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Retreat Dharma Talks at Cittaviveka

Living, Dying and Liberation

An international community retreat conducted online via Zoom. Live from Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery to the world.

2020-12-15 (6 days) Cittaviveka

  
2020-12-16 Why Chant? 4:31
Ajahn Sucitto
Chanting is a resounding of the potentials of realization. Be part of the celebration, it’s very good for the heart. Put your voice in that and be part of the flow.
2020-12-16 Tune in and Open 53:19
Ajahn Sucitto
2020-12-17 Touch What You Don't Know 57:19
Ajahn Sucitto
The tool of wisdom cross references thinking, emotion and body. Body helps reveal the heart. Use it to sense and handle emotion. This is using embodied wisdom for the purposes of calming and revealing. It’s how you get to know the bits you don’t know.
2020-12-17 Exploration and Patience 9:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma is a direct experience. You can directly touch it and open up to it. Handle it more with curiosity than trying to figure out what to do about it. Patient, receptive, as the meditator becomes more open stuck mental states can fall away.
2020-12-17 Bojjhanga and Q&A on Citta 43:10
Ajahn Sucitto
2020-12-18 Q&A - Causality, the World and the Way 29:44
Ajahn Sucitto
2020-12-18 Guided Meditation - The Still Centre 35:28
Ajahn Sucitto
The energy of citta is conjoined with bodily energy. Steadying and brightening body gives citta a place to rest so it can withdraw from phenomena. With the disentangling from phenomena, the quiet center of citta, the knowingness, becomes more apparent.
2020-12-18 Easeful Ceasing 48:56
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta needs to be trained to rest back from engagement. By not going into the stories, spreading awareness over the entire body, and letting emotions rise and pass. As citta releases from contact, it accesses a finer more lasting and agreeable sense of security and well-being.
2020-12-18 Q &A - Citta, Clearing Afflictive Moods, Restoring Relatedness 32:04
Ajahn Sucitto
2020-12-19 Guided Meditation - Turning to 'I' 14:48
Ajahn Sucitto
Beginning the process of centering, set aside what isn’t relevant right now. Strengthen the bodily reference to help support citta. Acknowledge the sense of I am – what is the I, how is that experienced?
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