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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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2018-06-29 16 Disengaging the Self - the First Right Effort 59:46
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When we make effort to disengage and avoid the unskillful, we enter the Dhamma domain, the domain of patience, clarity, sensing. Then the Dhamma potencies, not self, naturally do the work of untangling the self-saṇkhāras.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-29 15 Guided Meditation: Breathing In Healing Energies 22:57
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There is an innate interest in the body to release itself. If we can meet what arises with the right kind of invitation – a mind of goodwill, patience and trust – breathing will act as a messenger and carry these qualities into the body. These then act as healing energies.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-29 14 Pāramī - Embodying Truth 13:19
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Pāramī are described as qualities that extend and further. When cultivated, they provide steadiness to cross over the field of dukkha and confusion into the transcendent plane of Dhamma.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-28 13 Guided Meditation: Everything Unfolds from the Center 8:15
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Establish and maintain core presence through the upright axis. Keep your tap root firmly rooted in your Dhamma field and resist the temptation to move out into what arises. Just by not getting stuck in what arises weakens the power of difficulties. [Instructions end 8:08]
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-28 12 Q&A: Negotiating Contact & Gladdening the Mind 51:35
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Negotiating contact; gladdening the mind; the meaning of spirit; spiritual powers; consciousness creating duality; advice for Dhamma teachers; transmuting sexual energy; what is sampajañña; jhāna training
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-28 11 Massaging the Closed Heart 62:11
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Our self tends to get patterned and established by what is familiar and repeated. For most, it means being shaped and formed by negative accumulations that constrict and close the heart. Using the body-mind connection we can massage in the internal body back to life, not through words but through wholesome felt sense perceptions.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-28 10 Standing Meditation: Skillful Use of Perceptions 22:40
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After attuning to the subjective experience of the back, guidance is provided to use perceptions as a means for generating comfort and relaxation.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-27 09 The Craft of Meditation 18:06
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There are various tools and forms for meditation, but most important is our relationship to these: right intention, not too much effort, allowing the natural arising of experience.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-27 08 Careful Attention to the Wilderness of Self 58:54
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Our self can become extremely busy seeking safety and comfort, acceptance and inclusion. Use the body to ground this agitated energy – embodiment is the ground we reflexively seek.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-27 07 Standing Meditation: Include It All 14:01
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Instructions for coming into the bodily sense through ground, upright posture and space.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-27 06 Guided Meditation: Holding the Field Beneath Self-View 17:11
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What’s there when self-view is released? Beneath the grip of self-view is the intention to welcome and include it all. Intentionality comes before attention.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-26 05 Dhamma: The Liberation Field 39:05
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What arises in our fields is based on what’s been intended and activated. We become overwhelmed by the persistent activations of control, pressure, separateness. Accessing our Dhamma field gives rise to that which seeks balance, harmony, and that which seeks the welfare of all.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-26 04 Entering the Fields with Faith 60:27
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Citta is affected by what we take in from our fields. Generally overwhelmed with afflictive effects, there is a point when we can stop and open in the midst of affliction and bring forth faith. The 5 spiritual faculties then have authority over the 5 sense faculties, imbuing the heart with wholesome qualities.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-26 03 Aspiration: To Train in the Wilderness 36:22
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Ajahn Sucitto compares Dhamma practice to wilderness training – attention is not so driven, and there’s a global awareness. He suggests ways of fortifying and strengthening our practice to meet afflictions of the heart.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-25 02 Guided Meditation: Sitting at the Root of a Tree 26:29
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Instructions to establish a grounded, upright posture for meditation and for using breathing to strengthen energy.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-06-25 01 Heart Offerings 33:36
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The occasion for retreat gives opportunity to establish a field of integrity and make heart offerings by taking precepts, chanting, making offerings to the shrine, and bowing.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature
2018-04-30 Closing Comments 11:36
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It’s natural for us to step out of our daily scenarios from time to time and take a break from suffering. Ask: “What’s most important now?” Find the hidden grooves that move towards destinations that don’t exist – permanence, sustained agreeable feeling, being in control – and establish ground in embodied awareness instead.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-30 A suggested exercise 4:41
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Watching a tree or a bush for 30 minutes notice how the object forming tendencies start to wear out and the experience is of something …. unnamed.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-30 Refining One’s Ability to Notice 35:02
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It’s possible for citta to review the 5 aggregates, not be stuck in them. Practice with sustaining a quality of awareness that’s open and receptive to shifting and changing. This awareness can be applied to your world.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-29 The Experience of Consciousness (with 15 min standing) 26:50
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Exploring the experience of consciousness and noting what occurs – through the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind. Includes 15 min standing meditation.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-29 Elements of a Meditation Model 47:52
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Distinguishing dukkha as a characteristic and dukkha as a Noble Truth. Relax – nothing is under control. Acknowledging this is the start of a reset. Rather than meeting experience with pre-formed strategies, pause, expand awareness, and meet experience without jumping to conclusions.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-29 Settling in (with 30 min silence) 24:45
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Opening guidance - As we settle in and incline away from sense contact, our internal experience may seem chaotic. Stability comes from a relationship to this volatile, mundane, unglamorous stuff – one that accepts what arises without rejecting, adopting or adding to it. This relationship is what generates awakened intelligence – the wisdom of “It’s like this now.”
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-29 Walking Meditation (30 min silence) 42:34
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Walking meditation can counter the conditioning of the business model. Walking with nowhere to go, broadening attention to include the whole body, to feel the fluidity and pleasure of bodily ease. [Instructions end 11:28]
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-29 Standing Meditation 27:26
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From an upright, grounded posture, move from the world of sense consciousness into subjectivity of ‘being conscious’. Meet uncomfortable energies with sympathy and support. [22:43] Transition into movement: Re-enter the world of the physical body – an expression of natural intelligence, integrating it into the sense of the world from the inside out.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-28 Moving to a meditation model 39:06
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We practice to come out of the stress and suffering of our workaday ‘Business Model’ by dismantling expectations of comfort and convenience, and of things being reliable. The wise attention that realizes that is itself stable and at ease.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality

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