reference points for purification and practice. Careful cultivation of the conditioned is an aspect of the unconditioned and leads to the unconditioned.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat
2020-09-30 Maturing from Renunciation to Relinquishment 32:18
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Citta needs something to settle on, to feel comfortable in. Use mindfulness to form a frame around what’s helpful and skillful and absorb into that. Citta begins to understand the agitation that both pleasure and displeasure cause, and can see something more fulfilling in the bareness of mind.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat

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