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Dharma Talks given at Cittaviveka
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2020-04-19 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: The Skill of Recollection 39:14
Ajahn Sucitto
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Recollection is not just thinking about things, it’s associated with the quality of careful attention. Encourage the mind to think slowly, touch the heart and abide in wholesome qualities. In daily life we do the external, but embedded in the ground of the heart is where your basis is. *Sutta reference is AN11:11-12.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-04-12 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: The End of Fear 26:17
Ajahn Sucitto
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We look for safety and stability in a level of experience that cannot provide it, that’s the source of agitation. In meditation we practice the ability to sustain ungrasping attention around a thought, feeling, situation, and particularly unpleasant feeling. The content will constantly shift, but the relationship to them, awareness, can become the source of stability. *Sutta reference is SN2:17.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-04-09 Home Movie from the Kuti: Where and How Are You Going? 35:30
Ajahn Sucitto
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We can use this experience of lock down to address the routines and standards that support our daily becoming. The mind is pulled further and further wondering what to do, planning what's next. What to do is stop, rest in the body, maintain deep attention. Consider rituals that nuplug and cut the tide of becoming.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-04-05 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Protecting Ourselves and Others 30:08
Ajahn Sucitto
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By protecting ourselves we protect others. When we protect our own hearts from defensiveness, blame, hostility and stress, we also protect others. We train ourselves through the 4 foundations of mindfulness. *Sutta reference is SN47:19.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-04-03 Home Movie from the Kuti: Dealing with Isolation 38:16
Ajahn Sucitto
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Even in this experience of physical isolation, we’re not exactly separate – we’re always with something. Practicing with the relational sense, we meet everything as it is rather than trying to change it or fix it. From this broad state of awareness, edges and boundaries soften, and the heart connects with lovingkindness, regardless of physical proximity.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-03-20 Nibbāna – The Taste of Freedom 46:09
Ajahn Sucitto
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Is it possible that the obstructions we meet are our fiercest teachers? We encounter the places where construction is no longer possible. It’s the last place we want to go, but if we can cultivate skillful means to linger there, we can taste nibbāna in this very life.
Cittaviveka

2020-01-25 Citta, Kamma and Awakening (Evening Public Talk) 50:33
Ajahn Sucitto
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In Dhamma practice we’re inclining citta towards itself, gathering in attention to recognize where the heart is engaged. Certain engagements will lead to liberation. The practice of recollection is one.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-16 Ācariya Puja - Recollect Pāramī (Evening Public Talk) 63:47
Ajahn Sucitto
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A recollection of the qualities and effects of the teacher, Ajahn Chah. A teacher’s presence can bring forth a lot in people. They recognize the potential for strength that is there for all of us and help us develop pāramī.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-15 Sweeping the Body 44:25
Ajahn Sucitto
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Something in us – citta – searches for release from suffering. It struggles to rise out of old patterns, which means one has to enter them. Sweeping meditation is a skillful means. It’s not just a physical exercise but an opportunity to clear kamma.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-14 Completing the Inner Conversation 40:51
Ajahn Sucitto
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We come to Dhamma practice hoping for calm and quiet, but that may be down the track a while. Begin instead with dialogue, listening to the inner chatter with patience and steadiness. As agitated and troubling states are lovingly met, the passion around them fades. We can experience the nibbāna element here and now.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

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