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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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2009-07-07 How Real is the Real World - Asalha Puja 54:33
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The so-called real world is concocted from our fears, beliefs, obsessions. All of which are changeable and conditioned. There is a real that the Buddha spoke of: he called it the peaceful, the sublime, the unbounded. It’s not located in time and space, but it’s experienceable. Form and function, when appropriately considered and applied, can serve as our vehicle to the real.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-04-26 Guided Meditation - Staying With It 41:41
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2009-03-28 Boundaries and Space 35:07
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Space seems like the opposite of boundaries, but space is there because of boundaries. So in order to give yourself some space internally you have to create boundaries in the mind. Know what to set aside, and moderate what you pick up in terms of future, past, self and other people. Those are the four areas that turbulences occur around. You don’t have to be trapped and meshed up with this.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-03-27 Unsupporting Consciousness 24:42
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In meditation we can come to recognize what the mind leans upon and why – and how everything it leans on falls apart. The most stable and secure abiding is unsupported consciousness – the removal of all props – ‘this is peaceful, this is sublime.’ It leads to cessation, a place of rest.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-03-25 Touch The Earth, Find Your Ground 49:49
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Learning to stay with the flow of experience in a non-conflicting way is quite difficult. Recollecting how the Buddha called on the Earth for support when confronted by the host of mara, we too can find support in the ground of our presence and virtue.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-03-24 Getting Impermanence 29:37
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The Buddha’s last words were: ‘All sankhārā are impermanent; make an effort with diligence.’ Is there a place where self, other, past, future don’t happen? That’s what we meditate for. It takes us under the froth to the root of where the turbulence is coming from. These formative patterns have energy, but through bearing presence, they gradually lose their intensity and dissolve.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-03-22 Absolute Honesty 28:48
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People talk about absolute truth, but what about absolute honesty? Honesty about craving and clinging. Craving and clinging focus on pleasure, but through following that we get addicted. To get off that, the recommendation is to cultivate enlightenment factors for support. Develop an inner axis, use one’s collectedness as a prop.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-03-21 Volition and The Rut of i am 46:09
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Generally, mind becomes tangled with concerns for the future, planning, wanting things to be completed, finished. But nothing is solid or definite; it’s never quite right. This is the First Noble Truth. In meditation we take attention off the topic to how am I handling the topic: how am I affected, does this lead to more suffering or less? Open, soften, let it travel through.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-03-18 Fading and Dispassion 47:07
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Cultivation is both about doing and not doing. Sometimes it’s about restraining and letting the roots of old habits die out. This requires the ability to step back and witness, and to stand firm against emotional pressure. When we can remain as the witness, there is the immediate fruit of freedom in that moment, and the long-term fruit of changing the tendency.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-03-10 Viveka-Taking The Step Back 59:18
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We try to avoid suffering, but end up perpetuating it instead. In meditation, we can tap into two aspects of wisdom – the ability to unhook and the ability to see. These allow us to relate to the experience of suffering in a way that brings it to an end.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-03-07 Mindfulness is the light of human consciousness 53:40
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Mindfulness is held up as the one thing in Dhamma practice, but although it’s important, it works along with a range of factors. Descriptions of mindfulness applied to the aspects of the 8-fold path are given.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-03-04 Coming Out Of The Boxes Of consciousness 48:09
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An exploration of the action of becoming, noticing how the sense of who we are arises with reference to past, future, self or other. These are boxes that leave many things out, while homing in on our kammic tendencies. Take action on the enlightenment factors to come out of the boxes.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-03-01 Guided Meditation - Put Aside and Stabilise 48:44
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2009-01-31 Patience With Views and All Else 51:31
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In meditation, rather than getting involved with liking and disliking, we practise letting things just pass through. The movements are just shifts in energy. Learn how to move with the changes rather than reacting with sorrow, resistance or craving. Cultivate patience with your mind as it rattles on, and with a life that isn’t going the way you want, until the mind becomes big enough to hold it all.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-01-28 Leaving The Samsaric Home 49:22
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The mind drags us into places, and we easily locate ourselves there. This is what I’m stuck in, this is what I am. How to get a handle? The samādhi approach is to deal with the energy, not the topic. The sīla approach is to refer to the skilful. The pañña approach is to recognize this for what it is. We need to know how to handle the energy of the mind, and to practise ethical intentions and investigation.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-01-27 Mindfulness of Movement 41:42
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The underlying bent of the mind is craving, that leaning of the mind to have, get, find, belong. In meditation we practise with loosening that craving energy, and introducing calming subjects for recollection. Walking meditation is a skilful means for loosening and gentling the mind.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-01-25 Guided Meditation-receptivity in relaxation 46:13
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A guided meditation that focuses on accentuating the receptive aspect. Receiving energies without spinning out or tightening up, and without the ‘push forward’ reflex. Body and breathing form the basis of this practice.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-01-24 Bringing The Donkey Home 51:36
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Training the mind involves restraint, steadying and gladdening. Then it isn’t so mesmerized by its stories. Several specific practices are described for such training.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-01-21 Gentling The Mind 36:42
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Cultivating a softer happier state of being is valuable in its own right, and also has a profound purpose – to release mental programs that bind us and restrict us, so we can experience a greater sense of ease and freedom.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-01-17 Transcendence Includes It All 59:55
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The process of liberation is sometimes referred to as ‘transcendence’. Transcendence means you meet feeling, and mind gets bigger than that, includes it all. It is a natural mode of the mind, to meet and include. Enlightenment factors enable this stepping back and non-involvement. We can then meet the results of kamma and realize liberation.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-01-16 Inherited Kamma-Broadening The Range Of Practice 36:52
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In general, practice is about creating the type of environment which can hold, accommodate and handle our kamma – whether that is internal and external. Enlightenment factors work to dissolve the encrusted compulsive reactions. Then we have more space, more choice in what we do and don’t do.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-01-15 Knowing Through Dispassion 37:24
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Mindfulness offers the ability to sustain, to notice, and therefore to be wise. Through this we can experience feelings that arise as energy in the body. Stepping back, there is a shift from being in these to a knowingness of them, with resultant dispassion. This is the liberating process of insight.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-01-14 Intergration Into daily Death 36:28
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2009-01-14 Generating Skilful Feeling 34:30
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Mindfulness is about knowing how one is affected. We come to know where impulses and intentions/motivations come from, whether these are spiritual or worldly. With skilful intention, there is the possibility to generate pleasant feeling within ourselves. We can find joy in our own presence rather than through external means.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat
2009-01-13 A Step Towards The Transcendant 43:01
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This teaching describes the running of psycho-somatic ‘programs’ (saṇkhārā ) – in terms of those that are default and those we can intentionally induce. In this way, in meditation, we develop skills that can change our psychological patterns. The method is: first step back from the torrent of mind; then, cultivate enlightenment factors.
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat

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