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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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2018-04-29 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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at Buddhist Library Singapore
Singapore
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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2018-02-28 Accept, don't adopt - so wisdom can arise 57:12
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Accepting the presence of experience means we don’t grab onto it or resist it. Body provides a foundation to process experience rather than storing them up. As you wake up to the body’s intelligence, it gets to work. Mind’s work is to sustain appropriate attention – not adopting, not rejecting, patience and goodwill. Wisdom naturally arises.
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2018-02-28 Reflection on kamma 22:36
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There is new kamma (action), and old kamma, the results of previous actions. The process of kamma embeds particular habits and perpetuates a sense of self, setting up the model for the future, ongoing becoming. There is also the ending of this kamma process. Ajahn Sucitto describes several skilful means for such cultivation.
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2018-02-27 Q&A differentiation and discernment, tension, goodwill 46:30
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Questions are paraphrased: 1. Given the stressfulness of differentiation, is choosing what kind of meditation to practice stressful? 2. (11:30) Is the undifferentiated, the signlessness – the same as emptiness? 3. (24:02) Could you repeat what you were saying about relaxing tense muscles 4. (37:25) What does it mean to imbue the heart with loving kindness, “likewise the second, likewise the third and likewise the fourth”? What is the all encompassing world…?
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2018-02-27 Guided mindfulness of breathing 34:51
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Breathing itself trains you, you don’t train it. It trains you to be patient with it, open to it, sensitive to it, stay with it. Balance the doing and allowing, they both have their part to play.
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2018-02-27 Careful Non-differentiation 57:52
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The process of meditation is one of reducing differentiation/proliferation, the movements of the mind towards the pleasant and away from the unpleasant. The body doesn’t proliferate and so can help calm the mind.
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2018-02-26 Maturation of the liberated mind 49:16
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Reading from AN9.3, Ajahn Sucitto reviews the 5 things that lead to maturation of mind to becoming completely liberated. Receiving supportive company runs throughout. It’s not something we do but something we associate with. It involves not the active aspect of energy but the receptive aspect, so we can absorb the skilful, give it time to settle and ripen so wisdom can arise.
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2018-02-26 Standing - Rest comes through balance 24:03
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By carefully establishing connecting with the ground, and lining up the body from the feet up, one begins to sense balance. Muscles can relax. This gives rise to rest and calm.
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2018-02-26 Hold attention steady with a wide visual field 42:39
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For awareness that’s not fully awakened or grounded, there are bound to be reactions, so ideally we place our attention on simple forms that have least reactivity as possible.. Practice with a wide visual field, placing attention on the frame rather than objects within the frame.
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2018-02-26 Energy, its bondage and liberation 60:44
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All living things have energy, it’s our natural vitality, but it gets programmed to be driven, compulsive, and stressful. There is possibility of withdrawing energy from activities that cause suffering, that which we do compulsively.
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2018-02-26 Instruction - conscious attention 20:15
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Attention is a constant thing, so if you don’t place it, it will find its own place, and it will generally place itself into suffering – what could be, should be, things we can’t quite manage. Place it somewhere useful, starting with the body. This is the foundation. [10:03 instructions on breathing and breath energy] With good clear breath energy, mind can establish mindfulness. Careful attention prepares the ground so there’s something suitable to be mindful of. [20:10 begin silent sitting meditation]
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