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Dharma Talks
given at Cittaviveka
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2022-01-12
Liberation Is a Careful, Everyday, Process
37:02
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Of all the things to be sensitive about, the most urgent and important, is to know how you’re activated and to calm the citta saṇkhāra. We get morphed by what we plug into, so unplug and let go of the unskillful, and plug into what’s necessary for calming and steadying. It takes time for citta to get it. Keep making an effort with friendliness, aligning everything in our lives to support this present awareness. |
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2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice
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2022-01-10
Cracking the Shell Is Pleasant
39:29
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| The process of cultivation is a pleasant one of cleaning away the dross and delusions that cause us suffering and stress. Drop by drop the bucket fills up with skillful actions and overflows into something more deep, steady, reliable. Be a stable presence rather than search for it, ‘out there’ – gradually the chaos will begin to still. There’s a process there, and the result is purification. |
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2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice
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2022-01-09
Careful Attention: Food for Awakening
41:52
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| With careful attention we pick up those qualities within experience that are most supportive for liberation. It means we notice how things affect us and the results that follow. Mindfulness of body gives you something to rest in as you breathe through the rocky areas of heart and mind. Citta comes out of its restricted state and there’s a widening, stepping back, letting go. |
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2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice
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2022-01-08
Stream of Liberation
51:47
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| There is the nutriment for ignorance and the nutriment for true knowledge and liberation. Both are dependently arising on other factors. What arises, whether skillful or unskillful, is based on how one places attention, moderates attitudes, and relinquishes self-view. This is a transpersonal process – keep filtering experience in these transpersonal terms. |
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2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice
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2022-01-07
Getting Out of the Concrete Jungle
44:15
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| With mindfulness of breathing, subtle beneficial signs are picked up and suffused into the body. We can relinquish the signs we’ve picked up from the concrete jungle, the fear, the dread, the lack of heartfulness; we can purify the internal environment. Refer to what’s beautiful, uplifting, noble and generous. With mindfulness of breathing you’re taking in these messages. |
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2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice
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2021-12-31
The Network of Liberation
46:13
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Notice the web of conditions we all share, connections we take for granted – we are not separate from that, we are that weave. The decent human response is to cultivate virtue and goodwill, develop wisdom; such skillful causes and conditions purify the heart. This is the kamma that leads to the end of kamma. Connection to Dhamma via spiritual friendship leads out of suffering. It’s important to recognize such connectivity as a skillful quality, not a bondage. |
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2021-12-19
Enjoying Presence
40:53
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| We become entangled in the creations and reactions that arise based on ignorance. Mindfulness immersed in the body is where we can experience release from the powerful reflexes and currents. Translate the complexities of thoughts into the simplicity of emotional drives, and feel them in the body. Tune into what’s given – awareness, presence, stability – this is comfortable, this is pleasure, this is our basic ground. |
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