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Dharma Talks
given at Cittaviveka
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2009-01-31
Patience With Views and All Else
51:31
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Ajahn Sucitto
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In meditation, rather than getting involved with liking and disliking, we practise letting things just pass through. The movements are just shifts in energy. Learn how to move with the changes rather than reacting with sorrow, resistance or craving. Cultivate patience with your mind as it rattles on, and with a life that isn’t going the way you want, until the mind becomes big enough to hold it all.
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Cittaviveka
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Winter Retreat
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2009-01-28
Leaving The Samsaric Home
49:22
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The mind drags us into places, and we easily locate ourselves there. This is what I’m stuck in, this is what I am. How to get a handle? The samādhi approach is to deal with the energy, not the topic. The sīla approach is to refer to the skilful. The pañña approach is to recognize this for what it is. We need to know how to handle the energy of the mind, and to practise ethical intentions and investigation.
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Cittaviveka
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Winter Retreat
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2009-01-27
Mindfulness of Movement
41:42
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The underlying bent of the mind is craving, that leaning of the mind to have, get, find, belong. In meditation we practise with loosening that craving energy, and introducing calming subjects for recollection. Walking meditation is a skilful means for loosening and gentling the mind.
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Cittaviveka
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Winter Retreat
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2009-01-21
Gentling The Mind
36:42
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Cultivating a softer happier state of being is valuable in its own right, and also has a profound purpose – to release mental programs that bind us and restrict us, so we can experience a greater sense of ease and freedom.
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Cittaviveka
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Winter Retreat
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2009-01-17
Transcendence Includes It All
59:55
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The process of liberation is sometimes referred to as ‘transcendence’. Transcendence means you meet feeling, and mind gets bigger than that, includes it all. It is a natural mode of the mind, to meet and include. Enlightenment factors enable this stepping back and non-involvement. We can then meet the results of kamma and realize liberation.
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Cittaviveka
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Winter Retreat
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2009-01-15
Knowing Through Dispassion
37:24
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Mindfulness offers the ability to sustain, to notice, and therefore to be wise. Through this we can experience feelings that arise as energy in the body. Stepping back, there is a shift from being in these to a knowingness of them, with resultant dispassion. This is the liberating process of insight.
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Cittaviveka
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Winter Retreat
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