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2025-04-19
Holistic Awareness and Right Livelihood
42:02
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Mental consciousness experiences in terms of points and lines, holistic awareness is the mode the body uses for its maintenance, health and balance. This is what we cultivate in meditation, so that the heart attunes to it and is also well-maintained, healthy and liberated from stress. Right livelihood is a matter of sustaining this kind of awareness in terms of duties, collaboration and the welfare of others. These clear mental hindrances and restrictions and bring joy into our daily lives.
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2025-04-05
Dhamma transmission is based on a mutual openness
38:05
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Ajahn Sucitto
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A review of the Channa Sutta (S.22:90) in which Bhikkhu Channa receives Dhamma through being open and welcomed - despite his bad reputation. The teaching he receives from Ven. Ananda points to the openness beyond affirmation or denial of conditioned existence. This instructs us to handle our intentions, interpretations and perspectives carefully without fixation.
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2025-03-24
Light on desire
52:54
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Ajahn Sucitto
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This is a desire realm - we have desire. We’re not trying to eliminate it, but train it. Where it goes wrong is where desire becomes craving, when it’s shrouded by ignorance. I don’t create craving, craving creates me. Take the me out of it, and there’s the possibility to view things differently. Moments, thoughts, objects, so intensely configured, begin to lose their hard edges. There is a stilling, a chance to clear one’s residues.
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Cittaviveka
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End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat
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2025-03-23
Light on effort, an oar in the stream
40:37
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Ajahn Sucitto
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With effort, citta is the main thing. It’s both the heart quality from where intention streams and that which harvests the results. Then one knows where to best apply energy and how that’s done. Practise the application of effort to mindfulness of breathing, acknowledging and moderating the tools being used and the material they’re being applied to. When you practise rightly, there will be fortunate results.
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Cittaviveka
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End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat
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2025-03-22
Light on balance
35:57
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Ajahn Sucitto
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March 2025 retreat - talk 1 - This teaching uses the metaphor of a keel of a boat, that which gives balance in open ocean waters, to point to how to handle conditionality. Finding that balance between what we restrain from (varita) and what we do (charita); between internal and external. The heart already knows this balance, if we can just shine a light on it.
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Cittaviveka
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End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat
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2025-03-22
Feel truth, avoid plastic
42:57
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Whether one’s context is of a meditative community, or a natural world, or of mainstream society, one’s world is based on perceptions. To get perspective on this, bodily presence is basic. It opens an awareness before the mind gets going, and before the world of circumstance. Learn to filter the shocking ‘world’ of the media.. Sustain perceptions of the bright and worthy- and live in accord. Don’t go automatic!
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Cittaviveka
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End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat
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2025-02-12
Patient relationship is the Sangha vehicle
45:08
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Ajahn Sucitto
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(The occasion of Magha Puja)
The Buddha established the Great Assembly (male/female monastic/lay) to preserve the ongoing transmission of Dhamma. Patiently bearing with conditions is the way to curtail negative engagement - and relate more wisely. Thus one acknowledges what arises as objects - and thus reveal the open knowing. With this, a purer relationship to what arises, rather than identifying with it, is established.
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