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Dharma Talks given at Cittaviveka
2023-10-23 The effort to check proliferation 49:32
Ajahn Sucitto
Effort: taking an overview, we can recognize the first effort is to generate right view, to note the conditionalities in which we find ourselves. We see which ones lead to stress, and which allow it to cease.
Cittaviveka Replenish and release: servicing the heart

2023-10-23 The temple of release 49:10
Ajahn Sucitto
We use retreat to learn how to soften and loosen the worldly ways of stimulation and action, and to enter the space and silence of our temple.
Cittaviveka Replenish and release: servicing the heart

2023-10-22 GM - Replenishing energy and resetting attitude 63:32
Ajahn Sucitto
Teachings from the last week of the vassa. Description pending.
Cittaviveka 2023 Dhamma Talks

2023-10-22 Faith, the unconditioned and the way past grasping 49:31
Ajahn Sucitto
Finding a place to begin can’t come from history. Intuitive faith / saddha is useful to distinguish the mundane from the place where truth, the unconditioned, can be revealed.
Cittaviveka Replenish and release: servicing the heart

2023-10-11 Coming to the end 50:50
Ajahn Sucitto
A Dhamma session is special, a form that is unlike the form in which most people live. But as we return to the helter-skelter of city life, it offers certain things to bear in mind.
Cittaviveka 2023 Dhamma Talks

2023-09-16 Cultivation is a Heart Process 51:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Establishing, reflecting on and enjoying the fruits of cultivation is an ongoing heart process.
Cittaviveka 2023 Dhamma Talks

2023-08-09 The Domain of Release – the Deathless is now 58:05
Ajahn Sucitto
The aim of cultivation is the release from the stress, craving, and fear that sense consciousness creates.
Cittaviveka 2023 Dhamma Talks

2023-08-08 Wisdom opens dukkha 37:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Wisdom is a liberator that is supported by the sense of a stable center that develops with samadhi.
Cittaviveka 2023 CBM Vassa Talks - Week 1

2023-08-07 Finding one's centre – view, virtue, mindfulness, concentration 54:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Retreat is a renunciant experience recommended by the Buddha. Through this we can clarify and collect our centre.
Cittaviveka 2023 CBM Vassa Talks - Week 1

2023-08-06 Intentions that span the cosmos 55:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Our ability to contemplate provides enormous potential to get perspective on the changingness of the forms that characterise experience.
Cittaviveka 2023 CBM Vassa Talks - Week 1

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