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Dharma Talks given at Cittaviveka
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2021-05-30 Chanting - Recollection of the Triple Gem 5:26
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Puja and Chanting 48:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Puja means honor or praise. It’s an important gesture to cultivate – the sense of rising up to something beautiful, something worthy. Making offerings, bowing, chanting and meditating are steadying and calming acts that massage the energies of body, heart and mind.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-29 Q&A 36:05
Ajahn Sucitto
Please explain why you got the COVID vaccine as I am hesitant; can meditation help with IBS; can’t exhale completely because in breath rushes in; does it matter if formal practice/meditation is less; is manas an impediment to citta or can it be used beneficially; how to get over the pain of divorce; how to ask someone to leave a community due to ethical reasons; when desire is abandoned how is avijja eliminated; elaborate on terms samādhi, atammayatā, nibānna.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-05-29 Guided Meditation - Fountain of Feeling 17:29
Ajahn Sucitto
The cycle of saṃsara develops from feeling. Perceptions then form that stimulate particular actions that can be stirring, disturbing, exciting. Investigate these from the stillness and stability of presence. What’s needed?
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-05-26 Going Forth to the Place of Realization 54:54
Ajahn Sucitto
Mind is always searching – in the personal, social and sensory realms – for solidity and satisfaction. But to find this, we must go forth – set aside the virtual world that we compulsively create and come into presence. This is the place of realization, where we meet what arises with the compassion, goodwill and discernment of the heart.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-05-22 The Power of Presence 38:16
Ajahn Sucitto
We seek steadiness and happiness from that which is inherently changing and unsteady – the constructed notions of future, past, myself and others. Withdraw from the tangle, acknowledge without getting involved. When you collect your heart with presence and acknowledge the tangle and the stress, there’s empathy rather than agitation. Good qualities naturally arise from that stable empathetic basis.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-05-22 Guided Meditation - Return to the Basis of Citta 13:33
Ajahn Sucitto
Encourage attention to find its way back through the tangle, back to the basis of citta. Sentient, present, withdrawn from the mental landscapes and the personal scenarios. Fully dwelt in, lingered in, citta, in its basis, is happy.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-05-19 Guided Meditation - Realization of Anicca 45:40
Ajahn Sucitto
The realization of changeability can be transformational and liberating. When we deepen into presence, we can review the contents of the mind with spaciousness – without identifying with anything, without creating a self. With this quality of relinquishment, wonderful dhammas arise – spaciousness, clarity compassion – the ending of suffering.
Cittaviveka

2021-05-15 Enrich Citta to Heal the Person 35:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta’s awakening intelligence is in its capacity to know and be touched. Rather than trying to change or complain about our situations, embrace the human condition with the qualities of pure citta and let that do the work. Citta is the most important thing – it’s what suffers, what leads and directs us, and what gets liberated.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-05-15 Guided Meditation - Chanting is Your Dhamma Footprint 12:17
Ajahn Sucitto
Chanting is like a subtle yoga. It uses your whole body in a non-straining way. We bring something forth into the world with our voices, and we open awareness to what’s around us, to the persistent flow of mental and emotional arisings. Don’t try to change anything, but receive it all with a kindly devotional heart.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

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