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Dharma Talks
given at Cittaviveka
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2022-01-16
Q&A
54:26
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| 00:53 Please explain the idea of the pāramī; 04:59 Letting go of thinking/expectation; 07:44 Using the sound of silence in practice; 15:58 How Qigong connects to practice; 24:47 Tension in tongue and jaw; 25:03 Remaining “upright and joyful”; 29:23 Family does not agree with my practice; 34:13 Dealing with pain; 38:10 Experience of a deep horrific fear; 43:45 Out of body experiences while meditating; 45:19 Relationship between release of somatic knots and releasing the citta; 48:55 Regrets and resentment; 50:13 Can you speak about the āsava? 53:37 Difference between peace, serenity and tranquility? Pīti and sukha? |
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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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Cittaviveka
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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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Cittaviveka
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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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Cittaviveka
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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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Cittaviveka
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