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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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2020-10-11 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.
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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
2020-09-29 Release from Psychological Conditioning 38:23
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The aim of Dhamma cultivation is penetration and purification of saṇkhārā – the conditioning forces. Everything else is to support that. Mindfulness of body provides a steady and pleasant foundation, samādhi acts as a refuge from sensory input. Mind then has the power to resist, moderate and release from these conditioning forces.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat
2020-09-28 Making the Right Choice 39:09
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Mindfulness can be thought of as a boundary setter. It’s used to discern what to stay with and deepen into, and what to avoid and stay out of. Instructions are given for how to apply this to ānāpānasati, mindfulness of breathing.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat
2020-09-27 Mindfulness the Purifier 36:10
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The function of mindfulness is to purify. It means we have to understand what purity is – what qualities cause problems, stress and contamination, an which are bright, fortifying and calming. Right view and right attitude inform the careful attention that leads to purification.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat
2020-09-26 Right domain - the indriya 41:21
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In Dhamma practice we aim to establish positive roots that can nourish our everyday actions and behaviors. We train in setting aside what is unskillful and causes stress, and lingering in and strengthening factors for awakening. The 5 indriya offer a beneficial domain for such cultivation.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat
2020-09-20 Cessation of Outflows Is the Release of Citta 44:57
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The unawakened citta is always taking things in, seeking security from them. True security has not yet been found. Through developing meditation and samādhi, it’s possible to unlink from the flowing out towards objects and ideas. Citta can find true security in itself.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
2020-09-20 Guided Meditation on the Sense of I 17:02
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The sense of ‘I’ is crucial for understanding citta. Guidance is provided to access the direct experience of body, then tune into the fundamental sensitivity and receptivity of citta.
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2020-09-13 Guiding and Guarding–the indriya 33:55
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The person gets very entrained to follow circumstances, caught in a cycle of creating, worrying, planning, hoping. In meditation, it’s possible to witness the person rather than constantly re-create it. Start by establishing certain transpersonal/universal qualities of the 5 indriya.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
2020-09-13 Guided Meditation - Basic Luminosity of Citta 11:02
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Establish strong mindfulness that can act as a frame for shifting states of mind. Go easy on the mental content letting it all pass through. Aware of a basic luminosity, or vibrancy, assess what is needed to encourage citta – goodwill, patience, dispassion.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
2020-09-06 Q&A – Desire, Hatred, Deathless and Boundaries 44:45
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How to manage inconvenient feelings of attraction; reacting impulsively towards sexual desire and hatred; working with boredom and drowsiness; how does one turn towards the deathless; is nibbana “a ground of being”; what does the use of “internal and external” mean?
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2020-09-06 Guided Meditation – Arrive at the Basis 10:57
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Citta has its own basic clarity and sanity. Practice to establish citta on its own ground, where there is no suffering. This is the upright citta, the foundation for all the virtues leading to awakening.
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2020-08-30 Citta as Embodied 42:10
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The untrained citta runs out and becomes fixated by its own constructions, the primary construction being the sense of self. Citta can be trained to contain itself in awareness of body, distancing it from the abstractions of the mind. This is a very peaceful place to be.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

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