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Dharma Talks given at Cittaviveka
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2020-12-15 Centring Meditation 15:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Tune into the capacity to open and be sensitive. Listen in a feeling way to the pulses, tinglings, warmth of the body. Everything that resonates in your heart is felt directly in the body. Stay with awareness and allow feelings and emotions to shift, move, be ventilated and pass.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-15 Strengthen Heart within the Mind 22:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta requires strength to meet the afflictive perceptions and meanings that compress it. Shutting down and distracting ourselves is understandable, but inadequate. Cultivation of spiritual faculties gives citta tools and capacity to meet phenomena with compassion and skillful action.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-15 Samādhi Practice 33:14
Ajahn Sucitto
With the sīla practice in place, we give attention to samādhi practice – finding our center within the world of sense contact. From this steady place we are present, witnessing, attuning to how citta is touched by it all.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-15 Sīla Practice 15:36
Ajahn Sucitto
Precepts are what most skillfully link citta to the world of sense contact. Without this ethical sense, citta runs out and gets into damaging circumstances. Precepts are the way you communicate the Dhamma through your actions into the world.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-15 Introduction to Precepts 8:06
Ajahn Sucitto
The fundamental citta sense is an ethical sense. We try to encourage that with precepts. This is how we align ourselves to citta.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-15 Opening - Ethics and Meditation 21:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Introduction to online format and schedule, encouragements for how to practice and make the most of these circumstances.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

2020-12-14 Cleaning Citta - New Moon Lunar Observance 51:49
Ajahn Sucitto
Purification of mind is not just spiritual jargon but necessary for happiness. No matter how gross or subtle, our speech, mental intentions and bodily actions affect us. Training and cleaning citta involves bringing uplifting qualities to mind and refraining from contracting to the unpleasant. This is how our kamma can begin to change.
Cittaviveka

2020-11-30 Stress Requires a Light Touch (Full Moon Lunar Observance ) 49:37
Ajahn Sucitto
In the contracted norm, mind becomes bonded to conditioned reality, unable to let go. Citta can be trained to relate to phenomena dispassionately. Use vitaka-vicara in meditation to step back, listen in and find your balance point. Mind can have a still quiet center and engage with conditioned reality appropriately, without grasping.
Cittaviveka

2020-11-28 Living Dhamma 39:34
Ajahn Sucitto
As a result of the pandemic, we are experiencing the frailty of our systems and structures. Awareness is the only constant resource we have. It can be trained and purified to bring loving careful attention to all that we meet.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-11-27 Guided Meditation – Thinking with Heart 15:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation is about opening up to the subjective aspect of our experience – the sense of knowing. Practice with placing attention on something very lightly, then listening with heart. Without force, without judgment, just aware of the sensations, emotion, energies, mental patterns. The quality of knowing gives rise to a tremendous immediate clarity.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

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