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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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2021-05-29
Q&A
36:05
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Please explain why you got the COVID vaccine as I am hesitant; can meditation help with IBS; can’t exhale completely because in breath rushes in; does it matter if formal practice/meditation is less; is manas an impediment to citta or can it be used beneficially; how to get over the pain of divorce; how to ask someone to leave a community due to ethical reasons; when desire is abandoned how is avijja eliminated; elaborate on terms samādhi, atammayatā, nibānna.
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2021-06-06
Guided Meditation – Establish Puja as Your Abiding Place
14:40
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Ajahn Sucitto
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We can use the occasion of puja to cultivate signs of purity, beauty, liberation. You’ll feel it changes the rhythm of the mind – heart opens, thinking mind slows down and bodily presence wakes up. Anxieties and agitations are held in this open presence, felt in the body, and allowed to pass and dissolve.
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2021-06-06
Not Quite So: Co-Dependent Arising
28:49
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Our apparent reality arises from moods and interpretations that generate the world of time and space, self and other. It’s possible to meet the moods and mental states directly without creating stories or identities until the signs dissolve and only clarity remains. Meditation and engagement are skillful means to understand the dependent arising of our world, of suffering, and of skillful dhammas.
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2021-06-13
Guided Meditation - Bodily Ease
14:51
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Use the three intelligences of heart, mind and body to create a sense of calm and happiness. Body helps restrain mind; heart generates an atmosphere of gentleness and goodwill. Know what’s worth giving attention to for liberation.
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2021-06-13
Sensitivity and Restraint
31:52
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Ajahn Sucitto
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One of the most fundamental requirements in meditation is restraining the mind. Rather than running out, energy can settle and calm. Then one’s effort is neither straining towards some goal, nor enmeshed in agitation. There’s space for sensitivity, receptivity, listening. When the outflows are restrained goodwill, compassion, clarity and wisdom come forth on their own.
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2021-06-19
Guided Meditation – Emotional and Bodily Bases
16:49
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The Buddha said that amongst all the bodies, best is the breathing body. Most important is to give emotional support to let the breathing do the work – allowing, wishing, encouraging. This a useful foundation for contemplating the various currents, energies, obsessions that citta has to release.
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2021-06-19
Breathing Intelligence
37:26
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Cultivation of citta is the highest kind of learning we can undertake. The breathing body is our means for learning, for directly experiencing our kammic configurations. It provides a basis so when difficult states arise, citta can remain open and stable, and move through them.
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2021-06-26
Guided Meditation – Acknowledging Dukkha
14:41
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Ajahn Sucitto
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When we try to settle, what we might notice is unsettledness. Rather than go into the topic, recognize the energy. Give attention to places in the body that are non-agitated. Use body and breathing to change the speed of the mind, steady it. Once settled, then dilemmas and unfinished business can be related to with dispassion, compassion, detachment.
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2021-06-26
Q&A
43:16
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Cultivating mental/emotional equilibrium – drowsiness, other people. Energies – how to sense subtle body, body sways in meditation, standing meditation, qigong, kundalini. Do we need goals in life; fear and anxiety; physical pain devoid of mental pain; advice about becoming a nun.
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2021-12-22
Guided Meditation - All Things Converge upon Feeling
49:28
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Establish mindfulness with the experience of a feeling body, the most fundamental source of feeling. Use a wide form of attention that covers the whole body. As phenomena are changing the mind is still with receptivity and deep listening. The nature of sati doesn’t react to feeling. The feeling can be felt, without blaming, criticizing or getting involved. When feeling isn’t given any more food, it becomes more equanimous.
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