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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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2020-10-10 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
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.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
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?
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
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.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
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
2020-08-30 Guided Meditation – Letting Citta Freely Flow 9:56
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Realize that it’s possible to divert one’s normal preoccupations and thought patterns, and come instead into the sense of penetrating to the roots of it all. Collecting energy into this state of being conscious, being aware, lets citta flow freely, unconstricted by our habitual grasping of form.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
2020-08-23 Citta as Conjurer and Healer 38:56
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We don’t so much experience phenomena, but the citta affected by phenomena. The sense of “I am” keeps us fascinated and hypnotized by the resulting feelings and reactions. The process of purification is to clear citta of defilements and hinderances. Cultivation of samadhi and suffusion of wholesome qualities are means for purification and healing.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
2020-08-16 Guided Meditation – The Process of Centering 12:28
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In meditation we try to establish a clear center from which to look at the various inputs and outputs happening in the mind. This process of centering is done through direct experience of body. The wholeness of body gives rise to a simple, centering effect.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
2020-08-16 Settle Citta through Relationship 39:23
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Meditation is a relational experience. There’s the knowing that you’re being affected and how you respond to that. Relate to what arises with dispassion, calm, sensitivity and openness. In this relationship we learn all the skills of wisdom, compassion, clarity and non-clinging. This is nibānna here and now.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
2020-07-19 Conditions for Learning and Penetration 20:19
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The process of assimilating the teachings takes time. Mindfulness of body and breathing calm and settle the citta, allowing it to unbind from its complexities. Citta becomes attentive, receptive and subtler – able to learn.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness
2020-07-19 The Pervasiveness of Citta 8:19
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When citta is released from its obstructions, its nature is to saturate clarity and well-being into whatever it comes into contact with. It’s not something you do, it’s something that happens when the unskillful and stressful are released.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness
2020-07-19 Cultivating Tolerant and Kindly Space 38:49
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The theme of restraint in Dhamma practice helps keep energy collected rather than running out. This moderating of saṇkhārā is how one begins to turn away from the aggregates, from the assumptions and habitual grasping that cause suffering. A more flexible and beautiful state becomes available to meet what arises.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness
2020-07-19 Q&A 67:04
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Clarifying what is citta; what is felt sense; focusing as an alternative to meditation; is citta the same as self; stuck energy in neck and head; causes and conditions and personal responsibility; unbinding vs. education of citta; how to accept our history; advice for approach to conflict; working with separation and loss; how to practice with space around myself; anatta
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness
2020-07-19 Accepting without Adopting 5:12
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Exploring the experience of transitioning between postures, notice the space and what arises within it. What counts is not what arises but how your awareness responds without resisting, contracting or adopting.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness
2020-07-19 Listening Space 10:22
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Embarrassing and unwanted moods and perceptions can arise and pass through space. They don’t get stuck by the reactions of the personality. We practice to sense space around the body so that we can eventually generate space around mental content.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness

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