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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

  
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2020-12-19 Q&A - Balancing Attention, Intention, 3rd Satipaṭṭhāna, Sound of Silence 29:06
Ajahn Sucitto
2020-12-19 Stillness Flowing 46:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Meet the constant flow of life with the stillness and poise of citta. Relate to it all with respect and mutuality, learning to adapt, flow and listen to life. Practice with cultivation of subtle energies of body and heart and with samādhi. Sutta Reference: SN1:1
2020-12-19 Walk Like a Boat 3:57
Ajahn Sucitto
A suggestion for walking meditation, to move like a boat down a river, citta open like a sail spread on the mast. Move through the water of thoughts, impressions, memories. Walk with difficult moods that arise, holding lightly, listening and receiving.
2020-12-19 Learning and Expanding Stillness 45:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta is used to feeding on stimulation. Use balance and breathing to settle it, get it interested in that still point. Focus on the stillness of dispassion and cooling.
2020-12-19 Q&A - Energies, Afterlife, Art, Cruelty, Self and Asubha 39:38
Ajahn Sucitto
2020-12-20 Open to Wise Attention 48:39
Ajahn Sucitto
We bounce off dukkha rather than digesting it, bound to experience the same characteristic of dukkha in another form. The guiding capacity of citta is wise attention. We must learn to widen and lengthen our attention span. In this space we can contemplate dukkha rather than react to it. Dispassion and goodwill, the natural actions of heart, can then arise.
2020-12-20 Guided Meditation - View from the Balance 22:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Encouragement to have the courage and faith to go against the obligations of our lives and take time to center in citta. Amidst the activities of mind, there’s a place of balance and rest, release and non-clinging.
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