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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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2017-09-17 07 Guided Meditation – Sensing the Body in Layers 40:29
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In standing posture, begin with sensing the whole form – what’s around that and what’s in that. Body can be sensed in layers, starting with a basic sense of presence to the most primary level of “I am”, the sense of being a distinct object.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-17 06 Staying in Touch with the “I” before the “Am” 52:07
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Many of us are susceptible to certain perceptual signals that communicate codes of obligation and pressure. Citta becomes secondary to these signals and we lose our sense of wholeness, balance and presence. The advice is to pause and check in with the subjective sense, the “I” before the “am”. As you come into wholeness its energies can change, and we can stop going back to our “I am” habits.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-16 05 Guided Meditation – Ground as a Reference Point 26:34
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Beginning with standing position, take time to sense the space around that is non-intrusive, safe. Strengthening from the ground up, through the arch of the foot, and sending signals down, rooting. When you do feel centered you can maintain a center – that’s the most important thing.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-16 04 Sense of Self 19:39
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The sense of orientation is a requirement, and it brings up the sense of self. It generates relationally, in response to objects, others, memories, etc. Generally that “me” sense is a set of mental impressions, not something fixed or solid. In relational context, the theme then is to maintain a sense of presence, establish primary reference, and use the body to get a feeling for that.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-16 03 Standing Meditation – Whole Presence & Balance 23:11
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Standing posture is in between sitting and walking. Standing immediately asks for whole presence and balance. These are great reference points – losing these throws us into structures of identification. [Walking instructions begin 18:37] Sustain sense of embodied presence. Notice tendencies to engage with eyes, pull with head, lose parts of the body. The whole body walks as space opens around your body.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-16 02 Guided Meditation – 3 Reference Points: Presence, Whole, Balance 29:32
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Guidance to sense into the 3 reference points, something the body knows but mind doesn’t. Amplify the sense of here-ness, lessen the sense of place and time. A here that’s always here, lessening engagement with what’s not always here. Best done in the experience of body.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-09-16 01 Self Is an Addition to What’s Already Here 21:36
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The fundamental unit of existence is “me” and we try to fill in this existence, “myself”, the center that orients my actions. The mind creates entities, fixed objects. In meditation we can see they’re not fixed at all, just resonances.
London Insight Meditation :  "I" without "Am" … the Open Field of Mind
2017-07-30 18: Closing Talk – You Never Go Back, You Always Go Forward 4:27
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The time to close retreat also means time to open boundaries. Retreat ends, but your awareness doesn’t. Always move forward in a way that keeps you alive and progressing.
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2017-07-30 17: Qigong Exercises 2 32:33
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Sensing space around; waterfall; standing like a tree; string puppet; separating earth and sky; standing in the ocean
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2017-07-30 16: An Embodied Truth 21:27
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Bodily feeling is an accurate read out of mental formations. It helps us detect kammic effects that arise and move us to action. Embodiment gives a way of discharging. The mind jumps over things that the body doesn’t.
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2017-07-29 13: The Aim of One-pointedness 28:01
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One-pointedness, ekaggata, is a later development. The first aim is to get settled, to meet and dispel crankiness, negativity, craving. One-pointedness arrives after these are dispelled.
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2017-07-29 12: Mind Doesn’t Know How to Discharge – Body Does 68:55
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In embodiment exercises there are two qualities to emphasize: energy and the body. The basis of energy is this body. Embodiment exercises can help us cultivate the ability to redirect energy from the thinking mind by referring to the body.
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2017-07-29 11: Walking Meditation 4:14
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First establish bodily presence. Notice how the leg lifts and moves. Keep the eyes soft. Experience the wave-like motion - it feels good! Allow what’s been difficult or closed to arise and walk it out.
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2017-07-29 10: Standing Meditation 2: You Can’t Let Go Without Support 8:22
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Establish support through feet and legs. Process of letting go can seep upwards through the body. Breathing acts as stabilizing quality.
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2017-07-29 09: Q&A: Am I Wasting My Opportunity Staying As a Lay Person? 45:09
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Ajahn Sucitto responds to this question by first reframing it – rather than thinking: here’s the real world, how can I fit my practice into that? Consider: here’s the real practice, what kind of world can I operate in from that place? The reality that’s available to us all, regardless of place or position as monastic or lay person, is refuge. And the real refuge is in your presence. Be a refuge unto yourself.
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2017-07-29 15: The Root Perception of Change 35:31
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There are many things one can cultivate in meditation. There is craft, what can be learned. And there is art, what can’t be taught. Follow your nose, where’s your interest? Notice the difference between awareness and consciousness. Place an object in space, experience the object with dispassion.
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2017-07-29 08: Return, Return, Return 8:35
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The energy body is a particular fullness of being – this is citta. As it’s more completed, it becomes less obstructed. Take time to gather and center in the completed citta, even if it’s just for a few minutes. Meditation means to return time and time again.
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2017-07-29 14: It’s Just a Movement 7:22
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Puja is a time for offering, for being received into a quality of blessedness and welcome, just as you are. The mind searches for directions – all reasonable, but don’t follow it. Notice the energy of the movement that’s occurring now – no future, no past.
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2017-07-28 07: Standing Meditation 1: Balance – the Place of Least Stress & Most Harmony 6:30
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The single most important quality of standing meditation is balance. This is the place of least stress, of most harmony. Guidance is provided to sense into this balance where it’s just the muscular alignment that’s holding you up. Locking places can then relax and release.
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2017-07-28 06: A Quality of Deep Attention 52:40
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The key to the Buddha’s awakening was his use of appropriate attention. Attention is either grounded in the right place or the wrong place, it’s one or the other. The lens of attention and the attitudes we bring to it are extremely significant. It matters how we are seeing things. Our attention is very potent. Whatever you attend to – doubt or confidence, aversion or goodwill – you’ll get more of it. Attention is an amplifier.
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2017-07-28 05: Put Aside What’s Unnecessary 13:16
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The contemplative process is one where you bring to mind simple things and put aside what’s unnecessary, obstructive and irrelevant. Not with aversion, but just noticing that in most of our life we’re moving forward into qualities of pressure, important business, people – but they’re only there because your mind put them there. There doesn’t have to be the drive forward, doesn’t have to be a next. Take time to stop and notice what’s not needed, notice what’s already here.
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2017-07-28 04: Walking without Headism 12:43
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Ajahn Sucitto addresses a form of bodily discrimiation called “headism.” It says, “I’m on top, everything is secondary to me,” and it drags everything underneath it around. Headism can be overcome by operating through the body rather than through the head. It can be practiced in walking meditation.
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2017-07-28 03: Feeling the Body 4:13
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Guidance to settle into the seated posture, relaxing the body, sensing ground and space.
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2017-07-28 02: Standing meditation - Elements and Directions 13:35
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What tells you you have a body? Guidance provided to sense the particular signals that tell us we have a body in the forms of elements and directions.
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2017-07-28 01: A Harmony of Body and Mind 27:27
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Meditation is where the body and mind interact. Physical form creates the boundary within which to dwell. No third party is needed, no abstractor, no one to do anything. Just allow body and mind to come into harmony autonomously.
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