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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
given at Cittaviveka
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2022-03-29
Stop the Mind, Bring Forth the Heart
50:51
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| The mind is affected by the world of sense consciousness – creates boundaries and generates a self. But what’s to be cultivated is the unconditioned where those limitations and differentiations don’t exist. Relax the boundaries with the practice of goodwill. Incline towards harmony, respect, integrity, and paying careful attention, for your welfare and the welfare of others. This is an end to our proliferations. |
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2022 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice
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2022-03-28
A Good Boat Needs Water
50:58
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| The thinking mind conceives, weaves into being other people and self; it’s very convincing. But there is a choice – you can refer to things, people, situations – or you can refer to where faith arises. Turn to that faith-vehicle and let the energies and the tonality of faith, generosity and virtue shape mind (or ‘heart’ citta). Then you find a proper basis for mindfulness. |
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2022 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice
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2022-03-27
The Dog Knows Its True Master
46:56
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| A lot of our practice is to recognize the ‘I am’ cannot do it – it has to be understood carefully as energies, habits, stories. Find another vehicle, the 5 indriya, the spiritual allies. The beauty of the practice is it works beyond the ‘I am’. The ‘I ‘can’t do it, but the indriya can. Give them a chance to keep working, and nature of citta is it does recognize these transpersonal qualities, like when a dog knows where its true master is. |
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2022 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice
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2022-02-01
The Tiger’s Challenge: Impeccability and Aspiration
48:52
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| The one thing we can train in and recollect is that we can aspire. No other creature aspires. We are born with desire, and if we don’t use it for aspiration it leaks out into sensuality and thinking. Then the mind loses its alertness. One of the most fundamental things we aspire to is a different alignment. Finding a place to stand which is true, empowering, dignified, blameless – a refuge. This is how you stand apart from the worldly currents, and live in the quality of good intent. |
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