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Dharma Talks given at Cittaviveka
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2020-11-21 Q&A 48:00
Ajahn Sucitto
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Clarification about the fetter “attachment to rites and rituals”; what’s the purpose of life; question about addiction; working with depression; where is the reference to energy in Buddhism; how to get space in intense situations; review of the 4 qualities to promote social harmony – generosity, gentle/harmonious speech, benevolent service, impartiality – DN30:1:16, AN4:32
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2020-11-21 Guided Meditation – Opening to the Cosmos 10:39
Ajahn Sucitto
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Puja celebrates that there’s something in awareness more than just this ‘self’ thing. We can open to something bigger, experience a wider sense of being. Keep lifting and placing attention back into the Dhamma stream – that which touches and opens the heart.
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2020-11-14 Release from the restricted in this life 45:47
Ajahn Sucitto
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The dukkha of restriction is experienced in this very body, and manifest as a person restricted by upbringing, ethnicity and gender (etc) living in a world restricted by nationality and social structures. We can train ourselves in the unrestricted state through meditation and through living in a way that connects the open heart to service, in the ‘all -encompassing world’ touched by goodwill.
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2020-11-14 Guided Meditation – Opening body, opening heart 12:42
Ajahn Sucitto
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Jhāna is an embodiment practice. Absorbing and settling deeply into presence, use awareness to encourage opening each part of the body. Enriched energy and heart can then begin to digest the events of the day and release them.
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2020-11-07 Unconditioned Supports the Conditioned 41:54
Ajahn Sucitto
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The unconditioned gives us a place to step back from experience, to meet the conditioned world with sensitivity and equanimity. We access qualities of faith, energy, mindfulness and wisdom to accept and meet exactly what’s happening right now.
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2020-11-07 Guided Meditation – Faith as the Basis of Meditation 15:58
Ajahn Sucitto
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We enter meditation with a sense of faith, that there’s something beneficial that can be derived just by coming into the present moment. Witnessing, aware of, not in it, not rejecting it – a firmness of presence builds up. The initiation is faith, the consummation is wisdom.
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2020-10-31 Dhamma Stream – Uposatha, training in wise ways 37:04
Ajahn Sucitto
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Uposatha is the occasion to bring up and integrate wholesome qualities so they become felt realities in the mind and heart. Refer to the Mangala Sutta (Sutta Nipata 2:4) for topics of cultivation that give rise to skillful states and conditions.
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2020-10-31 Dhamma Stream GM – Recollection of Uposatha 15:06
Ajahn Sucitto
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Uposatha days are times in the Buddhist calendar established for people to step back from daily chores and reflect upon the broader meaning of life, whether they’re living in harmony with the cosmos. Recollect our uniquely human potential to bring forth virtue, lovingkindness and wisdom into this world.
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2020-10-31 The Real World 48:01
Ajahn Sucitto
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What we call the real world is actually concocted, arising from unskillful response to contact. The energy can be frantic, cruel, excluding. But it’s possible to give rise to a different reality, by knowing what to give attention to. Paying attention to skillful dhammas can uplift and sustain the heart so it can come out of its struggles and sorrows.
Cittaviveka

2020-10-18 Kathina as the Occasion for Social Harmony 32:39
Ajahn Sucitto
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This event of Kathina encapsulates the skillful qualities associated with social harmony and cohesion – qualities of generosity and sharing, precepts and virtue, gentle speech and service. Recollecting the goodness of such actions, the heart grows and is strengthened.
Cittaviveka

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