The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
 
Dharma Talks given at Cittaviveka
     1 2 3 4 ... 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 ... 100 101 102 103
2021-01-09 The Real World Begins in the Heart 44:01
Ajahn Sucitto
Download Listen
When we step back from the sense fields, citta can become steadied on itself. Clear meaning can come from this place of rest and ease. Then we can steer through input of the sense sphere, discern the meanings, and notice the effects in the heart and body. This is practice.
Cittaviveka :  Awakening Through Heart, Cittaviveka Winter Retreat 2021

2021-01-08 Contact that Is a Release from Contact 43:20
Ajahn Sucitto
Download Listen
Liberation by wisdom comes from a healthy citta having resources to experience the range of contact and its effects. The gentle fluidity of practices like breathing and walking help soothe the agitation and fixity of contact so we can be with the feeling rather than in it. Then it can move, release, empty, cease.
Cittaviveka :  Awakening Through Heart, Cittaviveka Winter Retreat 2021

2021-01-07 Unbind and Protect the Heart 42:33
Ajahn Sucitto
Download Listen
Citta’s receptive quality is both its vulnerability and strength. It has to be protected until it is strong enough to repel corrupting influences. Cultivate themes and meanings that unbind and strengthen the heart – Buddha, precepts, lovingkindness. Citta then has a place to withdraw to.
Cittaviveka :  Awakening Through Heart, Cittaviveka Winter Retreat 2021

2021-01-06 Guided Meditation - The Inner Experience of Body 53:17
Ajahn Sucitto
Download Listen
What is directly here? It’s not the anatomy of the body with its individual parts. Using body and breathing as a base, tune into the inner experience of body. There’s energy there – living, vital, sensitive. Keep turning towards the calm and bright places in the heart and body.
Cittaviveka :  Awakening Through Heart, Cittaviveka Winter Retreat 2021

2021-01-06 Settling into the Buddha Domain 38:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Download Listen
Retreat is an occasion for clearing away certain inputs and intentionally placing others. Buddha – upright, clear, deeply centered. Emphasize the receptive aspect, listen deeply, linger. Gently allow awareness to become enriched by Buddha qualities, pervading body, heart mind.
Cittaviveka :  Awakening Through Heart, Cittaviveka Winter Retreat 2021

2020-12-29 Correcting the Foundations - Full Moon Lunar Observance 54:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Download Listen
Citta is confused. It has taken the wrong baseline and lost its foundation in itself – its own clarity, purity, knowing. Direct experience is the way back. Touching into qualities that strengthen and uplift citta, feeling the effects, and listening. Citta is freed from false baselines and settles in itself.
Cittaviveka

2020-12-20 Guided Meditation - View from the Balance 22:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Download Listen
Encouragement to have the courage and faith to go against the obligations of our lives and take time to center in citta. Amidst the activities of mind, there’s a place of balance and rest, release and non-clinging.
Cittaviveka :  Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-20 Open to Wise Attention 48:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Download Listen
We bounce off dukkha rather than digesting it, bound to experience the same characteristic of dukkha in another form. The guiding capacity of citta is wise attention. We must learn to widen and lengthen our attention span. In this space we can contemplate dukkha rather than react to it. Dispassion and goodwill, the natural actions of heart, can then arise.
Cittaviveka :  Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-19 Q&A - Energies, Afterlife, Art, Cruelty, Self and Asubha 39:38
Ajahn Sucitto
Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-19 Walk Like a Boat 3:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Download Listen
A suggestion for walking meditation, to move like a boat down a river, citta open like a sail spread on the mast. Move through the water of thoughts, impressions, memories. Walk with difficult moods that arise, holding lightly, listening and receiving.
Cittaviveka :  Living, Dying and Liberation

     1 2 3 4 ... 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 ... 100 101 102 103
Creative Commons License Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Dharma Seed is a 501(c)(3) Non-profit organization. email: contact@dharmaseed.org