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Dharma Talks given at Cittaviveka
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2024-03-30 The ongoing focus for cultivation is ‘me’ 52:02
Ajahn Sucitto
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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
Ajahn Sucitto
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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
Ajahn Sucitto
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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
Ajahn Sucitto
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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
Ajahn Sucitto
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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
Ajahn Sucitto
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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

2023-12-11 Vedena (feeling) is distinct from emotion 52:03
Ajahn Sucitto
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Cittaviveka :  2023 Dhamma Talks

2023-11-06 Left brain, right brain balance 48:58
Ajahn Sucitto
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Dhamma teaching is never completed because it has to be right at the right time. It points to something; it never describes or defines. This allows the mind to decompress and get free from the conditioning forces of data and the pressure to make things happen.
Cittaviveka :  2023 Dhamma Talks

2023-11-05 Liberation depends on you 32:23
Ajahn Sucitto
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When the citta is out of touch with Dhamma, reactive tendencies arise and we start responding to the designating and naming that the mind creates, thereby destroying the freshness of our experience.
Cittaviveka :  2023 Online Dhamma Streams

2023-11-05 GM - Moving from Reactiveness to Responsiveness 18:06
Ajahn Sucitto
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Excellent resource in the current news environment
Cittaviveka :  2023 Online Dhamma Streams

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