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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Cittaviveka
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At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
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| This series of recordings is offered by Ajahn Sucitto as a way to offer connection and encouragement in this time of global lock down. |
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2020-03-28 (644 days)
Cittaviveka
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2020-11-07
Guided Meditation – Faith as the Basis of Meditation
15:58
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Ajahn Sucitto
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We enter meditation with a sense of faith, that there’s something beneficial that can be derived just by coming into the present moment. Witnessing, aware of, not in it, not rejecting it – a firmness of presence builds up. The initiation is faith, the consummation is wisdom.
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2020-11-07
Unconditioned Supports the Conditioned
41:54
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The unconditioned gives us a place to step back from experience, to meet the conditioned world with sensitivity and equanimity. We access qualities of faith, energy, mindfulness and wisdom to accept and meet exactly what’s happening right now.
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2020-11-14
Guided Meditation – Opening body, opening heart
12:42
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Jhāna is an embodiment practice. Absorbing and settling deeply into presence, use awareness to encourage opening each part of the body. Enriched energy and heart can then begin to digest the events of the day and release them.
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2020-11-14
Release from the restricted in this life
45:47
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The dukkha of restriction is experienced in this very body, and manifest as a person restricted by upbringing, ethnicity and gender (etc) living in a world restricted by nationality and social structures. We can train ourselves in the unrestricted state through meditation and through living in a way that connects the open heart to service, in the ‘all -encompassing world’ touched by goodwill.
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2020-11-21
Guided Meditation – Opening to the Cosmos
10:39
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Puja celebrates that there’s something in awareness more than just this ‘self’ thing. We can open to something bigger, experience a wider sense of being. Keep lifting and placing attention back into the Dhamma stream – that which touches and opens the heart.
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2020-11-21
Q&A
48:00
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Clarification about the fetter “attachment to rites and rituals”; what’s the purpose of life; question about addiction; working with depression; where is the reference to energy in Buddhism; how to get space in intense situations; review of the 4 qualities to promote social harmony – generosity, gentle/harmonious speech, benevolent service, impartiality – DN30:1:16, AN4:32
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2020-11-27
Guided Meditation – Thinking with Heart
15:35
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Meditation is about opening up to the subjective aspect of our experience – the sense of knowing. Practice with placing attention on something very lightly, then listening with heart. Without force, without judgment, just aware of the sensations, emotion, energies, mental patterns. The quality of knowing gives rise to a tremendous immediate clarity.
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2020-11-28
Living Dhamma
39:34
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Ajahn Sucitto
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As a result of the pandemic, we are experiencing the frailty of our systems and structures. Awareness is the only constant resource we have. It can be trained and purified to bring loving careful attention to all that we meet.
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2021-01-16
Ācariya Puja – Aim Your Intentions High
60:08
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Ajahn Sucitto
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In Ajahn Chah, we commemorate and honor what’s possible in a human form. A seemingly ordinary person who applied all he had for noble purposes, training in what was difficult and cultivating pāramī. With this comes the severing of the outflows and the liberation of heart, a practice that many people can cultivate while engaging in life.
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