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Dharma Talks
given at Cittaviveka
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2011-10-08
Fundamental Openess - Understanding Faith
21:36
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Openness, the willingness to meet what arises, is one of our basic resources as human beings. The ability to open what is pleasant and unpleasant alike, knowing we can benefit, learn from it, gives a certain confidence. Mindfulness of body is our workshop to cultivate that ability to open to and bear with painful feeling. Not resisting or fighting it, just sustaining awareness and knowing it for what it is.
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Cittaviveka
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Vassa Group Retreat
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2011-10-08
It All Comes Back To Awareness
39:30
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Awareness is one of the fundamental properties of mind. The practice of meditation is just bearing witness to what affects mind with a quality of primary openness. Bearing with experience and, rather than referring it to reactions or views or opinions, referring it awareness.
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Cittaviveka
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Vassa Group Retreat
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2011-10-07
Mindfulness Of The Body
33:07
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Mindfulness means looking more carefully. As we sustain attention on an object, we can begin to discern how we get caught and how we get free. Body as a foundation for mindfulness can mean mindfulness of breathing in and out, the elements, walking up and down, the unattractive parts, or contemplating a dead body. A review of several of these practices is given.
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Cittaviveka
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Vassa Group Retreat
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2011-10-01
Refer It To Awareness
47:18
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Ajahn Sucitto
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One particular faculty of mind is ability of step back and review the noise of the mind. It’s an amazingly remedial quality, to be able to hold our doubts and difficulties in this way. You don’t get an answer, but you get a result. The deconstruction of suffering, of stress.
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Cittaviveka
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Vassa Group Retreat
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