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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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2020-05-29 Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Uposatha Public Talk: The Foundation for Relinquishment Is Comfort 51:16
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There are many meditation techniques, but fundamental is finding where the mind will settle - what citta finds comfort in. The more energy rests in that and returns to is, energy is consolidated instead of scattered, running out to external forms. This is the principle for clarification, purification, for awakening.
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2020-05-24 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Freeing the Heart from the Whip of ‘Should Be’ 37:55
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Mind (manas) whips the heart with its interpretations of how things should be, thereby stirring up discontent and agitation. Mind can be placed in service of heart (citta) instead. Citta’s awakened response to the conditioned realm is one of empathy. Holding, soothing, steadying – there is the possibility to experience the clarity and calm of the Buddha rather than the misery that mind creates. *Sutta Nipāta: 721, Dhammapada:134, and M.18
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2020-05-17 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Make Your Mind Like Gold 37:49
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The process of purifying gold can help us understand the nature of mind. Clearing out the turbulences and impurities makes way for what is naturally pure and radiant to come forth. Freed from the hindrances, the mind is pliable, luminous, properly fit for work. *Sutta references: AN5:193; AN3:101-102; SN:46:53; AN6:85
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2020-05-10 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Spiritual Friendship As the Basis for Awakening 35:45
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We may feel more isolated than ever, but the truth is that we’re always captive in our sensory prisons. The aim is to liberate and open the heart so that qualities beyond sense consciousness can be realized. Key among the factors needed for liberation is kalyāṇamitta – spiritual friendship. *Sutta reference AN9:3
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2020-05-03 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: The Gift of Vulnerability 32:03
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It’s possible to meet suffering with an open heart. If the heart can open to grief, pain and vulnerability, a new view is possible – one beyond the cycle of birth and death. Keep the heart open to Dhamma, rooted in faith and goodwill. This is the Path to the deathless. *Sutta References: Therīgatha 6:2; Samyutta Nikaya 12:23; Samyutta Nikaya 1:10
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2020-04-26 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: The Way Out of the Flood 35:37
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Mindfulness based on body is the way out of the mind. From here I can witness feeling rather than dive into it. With wisdom we can come to prefer skillful intention rather than seeking good feeling. When intention is skillful conduct, there is no grasping at results. That feels good! And we are free to act without seeking a result, without becoming. *Sutta reference is AN10:58.
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2020-04-19 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: The Skill of Recollection 39:14
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Recollection is not just thinking about things, it’s associated with the quality of careful attention. Encourage the mind to think slowly, touch the heart and abide in wholesome qualities. In daily life we do the external, but embedded in the ground of the heart is where your basis is. *Sutta reference is AN11:11-12.
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2020-04-12 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: The End of Fear 26:17
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We look for safety and stability in a level of experience that cannot provide it, that’s the source of agitation. In meditation we practice the ability to sustain ungrasping attention around a thought, feeling, situation, and particularly unpleasant feeling. The content will constantly shift, but the relationship to them, awareness, can become the source of stability. *Sutta reference is SN2:17.
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2020-04-09 Home Movie from the Kuti: Where and How Are You Going? 35:30
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We can use this experience of lock down to address the routines and standards that support our daily becoming. The mind is pulled further and further wondering what to do, planning what's next. What to do is stop, rest in the body, maintain deep attention. Consider rituals that nuplug and cut the tide of becoming.
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2020-04-05 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Protecting Ourselves and Others 30:08
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By protecting ourselves we protect others. When we protect our own hearts from defensiveness, blame, hostility and stress, we also protect others. We train ourselves through the 4 foundations of mindfulness. *Sutta reference is SN47:19.
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2020-04-03 Home Movie from the Kuti: Dealing with Isolation 38:16
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Even in this experience of physical isolation, we’re not exactly separate – we’re always with something. Practicing with the relational sense, we meet everything as it is rather than trying to change it or fix it. From this broad state of awareness, edges and boundaries soften, and the heart connects with lovingkindness, regardless of physical proximity.
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2020-03-20 Nibbāna – The Taste of Freedom 46:09
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Is it possible that the obstructions we meet are our fiercest teachers? We encounter the places where construction is no longer possible. It’s the last place we want to go, but if we can cultivate skillful means to linger there, we can taste nibbāna in this very life.
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2020-03-16 Acknowledging the Causal Field 20:11
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Using the sound of the bell, we can notice what meanings and reactions are triggered. It all happens within awareness. We can practice tracing our reactions back to their causal roots, aware of the energies that generate compulsive and agitating feelings and activities.
Bosoord Center :  A Whole Life Path: Abiding in Stillness, Engaging with Wisdom
2020-03-16 Guided Meditation – Setting Up a Causal Loop of Goodwill 27:21
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Establish the body in upright grounded presence so other structures can be supported by this central structure. Internally, refrain from instinctual differentiations. Include everything without adding what’s not needed. Resonate goodwill through the realm of awareness.
Bosoord Center :  A Whole Life Path: Abiding in Stillness, Engaging with Wisdom
2020-03-14 Guided Meditation – Recollecting Buddha 31:02
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The mind needs to resonate many times with something that gives it confidence, assurance, clarity. Buddha represents that. Guidance given to recollect qualities of Buddha, feeling the effects as resonances in the body, lingering to encourage the effects to pervade.
Bosoord Center :  A Whole Life Path: Abiding in Stillness, Engaging with Wisdom
2020-03-07 The Touch of Empathy 34:15
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What happens when confronted with what we don’t like? Drips of ill will – blame, grudges – build up a crust. Detox is about breaking through that crust. Connecting to the bodily presence, we can touch the hurt of fear, inadequacy and desperation with empathy.
Bosoord Center :  A Whole Life Path: Abiding in Stillness, Engaging with Wisdom
2020-03-01 Guided Meditation: Listening with the Body 20:27
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The body and mind are not separate. Emotional resonances and residues manifest as an energetic continuum in the body. Cultivating mindfulness of body allows us to touch into this causal field. The body listens, the emotions speak. Energy can then pass through.
Bosoord Center :  A Whole Life Path: Abiding in Stillness, Engaging with Wisdom
2020-02-26 Renewal Means Refrain from Going Back 24:24
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Being comes before doing. Openness needs the protection of Refuge, not the defensiveness of ill-will. Renewal is not a case of planning or trying something new, but of stopping the re-creating of the old self. Citta then renews by itself.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal
2020-02-26 Aligning to Direct Experience 11:25
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As phenomena arise, align understanding to direct experience. Clear away inferences such as time and the notion of the body. All phenomena arise within awareness. Extend awareness through breathing. Pervade the body with tonalities of goodwill rather than of ill-will or no will.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal
2020-02-25 The Open Way 42:36
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This Path often leads into unknowns, disorientation, places where things don’t fit our normal ways. Meeting these places with strategies doesn’t work, but good qualities of heart leads into a quiet, joyful openness. This supports faith.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal
2020-02-24 Engaged Receptivity 51:29
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The essence of meditation is engaged receptivity. This is the skill of pausing for a minute and witnessing the flow of dhammas. It becomes fully established by strong mindfulness, so that ‘full knowing’ (sampajañña) gives the view of the causal web: that dhammas arise from causes and are not self.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal
2020-02-24 Aimless wandering’ Meditation 3:36
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Take advantage of being in this natural realm. Move around very slowly and relate to everything from the heart. Notice the felt sense that is evoked, how nature touches and speaks to you. Nature reflects back aspects of your own heart.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal
2020-02-24 The Arising of Heart 55:25
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Clearance and renewal is a heart process. It entails meeting emotional material where it begins, with an energetic resonance. Body receives and moderates the energy, clearing the way for fundamental heart qualities to meet phenomena.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal
2020-02-23 Q&A 55:48
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What is mindfulness; What is investigation; Unusual images arising in meditation; Death and afterlife; How to deal with vulnerability of heart?
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal
2020-02-23 Mindfulness of Breathing 11:37
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Mindfulness of breathing is the gathering of attention around a process that is flowing and fluid. The steady and suffusive quality of breathing eases tensions in the heart and mind. The thinking process quietens down and external sights and sounds don’t impinge allowing the natural qualities of the heart become more apparent.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal

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