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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.
2024-05-05 Dealing with emotional damage: shock, grief, anxiety 27:21
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
2024-05-05 GM - That which is timeless is vital 21:26
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
2024-05-01 Where the internal and external come together 42:54
Cittaviveka
2024-04-21 Q&A 32:03
Q1 How important is it to maintain continuity of the meditation object? 0857 Q2 I'm confused by the word citta. For a long time I thought it was the physical organ of the heart, but now I understand that it may be mind. Can you help please? 2334 Q3 you talked about adhiṭṭhāna, resolution as being as one way of manifesting accepting and bowing to all the negative and unskillful thoughts that kept rising in the mind. Can you elaborate on this please? 2521 Q4 what is the relationship or differences between viññāṇa (sense consciousness) and sati (awareness). 2724 Q5 Can you comment on scattering ashes of a body after cremation? Is this about attaching to a body?
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
2024-04-21 GM - The ending of the residues 12:13
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
2024-04-08 Freedom from Fear 53:07
Bhavana, cultivation, is associated with bringing into being fruitful states and dwelling in them. Without this ground, citta- heart - goes out, focuses on conditioned phenomena. The natural result will be uncertainty, anxiety, fear. Practices for clearing fear at its root are described: contemplation of death, mindfulness of body and breathing, generosity, virtue.
Amaravati Monastery
2024-03-30 The ongoing focus for cultivation is ‘me’ 52:02
The compulsive shaping and drives of the citta are held by grasping – an involuntary reflex that can be mastered through careful cultivation. As the end of this grasping and shaping is the sense of self, that sense of ‘me’ ‘I am this’ is the ongoing focus of our Dhamma practice.
Cittaviveka Step-by-Step: the Upwards Flow
2024-03-29 Dhamma practice shapes the Citta into a more fulfilling state 47:35
The emphasis on virtue, beyond keeping rules, customs and procedures, is to bring about harmony. It enables us to establish a fluent relationship that isn’t domineering nor indifferent, clearing of heart from destructive tendencies. It’s the tonality of careful attention in what we do. Not seeking results, but just bringing forth harmony, beauty, purity in our daily lives. (Sutta reference SN 46:1)
Cittaviveka Step-by-Step: the Upwards Flow
2024-03-28 Development without Becoming 49:57
Our general mode follows a track called becoming. It’s a track that keeps moving, flavoured with craving that never arrives at satisfaction. The Buddha presented a more natural way – step-by-step, chart the course, with friendliness and purity of intention. Mindfulness of body and contemplative thought (vitaka-vicara) support a wider, wholistic mode. Use the process to adjust your world, so you’re not driven and pushed by it.
Cittaviveka Step-by-Step: the Upwards Flow
2024-03-27 The flow to liberation: Feeding the Citta 44:01
The flow to liberation isn’t a flash in the pan miracle, but a gradual, step-by-step process. Begin with the 4 establishments of mindfulness. When held carefully, steadily, with patience, the enlightenment factors develop. It can’t be done out of will power. Rather, nourishment for the process are restraint, mindfulness and careful attention. (Sutta reference AN 10:61)
Cittaviveka Step-by-Step: the Upwards Flow
2024-03-26 Ethical Responsibility Leads to Concentration and Release 44:17
Liberation is always a step-by-step process. Each stage flows into the next. It’s a natural process, according to Dhamma. Start on the right track, with virtue – relational sensitivity. Acting in this way gives rise to gladness, then concentration, leading to liberation. (Sutta reference AN 10:2)
Cittaviveka Step-by-Step: the Upwards Flow
2024-03-25 The Circular Process: Right View, Right Mindfulness and Right Effort 42:34
Three key factors of the Noble Eightfold Path circle around and support each other: Right View, which scans to see which skilful qualities need to be developed; Right Mindfulness, which sustains attention on this development; and Right Effort, which provides the energy to complete the transformation.
Cittaviveka Step-by-Step: the Upwards Flow
2024-03-24 Eight Steps in Mindfulness Training 19:54
Cittaviveka
2024-03-17 Right view and intention are the basis for the satipatthāna 37:08
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions
2024-03-06 Harmony and forgiveness 48:26
Consider the deep learning or openness that has been experienced. What has found its way to the exit? This allows a regaining of the awakened centre.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre
2024-03-05 Insight breaks up grasping 39:33
The centre has no name but is harmonious, unsqueezed and released from (often unrecognized) clinging.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre
2024-03-05 Re-gaining the centre 50:11
Practice establishes a wholeness, a container where we can settle and witness the suffering, those random, sometimes painful stresses we call “ours”.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre
2024-03-05 Training the citta is your best bet 37:11
The teachings are not philosophies, abstract concoctions or attitudes. They point to direct signals of the citta with no position to stand on.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre
2024-03-04 Concentration without concentrating 48:13
Ajahn explains how it is that the Buddha didn’t tell us to concentrate, but he did recommend concentration.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre
2024-03-03 Citta is a crucial experience 35:53
The ‘I am’, the sense of me is the citta - receiving, reacting. Using the four foundations allows it to be resplendent and happy.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre
2024-03-03 The heart is a growing baby 49:31
We often feel driven, controlled by forces, social and otherwise that we don’t even know. Cultivation happens with careful application.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre
2024-03-02 GM – Steadying attention, stepping back, lifting the heart 16:01
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre
2024-03-02 GM - Standing 12:01
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre
2024-03-02 Gathering what's helpful. 19:49
Attention is a natural faculty but developing the wisdom of what to focus on and how to focus, allows cultivation of meaning in the heart.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre
2024-03-02 Retreat - an authentic and encompassing space 42:10
We practice sensing the whole before we can find the centre. The Buddha taught that all forms of wisdom find their fruition in mindfulness of the body.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Regaining the Centre

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