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Dharma Talks
given at Cittaviveka
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2006-07-29
Bearing Presence with Ourselves
36:59
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Can we be willing to be in the dualistic experience of me and other without understanding it, controlling it, needing it to be complete? Bear presence with the disturbances, not just witnessing, but with anukampa – trembling with. Feel it in the body, in the heart, empathize with it. Experience the roots of experience and it becomes simple.
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Cittaviveka
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Vassa 2006 Group Retreat
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2006-07-21
Purifying Intent
48:28
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Ajahn Sucitto
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This teaching encompasses all forms of experience, and the liberation from it all. Held with right intention, forms can be used for their benefits without clinging to them. Use forms – the body, the monastery – as props, to purify intention.
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Cittaviveka
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Vassa 2006 Group Retreat
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2006-07-18
The Precious Flaw
42:21
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Meditation is not about getting any particular state or feeling. It’s about knowing what’s happening without getting bonded to it. Only by handling experience is there freedom. What we handle is our precious, necessary flaw – our suffering. Meet it and know it as Mara.
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Cittaviveka
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Vassa 2006 Group Retreat
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2006-07-17
The Person And The Undefinable
60:58
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Ajahn Sucitto
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A reflection on the theme of being a person without a self. Only working with what can be defined – knowing what is skillful and unskillful, what causes suffering and what causes non-suffering. Far more than the benefit of calm, you’re then working with the roots of this personhood, learning how to handle aspects of the person without constructing a self.
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Cittaviveka
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Vassa 2006 Group Retreat
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