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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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2018-02-01 Evening Q&A 62:18
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1. Further comments on spherical experience of the breath and the experience of the body; 2. (19:43) What is the role of metta bhavana in practice?; 3. (47:32) If the body energy and breath have settled should one proactively introduce an object or wait for an object to present itself?; 4. (48:44) Is it important to be grounded all the time? What about the arupa jhāna non-grounded states?; 5. (51:38) Could you say more about the citta?; 6. (51:53) Can you speak about stream entry and how it arises?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-02-01 Knowing the aggregates needs a comfortable heart 57:05
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“What is greater, the water in the ocean or the tears shed in this faring on?” We cling to the aggregates, tearfully in search of something stable, permanent, comfortable. But it hasn’t happened. However, subjectivity - that which seeks comfort - is itself a source of comfort and stability. It’s called the citta and depends on itself - doesn’t depend on the aggregates. What needs to be undone is not the aggregate but the clinging to it. So we find a way to maintain presence with these aggregates in all their moving and changing. We use embodiment to bring a heft to awareness, to bring a sense of presence.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-02-01 AM - Assessing rather than judging our practice 67:04
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The thing to assess is where the dukkha is, the stress, pressure, longing. Find your refuge place. First attend to where your strengths are, where your ease, humour and resources are, and be nourished there. Don’t let yourself get pulled into your struggle until you’re ready for it. Aspiration, recollection and assessment are necessary prologues to direct application. [Instructions end 23:55] [Begins again 59:15] Sensing how it feels to come back into the group form after a period of individual practice. Sharing blessings and receiving them.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-31 Evening Q&A 49:26
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1. Is aspiration (not the chanda type) the same as becoming? How can we not make aspiration into bhava tanha (craving for becoming); 2. (12:30) How do we have skillful mindfulness or more effective awareness of sensations? I find my mindfulness is rather superficial; 3. (18:25) How can we abstain from killing living creatures when doing daily duties? For example finding ants in what needs to be swept in the kitchen; 4. (25:22) Is it possible to be aware and work fast at the same time - like in the kitchen? 5. (43:10) Please talk about spiritual by-pass and how to avoid it, especially as it relates to the idea of not self.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-31 AM - Sati sampajañña A hold that knows how to flex 43:21
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In meditation practice we need to moderate the meditator. Influenced by the business model, attention can be rigid. Wisdom, which we all have access to, is sensitive and flexible in its mode of attention, helping us find the right touch to meet experience.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-31 Guided Meditation - Saying Yes to what arises 5:16
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Use the word “yes” to meet whatever is occurring. Without agitation or resistance, without results or trying to change anything. A reference point begins to form, there’s willingness and openness that has its own stature. Use sympathetic resonance with whatever arises.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-30 Evening 30 min Meditation - Mindfulness and full knowing 43:56
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Sati-sampajañña, mindfulness and full knowing, are the basis of mindfulness. These are the holding and handling in meditation. Sati is the foundation for samadhi (unification), sampajañña is the foundation for pañña (wisdom). Sense of ground is generally the necessary starting point. [Instructions end 9:52]
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-30 Evening Q&A 57:52
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1. I am not able to get the breath at the nostrils. What should I do?; 2 (19:20) Could you discuss body energy more?; 3. (46:17) How can I deal with my many mental proliferations in mindful daily life, in interacting with the surrounding environment and other people? 4. (53:54) Have you been introduced to tantric Theravada practice? 5. (57:05) Is it useful to develop psychic skills?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-30 Evening Meditation - A caring inquiry: what is helpful, now? 9:54
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Consider what is useful to focus on for this meditation period. What is a suitable meal for citta to dine on? What gives a natural sense of vitality? What gives a sense of good heart? [Instructions end 9:52]
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-30 AM - The natural source of good will is awareness 48:25
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We struggle against the uncertainty and unsatisfactoriness of the phenomenal world. Wisdom lets us know: I can be aware of all of this rather than resist it - I can pause, reflect and determine an appropriate response. As awareness arises the response (not a reaction) is goodwill.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-30 AM - Working Directly with the citta 22:07
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Puja means to praise or offer the heart to that which is worthy. It’s a going forth of citta from the habits. Citta is not in the head, it’s not a thought. It’s much more direct. Citta gets obscured, but we can clear this by staying with awareness, breathing through blocks, and sustaining the bodily presence. The body gives awareness a foundation; an open heart gives awareness the willingness to be with this process.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-29 Evening Q&A 44:55
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1. Is this a vipassana retreat? 2. (12:15) How to train mind to have energy to overcome mental dullness?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-29 Evening Talk - A brief guideline on grounding presence 44:17
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Find your anchor, that core quality of stability. What is suggested is a spinal, upright sense that goes down into the ground. Take your stand there to repel the forces of Mara. [Instructions end 7:09]
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-29 PM - Entering the bodily field 35:35
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Body can be experienced in multiple ways - physical, perceptual, somatic, and energetic. In this light, body is an experience rather than a thing. It plays out in meditation. It’s important to establish a more accurate body, clear of perceptual taints and distortions, biases and kammic impositions.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-29 AM - Detox - clearing the ‘Business Model’ 52:52
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Conditioning of the business model - performance, achievement, self-criticism - drives us up into our head. Purification of the unskilful, of self-hood, is possible. It’s accomplished through awareness and energy. Balancing yin (receptive) and yang (driving) energies in the body resets our system, easing the compulsive self that has been formed personally and energetically.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-29 AM - Puja - Dhamma as collective presence and resolve 20:33
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Puja invites the total participation of body, voice and mind. It allows a group to come together in harmony. It invites skilful recollections of wholesome qualities. Before the familiar “me” energy takes over, puja helps set up a different context of presence, one that is purifying, steadying and clearing.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-28 Evening - Opening talk - The foundation retreat - cultivation of Dhamma 45:47
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Laying the groundwork for retreat, yogis are encouraged to stay in touch with qualities of mindfulness, persistence and right energy. Such steady practice fortifies the citta, rather than the thinking mind, as the source of stability in an inherently unstable world. 30:35 Guided Meditation: Guidance for getting grounded, establishing safety in the space around, making the space you’re sitting in your refuge.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-28 Morning Public Talk - Q&A 36:12
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1. Can a stream enterer lose contact with the Dhamma? 2. (1:47) Can non-Buddhists become stream enterers? 3. (12:12) Should we observe defilements or cultivate wisdom to get rid of them? 4. (21:17) Should we as lay people work to get rid of mental dukkha? 5. (26:04) What is the difference between causes and conditions? 6. (29:09) How do we know “what’s needed now”?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-01-28 Morning Public Talk - Careful attention arrests dukkha 43:59
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The world pulls us out with the promise of security in external things, but there’s only one place suffering stops. It’s in the release of mental activations. Using careful attention, yoniso manasikāra, we meet the causes and conditions of dukkha by noticing how we’re being affected by the world. This is how we can be free from the world while living in the world.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2017-12-31 Closing Ceremony - Parting Words and Sharing of Merit 15:14
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After retreat we return to a world of duties and responsibilities. Don’t forget your duty to the Buddha who gave us Dhamma, the way out of suffering. Integrate your life in terms of the 8-fold path. Give particular attention to speech. Pause and consider, place something carefully with a mind of goodwill for someone else to hear.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-31 Closing Ceremony - Asking Forgiveness 7:46
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Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-31 Morning Chanting (English) 11:15
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Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-30 Evening Talk - Taking the Practice Home 33:28
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As retreat comes to an end, consider the cooperative boundaries that allow Dhamma to flourish. Establish reasonable boundaries related to behavior, moral integrity, restraint. Remember that bhāvanā is more than meditation, cultivate throughout the day. Restore the source of energy, know its boundaries.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-30 Morning - Wisdom Covers It All 47:43
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Wisdom makes life more manageable, more fun. We can find how we’re generating stress by knowing feeling: “all dhammas converge on feeling.” Trace activations to their roots, identify the feeling, widen to the place where it isn’t. There is a wider domain to feeling, an end to experiencing feeling, both pleasant and unpleasant.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat
2017-12-29 Evening Talk: Wisdom of release 17:15
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The 10 Fold Path has to do with the development of release. Sometimes we don’t want things to arise, but they can’t be released otherwise. This is a piece of your kamma, the piece that has to be known, felt, opened to and carefully handled. Then it can dissolve.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat

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