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given at Cittaviveka
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2021-08-03
Field of Blessings
42:15
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Based on who we associate with and surround ourselves with, a field is generated where we pick up the behaviors and tonalities. One trains to generate a supportive field for training and learning. Whatever the field, open to what you’re in, get a feel for that, and aim for what is honorable, steady and balanced. |
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Cittaviveka 2021 Rains Retreat
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2021-08-02
Moving through the World
42:48
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| How we meet and move through our world determines our experience of it. If we can shift our volition, the world changes. Contemplate the proper intention for whatever you’re a part of – best thing to stop suffering is to be in harmony with it. Breathing in, breathing out, setting aside any hint of ill-will, open to your world with the gentle quality of suffusing goodwill. |
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Cittaviveka 2021 Rains Retreat
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2021-08-01
Easing into Wholeness
45:02
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| We use the forms of everyday life to notice what the mind makes out of them, the accumulations that occur. The theme is stay with the whole, stay connected, let the details go. What’s behind the inclination to move out? The stable reassuring quality of attention over the whole form – without ill-will, closing down, or dismissal – results in the freedom and happiness we seek. |
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Cittaviveka 2021 Rains Retreat
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2021-07-31
Skilful Signs Skilful Absorption
39:07
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| By its nature, mind is absorptive. In skilful cultivation we steer that towards internal qualities of contentment, unity, release. This is how we are gladdened – the nervous system steadies and cools, body gets happy, mind composes itself, then you begin to see things clearly – what’s causing the distortions, stress and struggle, and you stop doing it, stop throwing your heart away to your obsessions. Settle into the goodness, drink it in. Wisdom arises from here. |
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Cittaviveka 2021 Rains Retreat
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2021-07-30
A Breath of Kindness to the Kammic Field
41:40
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Kamma is a feedback loop of actions and results, out of which comes the experience of ‘me’. We use meditation to step out of the scenarios, recognize the process and change the patterns. Once you see it, you get the meaning – ‘a suffering being’– and the response is sympathy. Use the energy of breathing to calm and clear afflictive states, replacing them with healing. |
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Cittaviveka 2021 Rains Retreat
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2021-07-29
Upright Mind, Upright Body
46:18
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Bring attention to where body and mind come together in the upright. Upright is not just anatomical, but energetic – where you feel balanced, poised, wakeful. Relax the stress in body and mind with the calming effects of breathing. As mental and bodily energies gather and steady around the center, citta can rest here, and begin to experience its collectedness. |
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Cittaviveka 2021 Rains Retreat
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2021-07-28
Forgiveness and Gratitude
40:39
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Suffering tends to isolate us into a small tight heap forming around a particular topic. In this narrow field we lose access to gladness, self-acceptance, and forgiveness. Breathing through the agitating energies, feel them as just that – it’s not personal, we can rise above. Willing to touch what’s difficult with gladness, we can meet the failing world without getting upset. |
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Cittaviveka 2021 Rains Retreat
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2021-07-24
Asalha Puja – The Middle Way of Practice
50:45
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| The Buddha teaches the middle way between the extremes. This quality of balance extends from right view, the recognition that actions extend beyond oneself – into the world around, to other people; it sets up what develops next for oneself. It matters which way the mind dips. Stay upright in that center that deepens into samādhi and wisdom, extending goodwill and clarity across whatever we contact and touch. |
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Cittaviveka 2021 Rains Retreat
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2021-07-22
Guided Meditation - Right View Supports Right Mindfulness
50:40
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| When mindfulness is based on right view, there is understanding of skillful and unskillful mind-states and the effects they give rise to. Otherwise mindfulness is merely attention. Right mindfulness, established firmly in the body, has the quality of steadiness and stillness, witnessing and non-involvement with phenomena. Mindfulness is about returning to body and breathing – ground, space, center. |
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