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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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2010-01-28 Talk 1 1:26:23
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Sam Poh Temple
2010-01-28 Talk 2 1:22:47
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2009-10-03 Integration Into Daily Death 36:28
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Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-10-02 Wisdom, Calm and Insight 36:46
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In meditation we want to penetrate the depths of mind, to get the roots of our habits, attitudes, beliefs. We go through the body because it’s easier to discern as an object than mind. Steadying and calming the body energies, wisdom builds up, begins to know cause and effect, what leads to clarity, what leads to release.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-10-01 Hindrances and Aggregates - The Right Response 28:18
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We can use the suffering that arises from the hindrances as a means for clearing kamma. Rather than getting hooked by our habitual reactions, track the experience through the lens of the aggregates. Set aside the topic, get underneath it. Work with it on an energetic level, feel it in the body. It isn’t easy, but over time confidence builds that this is where it ceases. Then these hindrances have taught us a powerful lesson we won’t get anywhere else.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-09-30 Attention, Intention, Energy and Awareness 22:16
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Two factors play a part in the way the mind operates – attention and intention. Both are conditioned, and both carry energy. Attention limits the span of awareness, intention defines the quality of it. A lot of the problems in meditation can be resolved through attention, intention and bringing the right kind of energy to them.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-09-29 Establishing Thoughtfulness and Reflection (vitakka-vicara) 36:43
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To meditate refers to placing the mind on a conducive object. There are functions that support meditation: vitakka –applied thoughtfulness/consideration; and, vicara – reflective evaluating, taking in the effects of what we apply ourselves to. Various applications of vitakka-vicara are reviewed, from the 5 indriya to mindfulness of body and breathing.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-09-26 The One Thing You Can Do 49:52
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2009-09-12 Tidying Up 34:13
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2009-08-09 Guided Meditation 48:42
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Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-08-06 Suttas 2 - The Gradual Training 56:34
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A reading of Sutta extracts that describe the step-by-step instructions of the Buddha. 1) Vin. Mahavagga (on Yassa); 2) DN 2 – Sāmmaññaphala Sutta; 3) MN 53 – Sekha Sutta; and, 4) MN 125 – The Grade of the Tamed. There are similarities across the lists. They refer not so much to ‘do this’ and ‘do that’ kind of lists, but describe a process of cause and effect: do this and allow that, dwell in that, and this will take you to the next step. It is subtler than steps of a technique.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-08-02 Guided Meditation 44:58
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2009-07-26 Guided Meditations 43:49
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2009-07-22 Suttas 1 - Picking Up the Teaching 60:37
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A reading of excerpts from the Suttas related to how one gets encouraged to undertake the practice. 1) AN 3:65 – Kālāma Sutta; 2) MN 95 – Cankī Sutta; and, 3) MN 70 – Kīṭāgiri Sutta. Some common threads are qualities of self-questioning, questioning one’s motivation, knowing what’s reliable, knowing how to test it out.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-07-19 Guided Meditations 44:24
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2009-07-18 The Most Obvious Important Thing 48:04
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We have something in us that naturally searches for pleasure, searches for meaning. We go out to find it, but it’s actually right here in our embodiment. The indriya are expressed in our embodiment, they support embodied intelligence. Focus on the practises that establish these faculties. As they come together, everything rests, there’s a ceasing, you can relax.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-07-17 Dhamma Body is Nobody's 30:09
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A reflection on the tendency to attach to external forms. Can we make use of these systems and structures without getting so wrapped up in them? Cultivation of the 5 indriya helps establish appropriate relationship to the world. As they come together, you start to see the 4 Noble Truths. It’s the only thing that’s really sure!
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-07-16 Growing a True Face 24:19
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A lot of practice is about working with difficult mind states, emotional currents, and personality patterns. With the establishment of basic ground, we bring together a unified Dhamma body that holds us steady. It gives us a reference point, a presence, that drains power out of the hindrances and allows us to meet difficulties that arise.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-07-14 Natural Mind - Strength, Warmth, Clarity 29:34
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With mindfulness there’s a deepening into mind. When established you feel the flow of natural responses. Mindfulness places us back into these fundamental qualities of basic strength, basic warmth, basic clarity. The practise is staying with that, letting confused restless energies settle into that. That’s where samadhi can arise.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-07-13 Five Faculties - Indriya 22:07
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The indriya (faith, energy, mindfulness, collectedness, discernment), sometimes called the governing faculties, are capacities we already have and operate through in some rudimentary form. This teaching gives a description each, and how they can be developed to become supportive faculties. When they come together, they merge in the deathless.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-07-12 Guide Meditation on Breathing 46:45
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Keep in mind, attention is on breathing rather than a breath – a process, not a specific thing. Making use of vitakka-vicara, linger and pick up the quality of breath-energy as it moves through. Hold the form, keep the inquiry, remain in the present moment. What is the breathing now?
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-07-12 Lawless Order 23:57
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There are certain inclinations we have as human beings. These boil down to the indriya – dominating faculties – of faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom. They can go wrong, become sources of suffering if they’re not balanced through awareness. Various examples of how they manifest, and how to keep them in harmony are given.
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2009-07-11 Having Fun (Skillfully) 36:40
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The experience of having fun, enjoyment, is an energy. The problem comes when we locate it externally, then attach to it, self-orient around it. A skilful person knows how to cultivate pleasure in themselves. Practise with meditation. Find out what blocks it and what encourages it. The Buddha taught pleasure as a way to awakening.
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2009-07-11 Walk Back to Center 18:31
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In whatever activity we engage in, meditation through the postures is a matter of returning to presence – to that awareness which can know. With walking, don’t do the walking, meditate the walking. Maintain a core presence that doesn’t participate and doesn’t shut anything out. Meet everything with openness and alertness, like a mother welcoming her children.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-07-09 Opening the Door 16:43
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Encouragement to make an effort with the retreat form. Give particular attention to posture. To clean and purify you have to open up the house, open up the body. Open up the world, the doors to heaven and hell. Whatever comes through, keep the door open, let the energies blow through. Body is where we can break the cycle of samsara.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat

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