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Dharma Talks given at Cittaviveka
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2022-01-24 Sound 3 Review and Practice 33:43
Ajahn Sucitto
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Noticing and reclaiming Pali phoneme differences from English and Thai; the effect of English and Thai language particularities; rhythm and consonant length
Cittaviveka :  Ajahn Sucitto Chanting Collection - Pali Sounds and Chanting Guidance

2022-01-23 Sound 2 Consonants 42:17
Ajahn Sucitto
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Mouth closure sounds that terminate a vowel
Cittaviveka :  Ajahn Sucitto Chanting Collection - Pali Sounds and Chanting Guidance

2022-01-22 Sound 1 Breath and Vowels 36:24
Ajahn Sucitto
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Outline of an approach to chanting as a practice; vowels
Cittaviveka :  Ajahn Sucitto Chanting Collection - Pali Sounds and Chanting Guidance

2022-01-16 Q&A 54:26
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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2022-01-12 Liberation Is a Careful, Everyday, Process 37:02
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.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice

2022-01-11 Wisdom - The Intelligence that Leads to Stillness 40:07
Ajahn Sucitto
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The cultivation of wisdom is not just a matter of intellectually knowing something, it’s a practice of handling, and staying in touch with what’s felt. Steadying citta so it can come out of its fixed gripped state, there’s a turning towards dispassion and right response. Stay in touch with the process, do the process and see where it goes – that’s how you learn.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice

2022-01-10 Cracking the Shell Is Pleasant 39:29
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.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice

2022-01-09 Careful Attention: Food for Awakening 41:52
Ajahn Sucitto
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With careful attention we pick up those qualities within experience that are most supportive for liberation. It means we notice how things affect us and the results that follow. Mindfulness of body gives you something to rest in as you breathe through the rocky areas of heart and mind. Citta comes out of its restricted state and there’s a widening, stepping back, letting go.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice

2022-01-08 Stream of Liberation 51:47
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.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice

2022-01-07 Getting Out of the Concrete Jungle 44:15
Ajahn Sucitto
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With mindfulness of breathing, subtle beneficial signs are picked up and suffused into the body. We can relinquish the signs we’ve picked up from the concrete jungle, the fear, the dread, the lack of heartfulness; we can purify the internal environment. Refer to what’s beautiful, uplifting, noble and generous. With mindfulness of breathing you’re taking in these messages.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice

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