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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Cittaviveka
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Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thāniyā Reid
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| In the Buddha’s Dhamma, the four expressions of the loving heart establish the atmosphere for our practice. Combined with the opening and enrichment of the body’s somatic presence, they clear negative patterns such as fear, guilt, self-criticism and resentment. In this retreat, the cultivation of breathing, devotion and wise reflection are offered to further this process. |
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2021-07-10 (6 days)
Cittaviveka
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2021-07-11
Day 2 Q&A
52:04
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Ajahn Sucitto,
Willa Thaniya Reid
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Questions have been grouped by theme: Breathing; how do we work with the regret; questions around citta; how does piti (rapture) manifest in the body; heart feels like a lump of black coal.
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2021-07-11
Establishing Path Factors
43:47
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Willa Thaniya Reid
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Returning to sitting, supporting citta to settle and open, we give it skillful things it can be in touch with – breathing, the heart medicines. Understanding the power of perception and feeling, we place attention carefully, bringing qualities of welcome, availability, friendliness – guarding against what is harmful and afflicting. Just knowing, body feels like this, citta feels like this.
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2021-07-11
Love, Intrinsic to the 4 Noble Truths
28:07
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Willa Thaniya Reid
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We may wonder where love sits in the whole of the Buddha’s teachings. It’s not always directly pointed at in the suttas, but heart cultivations enable citta to know dukkha and wake up to the way things are. Citta is strengthened in its capacity to be present with skillfulness and love, support for which are provided by body and breath.
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2021-07-12
Day 3 Q&A
54:51
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Other people’s suffering; what is meant by ‘non-self’; remaining with love when one feels constricted and out of control; cause of excessive burping; please talk about the perception-feeling saṇkhāra processes; the purpose of sensing space around; body scanning to train the mind.
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2021-07-12
The Treasure of Right Speech
15:25
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Speech today tends to be surface babble, it doesn’t go to the depths. One who knows the depths speaks things that are valuable, useful, conducive to harmony. Therefore one looks at speech as a potential treasure, something that can demonstrate love, show that other people matter to me.
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2021-07-12
Refuge Place
15:01
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Ajahn Sucitto
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From the depth of the heart is a place of refuge. A place you can go with failures, pains, mistakes – and be accepted. A place to put it all down, finish it. Let go of the tangles and snagging that happen at the surface.
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2021-07-12
Right View of the Domain of Practice
54:47
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Ajahn Sucitto
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How we live on the surface – our lifestyle, speech, actions – generates signs and messages received in the depth. Make an effort to establish right view in your daily life. Mindfulness is then established from that message, not in self-view but in the right territory of lovingkindness, compassion, renunciation.
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2021-07-12
Guided Meditation – Breathing into Empathic Life
19:53
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Guidance to sense experience at the cellular level, not as a person. Establish the firm welcome of ground and safe benevolent space around. Sensing, with every inhalation is a birth, with every exhalation a complete emptying back into ground. Tuning into the subtle bodily and mental feelings, may this be well.
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