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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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2018-06-26 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
2018-04-28 Standing Meditation 23:23
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Guided standing meditation: Spreading energy from the ground through the entire body, we set up conditions for blocked energy to release through the body. [14:30] Conclude standing form, begin gentle body movements.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-28 The Paradigm of Practice 57:26
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The fundamental grooves that get established are expectations that we can make experience reliable, agreeable, and mine. Pursuing these makes us busy, anxious and stressed. But we can move out of them.
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-04-28 Introduction 21:26
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Introductory guided meditation; using controlled breathing; changing the reference point to experiencing the energy body
London Insight Meditation :  Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality
2018-03-04 The Duties of Heedfulness Q&A 33:32
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2018-03-04 The Duties of Heedfulness 50:28
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Singapore
2018-03-03 Qi Gong and Anapanasati Q&A 55:03
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at Buddhist Library Singapore
Singapore
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2018-03-03 Qi Gong and Anapanasati 51:13
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2018-03-01 Q&A Citta, samādhi, livelihood 57:46
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1. What is the difference between citta, mano and viññana; 2. Can you say more about the experience of jhana? Space not content (27:52); 3. (51:44) How can we integrate spiritual practice into worldly life (e.g. in a managerial position)
Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary :  Ajahn Sucitto Dhamma Retreat
2018-03-01 Guided meditation - Wholesome movements from the heart 16:46
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(10 m silence) Intentions move from the heart out into the world. Greed moves from the heart and reaches out; hatred moves from the heart and fights with things. We can us the brahmavihāras to cultivate wholesome movements from the heart that offer, nourish, protect and uplift. This will keep our energy clean and clear of disturbance.
Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary :  Ajahn Sucitto Dhamma Retreat
2018-03-01 An introduction to Dependent Origination 65:08
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A detailed description of each link in dependent origination with advice and encouragement for coming out of the cycle of delusion. Start by working on avijjā, ignorance. Step out of the speed and blur of conditioning that causes pressure. Once stopped, attention can shift, and something else becomes available. Release from pressure is now possible. [57:58] How do you find mental stability? Citta is what is affected. We can use the body to affect citta with signs of ground, stability and space.
Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary :  Ajahn Sucitto Dhamma Retreat
2018-02-28 Sympathetic Resonance 48:43
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That which can be liberated is citta – sometimes translated as mind, heart, awareness. The gateway to citta is feeling. “All dhammas converge on feeling.” But mental feeling is chronically suppressed or ignored because it’s inconvenient. If we enter citta appropriately we have access to that which is deeply agreeable – patience, compassion, goodwill. As a result of this sympathetic resonance, citta can be stimulated to wake up to its own potential. Citta is the only one that can liberate citta.
Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary :  Ajahn Sucitto Dhamma Retreat

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