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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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2013-06-02 Training and Clearing Citta 54:08
Citta is the heart and feeling aspect of our experience. It can determine what is for our welfare, but becomes tangled and obscured by proliferation. Use deep attention to cut through the proliferations. Come out of the world of differentiation to just here now.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat
2013-06-01 Where Body and Heart Meet 58:30
The sense of self is an inadequate vehicle for dealing with life, for dealing with dukkha. Where body and heart meet can deal with it – grounded in body, steady and open in heart. Your true power will come through
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat
2013-05-31 Explanation of Eight Precepts; Opening Talk 51:44
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat
2012-06-10 Closing Session: Guided Meditation on Activations and Mindfulness of Panic and Dread; Chanting 42:28
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2012-06-09 Chanting; QiGong Session 37:24
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2012-06-09 Chanting; Guided Meditation on Mortality; Dhamma Talk: Include it All, Even Separation 1:27:54
Awareness of the separate but shared experience of karmic patterning brings primal sympathy, and an ability to forgive and bless each other.
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2012-06-09 Mindfulness of Breathing - the Process 51:03
Breathing works through body, mental (heart) activation and awareness. With the fullness of settling (samatha), insight releases all aspects of clinging.
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2012-06-08 QiGong Session 34:47
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2012-06-08 Chanting; Question and Answer Session on Right View - Causality and Relationship in all Aspects of Experience 1:12:19
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2012-06-08 Spiritual Friendship and Deep Attention 58:28
The realm of our experience has external and internal aspects - such as society and culture; breath as sensation and breathing as energy; and spiritual friendship and deep/wise attention. In all cases, the skill is to bring the two together.
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2012-06-07 Chanting; Guided Meditation on Being in Presence; QiGong Session 1:15:48
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2012-06-07 Chanting; Guided Meditation on Time and Identity: Dhamma Talk on Releasing Stuck Patterns and Vortices; Question and Answer Session 1:27:58
Daily life scenarios, disturbances in meditation, or fixed life messages, can be reviewed, touched into and released through holistic awareness.
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2012-06-07 Respecting Space 59:05
In the balance of embodiment, in the pause between cognition and articulation, between impression and reaction, is the space where true responsiveness can occur. It is here that the Enlightenment Factors arise.
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2012-06-06 Pointers on Practicing Anapanasati 1:14
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2012-06-06 Chanting; Learn How to be Stupid and Trust Letting Go 1:17:04
The development of wisdom is dependent on disengagement - from affliction, from fixing it, from knowing the answer and from letting go of any such activation ( sankhara). In that pure awareness, release can occur- straight through the heart.
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2012-06-06 Right View: Dynamics is (almost) Everything 61:26
Right view is of the dynamic interdependency of all experience - except Nibbana. When all is relative and changeable, there is the potential for change for the better, and for release.
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2012-06-06 Chanting; Guided Meditation on the Wave of the Beautiful; QiGong Session 1:28:24
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2012-06-05 Chanting; QiGong Session 42:25
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2012-06-05 Guided Meditation on Access to Breathing and Pausing; Question and Answer Session 1:33:08
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2012-06-05 Surfing the Cosmos: Balance and Primal Sympathy 42:27
Dhamma is the Natural and Holistic Order. To know it we need to be balanced and attuned to what were experiencing, to meet what arises with sympathy and hold it with equanimity. Mindfulness of breathing is a practice which develops this balance.
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2012-06-04 Chanting; Guided Meditation; QiGong Session 1:26:14
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2012-06-04 Cultivating the Boundless Mind 60:47
Kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity form where sympathetic awareness (anukampa, aka primal sympathy) meets the mind. These are a natural expression of an Awakened heart.
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2012-06-04 Parami - the Support for Attention 1:40:34
Attention and intention carry awareness to an object. They can be trained and nourished. The Ten Parami are a collection of skilful ways to do this, a way that leads to the end of kamma.
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2012-06-03 Standing Meditation Instructions 12:34
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2012-06-03 Chanting; Guided Meditation on Resonating Positive Sensitivity Through the Body; Dhamma Talk: Meet What Arises 1:28:19
Through meeting the pattern (not the topic) of what arises, a place and a means for release are established.
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