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2021-04-10
Being a Person
27:12
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Although Dhamma practice is often geared to dissolving the sense of being a person, ‘the person’ is a required entity in the everyday world. The firm center and open awareness developed in Dhamma practice work together to support this person. They provide stability and allow duties, purpose and engagement to arise straight from the heart rather than from mental habits, or from the idea of a person. Then the beauties, steadiness and generosity of Dhamma practice and Dhamma fruitions arise in our everyday lives. |
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At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
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2021-04-03
Q&A
32:06
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Please describe āsava in relation to citta; nagging sense something is wrong with me; how to access kalyāṇamitta for support in Dhamma practice; neck and head feel separate from body in meditation; please clarify terms vitaka-vicāra, dhammavicaya and vimaṃsa. |
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At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
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2021-03-27
Breaking Out of the Box
43:33
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Conditioned by ignorance, we can end up concocting the very scenarios we feel trapped in. The citta leaves its own center and gets stuck in conditions. Samādhi gives us the possibility of disengaging from the tangles, and allowing wisdom to be directed to the heart of the problem – ignorance and outflows. This directed wisdom can dismantle the box we unconsciously create for ourselves. |
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2021 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice
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2021-03-25
How to Not Go Crazy
41:31
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| On account of the untrained citta, consciousness is skewed – its input is unstable, unsatisfactory, doesn’t fit. It can make one feel crazy. How to get free? In meditation we practice disengagement, the possibility to be ‘with it’ rather than ‘in it’. Lingering in that space, what can arise is action based on sanity, that comes from a trained and healthy citta. |
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2021 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice
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2021-03-24
The Work of Ease
40:23
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| It’s a natural inclination for citta not to suffer, but it’s confused, it needs to be trained. Citta can turn away from the tangles of ignorance towards signs that produce ease. Training with nimbleness and flexibility, citta becomes grounded, stable, not easily knocked over, easily handling what comes its way. |
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2021 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice
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