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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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2021-03-27
Rest Intention through Embodiment, Dhamma Stream Live Puja
33:43
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Intention is the basis for action, giving shape to what we do and who we become. Conditioned intentions around beliefs, work and security cause stress. The process of meditation takes us into the somatic domain, to the roots of the mind. Here intentions and reflexes can be reset to be lighter, more flexible and comfortable.
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2021-04-03
Dhamma Stream Q&A
32:06
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Please describe āsava in relation to citta; nagging sense something is wrong with me; how to access kalyāṇamitta for support in Dhamma practice; neck and head feel separate from body in meditation; please clarify terms vitaka-vicāra, dhammavicaya and vimaṃsa.
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2021-04-03
Q&A
32:06
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Please describe āsava in relation to citta; nagging sense something is wrong with me; how to access kalyāṇamitta for support in Dhamma practice; neck and head feel separate from body in meditation; please clarify terms vitaka-vicāra, dhammavicaya and vimaṃsa.
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2021-04-03
Emptying the Sense Fields
15:50
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Instructions to help empty the sense fields and cultivate the right kind of attention. Sustain a wide focus as sense objects arise in awareness. Practice with spreading attention on body, the wider visual field and the quality of breathing.
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2021-04-10
Guided Meditation – Dissolving and Consolidating
18:56
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Instructions begin with dissolving: guidance for disengaging from contact, soothing and steadying the mind. Instructions end with consolidating: determining what I want to move forward with in the future, and what’s been learned or left behind.
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2021-04-10
Being a Person
27:12
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Although Dhamma practice is often geared to dissolving the sense of being a person, ‘the person’ is a required entity in the everyday world. The firm center and open awareness developed in Dhamma practice work together to support this person. They provide stability and allow duties, purpose and engagement to arise straight from the heart rather than from mental habits, or from the idea of a person. Then the beauties, steadiness and generosity of Dhamma practice and Dhamma fruitions arise in our everyday lives.
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2021-04-17
Guided Meditation - Stable Disengagement
17:38
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Body and mind work together to bring about the sense of stability and balance. Disengagement is then possible, becoming your frame of reference as phenomena arise. Agreeable feeling comes from disengagement.
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2021-04-17
Being a Person Pt. 2
35:09
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Aspects of this human life – where we live, what we do, who we associate with – become reference points for the person. How we relate to them affects how the person manifests. We can train in a relating that is stable and disengaged, neither favoring nor opposing, no longer finding fault with the world and thereby dismantling worldly attitudes.
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2021-04-24
Guided Meditation - Attentive Disengagement
18:10
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Ajahn Sucitto
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In meditation we’re making a shift from being engaged to being attentive but disengaged. Disengagement has a cool, easeful quality to it, giving us leverage against the strong emotional pressures of the mind. From this place we can make peace with the mind that is never at ease.
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2021-04-24
Dhamma Stream Q&A
42:27
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Ajahn Sucitto
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What is sati; How to stop awareness landing on negative thoughts; ‘Energies’ don’t seem to be mentioned much, what are they; What to do about lots of romantic preoccupations; Please review 4 relationships mentioned in last Dhamma Stream teaching: to self, to nature, the sacred, to other people; How to handle toxic relationships/ones that require forgiveness; How to deal with clashes with views in relationship; How do you maintain awareness in relationship?
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